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Can't Hold Us I can't put out your fire, I know it's too…
Car Let's assume we're driving Driving a big blue car Where in t…
Cry Music keeps making me cry And I can't explain it…
Drive Who's gonna tell you when It's too late? Who's gonna tell yo…
Heaven 좀 쉬어 갈게요 너무 오랫동안 걸어왔네요 잠시면 돼요 숨 돌릴 그만큼만 그저 가볍게…
Intro Ice Cold Like Michael My Price Goin' Up Bet You Might Hit…
LITTLE BY LITTLE 그런 눈빛들 속에 어떤 마음인지 내게 보여줄수록 더욱 궁금해지네 나는 무너져가네 yeah eh 난 솔직하려…
Man Can you see the line where the water ends? Throws…
Mr. and Mrs *Mr Loh singing* As I can see the ocean breaking The ocean…

Mr. and Mrs. *Mr Loh singing* As I can see the ocean breaking The ocean…
My First Punk Song It's 24 to nothing and I'm at the intersection Waiting for…
San Francisco I came by through your city I came back for some…
The Road Have you seen them, have you seen them in my…
wash I can't stop looking at you You're in the corner of…

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neutrino78x

@Moon Shine

"Stop trying to take away my rights."

This is what I think they're really trying to do. First they said it was because of pollution, right. Well now we're switching to battery/hydrogen, so that's not an issue. So now they're saying oh no, that's not good enough either. It's like, why? A battery/hydrogen car gives you all the advantages of a normal car without pollution, what could possibly your issue?

What it's really about is that they don't want us to own private property and be able to use that property to get around without the government providing the transportation and thereby controlling us.

At the end of the day they don't want us to be able to own our house/condo either, it should all be state provided housing in their book. State provided everything, that way they can FORCE equal results instead of just encouraging it while still allowing freedom which is what us moderate liberals (I'm a moderate liberal) want. The extreme far left wants to FORCE that. So basically they want everyone to have an equally bad life.

Ever notice how they always praise left wing extremist dictatorships? They'll say the USSR had a great solution to everything, they like how Cuba does stuff, they love China too.

If you're going to praise somebody for their use of HSR, why not praise Japan, since they are a free country like us? But they don't like Japan either because like Europe and the USA, it has a free market economy and free and fair elections. They would prefer China. ((shaking my head at these types.))

MISTER SIR

2y↑4

@neutrino78x The thing is, in Europe that concept is not exclusive to cities or dense areas. And Europe most certainly has dense areas. Step out of the city center and enter the suburbs of the US, now nothing is within walking distance. This means everyone are forced into cars for any purpose, and this flood of increased car use also spreads to city center, because no public transport infrastructure is created due to nobody being on foot in the first place exactly because you need a car for everything.

Electric cars has nothing to do with this, they take up the same space and create the same traffic hellhole, and still forces city and urban planners to believe everything should be car-first, human-second.

The fact is that in Europe, governments and planners are simply more proactive and willing to act. Paris got changed pretty much "overnight", and same is happening with Barcelona. London's entire city center is blocked for cars without special purpose or being electric. Outside my apartment in Copenhagen two of the main streets were completely overhauled within a year, giving priority to busses, cyclists, and pedestrians - while narrowing car lanes and planting more trees and giving space for people, not traffic.

The US is jsut notoriously incapable of acting on anything that goes against the established car centric infrastructure and single use zoning, it will always be doomed-to-fail pilot projects and people without the willingness to act and see things through. And the vast majority of people have never travelled outside the North American borders to experience how things could be better, so they just defend what they know and are used to.
It's a self-contained downwards spiral.
Just ask yourself, has traffic gotten better or worse on average in the US over the past 30 years?
Has traffic gotten worse in European countries? No.

Wonder why.

TheReggaeMortis

2y↑3

On top of taking up too much space, here's a more concrete reason why electric cars cannot be the future of transport

To electrify the entire vehicle fleet of the UK alone would require the following:
207,900 tonnes of cobalt – just under twice the annual global production;
264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate – three quarters of the world’s production
at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium – nearly the entire world production of neodymium;
2,362,500 tonnes of copper – more than half the world’s production in 2018.

That's just for a the vehicles single medium-sized country, before considering anything more important like grid energy storage. There simply isn't enough valuable minerals to go around. It'd be insane to suggest a portion of this would be allocated to me so I can own a personal vehicle in the future.

Source: "Electrifying the UK and the Want of Engineering", Michael Kelly, The Global Warming Policy Foundation

JonBlond3000

3y↑1

I live in Oslo. The "car free" city is regarded a huge failure among the population.

Most shoppers is gone from the city, and stores are collapsing. Especially small, independent stores have vanished almost entirely from the city. The stores left are big global brans scubas as H&M, MCDonalds, Zara, TGI Fridays. Also, unless the weather is really nice, the streets are empty.

With rain and sub zero temperatures large part of the year, you only have weirdos on bike and the really rich and wealthy being able to use the city.

By the way: This December huge malls outside Oslo have had their best Christmas season in years.

https://melkoghonning.no/roper-varsku-for-grunerlokka/

UzuMaki NaRuto

@L0ndon42
Boston simply moved their traffic from above ground to below it with the massive tunnels they've built for vehicles. Go look up the Big Dig and see for yourself what that project was all about.

'Los Angeles 2030 has a clear vision of reducing emissions and encouraging active transport. San Francisco has taken moves to pedestrianise major roads. '

Goodluck to LA in trying to hit those emission goals. If they can do it good for them, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

'Austin has a $7 billion plan to create a complete and comprehensive with a new light rail, new electric bike fleet, expanded bus services, all electric bus fleet and new and expanded commuter lines, and so much more. '

Its one thing to create all those things, its quite another to convince people to give up their cars to use all those bikes, buses etc. if its not convenient for them to do so. I'm sure people living in downtown Austin will likely adopt to using those things more, but people living in the suburbs? I doubt they'll switch over anytime soon.

