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@HouseJawn

2 жыл бұрын

Good video buddy 😁

@abhineet1607

2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video about Vatican City and it's building and stuff. Btw good video bro

@abhineet1607

2 жыл бұрын

Bro btw if you divide parts in between like 'what California could do in this situation' 'what's the problem' etc. It will be more focused but still this was a good video and this was a long video so good job

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Hi arkive i am ur biggest fan. Im 10 foot

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

2 жыл бұрын

Reaction Soviet micro distrik

Its just a though but what if you start building denser like NYC with public transport in mind. Eliminating the requirement to own a car thus having to stop spending billions on highways? Wouldn’t that solve like 70% of the problem?

@ferminpereira739

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@AlexCab_49

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but Southern California and the Central Valley are built around driving. So unless we demolish like 70% of those areas, we're gonna have to densify them and put policies that make it easier to get around without a car and even discourage car use/ownership.

@portibolivia

2 жыл бұрын

This would be the ideal solution, yes. It can start by changing the zoning laws in cities and its suburbs.

@colvinvandommelen2156

2 жыл бұрын

@@portibolivia this is what’s so strong, so many issues can be solved without spending a dime but yet we resort to just throwing cash in the automobile toilet

@jordiettinger5346

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. LA has been trying for decades to build out its rail system and has more recently started trying to reform its zoning laws precisely to this end. But along the way they’ve had to fight NIMBY after NIMBY group and deal with the extremely limited amount of federal money available for public transit projects. So it’s not all LA’s fault

That's what happens when you design everything around cars and sprawl. It's not affordable. They're just finding that out now.

@Mgameing123

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@salakast

2 жыл бұрын

Texas didn't get the memo, they're like California on steroids.

@salakast

2 жыл бұрын

@@night6724 Yes.

@aprilshowers3008

2 жыл бұрын

@@night6724 Yes

@Racko.

2 жыл бұрын

@@night6724 Why not? Are you against the idea that no matter your income or financial situation that people have access to all the same kinds or high quality transit in a small walking distance and one that's not car dependent? Public transportation will always be cheaper than Car

I'm no civil engineer but it seems that Cali has thrown all of their infrastructure money at roadway capacity in an attempt to alleviate traffic while ignoring every other aspect of infrastructure, crucially train and bus lines, so people have no other option than to drive. If they instead put a good chunk of this $40bn they're going to be receiving over the next few years into creating a top of the line train and bus network that makes travel quicker and cheaper, it would give an alternative to driving everywhere and alleviate traffic, getting rid of the need for greater capacity

@outofboundsbro

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly up to this point in my 1 hr 40 min commute experience I would even settle for the train taking the same amount of time. I would love to take the train, sadly Cali hasn't done enough in that regard.

@Topgun232

2 жыл бұрын

Adding roadway capacity doesn't improve traffic. It gives something called "induced demand" which is the opposite problem. More lanes attracts more traffic. While also taking thousands of acres of taxable land off the books.

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

Any "Cities Skylines" player can tell you that you need to use all forms of public transit to fix traffix. (The game has limitations that make its traffic worse and better, no car accidents is good, idiot drivers is bad) Cali needs to build enough transit capacity (walking and biking are included in this) to soak up all of the "latent demand" that would fill up any spaces opened on the highway as people start to take the train, and only then will the traffic get noticably better. And ignoring traffic concerns, transit is way more compact and efficient so its also better for the environment and land use efficiency. (Also safety, by alot)

@dontcare7086

2 жыл бұрын

California is known for having the highest taxes with the taxpayers seeing no benefits from it. Incompetent and corrupt government has lead to the exodus.

@danielr4640

2 жыл бұрын

Plus the drought has takin its toll on California for several years now

"We've thrown a ton of money at the problem, and there has been no improvement. Now we have identified the problem. It needs more money"

@infinitedeathloop5517

2 жыл бұрын

Yes? You think they can solve those problems for free? Lol

@seanharan9521

2 жыл бұрын

@@infinitedeathloop5517 i think the issue is that they're still just throwing money at the wrong things. The plan does not really attempt to fix the issues, just put a bandage over them

@rcm926

2 жыл бұрын

@@infinitedeathloop5517 The video didn't say what the problem was though, it literally said that the money was wasted and then proceeded to suggest that a lack of funding was the issue all along

@priestofronaldalt

2 жыл бұрын

The most American solution

@Dave-dh7rt

2 жыл бұрын

@@rcm926 cause the money went into corrupt politicans' pockets.

Civil Engineer here. The problem in California is the cars, the pavement area is totally unsustainable, and it is an issue of mathematical nature. More area means more to fix in two dimensions, everywhere. The only way to fix the problem is to get rid of the cars completely, reclaim the land and make walking into stores a reality, by building commerce centers at every station, not empty… park lots surrounded by grass and nothingness. To create public transportation alternatives that are so frequent, widespread, cheap, and secure that nobody would choose to drive a car in their right mind. Right now, public transportation in California is just a ‘token’. It is there just for looks, to prove that the city has them. And this is what you get, empty buses and trains that pass every who knows when, dangerous, and expensive.

