Imagine the funding for that widening, were spent on building out public transport. You'd have a great system

@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff

3 ай бұрын

I don't have to imagine, I have the luck to live in that city. But I live in the Netherlands, so that might be cheating. :)

@shadeblackwolf1508

3 ай бұрын

@@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff UTREG hier, me too

@davik9003

27 күн бұрын

Imagine using that money and having a light rail system in place that lasts 200 years without major renovation or reconstruction. Imagine refusing to build for that system even when you know the end result of the math, but you can just kick that can to the next generations. Can kicked.

And the firepole would alleviate the traffic on the stairs .... lmao

@ItsCharlieVest

4 ай бұрын

Heck yeah lol

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

there would be new additional problems ... how do you transport anything up or down the pole when you need all your hands to use it ? how much additional induced traffic would you have by all your friends coming to your house and use it for fun, jamming stairs and pole ?

@bramvanderheijden6530

4 ай бұрын

Are you a staircase builder? 😂 But yeah you’re right, just make the existing stairs wider, just make sure not to install a elevator but keep making the stairs wider!

@sjoerd5629

4 ай бұрын

@@Anson_AKB The "using it for fun" factor is only when it's new. So that traffic is just temporary. Later, people will only use it because it is faster. Transport anything down... You could use a backpack. Going up; use the stairs. But the stairs are already 50% less congested, when the pole is used for all the 'going down' traffic.

@unconventionalideas5683

4 ай бұрын

An HOV lane is for vehicles carrying more than a certain minimum number of passengers, to encourage carpooling and bus ridership. In some places it works, but in many others it doesn't. @@ItsCharlieVest

Some of those highways are so wide they might aswell use them as airport landing strips.

@ubierin4797

4 ай бұрын

In der Tat wurden in Deutschland während des kalten Krieges Autobahnabschnitte so gebaut, dass sie im Ernstfall als Lande und Startbahn genutzt werden können.

@longiusaescius2537

2 күн бұрын

Operation Lionheart moment

The chart with the different capacities per hour already was calculated to show the numbers of PEOPLE per hour, not the number of occupants per vehicle. So per LANE of road around 600-1600 PEOPLE are able to travel down a stretch of road, while the same stretch of sidewlak could be used by up to 9000 people. The varying numbers per lane with cars already includes higher or lower occupancy vehicles. BTW: HOV lane means high occupancy vehicle lane. Only vehicles with a prescribed minimum number of people in them are allowed to use them. This was to incentivize car pooling during commutes to somewhat reduce traffic congestion. It didn't work out. Often HOV lanes also have a slightly higher speed limit to make it even more attractive. At least that was the case around 1998 when I last visited L.A. and my cousin chauffeured me around L.A. Here in Hamburg for example buses often have dedicated lanes. However not only buses, but also taxi cabs, as well as the Moia cabs on call are allowed to use them. The Moia system are a number of mini-busses with around 8 to 10 potential occupants. You sign in to an app ahead of time, indicate when you want to go somewhere, and then you get assigned to a flexible mini-bus that collects people from around the vicinity to drive to a single destination. Often these Moia buses stop at those locations and bring back the same people who drove there back to their home destination. These buses don't have predetermined lines that they drive along every day, but switch according to demand. As they often can travel faster on the bus lanes they are often much much faster than cars.

Carmageddon is one of my favorite video games of all time. That game was so much fun.

I can highly recommend the NJB video about Swiss public transport. It's a great example of how public transport can service rural areas. Cheers from someone doing everything by bike and train in Switzerland.

I live in the States and gave up the car years ago. Working from home, I just didn't see the point anymore. I told my girl wherever you, I or we need to be, we can uber. When you weigh the cost of Uber per month.,...about $800 monthly all in. But a car payment? $750 at least with any lease I would get....then fuel and insurance. Just doesn't make sense anymore.

@HrHaakon

4 ай бұрын

I pay ~$400 per 180 days for public transit. That's everything except heavy rail. Getting a car makes no sense.