'And yes, some cities have continued to build more highways and worse, but the general trend is very clear. Things are changing, they’re not ‘the ways things will always be’ as you describe.'

The trend is people who live in the city core and around those areas will use transit and other means of transportation more while everyone else will continue to drive if they can afford to because it will likely remain the most convenient form of transportation for decades to come.

L0ndon42

3y↑3

@UzuMaki NaRuto I really doubt that it will happen ‘no time soon.’ The general trend globally (and in the US) is towards sustainable development.

In older cities like Boston they’ve managed to reverse decades of urban renewal through things such as replacing a freeway cutting the city in half with a new huge park, while Minneapolis has abolished single family zoning, as has all of Oregon.

Even in newer car dependent cities we’re seeing change. Los Angeles 2030 has a clear vision of reducing emissions and encouraging active transport. San Francisco has taken moves to pedestrianise major roads.

Austin has a $7 billion plan to create a complete and comprehensive with a new light rail, new electric bike fleet, expanded bus services, all electric bus fleet and new and expanded commuter lines, and so much more. If Austin, a sprawling city in Conservative Texas can make moves in the right direction, I think most cities can.

And yes, some cities have continued to build more highways and worse, but the general trend is very clear. Things are changing, they’re not ‘the ways things will always be’ as you describe.

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City Beautiful

3y↑1K

Sorry to all Finnish speakers out there! I pronounced Kalasatama as KalaTaSama. I’ll try to do better next time!

Dave Otuwa

@Wernt Jo If I were forbidden to obtain a driver's license, I would walk to go places like people from the negative ages.

Dave Otuwa

2y↑1

@Wernt Jo I had some 4-day work weeks before. Now, I'm retired but still looking for a personally fit job.

Wernt Jo

2y↑1

I'm all for saving the world and animals from climate change, but we gotta keep the light rails and hand out some free bicycles. And move to a 4 day work week.

Phillip Mulligan

@Lildizzle420 Still substantially less per barrel of oil refined.

Dave Otuwa

2y↑1

Amish neighbourhoodz are always car-free because the people who live there are always banned from applying electronics. MOST OF SUCH POPULATION ON EARTH LIVE IN PA.

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Brian Zaladonis

3y↑2.8K

It seems like a feedback cycle. Without cars you want to live within walking distance and then you don't need a car because everything is built for walking. LA and American suburbs are an example of the opposite.

NoPantsBaby

2y↑1

You uh... pick up many cabinets and refigerators with your bike?
Sometimes you need a car. Even in a city without cars. Usually for anything above 40 pounds in weight.

neutrino78x

@Urbanist God I know I definitely find it irritating. I get around without a car but wouldn't want to be told it's not allowed, that's rediculous. Would never support having our liberties taken away.

Urbanist God

@neutrino78x Exactly! We must be more vocal about this

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Cameron

3y↑1K

Life would definitely be better if most of life's essential services were within walking distance. Plenty of green spaces, parks, outdoor amenities, Grocery, schools, healthcare and childcare. Cars are expensive financially, environmentally, mentally and physically. There would also be a stronger sense of community.

neutrino78x

Moon Shine

2y↑1

I will never get this argument. I like walkable cities but I also prefer cars. If you want a car free city, go live in one. Stop trying to take away my rights. I only live in a city because of access to better amenities but cars help me get out and go out to nature. I'm just not a total city dweller. I get on my car and just drive to wherever I want in awesome national parks, I stop wherever I want, whenever I want, I do things on my terms. And no, it's just not the same going to a national park on a train or bus, Europe just doesn't have true wilderness areas like America does.. cars are just the best way to get there. I would be for building up decent transit in cities but stop trying to kill off cars.

neutrino78x

Cameron no they're just expensive environmentally. And that won't even be an issue for much longer. They'll all be electric.

In a major city you don't need a car for daily life. But shit happens. And people have a right to own private property and "peaceably to assemble".

neutrino78x

Cameron, you have to be able to get from one area of the city to another, and you need the ability to do it when the need arises, not when the bus is scheduled. Hence cars. They will all be zero emission soon. And fully automated. Eliminating the bus.

Piichuシ

My neighborhood in Mexico city turned out to be so walkable. Around me , there is a park, corner shop and half a dozen taco places. And a Argentinian pizzaria is my nextdoor nieghbor.

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Angarsk100

3y↑219

Great vid. Don't know if you avoided in purpose the "zoning" factor: In Europe, you can walk around the block and find 6 markets, 2 restaurants, 4 cafes... and so on. This makes it so that most of your needs you can suply them with a short, pleasant walk. In cities with single-zoning, you have to travel several kilometers just to buy juice.

superMinecraftL

2y↑1

I can’t imagine single zoning. In Bangkok there have been, until recently, no building codes, and there is no single zoning. The lack of building codes has caused many issues, but it led to no expensive single family homes in the city center, as they are too expensive in land, and it has led to mixed use everywhere, as logic clearly shows that if you open a store near where people live you get more customers.

MISTER SIR

2y↑4

neutrino78x

@MISTER SIR

"Nothing is stopping you from getting in your car and driving for 20 seconds to reach the nearest supermarket. The 1 minute walk is an optional convenience, not a mandatory thing you have to turn into your daily routine.. You literally lose nothing by having things closer to you,"

No, that's not what we're debating. These people want to make it illegal to own your own car or to get around in your own car. That's a violation of our civil liberties and I would not stand for it, nor would most Americans. And I'm on the left, I'm a centrist Democrat.

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Diamondback Stas

3y↑849

I live in Atlanta and really wish it was more walkable and cyclists friendly.

Matt Decuir

I also live in atlanta. And those saying it’s the poster child for sprawl or how not to design a city have not been to some other cities. Houston and dallas sprawl far worse than atlanta. And ATL at least has narrow streets and good bones to be something better. Parts of dallas could never.