@njv1234

2 жыл бұрын

radical environmentalists have infiltrated our institutes of higher learning, civil engineering studies included

@Mgameing123

2 жыл бұрын

I tottally agree with you. Just look at London. Driving there is a nightmare so I take the train.

@TwoMinutesStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@Juan-hv9bi no they just don’t have any other option

@itisicountolaf.yournewguar6111

2 жыл бұрын

True..

@jimmybon9314

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing for New Jersey...

One simple ratio can tell you the reason for these problems... Compare the mileage per inhabitant with other countries for the main infrastructure items: road, sewage, electricity, gas, water. You will find that the length of infrastructure each inhabitant has to maintain, is much longer. So, in order to make the situation worse, Californians should build their houses even further apart and increase their resistance against paying state taxes.

@Freshbott2

2 жыл бұрын

100%. It's a simple mathematical impossibility suburbanites can't seem to grasp. If the average cost of infrastructure per person exceeds the average productivity per person (that's being generous cause obviously most of a person's productivity needs to go to other things) then you're in the negative. But the only options are stop funding the overbuilt infrastructure which is politically untenable or massively urbanise enough of the population in net positive communities that the country is in the positive on average. But that wouldn't really solve the problem entirely, cause it's still a massive drag for urban economies to spend a huge chunk of their output subsidising unproductive ones, and any gain in productivity would likely be swallowed by parasitic suburban electorates. The US is lucky to have mass immigration and relatively high birthrates cause even then it might only narrowly escape an eternal decline.

@laurie7689

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freshbott2 Part of that is the fault of cities. There are cities in the USA that REQUIRE/MANDATE that the people use city water services and city sewage services even when some folks already have their own wells or their own septic systems and they live further away from the city center. If they just let the folks further away have the wells and septic systems, then the city wouldn't have to subsidize building the lines out so far. It's not like the folks living further away want to pay for the city services anyhow. Those services are more costly. A city nearby mine sued homeowners who had their own septic systems because they wanted to force them onto city sewage because they extended the lines out to them but the people there didn't want to hook up. The city didn't even ask the homeowners if they wanted to be on city sewage. The homeowners lost and were forced onto the city sewage.

@Freshbott2

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurie7689 how far out are you talking? Past a certain point in number and density bores allow exploitation of the shared water table, and too many sceptics in an area cna poison the water table. For rural/semi rural areas I totally agree. But that’s not 80% of the population and it’s not 99.9% of the inhabited land area. I agree with you in principle, and I reckon the same about roads. When you ask people to pay for their own roads and car parks it’s funny how quickly they don’t. But the public nature of roads and how everyone should put into more of them at all costs is a staple of most left leaning communities and all right leaning ones. It’s beyond criticism. Meanwhile driving in the US is the most subsidised activity in all of history. Charles Marohn calculated up the cost/benefit of urban interstate systems in the US and found if you avoid all the lies firms and politicians use to justify benefit, the US would be better off having a hurricane Katrina and hurricane Irma every year instead.

@laurie7689

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freshbott2 The area that was sued and lost was semi-rural.

@Freshbott2

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurie7689 lol well short of this one semi rural area that lost in this one case about septic tanks the point still stands that suburbanites have stretched their cities too thin and no amount of nostalgia or blame or anxious hate for their own neighbours which they dress up s as patriotism, can change the financial reality. If you spend more than you make, you go broke. That’s the fault of people who destroy cities.

This video might have passed 5-6 years ago, but these days US style infrastructure and urban planning (auto-dependent suburban-sprawl) content has progressed far beyond "not enough spending".

Not sure I follow the point. You say that the issue is lack of funding, which I buy, but is 4.2 billion gonna fix the issue if 102 billion couldn't? I think California, like everyone else, needs to start to ask: why is our infrastructure so expensive to maintain? Strong Towns has been saying for a while that the issue is that car infrastructure is too expensive and can never really be "fixed". The federal government should instead be funding new, public transit infrastructure all throughout the country. If we fix every bridge and highway in the country today, we're gonna find ourselves in the same exact spot 50 years from now.

@davidjackson7281

2 жыл бұрын

Right on, exactly. Your point is very well taken.

@taoliu3949

2 жыл бұрын

Public transit has the same issue as well. The issue is too much infrastructure, not enough. Infrastructure needs to be right sized to reflect that supportable by the locality. Infrastructure proposals needs to conduct a total ROI analysis that reflects its total maintenance/replacement cost. If it doesn't generate sufficient revenue to maintain/replace it, then it shouldn't get approved.

@davidjackson7281

2 жыл бұрын

@@taoliu3949 Honestly, no matter how many classes I have taken or articles read I have never been able to comprehend economic issues very well, at all. For me, understanding the cost benefit (ROI) analysis of infrastructure is more difficult than getting my head around cosmology or philosophy. However, transportation of goods and people is a huge economic driver. Without which society stagnates. We all want improvements but at what cost and who bares the burden. An example could be private vehicular transportation vs. public trains. Perhaps technology will result in more remote working and less commuting and thus reduce certain future infrastructure needs. Rarely can public transportation directly pay for itself otherwise it would be private. This is an interesting topic, isn't it?