@yt_n-c0de-r

2 ай бұрын

Using Uber doesn't change much, it's just switching one car to many, while also enslaving poor suckers to drive you around for a slave wage and poor working conditions. Good job ^^

@wturner777

2 ай бұрын

@@HrHaakonIf I were to live in a dense transit-oriented city, having a car really doesn’t make sense. That’s what I liked about San Francisco when I visited there.

More roads means more cars. Even in the Netherlands you will see this effect.

@SDseb

4 ай бұрын

Yup, that’s why they reverted the car centric planning and now they got amazing transportation systems.

@AdvdW

4 ай бұрын

@@SDseb I know I'm Dutch. The public transport system in our country is well designed and works well. But still (unfortunately) every day there are many traffic jams. In a average dag there is 350 kilometers traffic jams in total. For a small country like the Netherlands its quite much.

@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff

3 ай бұрын

@@AdvdW Ranked by population density the Netherlands is 33rd on the list, the U.S. is 186th. Can you imagine how bad things would be if we (the Dutch) handled infrastructure like they do in the U.S.?

@AdvdW

3 ай бұрын

@@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff I know. But in the last 20 years we have in the Netherlands more roads, but also more cars. And of course more people.

@lexburen5932

Ай бұрын

​@@AdvdW thanks to car lobby and oil lobby in our country, and a new pattern is that i also see more pick up trucks driving in our small country. This is concerning. We should not accept this, and reverse this trend, by actually demolish some roads and highways. As you say : more roads = more cars. thus removing some, and instead invest more in public transportation, and build better cycle infrastructure should solve a lot of this. But this will be an uphill battle in our current political climate. But truth to be told, its nowhere near as bad as in the usa. But this trend we have going on in NL is no good either.

I watched a video recently which made the point that in the US, more space is given to car parks than to homes. What a crazy situation! Madness! What an irony when the thing people say gives them freedom (the car) also imprisons them in traffic jams. Best wishes from Europe

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

that much space is needed to follow zoning and parking regulations, guaranteeing the "convenience" of having enough parking spots for peak usage, resulting in an average of EIGHT parking spots per car, and also requiring people to drive because the parking spots increase walking distances and reduce access to stores, that wouldn't be necessary in the first place if not everybody would have his own huge suburban home (that is not used during most of the day anyway, except if you work in home office) but small appartment houses that each have lots of stores on ground floor. and that way of living also would allow to have usable public transport, instead of each single stop only being accessible to very few houses in walking distance ... that is how it is in most of europe, and also how it was in large parts and old towns in the usa a hundred years ago before houses were replaced by parking lots ...

@ubierin4797

4 ай бұрын

Jo, in USA stehen statisch für jedes AUTO 3 Parkplätze zur Verfügung.

I don't know if it's the same in America but in my home city in England there are bus lanes that have been intentionally placed where they are either to be not clear or to force very lengthy detours on cars. This is done so that drivers either inadvertently or to avoid those detours drive in the bus lane and that means the traffic cameras get them and a few days later a fixed penalty notice for up to £130 arrives in the post. I can't say for certain that it's just done to get money but it's so common that it has to be at least a considered as the reason. One thing I am certain of is that in both the UK and the US there is a tendency not to find solutions to problems but to find a way to monetise them.

@grahvis

4 ай бұрын

Of course, it could be a simple matter of buses having priority over cars.

@unconventionalideas5683

4 ай бұрын

It could also simply be that the council really wants to prioritize buses by giving them good access but then because of Tory Austerity find themselves lacking in resources to mark things all that well or maintain them once they are installed, in which case, lots of fines suddenly appear in motorists' mailboxes.

Wait, a German has to explain to an American what an HOV lane is? That stands for High Occupancy Vechicle. It assumes that at least TWO people (ridiculous, I know, but that's the minimum requirement) occupy the vehicle. Only when you have the minimum number required on board are you allowed to use the HOV lane. If you get caught with a number lower than the local HOV minimum you will get fined. In some areas it grew so bad that people bought inflatable dolls (yepp, exactly those dolls), fit them out with wigs and clothing to 'sit' in the passenger seat and simulate an HOV car... I know, ridiculous, isn't it. As most people however commute to work as single individuals the HOV lanes are often quite empty, allowing for faster traffic on them.