Cory Frydenberg

Sydney is even worse

fspight28

@Blill A I agree but there still seems to be alot leaving their hold outs to go further north so that might be able to help

Blill A

@fspight28 too much racism.

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Scygnius

3y↑409

I greatly appreciate the environmental/economic end of reducing cars in cities. However, I’d wager what we should really be using as a factor is simply the bump in quality of life. I feel freer, more connected, and overall happier being able to walk/bike to my destinations rather than hop on a big street/freeway just to get my groceries.

Birdie Wolf

2y↑1

@neutrino78x You aren't getting the fact that suburbs can also be built with mix used development areas. This literally doesn't have to be confined to big cities. Suburbs aren't a modern concept, it's just car centric suburbs and they make the suburbs an uninviting place to live. If I had kids, I would want them to be able to live in a place where they don't have to wait until they are 16 and have a car to enjoy the outside world without being entirely dependent on me. I mean I couldn't participate in after school activities because there was no way for me to get home without a car, and my parents weren't available to chauffeur me around. If suburbs were planned from a people first mindset instead of a car first mindset, there would be other non car options that I could take to get back home from school. But instead, it's either I get on the school bus, or I am screwed for several hours.

neutrino78x

scygnius, that is why you live in a big city. Then when you want to raise kids, you move out to a suburb. Then your kids will want to move back to the city until they are ready to have kids and the cycle repeats. Key thing is individual liberty. If you want to live in a city, you can. If you don't, you don't have to. But access to a car is still needed because sometimes you have to go across town and not in 15 minutes but right now. Or maybe you have too many groceries to carry in your hands or on your bicycle (again, not everyone is going to be single, we have to perpetuate the species, man.).

Scygnius

@Jenny Bengtsson god bless the Swedes

Jenny Bengtsson

2y↑1

Our environment is kind of built that way in Sweden. We bike places and we have more bikes than cars in my city. I used to bike to college. Walk to school and bike to work. I can also choose between biking or walking to the store.

And my dad also uses the car when going to work in cities far away or when we go to Ikea to get new furnitures

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four twenty

3y↑122

I visited Barcelona and Madrid this summer, and my favorite aspect of the cities was EASILY the walkability. So many restaurants and attractions within a 5 mile radius, I didn't even need to rent a car. I was just able to walk or take the train/metro. It was so nice.

Urbanist God

@paul beard Because cities also have neighborhoods with single family homes

paul beard

@Urbanist God Makes me wonder why you are watching a video about cities when what you describe is a suburb or exurb.

Urbanist God

@Galloping Goose “A lot of us”. Some loud voices on social media

Galloping Goose

@Urbanist God You don't have to live in the city center. Find the place that suites you but don't be yet another person contributing to traffic jams if you need/want to go into the city. A lot of us simply prefer the boost in quality of life when cars are removed from dense places.

Jireh La-ab

2y↑1

Now what we should do then when it comes to transporting really heavy cargo in a car free city?

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Zac Monnier

3y↑92

Thanks for this. I'm trying to make something similar happen in Harrisburg, PA as a Planning Commissioner. Removing parking requirements, lowering speed limits to 20mph, and making alleyways into woonerfs are all in my agenda. But...most Harrisburgers look at me like I'm a madman.

Zac Monnier

@Rare Folk Recordings you bet. Luckily, the zones are pretty small so an electric cargo bike can still connect you to the community better than a car.

Rare Folk Recordings

Good luck, that would make such a difference! Does Harrisburg have those pesky zoning laws that prevent useful businesses from being in residential areas? That seems to be a major cause of "non-walkability".

Char

@Nicholas Scotto it’s impossible to make parking “inconvenient” with the amount of spaces to park everywhere u look in the US

Nicholas Scotto

2y↑1

yes just make cycling more convenient and driving and parking super inconvenient lol

Stijn H

2y↑2

@Zac Monnier I hope you succeed!

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MC Meyer

3y↑162

I live in The Netherlands and all our cities, even the ones with a population of 20,000 have banned cars from the centres. The city I live in (Groningen) offers park & ride facilities. Parking lots are build on the outskirts of the city, where you can park for free and you can take the bus towards the city centre and back for just 2 Euros per 3 people. This video basically explained my everyday life.

Le Daverix

funny how often i stumble across Groningen in Youtube lately... just watched a video of its Siege.

ixlnxs

2y↑1

@Anonymous It's not the 1900s anymore either, stable genius. The heyday of the car is over, get used to it. Your former status symbol is now a mere tool. It holds no privileges, it just serves a purpose.

Anonymous

2y↑1

@C Will You and the original commenter had different experiences in the Netherlands, therefore the video is wrong? wtf?

C Will

2y↑2

That is NOT true. I live in Amsterdam and cars are still allowed in the centre. I work in Utrecht and cars are still allowed in the centre. We still have parking spaces and we still have parking garages. We some have car free streets just for pedestrians and bikers, yes, but that’s not a car free centre. People don’t believe everything you read on the internet

Anonymous

@ixlnxs It's not the 1300's, genius!

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CommentLikeDescribe

3y↑549

"... without a car in sight"

Except for the 5 cars, in clear view, in parking spaces, in front of houses.

neutrino78x

@SpecialJ11 so how's that different from any city anywhere in the world? I don't even know how to drive and I get around just fine here in the USA. I live in a suburb/satellite city of San Jose. You don't need special roads to do that. Just have transit, and just accept that only about 30% are going to use it.

SpecialJ11

2y↑10

@Tempestos Fugi And if they didn't do this, the trip would still take 15 minutes by car because of traffic but it would double to 30 at rush hour and you wouldn't be able to walk and bike comfortably. Those who need to drive still can, those who don't, don't, and travel times stay low if not lower, at lower overall costs.