@taoliu3949

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidjackson7281 But is the growth in economy sufficient to cover the costs of the improved infrastructure? If the cost of building/maintaining the improvement exceeds the economic benefits, then society just gets poorer as a result. In other words, it would be better to simply not build the improvements. And yes, you can build infrastructure that is sustainable. That's literally how major infrastructure projects in the US used to be built. Governments and private companies would sell bonds to build a road, rail tracks, bridge etc and pay off the bonds over time. Revenue would either be raised via tolls and/or supplementated with secondary revenue streams such as taxes or rent. The issue with major infrastructure projects in the US today is that there's no check on basically what seems to be limitless Federal funding unlike in the old days local governments had to be very cognicent of how much debt they can take on to fund a project. As a result states and local governments keep putting themselves in debt so they can get "free" money from the Federal government. The checks aren't there to prevent this, and incentives aren't properly aligned to discourage it. And yes, public transit can be profitable. Historically it was all "private" and was profitable until the government started building a bunch of roads making them unable to compete.

@davidjackson7281

2 жыл бұрын

@@taoliu3949 Excellent point, very well taken. Have a nice week.

I live on the Central Coast. Just to give you all from out of state an idea of how slowly infrastructure moves... The 101 through Santa Barbara had its last traffic light removed in 1991 and the 101 was widened from four to six lanes for about 15 miles to meet the growing traffic demand of the residents and those who commute from neighboring LA suburbs like Ventura & Oxnard but since about 1993 or 1994, the widened section of the freeway was already at capacity and plans to widen the Highway further to meet with the already widened section of the 101 near Ventura have still not fully completed. At this rate, it looks like the project will be finished by 2030 and by then I'm sure that section of the freeway would already be at capacity. It will never end.

@unblubby7139

2 жыл бұрын

Well in the UK our infrastructure projects move fairly slow as well; but road widening is definitely not the answer to traffic problems! Our cities function fine without massive highways crisscrossing the landscape.

@OFFICIALDJFLASHBACK

2 жыл бұрын

@@unblubby7139 Agreed. How many lanes can you really add to the M25? lol

@flopin9528

2 жыл бұрын

Another lane will fix it, for real. Just add one more lane

@blanco7726

2 жыл бұрын

6 lanes as in 3 each way? Thats standard for any urban highway, shocking it took so long!

@blanco7726

2 жыл бұрын

In fact it’s optimal, 4 lanes for any more than easing exits and entries is excess. Cleaning up gridlock prone intersections and planning highway exits so as to avoid backing up goes way farther than adding a 4th lane.

People can hate on us all they want, but at least we don't have a society that revolves around cars like America does. The vast majority of Pyongyang residents travel by bike, tram, or the Metro. And might I add, it's a very beautiful metro that we built before Seoul built theirs....the NYC Subway is a symbol of American infrastructure, crumbling to the ground gasping for help.

I wish California had more public transit. Our population density is going up, yet politicians are pushing electric cars instead of public transit.

@dougc190

2 жыл бұрын

At one time we had a great public transportation. When you bored do a deep dive on the Red and Yellow Car

@squidwardo7074

2 жыл бұрын

I really wish we had a nationwide high speed train system like Japan

@dougc190

2 жыл бұрын

@@squidwardo7074 I think we're just too big of a country that have a nationwide high-speed be feasible. I'm not really a fan of the California High-Speed rail that's been a financial disaster. Only because they could have done it for cheaper with existing tech and track probably would already been done by now

@kaydenchan7093

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad NIMBYs are constantly preventing infrastructure improvement

@taoliu3949

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougc190 "Nationwide" does not mean "coast to coast". "Nationwide" really just mean interstate. You're not taking the train from NYC to California, but you could take it from NYC to DC which people already do. California HSR is a fine project. It's main issue is the lack of a dedicated revenue stream so it has to find separate funding for different segments. The issue with using existing tracks is that it wouldn't have met the requirements set by Proposition 1A. The only way to meet the speed requirements is by constructing dedicated tracks. You can still add service to existing tracks as supplementary service however.

America's century long experiment with oil and automobile dependency is failing miserably, and California is but one domino to fall. As goes California, so does the country. That said, we are in a huge quandary. We can't afford to keep propping up this sprawled and expensive mess, and we can't afford to abandon it while it's an enables such an important economic engine. This is going to play out all over the country in the coming decades.

@priestofronaldalt

2 жыл бұрын

In combination with the hard times ahead, this will be hell

@dandarr5035

2 жыл бұрын

It has already played out in Michigan, and in Detroit in particular.

@LarryWater

2 жыл бұрын

It’s most California problem.

You guys remember when California was one of the least populated States? Me neither

@fritobuggers834

2 жыл бұрын

Not in my 66 years of living here.

@DeuzFazbear

2 жыл бұрын

As an American state, no, as a former mexican territory, yes.