@JacobBax

4 ай бұрын

"Wait, a German has to explain to an American what an HOV lane is?" Well, in NJB's first lifestream some Dutch viewers didn't know what a spitsstrook (rush hour lane) was, and they were living near Amsterdam, and the term was atleast 20 years old.

The Katy Fwy. was finished in 2008. It was six lanes before. Now it is more than double the size. A railroad was removed to make room for all those new lanes. The entire time they were enlarging the road new houses were being built farther out. It now takes longer to drive to Katy than it did when there were only six lanes.

When a ring road (sort of) was built in Stockholm, it doubled my travelling time, bus or car

What largely helps here (NL) is making it difficult to enter the center by car, parking spaces OUTSIDE the center and solving that with bus transport, or parking garages on the edge of the city center. Highways around the cities instead of straight through them... I think they reduce a lot of traffic jams and city traffic, here it is DISCOURAGED to get into the center, also for us vrachtwagenchauffeurs if the customer is even in the center.... ...but hey, we're talking about the USA, the land of cars and lazy people. and you have the same idea as what I have been thinking for years, covering houses with solar panels instead of driving farmers away and using that land. That can be processed so beautifully, and it doesn't bother anyone.

@GercaAG

4 ай бұрын

Whats crazy is that malls and walmarts and etc are actually huuuuuge. So they do their walking there

You're talking about how the money could be better used for homes for the homeless. But it is better to invest that money in public transport so that people can go to work with a smaller wallet. Not all people who are homeless are addicts, which has caused them to become homeless. These people want to work but have no way to get to work without a car. Because what do you think happens if the car needs a repair and it is too expensive for that person? Your car is broken, you can't go to work, you're fired, so you can't pay rent...

$100 million cost per mile is crazy, compared to what road-projects cost here in The Netherlands. Here it's 50 million.

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

what are the costs to build tram or train lines ONCE, or a bus system with a single dedicated bus lane per direction, instead of needing those 100 million for each new "improvement" every few years ?

@joyl7842

4 ай бұрын

I don't know, but here in The Netherlands we're at least assured of those public transit services getting preference.@@Anson_AKB

@unconventionalideas5683

4 ай бұрын

Labor is more expensive for one thing. Also, road projects in the Netherlands typically do not involve widenings in central downtown areas, which would increase the pricetag.

HOV lane - High Occupancy Vehicle Lane (also referred to as carpool, diamond, 2+ or transit lane)

What i find funny about the comparison between roads and plumbing is that plumbing has much of the same problems even though he makes it seem like is is not that way. Just look up the Reynolds number. It tells you if flow is laminar or turbulent based on flow, density and viscosity of a fluid, and the diameter of the pipe it is flowing trough. laminar flow is more efficient basically because when a lot is forced trough a small pipe all molecules displace each other and start to disrupt the flow. you will also need other factors to determine flow rate like adhesion and roughness etc, which may be metaphorically translatable to traffic flow and road area, but i mainly find your thought at the beginning comparable to the Reynolds number.

One downside to wealthy people taking the train here in The Netherlands is that on multiple occasions now political leaders have accidentally left semi-secret documents where they were sitting 😛

The way we have with bicycles in cities like Amsterdam , as a cyclist you can take shortcuts without using bike lanes so you're faster from A to B then cars . And then with cars in cities where can you park your car.

I’m European but my ex wife was from Houston, so we went there once or twice a year to visit her family. Driving there was always fascinating to me. You guys have some crazy roads and insane drivers over there 😅 Central Europe is the best place to drive imo. The autobahn in Germany is so much fun.

