I love how the same people who want more freeways are the ones that complain that nothing is really free because taxation.

@NooobLP

2 жыл бұрын

while i share the sentiment, i doubt there is a 100% overlap between the two, so i wouldnt phrase it like this. that just leads to strawman arguments which help noone.

@austinhernandez2716

2 жыл бұрын

Or say that there's too much traffic.

@tomtrask_YT

2 жыл бұрын

@@NooobLP Or you could just say "free like the roads" when you have, inevitably, to explain why you want free healthcare.

@venda.havelka

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomtrask_YT Turnpikes ain't free

@roboko6618

6 ай бұрын

freeways got their name because they were not tollroads, aka the free actually comes from the fact it comes from your taxes

This makes me want to sit in a traffic jam on a road they built to alleviate traffic jams, while just shrugging and saying “this is fine” and “I can’t think of any other solution to this problem other than building more roads,” while at the same time complaining that they are planning to building a new road near me!

@saxmanb777

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe the planners didn’t plan for this!

@venda.havelka

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to sit in a traffic jam forever not having to solve my life problems...

Congress - trains are too expensive Also Congress - spends $96 Billion on roads a year

@quatschkopp2608

3 жыл бұрын

They are required so there is no question about their cost. Right???

@gabrielchristy7341

3 жыл бұрын

But trains are literally communism. I mean, look at Trotsky!

@quatschkopp2608

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah right, so communism is too expensive for america and therefore russia is richer then the US

@saxmanb777

3 жыл бұрын

But but, roads PaY for TheMsElves!!

@ericmuschlitz7619

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielchristy7341 who was murdered by Stalin for the idea that people might be equal

A new Armchair Urbanist will be out next week and it'll be relevant to this video :) Reminder: Car bad, Train good.

@peskypigeonx

3 жыл бұрын

SECOND I WILL NOT LET THIS PAIN KEEP ON IN COMMENTS ALL AROUND KZread

@elliespohr

3 жыл бұрын

train is love train is life

@colonelcampbellsoup6318

3 жыл бұрын

Trolleybus okay tho

@ozAqVvhhNue

3 жыл бұрын

I have commented this in an earlier video, but I found something from CGP Grey that might interest you: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIuElpOGiK-zd7w.html

@ingarssamins1411

2 жыл бұрын

Reminder: hierarchy Electric train Tram Trolleybus Diesel train Regular bus Electric bus Automobiles

This makes me want to complain about my cities’ potholes in the road while ignoring the fact that property taxes on suburban streets aren’t even enough to cover street resurfacing once every 2 decades, then refuse to pay more in property taxes and vote no on new development that would alleviate debt

@somebonehead

3 жыл бұрын

*then

@davidmartin4605

2 жыл бұрын

Dad? Is that you?

After watching this video, I demolished 3 neighborhoods and built a new highway in Cities: Skylines. The city is broke and traffic is a nightmare, but hey the new interchange looks cool!

@thejordancolemanshow2274

2 жыл бұрын

Cities Skylines is an important word to read. I should read it.

@SquidCena

2 жыл бұрын

@@thejordancolemanshow2274 It's a pretty good game.

@cdw2468

Жыл бұрын

POV: you discovered “urban renewal”

This makes me want to dig tunnels underground to alleviate traffic - which is mathematically the same as just adding lanes. I want to glide at thirty miles per hour though underground death tubes where a single accident could block the entire tunnel; where a single fire could kill everyone. I want to reinvent the taxi stand by charging people to get into an underground Tesla that goes an entire one mile through a pipe with gamer lights in it.

@choppership465

Жыл бұрын

sounds a lot like the idea of digging a tunnel, attaching 4-8 carriages together that can cruise at 35mph

@Project2457official

Жыл бұрын

...no...building a shitty loop underground with cars with only a capacity for 3 passengers per vehicle is downright stupid. attaching 4-8 carriages together means that you carry infinitely more people...not to mention the ROI is higher because of the economy of scale... also what kind of a metro system cruises at only 35mph? lmao

@choppership465

Жыл бұрын

@@Project2457official 35mph as in speed in central areas as stations are densely packed together, outside the central area top speeds (62mph) can be done

@dcdude345

Жыл бұрын

This is the future we deserve

Perfect music to write a letter to my city council about how there's too much traffic noise on my street and also there isn't enough parking.