Boat Axe

3y↑1

@CommentLikeDescribe Goddamn socialists!

pointPi

3y↑26

without a running car in sight

CommentLikeDescribe

3y↑79

@Tempestos Fugi Makes sense. Creates a helpful incentive. Funny cuz a lot of Americans would be like, "goddamn socialists" despite the fact that that's pretty much what supply side economics does but much less effectively

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Adam Iaccheo

2y↑45

After basically being radicalized from watching Not just Bikes, I weep when I look at before and after photos of Americans cities. Our cities layouts were great and they got bulldozed for the car and it’s freeways. So many Cities are extremely ugly and unpleasant to go in, it’s terrible. I hope we can undo the damage and restore cities to their former glory

mxdanger

2y↑1

@chancy319 Correction: going from cities for people, to cities for cars is known as devolution.

Lauri Kotivuori

@chancy319 It's not evolution it's faulty city planning, what the HELL are you on about

Safe-Keeper

Yeah, NJB will do that to you.

Species 8472

2y↑1

Not likely. Unless your in one of the Pre-car cities like Boston or NYC, the Zoning laws prohibited mixed use. Thus you would have to rezone downtown and rebuild to allow the neighborhood shop under the apartments.

chancy319

@New Imperials who's "you guys"?

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Sander Fitzwilliam

3y↑206

In Amsterdam only 1/3 of total journeys is made with cars. Another 3rd is cycling and the final 3rd public transport.

James High

Yeah, that public transport looks great until you're in the UK and the whole system goes on strike!

Sander Fitzwilliam

3y↑5

@Yoga Jedi It's far from being a paradise but the things you point out, being flat and meh weather do make it quite suited for cycling. Cycling in Canadian winter or a Madrid summer don't seem particularly pleasant.

Yoga Jedi

3y↑1

The NL is flat as a pancake, crowded, winters grey, damp and windy. Sounds like a paradise.

Joep

3y↑1

@Evgenii Semanov fuck, I read over the 'is' every time.

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Prince of Chetarria

3y↑63

It’s honestly astounding how much space we have sacrificed to cars, and particularly parked cars (which is how cars spend 90% of their time). Most residential streets in London give well over half of their space to parked cars, and another 30+% to moving cars, leaving less than 20% for pedestrians.

PakkiNakki

2y↑2

@captain green eh, not really. cars make cities ugly, period. humans prefer uniformity and symmetry, both of which cars disrupt

captain green

@PakkiNakki maybe ugly because most people are poor with so owning poor ugly cars

James High

@Prince of Chetarria Understand that I'm by no means against other forms of transport. I'm also looking closely at the EV option. The truth us that fewer drivers and cars would result in me having to take fewer vehicle accident calls.

Also, one of the reasons America is different in city development is that we started out as a very rural nation. 100 year ago most of us were living on farms, ranches or in small towns. The country's total population was about half what it is now so we have been used to being more spread out. That's part of why it was easy to sell the suburban lifestyle after World War 2. We wanted our own land and our own mode of transportation and not be beholden to someone else for it. We did the same thing with the General Aviation industry. Why rely on someone to fly you when for a reasonable amount of money you could buy your own airplane and learn to fly it! That's how Cessna managed to sell thousands of 172's.

Prince of Chetarria

@James High also there’s always going to be people who can’t/done drive, and would have to rely on other means of transport in these situations anyway. It’s kind of beside the point I know but still worth thinking about 😅

Prince of Chetarria

2y↑1

@James High that’s an understandable thought process however the mass use of cars would actually be detrimental rather than helpful in these cases. In a car free-for-all, traffic would probably prevent you from being able to drive fast enough in a family emergency. In an invasion or natural disaster, the potential gridlock would be astronomical. Cars are very useful on an individual level, but the traffic created is just too much unfortunately. Good for rural areas, not cities tbh

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rjh00

3y↑1.7K

LMAO, we Europeans are getting rid of our cars and sending them to the US so you guys can monster truck them. Best export ever!

リンゴ酢

@rjh00 the only problem with more people taking commuter trains is the greater loss due to terror attacks

Marla k

hahaha. so funny.
Give it some time tho.

captain green

I rather have a car

Make a chain in the comment section

@ProvenScroll Alternative, non-trafficked roads: am I a joke to you?

Make a chain in the comment section

Looks like the US will be the only country with good and advanced transport methods.

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MissMiia

3y↑57

I never thought my city could be car-free until the local government decided to heavily invest in esplanades/linear parks. The city became more bike-friendly and the pandemic further encouraged bikes as an alternative transportation. Now the local restaurants near the linear parks have started installing bike racks to entice bicyclists to stop by and eat. Bike lanes are slowly being provided and more linear parks are under construction.

More people are buying bikes to alleviate boredom and hang out with friends & family at the parks and this in turn encourages more people to try it out.

This coming from a province in a developing country has actually pleasantly surprised me.

MissMiia

@Vigil Urbis Iloilo is in the Visayas. Burnham had a hand in planning the downtown area but not to the scale of cars so it gets confusing but not to the nightmare levels of traffic in Manila.

I'd say Iloilo, if compared with other major cities in the Philippines, is known to be relatively less traffic heavy. Smooth sailing compared to Manila standards for sure.

Plus due to the presence of esplanades cutting across the City itself, it became easier to navigate through bike.

Vigil Urbis

@MissMiia Wait really, this is happening in the Philippines? Metro Manila has the worst traffic conditions and city planning because of the car-centric urban culture brought about by U.S. colonial rule

MissMiia

@Souheib iloilo

Souheib

what city would that be?

Sci Fience

3y↑1.8K

you often mention ¨But that´s for a future video¨. I just want that future video

john fortnite

@Floor Encer I’m stealing that

Anonymous

Oh, and they keep saying "Oh and Part 2 is on Nebula" Like they can't upload it on YouTube like Part 1?

pongop

@Abdullah Al-Turaifi Thanks! NEOM looks cool! I hadn't heard of it. Akon City is a similar project in Senegal that I'm excited about.