@joyl7842

4 ай бұрын

One time when I was driving across Germany on the Autobahn I did so at the top speed of my car, a little over 200 km/h. I was traveling from The Netherlands to Poland. It requires so much more focus to drive at such high speeds, cause slow traffic suddenly changing lanes means you need to slow down a lot in a short time. Also, even at 200 km/h you still gotta check your rear-view mirror cause there's drivers going even faster. I was exhausted at the end of my trip. I do like the fact that on the parts where there is no speed-limit, there's almost always at least 3 lanes, so you don't get blocked by trucks overtaking each other.

Roads are essentially free at the point of use, like UK healthcare (very socialist if you ask me). Unlike healthcare, though, transport demands are far more flexible. Thing is, you might not particularly want a slice of cake right now, but if I were distributing free slices of cake outside, you may decide to avail yourself. That is what induced demand is! So if someone gives you lots of free roads to drive on, you may want to drive more!

You should really move to The Netherlands! We have bike-lanes literally throughout the entire country, free medical, free schooling, everybody speaks English well, a big tattoo-culture etc. You'd love it!

"You look at Europe and you just don't see these (giant parking lots)" When European countries build parking lots in urban areas, it's always a multi-level one, to make better use of the land area. You pretty much never see the huge, open air parking lots that are ubiquitous to the US. Casing point, you can usually fit between five to ten stadiums in the parking lot for said stadium. Older ones can be more scaled for people, especially if they're pre WW2, but the newer sport stadiums are almost always designed around the idea that most people are going to drive there, and will need a parking spot.

Hell yeah i like your ideas Charlie. Charlie for president!!!!

I had the same thoughts about solar panels. Then I found out about Agrivoltaics which is fascinating. I thinking having solar panel arrays having more than just one function is the way to go imho

I live in a relativly small town, Malmö Sweden, so I walk everywhere, I have a bike but I don't usually use it

Great video Charlie great comment too 👍 love it.

For more than a year I worked in Montreux and travellled there by train 1st class from Geneva. It is for sure faster than going by car and nice and relax by going by train along lake Geneva.

Increasing road space shows that planners haven't learnt. They've been increasing the number and width of roads for decades but there is still congestion, supply will never be greater than demand. NJB has another video that's well worth watching, The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities. It's an excellent examination of the American attitude for not building more public transport. I'm in England and there are towns which had bypasses built in the past and which now have bypasses to the bypass; Guildford in Surrey is one example that comes to mind. The town is both a local centre for commerce and industry and a commuter town for London. It also has a decent railway service being on the mainline between London and the south coast. There are peeople developing solar panel roads. I won't link but there are a number of websites.

You're absolutely right about the small stores who can't compete with big corporations! ☹ But people move to the bigger cities for work, not for shopping, because there's less work in rural areas and it's the same in the Netherlands! 🤷‍♂️✌🏼

Here in Utrecht (Netherlands) a highly controversial plan has been taken into reality: let's remove a lane on each side of the inner city ring road, to make people get around by something other than a car. Yes, the ring road wasn't very livable and now it has two lanes in total, wider bike lanes an more green. And the congestion on the first few months was aweful, 25 minutes to travel a mile. But now, a year later, it seems to be quite reasonable there. There still is congestion of course, but it is managable. If you want to get around town by car, you are forced to take a detour of at least 10 minutes extra on a 20 minute trip (that makes a 50% increase, or you can take the bicycle to get there in 20 minutes. I don't know whether this will be the best solution in the long term, but on a whole, the concept is worth a try.

(i'm commenting at the beginning of the video) i know Not Just Bikes's video, i like it but I'm very happy to see an actual reaction of an american. In my opinion, my country Romania goes in the same unfortunate direction...

Our towns are old wit narrow streets and we love it like that. So there is no room for cars.

Different work hours will help also or work fom home . At 18:33 you're completely right ✅️ that a good point.😊

I love NJB, and your takes are pretty based. You're right that the money used to widen these roads could be better used for things like housing and healthcare, but these road widening projects are usually paid for by cities and those other priorities are better handled at the state and federal levels. Cities could more easily use these transportation budgets to do the other things he mentions in these videos. Things like mixed-use pathways AWAY from major arterial roads to encourage people to bike and walk more. Things like increased funding and focus on transit, so buses and subways and trams are safe, convenient, efficient, clean and pleasant.