@BendySnowball

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the American cognitive dissonance lol

13:54 that sign is about as true as saying “more arsenic for your health”

This makes me want to scream in frustration about sitting in traffic, and buy a bigger car to make sitting in traffic more bearable, and then complain about having nowhere to store my bigger car because all the parking garages are full, making me park on the street and get a parking ticket, which I will similarly complain about, then wonder why there isn’t a better traffic solution already and decide to support Elon Musk’s boring company, so that my car can move underground faster than the other cars.

@ThePeninsulaRailfan

3 жыл бұрын

🦍

@Robloxity_News

3 жыл бұрын

Boring company. Cant wait for Ep 2 of your new series.

@namanish450

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePeninsulaRailfan Go back I want to be 🦍

@arijitpalit2756

2 жыл бұрын

🤡

@0hypnotoad0

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to blame Biden for gas prices once you realize a larger vehicle consumes more fuel

Childrens lungs: can you not? General Motors: hahaha ICE go BRRRR

@SilencedMi5

3 жыл бұрын

Children in cages: can you not? DHS: hahaha ICE go BRRRR

@weetikissa

3 жыл бұрын

Kids that are alive: can you not? EVs and ICE cars together: haha, car go VROOOM

@Rensen100

2 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about Intercity-Express? The fastest trains in Germany.

@SilencedMi5

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rensen100 Internal Combustion Engine

This makes me want to divide neighborhoods and remove thousands and thousands of acres worth of developable land to put my fancy colorful interchange in that will lead to ~150 new road accidents because I like the loopy loops.

@djjackson-pickett7558

3 жыл бұрын

These comments are beautiful

@slk7376

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the interstate highways saved about 1,500 people from car accidents and are considerably safer that conventional roads. (Still more dangerous than trains) Remember, *loops saves lives.*

@Lafv

2 жыл бұрын

@@slk7376 if you’re getting that stat from the Wendover video… I think it might be misguided because it didn’t seem like he took into account that people would drive less if there were no interstates. Admittedly I haven’t done any of my own research so I’m not sure

@josephcarson8382

2 жыл бұрын

@@slk7376 the loopy loops are cloverleaf interchanges

@venda.havelka

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget all the unnecessary cases of cancer caused by extra emissions of carcinogenic gases...

These beats make me want to be convinced that all old US cities were always built for the automobile, despite knowing the vast majority were built long before the large-scale popularity of the automobile, and yell at under-paid retail workers after hopping into my metal box I store inside my wood and brick box and traveling to a big box store so I have to spend a minimum amount of time outside of my personal boxes and in space I might have to interact with other human beings (I might have to rethink my views on people living in different conditions from me)

This is the most targeted meme I've ever seen, Thank you lol

@user-de4cq6uk6l

3 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how the train enthusiast/urban planning community seems like it would be so niche yet surprisingly popular

@tchao1995

3 жыл бұрын

Its surprising how fresh it was when it hit your feed.

This will be the soundtrack to my next Cities Skylines play session as I give my Cims road diets.

@weetikissa

3 жыл бұрын

o7

@certaindeath7776

3 жыл бұрын

i tried build big liveworthy car free city, and the game handles it quite well, but when it comes to rail cargo or freight ships, the game just goes crazy, and it wont work, without some very very special solutions, which wouldnt be necessary in real life :(

@kowalskidiazdegeras9190

2 жыл бұрын

@@certaindeath7776 in my case the city spawns so many trains that the game isn't able to de-spawn them at the end of the map. The result is a train traffic jam on the outbound tracks 😑

This makes me wanna be grateful to live in Hong Kong where I don’t have a car because I don’t need one.

@blitzn00dle50

3 жыл бұрын

hong kong isn't a great example of what cities can be like without the strip malls, surface parking lots and spaghetti bowl interchanges though

Asking me to use my car less would be infringing on my freedoms or something... Also trains expensive

DJ Alan showing the truth with more banging tunes

"No, God, No!" -- Michael "The Office" Scott (the tunes are banging though, might actually buy a car)

Los Angeles is very car centric that I'm even contemplating moving to the bay area, NYC or Chicago in the future.

@blitzn00dle50

3 жыл бұрын

you have to be really done with car centricity to be willing to pay NYC, Chicago or Bay Area cost of living just so you can live without a car

@AlexCab_49

3 жыл бұрын

@@blitzn00dle50 LA is also expensive but because many parts are car centric, it justs adds an extra burden on top of housing but IT IS possible to live w/o a car here but ppl will see you as wierd, especially when they find out that I don't even want a driver's license

@blitzn00dle50

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexCab_49 oh right, I forgot LA is giga expensive as well. Welcome to the US where whatever isn't ultra pricey is the hood

@tealmer3528

3 жыл бұрын

Move to Philly. Low cost of living (as in lower than HOUSTON) and no car necessary.