Engineered Army

Cool we in future now...

It sucks

صافار Safar

3y↑3

I'm in future now
Nothing yet

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Gordon Davies

3y↑24

I recently spent a week in Paris. For various reasons we drove there. When we got there parked the car and left it for the week. I had been lent an underground parking space. If not, parking for week would have been as expensive as a hotel. I wouldn't have driven anywhere in the city as I would have spent hours looking for somewhere to park. In any case nowhere in the city is further than a few minutes walk from a metro station.
The majority of Parisians do not own a car!

Antoine Tremblay

3y↑195

Can we get a video on drawing city boundaries? I always find that they're absolutely nonsensical in the US (like the municipal equivalent of gerrymandering). Thanks!

Jason Reed

2y↑1

@Isaac Castillo you have discovered the concept of the metropolitan area, (technically this breaks for small cities).

The metro is all contiguous counties that are highly urban in what most would recognize as functionally 1 city. For instance Albany NY is only the west side of the Hudson, and Rensselaer NY is the county on the east bank of the Hudson, but functionally it is just 1 city divided on a historical border determined when rivers where hard to cross and the place was basically just a small fort town.

The real questions are why is Staten Island in NY and not Jersey (states, and cities) and Yonkers hasn't been absorbed into NYC yet. The answer is basically just a bunch of historical legacy nobody is willing to clean up and a local myth about sailing around islands.

James High

@Mateo you're absolutely right they are states. There's New York City and Newark, New Jersey. But it doesn't matter. It's New York City and Newark, New Jersey so nobody cares.

James High

@Isaac Castillo sounds like a good reason to avoid New York and New Jersey.

Jim Zecca

3y↑2

@Isaac Castillo Do you mean Jersey City? Because New Jersey as a whole is not all equivalent to New York, not even all of North Jersey. And pretty sure most New Yorkers don't consider you a New Yorker if you live in Jersey.

Spots Corner

Cincinnati, Ohio. Looks like it's the same size as Taos new Mexico

More people in my highschool than Taos, the Cincinnati metro area 2.4 million and growing but they only get the same fed tax money for infrastructure despite paying much more.

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witch532

2y↑2

In the 70's, Eugene, Oregon closed some of the downtown streets to create the downtown mall. It was successful for the first few years, then business started failing and and closing with no new businesses coming in. Around "85" or so, they re-opened the streets to cars, and businesses came back. After they built the new bus station, homeless and crime came to the downtown and still exists. A lot of this stuff is tolerated by the city, but business owners are becoming irritated at the city for not policing the area very well. With homeless and druggies sleeping in doorways and storefronts, and accosting residents and such, some businesses have closed and property remains vacant.

I'm afraid that the downtown area may become a ghetto some day. If residents who live downtown could be persuaded to close downtown to cars and make use of businesses, it might become carless. But another problem are the homeless and mentally ill that inhabit the area. Until that problem gets rectified, the future of downtown doesn't look too promising. Perhaps we might get get there?

Lee B

3y↑327

"Cities in Europe are taking emissions seriously"

America be like, "What's an emission"

neutrino78x

no, America be like, "electric cars, problem solved, like a boss."

castle hellford

@Krishna Adettiwar i

リンゴ酢

suddenly all the diversity doesn't look so great anymore

Joel Stephenson

Lol

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Aaron Parr-Besemer

3y↑23

When I was studying in Quito, Ecuador I noticed the colonial section of the city has much narrower streets and significantly less traffic than the modern parts of the city.

Ag Me

3y↑4

I think this is a thing in South America, my city’s colonial area has really narrow streets and sidewalks, so a large majority of them have been turned to pedestrian streets or only bus/ambulances streets.

Coco L'Asticot

3y↑45

Not so long ago, people were expecting individual FLYING cars for the bright future.

It really puts things into perspective, how we're inclined to imagine and think accordingly to our current ways of life.

JustSome RandomWeeb

@neutrino78x you know 3d rendering never make any sound.

JustSome RandomWeeb

@neutrino78x fever dream.

neutrino78x

there's definitely going to be flying taxis. Joby plans to launch the service in 2024. Electric powered, no pollution, you can't hear it more than a few yards/meters away.

Kira Yoshikage

@izdatsumcp That's just a plane.

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neenja tortle

3y↑13

"Can't have traffic if no parking" GENIUS

RandomNobodyEU

2y↑4

Oslo: no cyclist or pedestrian deaths in 2019
American cities: sounds great, let's remove pedestrians; they die too much

Marcel Moulin

3y↑8

Thank you for this thought-provoking, timely video. Creating vibrant, flourishing pedestrian-/cyclist-oriented communities and town/city centres allows people to interact. Automobile-oriented communities teeming with strip development, shopping malls, and wide roads do not; they are also most often off-putting, ugly, depressing, and alienating. Lively, bustling neighbourhoods once defined American cities before the automobile became king. If anything positive has has come from the horrific pandemic, more people than ever recognise that cities can once again become people-oriented. I am fortunate to live in glorious Middelburg in the Netherlands; its charming, attractive, and busy town centre is reserved for pedestrians. It thrives, and it is not exceptional in this country. Americans can reclaim their city centres by embracing the New Urbanism which emphasises thriving, compact communities and transit-oriented development where the needs of people eclipse those of the automobile.

Emanuele Montali

3y↑894

Venice: "am I a joke to you?"

KyrieFortune

I have lived three years in Venice: there are very good reasons why no one wants to live there anymore, including the fact it is completely inaccessible to anyone not on foot. And no, I am not talking about cars or bikes, I mean disabled people.