Cars don't actually have priority at the crosswalk. We just act like they do because that's what we're used to doing because speeds are too high for drivers to reliably see pedestrians in many cases anyway.

13:38 just imagine trying to find your car back. Sometimes I wish I was the president of the us. I Could make everything better. Taxes included in groceries, more public transport, more nature, more bike lanes, less guns. I just feel sorry for the people in America but I guess I cant be president. I did some research, you have to: - Be a natural-born citizen of the United States - Be at least 35 years old - Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years I dont meet any of the requirements but Charlie, you do!

28:18 simple. take lane or two and convert them to bike path or lane for busses.

i would of built an over hanging railway above the highways and put stops at every new box store two lane railways for light rail i bet that would help

38:20 that has to be the longest pedestrian-crossing I have ever seen. I don't think I would want to use that and risk my life.

people don't drive on the road to be on the road, they're going somewhere, and the somewhere's they're going have fixed traffic capacity. you can widen the beltway, but you can't widen the city streats all those cars are exiting off onto, so the backup is the same regardless.

If u want to know how Solarpanel works, there are videos on KZread. It is the same as traffic. closer to a point were the energy is taken back to the grid is faster than a home further down the lane.

HOV lines are High Occupancy Vehicles (carpool lanes) if I’m not mistaken.

with in and out joints of traffic lanes people need to learn to zip like a zipper. if everyone keeps a little distance from the vehicle in front when there is merging traffic, then you don't have the frustration

34:50 - that's not 600-1600 CARS per hour, but 600-1600 PEOPLE per hour (just look at the bottom of the chart: it certainly is NOT 25000 trains per hour, LOL), and thus don't add some more to that number for having more people per car 35:17 - _"you can fit 30-40 people on a bus"_ - no, buses are a LOT bigger. buses over here (a big city in europe) usually have a capacity of A HUNDRED people per bus, while capacity of trams can be some hundred people each, and trains 1000+ people. btw: in addition to that capacity, you easily can add "one more bus" or "one more train" to an existing route, to have 100 or 1000 more capacity for people on the same existing lane, while adding 50-100 cars (instead of a bus) or 500-1000 cars (instead of a train) would be almost impossible, even after building several more lanes. and with additional measures, you can even improve on the simple numbers and assumptions that you had, eg by making stops faster and thus enabling even more buses and trains on the same route without any additional lanes. example: we had double-decker buses which were pretty iconic and what people were used to, and thus at first i wasn't too eager to see them replaced with articulated buses. but now i enjoy them a lot because the old buses many decades ago had only one stair and it took forever to enter and leave the upper deck (capacity 100, but very slow throughput). newer ones had two separate stairs for entering and leaving, more than doubling the throughput and making stops a lot shorter (capacity a little lower because of the space for the second stairs, but overall much faster, and able to have more buses on the route). and the articulated buses now have no stairs, but several wide doors for really good throughput and much shorter stops (once again with capacity 100, throughput almost seconds instead of minutes), easily enabling one bus per minute (5 lines with a frequency of 1 bus every 5 minutes, on some busy roads) instead of more than a minute of waiting time alone to enter and leave on the old buses decades ago. and although these single-deckers now are up to twice as long, that's not important when they get their own lane and don't take away any more space from cars, no matter how long they are. another extreme example: how long does it take to get all 70k people away from eg a football stadium after the game ended? 30000 to 70000 cars would take many many hours to leave, 700 buses would achieve the same in much less time (10 parallel stops, 70 buses each), and subway or other trains with 10 platforms at that station could easily do 1k+ people every 2 minutes, all of the people in two hours.

I like your idea of heated solar-panels to get rid of snow on roads. That would be great in areas where snow and icy roads are a problem.