@weenisw

2 жыл бұрын

Chicago cost of living is low for a big city, especially compared to SF, NYC & LA. State tax is much lower than CA. No local income tax like NYC. There are great neighborhoods along transit that are more affordable than the usual places people first move to. You’ll need a thicker coat though.

That's an interesting way to convince people that their views on short-to-medium distance personal four-wheeled, terrestrial, non-tracked, self-driven, rubber-tired, steerable methods of transportation are flawed.

Oh man, this brings back memories of sitting in the back of the car as a child while traveling across the Autobahn. Nonstop headaches because of smoking parents, drab view sourrounded by noise barriers, nothing to do and only the most generic pop songs.

Listening to this doing dishes in my car dependent suburban neighborhood. So car dependent there’s no crosswalks on many of the roads and no bike locks at my school.

@alissonsv2

3 жыл бұрын

But like how would a crosswalk help you drive anywhere faster?

@craigstephenson7676

3 жыл бұрын

@@alissonsv2 there’s a decent amount of places within walking distance including my school just no walking infrastructure, making walking dangerous but not that much slower than driving. If there were bike lanes biking would probably be even faster than driving just cause I could go past all of the traffic. But there’s no bike lanes or even bike locks anywhere.

@tealmer3528

3 жыл бұрын

Listening to this while riding the express subway to my school after biking to the station in protected bike lanes and snagging one of the last bike racks out of a bank of 50. (Philadelphia)

Instructions unclear, now I feel nostalgic for traffic jams

Ugh, comparing GO trains, the one nice stretch of the 134 between Pasadena and Glendale, pre-aughts traffic levels, and old buses. I'm only 4 minutes in and you're definitely inducing my demand for cars and I just worked out how to get rid of mine.

Loving the vintage GO footage, thank you for honouring Ontario's car centric legacy with these vibes

Thank you President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the US Interstate Highway System.

I listen to this mix to an unhealthy amount... often while walking to places though

This makes me want to break out my Walkman and ummm.... do something. I can't quite put me my finger on it. hmm.... it's that thingy people do when they go to the other room. Not driving.

@jonasn7739

2 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it isn't driving? I remember doing something with the walkman too...it was... uhhh... something...

As an urban planning student and a big fan of future funk/vaporwave etc, this mix is just incredible (the video and the audio

Late stage consumerism and consumption culture is sad 😔

This makes me want to go out and take my car on a joy ride because Florida isn't nearly as urbanized as California or New York and park anywhere I want without any issue

After listening, I suddenly had the urge to build stroads through the middle of downtown Dallas, demolish the CBD Transit Mall to expand the highways and stroads, flatten the skyscrapers, add more parking lots and shutter Dallas Area Rapid Transit in favor of car-centric infrastructure plans.

Nice, a man with style. A lot of Vulfpeck vibes. I wish I was at MSG in NYC. Love it

@alanthefisher

3 жыл бұрын

I bought MSG tickets last minute and it was the best decision ever. Also the train ride home from that was hilarious.

@sascha5978

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanthefisher Oh, that's nice. I'm glad that they've recorded the show so I can have an impression how it was there. I mean it's a difference between watching the show on KZread and live the show in reallife, but it is well made. A music tip from Germany: album Eins by Marti Fischer. Golden by Cory Wong is originally Bernstein Gold by Marti Fischer. Just a side fact ;)

ROOOOOOOLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART.

Beats to get stuck in traffic to.

I love your channel so much before the Vaporwave but now since I know you are a vaporwave fan you have my ultimate respect. God bless urban planners and god bless trains.

I was at Academy sport and outdoors the other day and overheard two suburban dads making small talk rifling through clearance items. "have you been to the Academy in -next town over-? it has slightly more stuff" *other dad nods*

Just seconds in and theres already a Saab 900 and a GM new look bus. Snazzy stuff!

Gotta admit, these are some god tier vibes

This makes me add 10 more lanes to the highway to prevent future traffic.

I pretty sure that the image at 3:50 is "Old Woman Bay" it's at the northern end of Lake Superior along the Trans-Can Highway in Provincial Park. Ending with a drive north on the 405 going to the San Fernando Valley. Takeaway: Cars have good points and bad points just like public transit. But both need to be improved, clean running cars till a replacement for lithium-ion battery's, maybe Solid State battery's and the main thing for public trans needs real bad right now is clean it up and make it safe for families to use. Note: while watching this all I could think about was Doc Brown and Marty Mcfly. Great video, Thanks for posting

Nothing as sweet as the irony of listening to this while sitting on the bus

Quality urban planning content right here!