@elyisusking3603

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeuzFazbear you're telling me California become instantly in the most populated state when the US took it ? nah man, that should've taken a lot of time

@DeuzFazbear

2 жыл бұрын

not immediately, but since it was the United States that found gold in California

@JaKingScomez

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeuzFazbear so as an American state it was or wasnt? Your comments are going against eachother

Ah yes, lack of funding is the problem, let's throw even more money at it and it'll solve itself...it's the same energy as abuelas saying VapoRub is the solution to every problem. 💀

Its so hard to drive in California, all the roads are so confusing, and in LA its death, my LS400 got wrecked because of someone who doesnt know how to drive.

@Hiighmeow

2 жыл бұрын

NOO not the ls😞😞

@LSniumUwU

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hiighmeow 😔

@soupdrinker

2 жыл бұрын

I feel so much safer driving when I moved out of california

@LSniumUwU

2 жыл бұрын

@@soupdrinker yeah when me and my family went to Arizona, it was way less packed and just so fun and easy to drive.

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

Thats because at a certain capacity/demand threshold its time to get higher orders of transit. (A road is the lowest capacity in terms of max people per hour per lane, busses are 20-30 times better than a car and can share its infrastructure, and a train/rail is just insane in terms of capacity per 1 way rail line) walking/biking is the king of short distance transit. I despise driving on the interstate, its either mind numbing or a near death experience, but crossing the Addirondacks on low roads is genuinely enjoyable and significantly safer. (Unless its winter, then black ice or regular ice and hills is a big concern)

I'm glad you mentioned the financial mismanagement but my goodness for the longest time the gas tax that was supposed to pay for the roads and other infrastructure projects, but insteadthey put to the general fund and spend it on other things. Let's take the Oroville dam for a minute maintenance was deferred for years on it, hence why it failed, the Bay bridge you had in your picture it was cheaper to rebuild the Old Bay bridge in retrofitted but it had to look pretty, so they built a new one that cost way more. The way this state pisses money away on stupid projects and stuff makes a drunken sailor blush.

From every available articles online , I am updated that the US policy makers focused little to none on their internal matters since the last 50-60 years . Every sector needs rebuilding and huge efforts from all the Americans . USA in the 1960’s , 1970, 1980 was enjoying its glorious days . Now , 1.the manufacturing sector has already lost its game to China , 2.Infrastructure is old and crumbling and cannot support the current population & its requirements , 3.housing became the privilege only the rich class can afford, 4.many cities are now ghost towns and deserted Like the Gary indiana 5.Homicides and gun violence are at record no’s than any other country in the world 6.student debt crisis 8.unnecessary Military spending than the next 5 countries combined although the us has never been invaded in its history and there is no real threat to The USA. 9.highest cost of healthcare while comparing with other western countries. 10. Highest taxed ( individual and corporate) Economy and not so business friendly govt policies. Did I miss something 🤔 like it or not , this is the ‘real American dream’ Americans, Please tell me if if you are okay and happy with all these or do you feel you really need a change ?

@waterdrinkingexpert6797

2 жыл бұрын

Few issues with your points: Firstly, american tax rates are some of the lowest among OECD countries, the US is the second most economically competitive country on earth, and disposable income is the highest on earth. Secondly, developed countries in general have much larger tertiary sectors than manufacturing sectors, and most if not all high income, developed countries, have outsourced manufacturing to less developed nations like China. It's basic economics. Thirdly, the homicide and crime rate in the US has been decreasing continuously for the past 3 decades. Lastly, the median family income in 2019 was 1.59 times greater than the income needed to purchase a single family home.

@e4arakon

2 жыл бұрын

The big military is something that might be reduced in the future, though that will come as a detriment to the world economy at large. There's a reason why there's almost no pirates today. And it is because more then half of the worlds aircraft carriers are owned by an empire that dedicated itself to enable free trade globally. When this is going to change we will experience rising costs of living and more power play by other upcoming powers like india, china, South africa and so on and so on.

@mzple

2 жыл бұрын

Not happy and need a real change. I am going into urban planning and trust me we have a lot of catching up to do.

@Adumzzinthehouse

2 жыл бұрын

The U.S has been invaded by Japan (Pearl Harbor)

@amirabdulazeez3241

2 жыл бұрын

@@Adumzzinthehouse Pearl Harbor is not on us mainland . And Pearl Harbor was an offense launched during ww2 . Invasion is different, its what we did in Afghanistan and iraq for the past 10+ years .

…it’s a nationwide issue.

@ragglefraggle9111

2 жыл бұрын

Coming from someone who lives in California and has traveled nationwide, California actually has it WAY better in terms of infrastructure

@torkelsonstan6967

2 жыл бұрын

Oh for sure

@squidwardo7074

2 жыл бұрын

@@ragglefraggle9111 100% if you wanna see bad infracsture take a drive through Louisiana lol

@Racko.

2 жыл бұрын

@@ragglefraggle9111 It's still not as good as North Eastern states, Southern states for sure have garbage infrastructure because they're still stuck in the car mind

@stevenasante8662

2 жыл бұрын

@@squidwardo7074 pshttt, Mississippi I went to college there, it's beyond rough...