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

all those "solar roadways" sound great at first, but you need to do the math ... how much energy will you get from them, and how much energy will be used to heat them and melt snow and ice (especially while they are covered with snow and ice) ? would you really want or be able to cover all roads with such roofs (practically turning them into tunnels; but why would you need/want to melt the snow on the roof anyway?) or having them as pavement that needs lots of maintenance and will be covered (producing less energy) most of the time by all the cars driving on it ? i once saw the suggestion to have parking lots made out of them, but how can a car be powered by a solar panel underneath it ? in the end, you probably will have at most minor gains (if at all) for huge investments. for solar energy on roofs, it is a different problem : how many can you fit on the roof of a scyscraper ? not worth it ... but to have them on private homes might make sense, letting those houses power themselves. but that would require all people to be on board, and not having all those HOA and similar who protest it because _"it wouldn't look nice",_ just like how many people protest against having mixed zoning (with walkable neighborhoods and walkable small shops everywhere) and require more spread out housing, and more roads, and more cars, and thus also more huge malls along more huge stroads.

@joyl7842

4 ай бұрын

The main gain would be safer road-conditions. That's why it would only make sense in dangerous areas due to snow and ice.@@Anson_AKB

Maybe some already told it in the comments, but there are companies that sell solar panels as roofs tiles in the Netherlands. So not a bad idea that you had around 22 minutes into the video! And you see it a lot more within the Netherlands with new constructed non-gas uses houses as well (fully electric supported).

I live in a fairly small city in England and have never had a car. Public transport is good enough to get me to other cities or places far in my city, and most of the things I need to do are in the centre of town which is walking distance for me. A car would be convenient but it's not necessary.

Here in Indonesia bus has its own lane but idiots, whether rich or poor, still driving in it

The incentive structure for highway engineers is wrong. they're being paid for managing high car throughput. not over-all network efficiency of the mixed traffic network (they should be)

Das die ganzen Straßen und Parkplätze das Stadtklima im Sommer zusätzlich aufheizen und verhindern das sich die Städte im Sommernächten abkühlen sollte auch nicht unbachtet bleiben.

Britain has a few places where lanes/roads have been taken away and things have improved significantly (for everyone except the car drivers !)

@colingregory7464

4 ай бұрын

Would suspect that the multi level many lanes merging and splitting is much more prone to accidents since the merging lanes are meeting at many different speeds and slow meeting fast on both sides will often mean interesting coming together !

@colingregory7464

4 ай бұрын

Somewhere I remember seeing a film that had people living and working in and on buildings on wheels, where the buildings slowly migrate along the roads

@grahvis

4 ай бұрын

The City of Carmel has introduced 133 roundabouts, not only have they massively reduced accident fatalities, they have increased traffic flow by 50%. In fact, one major four lane road through the centre has been reduced to two lanes and the freed up space used for bike lanes and a larger median with trees, making walking far more pleasant.

@colingregory7464

4 ай бұрын

​@@grahvisIs Clint still mayor ? That Carmel ?

21:50 You might be interested in the solar roadways project. They figured since you're never going to get the US to be human-centric rather than car-centric, may was well use all that wasted road space.

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

a huge business to build them and to do the huge maintenance for them, for little or no gain overall. look at all the potholes that roads already have, and solar panels would be even more endangered than concrete or asphalt roads. even though it might sound nice at first, who wants or can turn all roads into roofed tunnels ???

US cars are also getting bigger and bigger, whereas many cars from abroad are getting smaller.

those roads need trainline and public transport

In France if i want to go somewhere i can take the highway or municipal road or national road ? (Idk how to say it in english sorry) to go somewhere else like my father love taking those road to go in other city it's so much fun and diverse compare to boring highways

Didn't hear a thing when you hit your microphone, so don't worry about it.

The roads with solar power as roofs is a really good idea.

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

only until you calculate the investments to build all those tunnels (having all roads covered by roofs turns them into tunnels), and how much power you gain from them and how much power and maintenance is needed to keep them working and to transport that energy along the roads.

Solarpanels would have to be swapped about once every 20 years at the current technological state. So to use them that wide spread is just too expensive and used up panels are hard to recycle. They are getting way better as I write this but it will still need time. At least that what me enquiring about that subject 1.5 yrs ago brought up... Also using them for roofs or better AS roofs is being done by - Tesla maybe? Well, one of musk's companies.