It feels like somebody hacked my Spotify account and was suprising me with this music.

this is like the mandatory scene in apocalyptic fiction where the Main Cast get caught up in traffic-- Oh wait

I have no idea how any economically minded person would prefer a bunch of expensive cars and roads to old and tried trains. Like ffs, I am right wing and this desire of people who call themselves right wing to push their cities into debt by building more highways is just appauling

@Ilikefire2793

2 жыл бұрын

The right are basically a bunch of hypothetical morrons who really just want everyone to lick boots so they dont feel so weird about themselves when they do it. And thats me putting it nicely.

@HazyFelix

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ilikefire2793 Licking boots is something any political party does. We live in a democracy, after all

@HazyFelix

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ilikefire2793 Licking boots is something any political party does. We live in a democracy, after all

@Ilikefire2793

2 жыл бұрын

@@HazyFelix I'm referring not to boot licking political parties but instead to those who lick the boots of rich a-holes and seem to be the source of a surprisingly large amount of the current problems in the world. Its more important to for right wingers to support the oil industry and car manufacturers overreach and interests than to create a economically stable and livable environment. They tend to argue that people should stay poor and not expect the government to help anyone and that everything should be privatized. Meanwhile those same people leach off taxes exemptions and rebates to keep their failing privatized companies and corporations afloat and are willing to claim to believe anything as long as those with more money above them agreed to say it first. Its some of the most boot licking behavior ever seen.

@dominator9833

2 жыл бұрын

@@HazyFelix Constitutional republic

YES YES BUILD MORE HIGHWAYS DOUBLE DECKER HIGHWAYS TRIPLE DECKER HIGHWAYS ALL THE ROAD PAVE THE EARTH

I LOVE TRAFFIC!!!!!! I LOVE WAITING 2 HOURS TO MOVE 10 INCHES!!!!!!! I WANT MORE ROAD AND MORE CARS MORE ROADS AND MORE CARS I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

s m o g w a v e

this is aesthetic af

Might rip this to a cassette tape ngl

Listening while stuck in stopped traffic on the Oakland Bay Bridge 👍

Ah, yes. Freewave...

None of these infrastructures were built for free.

The title of this mix is eerily accurate

Never before did I think these two worlds would collide, but in retrospect this is auto-consumerism at its finest 🙏

I liked the transition after 2:04, that was a good one. Not sure if it was in the original video or deliberately put together like that, but an early tractor and two horses afterwards was a nice contrast yet still so similar otherwise. Also a lot of construction work at height going on without any apparent safety concerns if a person was to fall down, also throwing things up from the ground. Was that an activity that was formally okay at the time? And if it was caught on film/video today what would the regulatory response be now?

30 lane freeway summed up in one mix

This feels like a traffic report is about to tell me that every highway is backed up

LA, here I come!

Me living in an city with a 200000 population and two freeways where one is built far outside into the county and the other on the outskirts of the suburban line wondering why everyone complains about traffic? Just build it right the first time. You know in the county instead on the land of the old oversized ave running thru town. You get less people from dying from car accidents in the county and none from asma. Not to mention you never gotta widen the thing.

Bruh, just met your channel and honestly it just keeps getting better and better, thanks Mr. Train man Btw I did not notice it was you the first time I saw this on my yt mix

I love this music

This is excellent

Thia makes me wanna advocate for 26 lane hwys to cause all sorts of traffic, for the purpose to fix traffic. Plus it looks cool.

Consider my demand INDUCED

6:50 WHO THOUGHT THAT MAKING THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA?

Unexpected amounts of Cory Wong and Vulfpeck

vibin

Haha. *Ha* I love sitting in traffic *all day* .

I hear they play this in the FHWA lobby.

This is really something

This mix makes me realize the boomers are actually right. America is just too big and spread out for trains.

@alanthefisher

3 жыл бұрын

*ussr anthem blares*

@dominator9833

2 жыл бұрын

That's literally where trains shine though

@street_ruffian

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominator9833 but how are we gonna pay for it? We have to keep pouring money into car infrastructure obviously so we can't pay for something that is better! Are you crazy? Plus trains cannot compete with airplanes from NYC to LA and as we all know there are 0 cities in between these 2 places. So then it would never be profitable and it would be ridiculous to have a nationwide system, an inter-state system you could call it, that does not directly produce a profit.