Am I the only one who thinks that these budgets are tiny?

@davidjackson7281

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@gregoryshorts1023

2 жыл бұрын

. People aren't really understanding the numbers that need to be used to get us good infrastructure. It cost over one billion dollars to repave Interstate 80 between Sacramento and Reno. That was just 1 project that needed to be done.

Thats a great opportunity to replace (LA) highways with boulevards, replace multi-level ramps with intersections and add light-rail systems to these boulevards.

I don't understand why the US doesn't focus on sustainable public transport system? Considering their budget and financial condition.

@alfredo12345neo

2 жыл бұрын

Because of demand. What's the point in having a brand new transport system that nobody will use. Then, you have the high cost of building said transport sustem. Trams and highspeed rail are very expensive, the bus is the less costly but then again, buses are part of car suburbia too.

@sumit55468

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredo12345neo that wouldn't have been the case if the govt wasn't sold out to auto giants from the beginning

@alfredo12345neo

2 жыл бұрын

@@sumit55468 They sold to car companies because of the high demand for vehicles. You have to take into account that 'we the people' are part of the problem too. In my city there is a bus transportation system that is free and nobody uses. People prefer to pay an uber to get to their destination rather than using the bus.

@seanbrummfield448

2 жыл бұрын

Because, public transport has been destroyed and so limited or absent it has became frowned upon in the US. Taking a bus, train, tram or bike, or even walking, makes people think that a person is a bum who can't afford a car. It's a status symbol now. Can you believe it?

This is a bit dramatic. Our state's infrastructure overall has seen a lot of improvements with SB1 in the last few years, so it's not like they've been sitting on their hands.

@projection-75-emulation

2 жыл бұрын

ehhhh.... depends where you live. in good infastructure cities like san diego, yes. in less good infastructure cities like anything between LA and Santa Barbra, heck no.

@JerEditz

2 жыл бұрын

I can say there are improvements in many places and development, but really there is also decay happening as fast as improvement no matter the case.

@californiamade5608

2 жыл бұрын

@@projection-75-emulation the Bay Area including San Francisco have undergone a lot of infrastructure repairs. An entire section of I-80 in SF was removed and replaced with a new one.

@notthemama9986

2 жыл бұрын

@@projection-75-emulation Have you even seen the Sierras or the Central Valley?? SB-1 rescued the 99 and many other state highways that were crumbling. If anything there's more rural projects than urban

California infrastructure is not "failing" and as a whole is in much better condition then many other states. The places with crumbling infrastructure are really in the NE. SoCal and L.A. Basin in particular is the most urbanized area in the country, and actually has less vehicles and less miles driven then the national average. Even New Jersey, the most densely populated state consumes more per capita then CA.

@projection-75-emulation

2 жыл бұрын

ok thanks. this explains why san diego has good infrastructure, but when you drive north to anything between LA and Santa Barbra, everything is litterly falling apart, and completely filled with traffic.

@JerEditz

2 жыл бұрын

@@projection-75-emulation it's weird because I lived in the are you are talking about. they have improved some spots in said area. but also neglected parts on other areas within that location. I guess it just depends on the neighborhood you are in?

@matildalopez4976

2 жыл бұрын

True

@newdogmodel3893

2 жыл бұрын

Ok but thats no excuse for a state like California to have that bad infrastructure. For the richest and most populated state in USA it should not be like that

@JerEditz

2 жыл бұрын

@@newdogmodel3893 yeah I agree. But it persists

I lived in cali for 11 years and never knew this. It also has a problem of fires like constant fire

Your work us really good. I am really Keene to know how old are you and how much money you have made(revenue &net profit)from this channel?

Californians need to actually VOTE for politicians who will stop urban sprawl and invest in high density non car dependent infrastructure instead blaming all of their shortcomings and failures on capitalism when other states like New York deliver. California has way to many performative non engaged voters.

@fcdraw

2 жыл бұрын

California is the place where the tech heads would rather build an app that tracks human waste on the streets instead of getting rid of NIMBY laws and build denser neighborhoods so that people would have houses with toilets to shit in.

As a California resident, it's worse if you're forced to live here

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re not in prison then you’re not forced to live there

@AlexCab_49

2 жыл бұрын

Then leave my guy

@a-sane-person

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexCab_49 Never. I don't want to leave behind basic human rights and I know that most other states also have failing infrastructure.

@Mgameing123

2 жыл бұрын

@@DucklingGaming Ever heard about its expensive to move?

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mgameing123 I’d rather move to a better place and be broke than have money and live in hell

Yet they have the highest gas taxes in the US! They now pay $2 more per gallon along with oil refineries there rigging the prices. CA refineries also make AZ, UT, NV pay more than NYC

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t pay taxes then lol

@Juanesai0210

2 жыл бұрын

How’s this relevant to the video…..

@Cyrus992

2 жыл бұрын

@@Juanesai0210 The gas taxes were supposed to help

@Juanesai0210

2 жыл бұрын

Gas prices and gouging is occurring rn w inflation on a national level and the discourse behind that does not pertain to taxes towards infrastructure projects????