The problem is braking, it's like domino stones. A single lane would probably fix the issue, when people are confronted directly with the consequences of braking last minute..and there should be edication on it. Also, concrete roads are responsible for heating the planet up, as the roads retain heat.

@ubierin4797

4 ай бұрын

Auf jeden Fall heizen die Parkplätze und Straßen das Klima einer Stadt auf. Sie speichern die Hitze und geben sie Nachts ab und verhindern so dass sich die Stadt abkühlen kann.

28:57 busses smell? That's a weird thing to say. Not something I would say about busses here in The Netherlands anyway.

@dylankeith2833

3 ай бұрын

It's because many of our buses aren't kept clean and it's not uncommon for homeless people to purchase a bus ticket for a couple USD and ride the bus all day because it's another way to stay out of bad weather (if it's hot, there's A/C, if it's cold there's heat).

A friend of mine who lives in Virginia, USA and makes trips of a handful of minutes by car told me that the main problem in the USA with riding a bicycle is that it would get stolen very quickly. This made me so sad.

@carolinenagel7085

4 ай бұрын

Locks! My bike is locked with three seperate chain locks.

@dylankeith2833

3 ай бұрын

I don't live in Virginia but yes, I've had a couple of bikes stolen, even though I've locked them. They just cut the locks. So I'm glad more cities are adopting bike share programs, because it allows for biking without worrying about your own personal bike being stolen.

I guarantee they didn't spend all that money because they care about your commuting experience! The old road was either costing somebody too much money, or the increase makes somebody a whole load of money. They're not as stupid as you assume them to be, keep making the same mistakes etc... Ask yourself who and how does somebody benefit financially from this, and that's why it keeps happening.

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

and this even is worse when everybody only looks at shortterm results, whether something improves for the current or at most also the next year, and whether some company has nice profits for the current or the next year. then the company can be sold, the owner has made enough money, and the cycle begins again, starting with worse conditions, worse traffic, worse ....

The only reason the US is so 'dumb' about traffic planning is the car lobby. But remember that the citizens pay the price for this .

6:30 Can we have some appreciation for the metro (and train) engineers (whom are called "Machinist" in Dutch btw)that need to stop their umptheen ton vehicle on the dot in order to line it up with the gates. For anyone thinking it is no different than a car, motorcycle or bicycle... just go play an advanced train or tram/metro simulator to see how easy that is. 38:21 holy crap.... nobody probably feels safe crossing that grand canyon of a crossing by foot, not a median in sight AND right on red? I bet the ambulance has corner that on speeddial in their GPS

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

that's why they need so many cars and additional roads, to safely go from one parking lot to the other ... and then more bigger parking lots and more roads for those additional cars and additional distances ...

you should try the game cities skylines. there you can see how horrible traffic gets if you make cities with the american grid system and dedicated shopping areas. nomatter how many highways you add it will still be a congested mess.

Just a road car park

To me this showd u guys state side have it wrong in the uk pedestrians have right over cars I walk on average 70 miles a month I'm betting most u lot stateside don't get half that

His Montreal video is great, please react to that.

i love how america is all about Patriotism, but apparently no one supports there local businesses 🤥

@Anson_AKB

4 ай бұрын

because the small businesses are not on the stock market exchange and their wellbeing is not reflected in the big stock worth that politicians brag about ? and because many people just listen to these numbers as indicator how well the country is doing, even when they have no money or stocks themselves ?

China has around 1.5 billion people, the U.S. around 350 million. What does China do?

That you have a mentality against bicycle riders at all is worrying😮

idd

13:30 Ugly and inherrently inefficient. Just imagine the U.S. the most productive nation in human history, with the infrastructure and city-design of European countries. It would be like taking off several tons of weight, the economy would skyrocket.

you just cant drive over there because you are not educate how to stay on the road properly. Add on ,that your citys and subburban are terrible designed unfortunally.

You want Universal health care, and help the homeless, but still vote for Trump ????