@dominator9833

2 жыл бұрын

@@street_ruffian How do we pay for it? We don't. Nobody has ever paid for railroads to build up their infrastructure since 1976. All big daddy government has to do is incentivize the railroads to be more competitive to airlines and automobiles out west. Are you crazy? Additionally, plenty of cities exist between NYC and LA, I can name several off the top of my head. Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and the list goes on and on... Many of these cities have not seen passenger service in decades, so tell me more about profits when some states don't even have Amtrak all-together.

@street_ruffian

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominator9833 lmao wow swoosh... I'm joking. I will say though I would think the US government would probably have to pay to build a lot of high speed rail infrastructure. Maybe not but I really don't think we should be worried about the cost or how profitable it would be because we need to cut emissions like yesterday. The actual impossibility with it, is really just a problem with the lack of political will to get it done.

This is giving me flashbacks to getting carsick on the Jersey Turnpike Why must you do this?

@Robloxity_News

2 жыл бұрын

Suffer

Thank you.

Came here from your JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO meme because this video had "Just one more lane" as the thumbnail and was disappointed by the lack of Robot Rock

4:30 Wait is that what I think it is? I looks like a familiar great lakes freighter.

Maryland want to add 2 hot reversible toll lanes to the american legion bridge and up 270. Its huge waste of money. Acting like theyre building for the regions future. . That area is already 5 lanes each way.

@MrIansmitchell

2 жыл бұрын

Toll the existing lanes

i am going to become a city planner, i am going to change american urban planning for the better, i am going to being high speed rail to washington state, i am going to impact the world in a positive way… and this is how. i am ambitious but i am going to do it, and hell if i have to get into politics then so be it. i am going to start making youtube videos again, but this time not shitposts, urbanism content i will pour my heart into. i will keep these goals and exceed them.

I am more than you can ever own. More tangible than any lie ever sold. More worth than value can behold. The bridges once collapsed Denser than concrete and steel under fold Taught pressures breaking the mold Expanded, spanned, not reached across an ever widening river, now gone dry how could I? ever plan any escape from a flooded plain downstream from a broken poorly planned damn

Seeing this comment section actually gives me some hope for the future of the US. Please for the love of {whoever the fuck you believe in} we need some rational legitimate politicians in power PLEASE

😭😭😭😭 I despise NJ traffic. Newark needs a subway built for themselves, so does Hudson County. And we one line to connect all NJ transit lines so we can get cars off the road.

@tealmer3528

3 жыл бұрын

Newark gets their light rail, and PATH is still quite nice, even for transportation within Newark.

@katjerouac

2 жыл бұрын

@@tealmer3528 those services are pretty trash. NJ is suffering of car congestion because public transit just plain sucks.

@tealmer3528

2 жыл бұрын

@@katjerouac Those services are great if you live in the dense areas that they are in. Car-oriented areas and public transit don't work together well though, it's too far to walk because of bad design.

@katjerouac

2 жыл бұрын

@@tealmer3528 That's what I'm saying. What's the point of the path train if the only people who can use it are the people that live close to the stations. What about the rest of the city (general Newark area) and Hudson County which is ALL very dense. People need a good metro to connect them to other stations but there's only buses and a laughable cheap light rail system. NJ and NY are corrupt and too overly bureaucratic. Nothing ever gets done. We still ONLY have the same two 110 yro tunnels 🤣

@tealmer3528

2 жыл бұрын

@@katjerouac The light rail system should be expanded. It is great. A PATH expansion will never get built, sadly, unless it's along an existing rail ROW.

I need somewhere to drive my future super car collection

I'M INDUUUUUUCING

in the POV clip, with the date and time. theres a guy with his left indicator flashing, but he's not getting over. nothing has changed since the 80s apparently

Love the traffic jam at the end

cruise, groove, and scream at every other car on the road music ;)

oh hell yeah dude

I think this just convinced me to join your discord

This makes me wanna build an extra 4 lanes on the Belt Parkway cars will be backed from rockaway queens all the way to the verrazano bridge and build another 2 lanes on the Long Island Expressway that coulda been used for the LIRR but puttin railroad tracks instead of road is so expensive but yet we got no problem spending billions every year for more stupid fuckin roads that are still gonna be backed up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pave the planet!

Some Spotify playlists would be nice tho

Liked video 👍😮

I'm in Atlanta right now.. Why does this feel so familiar?!

6:01 the vibes were so real even Santa decided to join in

Based.

Thanks

I was expecting "Ullo John Gotta New Motah" Yeah it's not vaporware but it would fit.

Good old santa bepis to start the mix