@Cyrus992

2 жыл бұрын

@@Juanesai0210 The SW US saw a larger gap grow in March of 2022

All civil engineers from this point forward should be required to play city skylines as part of their coursework.

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

With the traffic manager mod and traffic despawning off for max realism. You learn real quick that transit and walk/bike path shortcuts fix so much traffic because its basic geometry. (A bus takes up the space of 3 cars and holds 60 people vs the 3 in those cars, ≈80% of cars are single occupancy. A walker takes up like 4sqft total and has no pollution impact, and noise impact is a per person issue. A train takes up roughly the space of a road but is massively more efficient in all regards and quieter.)

I'm from California, I have no hope anythings going to change.

Great vid! Thought it looked and sounded professional, but it seemed a bit drawn out towards the end, repeating a lot of stuff.

People vote to spend the money. If they don’t approve it, it won’t get built. We’ve tried for years to get enough spent for a rail line and only recent has it gotten thru the legislative process. Its not solely the govt’s call.

They have been fixing some bridges where I live

1:54 that's a shot of the infamous tinnitis-inducing LA metro Green Line station that interchanges with a bus way. Various DoT's couldn't be bothered to put up noise walls around that station

It's failing because taxes are not high enough to support the very expensive suburbia. The suburban experiment has been deemed a failure, yet laws prevent any other type of housing to be built in almost all areas.

La infraestructura de nueva York me recuerda a mis primeras ciudades en city Skyline

This is why I miss singapore ever since i moved here to the US, it just felt more convenient there when it comes to getting around lol

@seanbrummfield448

2 жыл бұрын

Same with me. I came from a small Native village in Alaska. You can get to anywhere just by walking. But, in Cincinnati, I literally have to get in the car, because if I want to drive to downtown, it would take me the whole day to get there.

I am pretty sure Ohio has a c- As well

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

What’s Ohio

@thegrumpydragon7601

2 жыл бұрын

@@DucklingGaming a state in the Midwest of the United States

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegrumpydragon7601 Ohio deez nuts

@UserName-ts3sp

2 жыл бұрын

being an ohioan, our roads are shit but still better than indiana, michigan and pennsylvania

@thegrumpydragon7601

2 жыл бұрын

@@UserName-ts3sp ❤️

I wonder what happens in the near future, when US states realize they simply do not have the resources for maintaining the enourmous car infrastructure.

@alfredo12345neo

2 жыл бұрын

it won't be a problem unless our economy dwindles.

@Racko.

2 жыл бұрын

They're slowly tearing it down, just as Rochester, they turned their car dependent inner city into a nice walkable, bikable place

@seanbrummfield448

2 жыл бұрын

@@Racko. And there's nothing wrong with that. Foot traffic is becoming more important then car traffic.

@Racko.

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrummfield448 That's what im saying, Im not saying it's wrong, its the right way forward, ppl are sick of giant roads with noise and car dependency is what im saying, Amsterdam is what comes to mind when it think of one of the best urban area, it's insanely well done

@machtmann2881

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredo12345neo That's what I think too. America makes a lot of money and feels like it can afford to ignore its problems at times. The most change occurs when something really bad happens if you're not proactive enough so the economy will have to take a hit caused by car infrastructure before people really start to question it.

Not having everything shipped via trucks would really extend the life of roads and freeways. Trucks are heavy.

@Rhaspun

2 жыл бұрын

How would you get everything to a store. Virtually everything you touch, or buy is moved by trucks.

@gabriell.4440

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rhaspun freight trains would be a viable alternative. Than you would just need smaller vehicles for that last mile from the depot to the store.

@Rhaspun

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriell.4440 Stores aren't concentrated into one area. I don't think people would want to listen to trains running at night through a neighborhood. I don't know if you've ever been around trains, but they use their horns a lot, Each intersection they will be using their horns at required.

Then maybe they should get off there ass and fix them.. Stop blaming the people for using the roads..But a lot are using the roads to leave California..

As someone who lives in Manitoba, Canada, 100% of the roads are in extremely poor condition.

People in metropolitan areas are too afraid of roaming the streets let alone take public transportation. They rather drive

build a massive, car-dependent, concrete sprawl, and pay the costs down the line when the roads and bridges begin to crumble. california should use this opportunity to introduce more cost-effective forms of mass transit.

It's a mistake to expect government to "solve" problems that it has been creating. Governments thrive on "attacking" problems with more spending, more hiring, more borrowing and more taxing. If private enterprise was in control of the infrastructure, it would be entirely different, since making a profit is based on serving the customer, not partisan politicking. The entrenched Road Hegemony has kept Americans trapped in their automobiles for generations. The consequences are all around us. Unfortunately, governments rarely give up revenue and power, so nothing will change for the better.

well it all comes down to poor city planning, if there were a way to delete and rebuild califonia from groundup like city skyline pretty much would turn out for the better with less highway plaguing the city

Just decades ago, the thought was that CA had unlimited space. Growing up on SoCal in the 70s/80s, I watched the last bit of Oranges give way to endless housing. Sprawl doesn’t work. Only the first 25 or so miles of CA from the coast is pleasant to live in. People literally spend 4 hours commuting.