Wadwizard ZOL

Well hey maybe if we spread canals everywhere we could dissipate the rising sea level across the whole continent😎👍

Internet Safety

3y↑2

@Emanuele Montali lol one day i'll be able to kayak to school
the funny part is that it doesn't have to be a group effort or government policy or anything, I can just do it one day when it floods a foot

Shayne Cytrynbaum

3y↑2

@Hester Clapp I think they were referring to the Amsterdam canals. But yeah Amsterdam has amazing urban design, with so many different styles of housing (from an old-city look in the City Center to the suburbs in Amstelveen and the skyscrapers in Zuidas) and with so many different means of transport. Plus it’s pretty quiet and clean and green for a major city too

Hester Clapp

3y↑2

@Bananaman Amsterdam does have cars, it just forces them onto their own network not made of every street, and has separate networks for cyclists and pedestrians

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Michiel van der Sijs

3y↑24

You can go inside that ring with a car in Houten. Its more that all the through traffic uses the ring to pass around the core and the residential areas. Also, Houten is far to small, even for Dutch standards, to qualify as a city. Its more like a hamlet turned into a suburb of Utrecht.

Some Potato

3y↑1

Yes, that wasn't explained very well. You can drive the car inside the ring, but you cannot pass from district to district inside the ring. Removing through traffic is the key ingredient that makes Dutch cities so bike-friendly.

Stefan Gherman

3y↑28

A particularity in Eastern Europe, in cities and towns influenced by soviet street planning, you can go to shopping or to do work both on foot or with personal car, taxi or public transport.

neutrino78x

2y↑1

" influenced by soviet street planning"

Were they also influenced by the Soviet lack of individual liberty? Because you know, most of us would rather be free, and if a country can't at least give you that, I don't care about their urban planning.

Stefan Gherman

@luka zupie Yes, I know is chaotic capital city traffic. Because are lots of narrow strets and when then they became bussy the hole traffic is jammed. And this problem with traffic is in big citties and medium citties. I talked about little cities, but is good you added into discusion big Eastern Europe citties.

luka zupie

3y↑1

I am in Slovenia, we had cars on main square in capital, we only closed it since we got capitalism. And we closed old streets build before comunism.

I didnt travel much in eastern europe, but i was in Moscow and all i saw is endless traffic that doesnt even move for ambulance:) catastrophy basically. People driving 2h to work etc.. crazy.

Stefan Gherman

3y↑4

@Joe R M Yes, and that's why the Eastern European cities are evolved around pedestrians and public transport.

Joe R M

3y↑2

Yes, because in Soviet system you might be “given” a car... but you’re on a long list for it.

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Avery Mitchell

3y↑7

I'm so envious of all of the amazing transit-based development that's occurring in Europe. I look at cities in the US and while there are a few neighborhoods and towns that favor walking or cycling, those that exist are insanely expensive to live in.

It's a real bummer that I literally don't have a choice but to own a car if I want to get to work, unless I want to pay multiple thousands of dollars monthly in rent.

neutrino78x

you could increase your skills so you have a sufficient salary that said rent is only 1/3 of your monthly income you know. Just a thought.

RoScFan

3y↑2

Of course we "can" make them car free. the real question is "should" we. The answer is "NO". Discouraging cars: yes, banning them: no. Not city wide in any case. cars can and should be banned in strategic locations, but there are situations where a car is absolutely necessary and thus the option has to exist.

Spencer O'Dowd

3y↑152

I feel like if any US city could go car-free, it'd be Boston

lisa ahmari

Seems like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco could easily do it....anywhere with a tram or metro system already in place?

Galloping Goose

Don't you mean "cah-free"?

Byun Baekhyun

NYC too, they already have pretty good public transport, if they improve it a bit it'll be awesome and people finally can go around the city without car.

Lamari Piazza

2y↑1

@zoicon5 Y’all don’t live in nyc Manhattan is packed with train stations.

Lamari Piazza

2y↑1

@•Skippy•The•Spiteful• Y’all don’t live in nyc Manhattan is packed with train stations

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Futurology

3y↑473

Yes, we need more public transportation!

seneca983

3y↑1

@Sihirbaz_Khan_55 I don't feel that public transit is inconvenient, though that's of course a subjective experience. I don't find myself locked into a schedule. I just choose the fastest route whenever I embark. I have never owned a car. I do have a license though in retrospect that was mostly a waste. I find driving to be boring and annoying whereas on public transit I can entertain myself with a book or my phone. I think using a car would bring with it the inconvenience of maintenance and trying to find parking space though I can't be entirely sure because I lack that experience.

Sihirbaz_Khan_55

@seneca983 Aside from COVID, there is the fact public transit is inconvenient; bicycles are better than transit since you are not locked to a schedule, in addition to the fact that bike riding is good for one's health.

seneca983

@Sihirbaz_Khan_55 Covid is not something that happens every year.

Bloob lefwarden

3y↑1

then the gov can shut down movement whenever

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TheDeathmail

3y↑6

I like how you pointed out that many places in Europe were designed without cars in mind... it makes the changes much easier...

chattenmetchad

3y↑8

I am a Houten resident. Houten is a amazing city to live. It sets pretty good example in how we should build suburbans.

Cycling in Houten is super safe. It is one of the few cities were cycling is faster than taking the the car (made by design). In order to get from one neighbourhood to the other you must use the ring road. Wich can take up to 15 minutes while using the bicycle can only take 5.

We also have roads wich prioritise cyclist over cars. Meaning cars always have to stop for cyclist, can’t overtake cyclist and have a max speed of 30 km.

I definitely would recommend checking Houten and Utrecht out if you are in the Netherlands!

Anastacia Kay

3y↑149

Such an interesting, as always, Dave, video! Thank you for sharing 👏☺️

Kairo

3y↑2

🅱️🅾️🅾️Ⓜ️ĒR

Bicicleteiros

3y↑10

I discovered this channel just recently and now I'm binge watching all episodes. Fantastic content.
Warm regards from a cycling enthusiast from Brazil.

Chandler Bryant

3y↑8

Normally I dont care much about when youtubers advertise things like nebula, curiosity stream, skillshare etc. But your content is the one that makes me want to jump over there. You dangled a lure out and ya caught me, hook line and sinker.

jasper young

3y↑2

Oslo centre is already car light, everything is super walkable and the combination of busses trams and the underground makes it super easy and fun to get around. To make it car free would be fine but probably not that noticeable in the grand scheme of things. In winter it would be good to have EV's only as the emissions from cars hang around much longer and seem to smell much worse

TheReggaeMortis

2y↑3

Simplynothing

2y↑3

i honestly hate cars, there is typically for the average driver much more negatives than postives. Drunk driving, accidents due to weather etc. it would be so much better for the people and the planet to have a city that is commuter friendly rather than car friendly. I still of course want more of a greenery based city.

Story Vi

2y↑2

I think build a small monorail that goes around the city. Add some cycle lanes too. I personally hate walking and driving.

Saran Bhatia

2y↑1

Reducing dependence on cars is surely a good idea which not only helps improved AQI but makes streets more lively with activities!

Gavin

3y↑6

Just wanted to say thanks for the super informative and accessible videos... not only are they entertaining, but they encouraged me to dig deeper into urban planning and urban studies in my own time, after I realized how fascinating it all is to me. I finished a bachelors in politics and philosophy early last year and had always regretted not taking more classes on urban issues. But now in September I will be starting a masters program in urban planning :) Keep up the vids!

Yasser Al-Saadi

3y↑1

I can totally relate. I also regret not studying urban planning.

JLokeHume

3y↑1

Hi Dave! I am very surprised that you mentioned Madrid. The previous municipal government was a little bit more committed to decrease the number of cars in the city, though the only thing they did was making a very small low emissions zone and narrow down a main street in the city center. The new municipal government, which actually has governed Madrid since 1991 (except from 2015-2019), is encouraging people to move by car to the city center and shopping areas. Their main motto for the municipal election was "With Almeida (current mayor of Madrid) Madrid Central (the low emissions zone) ends". They tried to, but the European Union threatened to fine. Also, the first thing they did was removing a bike path in the north east area of the city to make room for more cars and eliminate a pedestrian street in the Chamberí district to bring cars back. Sorry for the long text, nice video!!!

Adrian Rossino

2y↑10

When I arrived at Dallas I had no car (obviously) so I had to move somehow, I walked, used the train and busses (which are horrible) and uber, every time someone told me to "drive here, or there" and I told them I didn't have a car they would just look at me with a "wtf is wrong with you" face. Everybody is expected to have a driver's license here, everybody is expected to have a car, not having one makes you weird, for someone who didn't need a car for the first 25 years of his life, this place is weird

Matt Carter

This is the way denver is. The Denver metro area is mostly parking lots and highways. I do not drive for seizures. More than once not only have people asked me how do I survive without a car but also I have been told that "I will not be a chauffeur ". My coworkers would rather spend an entire pay check rather than give up their car.

Adrian Rossino

@Matt Decuir This is why cities like New York, San Francisco and Seattle are so sought after, people want to be able to do shit walking, having a car should be a plus, not an obligation

Adrian Rossino

@Matt Decuir Being so used to the subway I made a point to move to a place that had a train station nearby thinking I was going to use it daily, I arrived 7 months ago, I haven't used in 6 months... it just doesn't take you anywhere that is worth going but downtown, and still when you arrive (after waiting 30 minutes for the train to come) you have to walk through half done sidewalks and ungodly distances to get anywhere. The people who designed this city have never walked a day in their lives

Matt Decuir

@Safe-Keeper this is me right now. I had a seizure 3 months ago and Its now illegal for me to drive. But I live in atlanta so it’s almost inevitable. And i live in a walkable neighborhood (midtown) so I can accomplish a lot on foot, but when all my doctors appointments are all far…

Matt Decuir

I used to live in dallas. First job was walking distance to mockingbird station, and at the time I was near downtown Plano station. The amount of people that looked at me crazy when I told them I took the train to work…

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Andre Diaz

I would like to know how European cities (or any city) can improve this in the periphery since most of this ideas are applied in city center and totally new districts

john bailey

2y↑1

American city centres were all build before the age of the car, too. Its just US regs and zoning and the car lobby have conspired to make the average US person think its impossible there to live without the car. San Francisco once had the worlds largest tram network.

This needs to happen everywhere.

salohciN D

2y↑1

Its interesting how old city designs can still work without cars. But i still think efficient city design planning would make it better.

DJAvren

3y↑500

2:17 'Unlike many US cities'
Ah yes, that famous US highway with it's Arabic signage.

Plume Brisé

@DunaMoose Indians numeral you mean

Cult Of Alan

2y↑1

@Sehr Geheim "the european cities formed differently" argument is honestly the worst one imaginable to me. Because, fun fact, newer cities are easier to modify than older ones.

Oxford, which actually has quite high bike usage (about 25% of journeys are done by bike) has some absolutely horrible problems in it's downtown to fit in the bike infrastructure.

One of the main arteries is a single lane in each direction, has historic buildings on either side and crosses multiple rivers. The worse part of this artery is that it goes under a railway bridge and the space under the bridge is so small that it's almost impossible to change - so bikes, buses, cars, trucks - everything has to go through it and it's dangerous AF.
They've managed to put in decent segregated cycles lanes along most of the route and have put in a decent P&R - but there's no solution to the problem at that bridge.

So in the United States where they can do whatever the heck they want with the space 99 times out of 100 and they're saying "well cities developed differently" as an excuse really grinds my gears. It would basically cost them nothing to resolve the issues 99% of thge time.

BLITZN00DLE

3y↑1

@Sehr Geheim Hate that argument, they act like cities can't be changed

Sehr Geheim

3y↑4

Yeah, that's also a good point against this „European cities formed differntly“ argument

Most cities did this car bullshit in the 20th century, not just america. Amsterdam, of all places, had extensive car hellscapes just 50 years ago. Cities can change... not overnight, but quicker than you think

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Firelord Azula

2y↑9

So Kaiser Wilhelm actually was right, when he said, that cars will never be more popular than horses in the long term.