Is that billions of dollars going to fix all the traffic jams? Nope. The whole system needs re-engineered.

Drive on a West Virginia road Horrible

@DucklingGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Belgium infrastructure 💀

@edwardmiessner6502

2 жыл бұрын

Louisiana roads too

@thegrumpydragon7601

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmiessner6502 never been to Louisiana

Funny how in the thumbnail California's side was a pic of an intersection of two highways as if we don't have that in NYC.

We shoulda gotten that monorail in the 70s

NEW YORK STAY WINNING

@Cyrus992

2 жыл бұрын

See my comment above

@Juanesai0210

2 жыл бұрын

New York has just has horrid infrastructure. It just has less people then California that’s all.

@greenmachine5600

2 жыл бұрын

New york is great and better than California, but still has issues and should build more housing, especially denser housing in the suburbs and improve public transportation.

@Juanesai0210

2 жыл бұрын

@@greenmachine5600 there’s no means of measuring how much greater one is over the other. This is América it all sucks lol

How to change the entire CA infrastructure in a short period of time.

Since, Infra is failing in US, I think it is high time for US govt to focus on public transport. It will save a lot of money, CO2 etc...

@alfredo12345neo

2 жыл бұрын

We are 13th on quality of infrastructure out of 100 studied countries by statista. I think we are exagerating a tiny bit.

You all need to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

When a city is built around cars and people wonder why traffic in California is so terrible. For some reason America refuses to spend money on public transit as seen with NYC's 100 year old trains. When you have 50 people on one vehicle rather than 50 individual cars, traffic is a lot better.

@nataliekhanyola5669

2 жыл бұрын

Yup!!

Atleast our cities aren’t depressing like nyc

This is good new for Civil Engineering degree.

this guy trusts our government to not waste money this time because of the fact we have a need. damn.

It's almost like car-dependent planning necessitates mind boggling amounts of infrastructure that cannot be financed without egregous taxation.

wow I learned absolutely nothing.

California has a 97 billion dollar budget surplus this year.

If only they watched city builder plays

Funny thing is that California is one of the most highly urbanized states, yet it's horrendously car dependent.

@chromebomb

2 жыл бұрын

we have the worst system: high density and car dependent

@esau93631

2 жыл бұрын

Thank big oil and the auto industry for that.

@ShonnMorris

2 жыл бұрын

CA has highly urbanized spots but most of the state is actually rural. Between LA and SF, there's a lot of empty space and farmland. However, you are right about it being too car-dependent. Cities here, especially in Socal just aren't built right. I live in San Diego and for me to take public transportation to the next freeway exit one mile away takes an hour and a half due to the way the routes go. Because of the way the roads are, walking to that street one mile away isn't possible.

@californiamade5608

2 жыл бұрын

San Francisco has good public transportation idk what you people are talking about.

@Racko.

2 жыл бұрын

Cities like SF do have great transit though, just not outside the city, which is car depend, and in defense of that, nobody is willing to take a bus and be in it for hours to nowhere

Cali's best step (and the US's) is to dump money in GOOD public transport, line trains, city trams, subways, metros (and also high speed between large population centers). And not be lured off by anything benefiting cars.

@alfredo12345neo

2 жыл бұрын

That's even more expensive than our already expensive car suburbia. The most affordable is buses and just like cars requieres the current infrastructure.

@ebryan1990

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredo12345neo the infrastructure is failing because it’s overused. Motor vehicles destroy their infrastructure fastest than any other mode of transport. And we no shortage of motor vehicles. Rail is expensive up front, but cars cost a lot more longer term than many realize. It’s a lot more evident when it’s time to rebuild or repave. But if we keep using that excuse it’ll never get built, and people will continue to be stuck in traffic in their cars on the dilapidated freeway.

@razier5299

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredo12345neo Its more expensive at first but in the long run it is typically better. I'm an American and I know this.

@seanbrummfield448

2 жыл бұрын

But, so many people are fixed that the car is the best. Because of the status symbol.

@magicmagus1459

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrummfield448 no its not... just simply building trains isnt going to solve the problem...the trains have to be financially profitable and maintainable over the long term...the geography and density and demographics are totally different in LA compared to european countries....AND not everyone wants to live in a tiny apartment

Still better than most southern states I've been to.

4:10 after 102 billion dollars (2000-2010) and little no no improvement to show for... the problem is not FUNDING... is wasterful spending If the money is being wasted, no amount of budget will do. The extra money of the infrastructure bill will also be wasted The solution is less tax, and more private roads, bridges and services.

After they piss away the first $1T, they're gonna ask for a second helping.

Talk about Texas next

California is the most beautiful state in the country. Its worth the cost

850M is not a lot of money. (equivalent of 4 high schools)

this sounds more like a political ad than an explanation

I Feel most people are misconstruing the reasons the US infrastructure is failing, its a mix of several factors 1. Mismanaged funds causing cost overruns and lower cost materials 2. Extensive Urban Sprawl increasing the need for public transport and car ownership 3. Scale the US is the 3rd largest country by land area 4. Disuse of Cost Efficient cargo transportation the US has the largest Rail Network in the world however it is misused due to the low cost of Trucking on public infrastructure 5. Poor Zoning laws Forcing Horizontal rather than vertical expansion, If we compressed Residential and Commercial Zoning into a mixed zoning area with public transportation to industrial sectors it would drastically reduce the need for Road infrastructure

it's almost like building everything for cars is horribly expensive and will always fail. who couldve known

Great video, and clear with a form of facts. If numbers work for this channel free free to show them. Visual people are engineers. Who will get what ur saying outside money done.

How many times did he say California in this video?

Sounds like most of that is problems in southern Cali compared to northern

The money will just find its way into the hands of big businesses, developers, and politicians as it has always done so. They will find "unexpected" reasons for the "costs" of the projects to be "even greater" than "what was predicted" because that is what they do with every public works project. Look at any past article pertaining to public works projects. It is quite evident that they siphon off public funds that way. These things won't ever be fixed because they need these things to always remain under construction to keep their jobs and the money from those jobs.

@natlovell122

2 жыл бұрын

Hit the nail on the head! Just like all the $ that California spends on the homeless yet the problem just keeps worsening.

@lepotdefleur9906

2 жыл бұрын

Too much corruption in the system , too much money get funneled to individual of dubious nature. Over spending or magically go over budget.

This state is already confusing to live in, I dont need a reminder, Thank you.

Reminds me of ' Who framed Roger Rabbit ' and the lite rail system that got killed

Watch the money go mostly to pensions

What did they spend those 100 bilion on? I mean, how could it make no improvement? I don't understand it.

So where is the comparison with NY????

I’m positive the new funds will be mismanaged if the state has any control.

can also be argued that New York’s infrastructure is also failing

Isn't traffic WORSE in NY?

last 3 minutes were the same 3 sentences on repeat

California is wasting many billions on the construction of the ridiculous high speed rail train that’ll be so slow and expensive that it’ll be pointless. HSR was supposed to help create fast transit between LA and SF, but the plan became a boondoggle once all the rural cowtowns like Barstow demanded stops. Now the HSR train will be laughably slow compared to air travel. Instead of investing that money into making more underground or elevated rail transit lines along LA’s congested streets, that money will go to the ill-conceived HSR.

Great video, but one problem. The state isnt growing and shrank last year.

@ArkiveYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I have seen reports indicating that California's population has been declining but the population projections in this video were from official news reports, and were not my personal opinion ;)

@AnotherChannel-wh3mf

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArkiveYT that may be, but several reports also show the opposite. I guess its a who do you believe more.

@ArkiveYT

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly. I just believe that whether the population increases or decreases in the next few years, the infrastructure should still be fixed.

@davidjackson7281

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArkiveYT Wow. Your topic has sure garnered a lot of response. Thanks.

So what's the point of putting New York in your thumbnail?

@ArkiveYT

2 жыл бұрын

I put New York in the thumbnail to represent how its not just California that is suffering from failing infrastructure. While most of California's infrastructure problems are bridges, New York has many problems with city streets. You can learn more about New York's street infrastructure here: bit.ly/3yiRgwK

The answer to the California infrastructure problem is old and obvious: past California state governments like most state governments has failed to properly manage the money by NOT putting money aside to replace the infrastructure or maintain it. Most of them waste a lot of the money they collect and get and hope the federal government will bail them out later. The problem in California is made worse by the state government failure to adequately deal with unlawful migrants, especially those involved in criminal activities. As to how wealthy California is, I wonder how well their economy would go if they did not get all of the resources they take from the neighbouring states as much of their economy is dependent on the water they pipe in from their neighbors. Loss of those water supplies would also have serious effects on their big cities as they dry up.

That’s why motorcycles are another reason why should be more utilized but “iT’s So DaNgErOuS”

lamoo they went "green" and now they can't even keep the lights on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I want CALIFORNIA High Speed Rail to pass.

After moving from the Midwest to California I can say the infrastructure is FAR better in California. Leaps and bounds ahead. I think you put a lot of numbers together but don’t have the experience seeing how poor infrastructure is in other parts of the country. The east coast is far far worse than California. Take a cross country drive and you’ll see. The issue is the standard is extremely low nationwide. The 1.2 trillion will be pissed away thru corrupt contracts and growth work.

14 million. That's all. It feels like more.

Short answer: not enough money

My family lived in California since 1849. We all left by 2000. Why? The San Andreas between LA and SF is about to explode into action destroying much of the infrastructure for all services: energy, transportation, water etc. No water to put out all the fires, no electricity at all for LA, etc. I once lived through massive, hideous riots caused in NYC when the entire electrical system collapsed in the summer of 1977 and huge hunks of the city was put to the torch or looted and one of my friends stopped the looters and arsonists via shooting one of them dead as he attacked the store....LA is doomed.

Too many cars. If they are planning for the future, they need to start planning now on how to reduce car-dependence, or the problems will just continue and expand.