Boffen

As somone who lives in Oslo and moved from a car centric city it is a amazing change. I myself used to own a car but dont see the point anymore. The Tram / Train / Bus in Oslo is cheap and is super convinient longest i have ever waited for the tram was for 10 miniutes.... Also car sharing is a big thing so if i ever need a car to go to say ikea i can rent one for a small fee.

Nolan Quinn

2y↑4

I'd love to see Chicago, IL reduce its car infrastructure and invest in other forms of transit. Drivers there are so aggressive and very unfriendly to walkers.

neutrino78x

WHat are you talking about you've never heard of the El Train in Chicago??

Claudio Ferrara

2y↑1

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Milan, one of Europe’s cities that have been making the biggest effort to convert into a green and pedestrian-friendly city over the last 10 years. It was the third city in the world to introduce a road pricing scheme after Oslo and London and it built two new metro lines in just over 10 years. The core historic centre has been almost entirely pedestrian for many years now.

B Babbich

3y↑50

I would love to see Broadway and 5th ave in NY become car free. I definitely think there is a will for it.

Not Sal

@B Babbich I don’t think any major streets should be made car free, that wouldn’t work in this country. The best bet would be smaller streets in lower Manhattan. I can see SoHo becoming car free where they have cobblestone streets. 5th ave though just would never happen

B Babbich

@Not Sal True, what do you think about making 5th ave careless from Washington Square all the way to the Flatiron Building? I feel thats doable.

Not Sal

3y↑1

That will never happen. Especially with broadway because it’s not exclusive to manhattan. It goes all the way up through the Hudson valley into upstate NY as route 9. It would be more reasonable to make some of the shorter streets in Manhattan car free rather than the long avenues.

Jack Long

3y↑2

Judging from the fact that it’s only now that NYC is adding a congestion charge 10 years after most European cities did so, I’m afraid it would probably take about 10- 30 years for the city council to implement such radical (by American standards) idea

M Apgar

3y↑6

Broadway and 5th Avenue are arerials and need to remain open to cars however wall street is a good contender for going car-free due to high levels of pedestriasn traffic which could involve opening the stock market to guided tours outside of trading hours.

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Crarazy

3y↑1

Love the ambition, but it is hard in certain places that don't have the existing infrastructure to actually get people to these car-free areas (buses, trains). Combine that with cities that aren't as conducive to living downtown you're fighting a long battle to build these area's up. I would venture to say that eventually these areas become popular and do become economically beneficial, it may take years, and sometimes cities don't have the patience to wait. If they do have the infrastructure to get people there, I'm all for it.

Myles Gray

3y↑4

Barcelona is my favorite place in the world to explore on foot. I also lived in Hamburg Germany without a car over 1 year and I really didn’t miss car ownership the whole time. The public transport was so dependable and effective, it was great!

Richard Castillo

3y↑2

I've been preaching about parking here in Chicago for over a decade. This city simply makes it too inexpensive to leave your car parked on the street. We get plenty of college kids who had a beat up car to travel back home to the burbs/rural area when needed, graduated, and never got rid of the car but rarely use it now. And there is essentially no penalty for leaving your car on the street for months at a time. A yearly city sticker cost ~$100. If the city were to charge a ludicrous amount, say, $1,200/year, then people who really need a car will keep it. I say having a car in a city like Chicago should be a luxury. And I am only speaking of the immediate outer areas from the downtown. IMO there should be very little parking downtown and it should cost way more than it does. People from the burbs should take the train; if they knew it would cost them >$250 to park the car, they would take the train.

Pepa P

2y↑1

I like living in a walkable neighbourhood, not having to take the car everytime I want to do something. But I also like having a car. Prague has a great public transport, but not in all places. And it is a big city, car saves me a lot of time. But it is certainly great to have a choice, and not having to own a car just to get to your minimum wage job.

Internet Safety

3y↑5

I went to California recently and was surprised to see that nearly every road has a bike lane. I hope to see that elsewhere in the US soon.

Gido

3y↑2

Nice that you're starting to make more videos of European-style city planning now!

themanwiththepan

3y↑4

Imagine the logistics of actually being able to deliver goods/groceries/supplies/etc to places like this. Not even to businesses, but to houses as well. Hell, even the mail

EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos

@Dust My Broom car free districts usually have a delivery time corridor in the morning where all shops will get their deliveries. No problem at all.

EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos

no big deal. Pedestrian zones usually have several hours in the morning where delivery trucks can deliver goods to shops located there. Mail can also be transported by bikes, is done here for decades already. Supplies: backpacks, bags to carry with your hands, normal bikes with bags on either side or even cargo bikes ... there are many different way to get your groceries into car-free areas.

Dominik Manthei

The deliver thw goods just like anywhere else. I dont see the problem

ÞórlæifR

3y↑2

@Dust My Broom I live in oslo and grocery stores can still get their goods delivered to them via delivery trucks just fine. Delivery trucks has actually certain priveliges over other cars. Streets reserved for people actually often let delivery trucks enter so that small grocery shops can get their goods. If this really was a problem, grocery shops wouldnt exist here. That has not happened so i guess its not a problem then.

Dust My Broom

3y↑1

Exactly! That is the biggest problem with going car free. In North America our grocery stores get there goods delivered by semi. How is that supposed to work for a grocery store in a car free district?

Research_Support

3y↑12

5:13 I don't get why you would build expensive underground tunnels for trash, and robot delivery.
In Amsterdam there are block trash bins which are way more easily to maintain and more efficient.
Also if you'd build your grocery store around the corner you could just walk there normally.

Research_Support

@izdatsumcp I don't know what's easier to maintain, I have nothing against the tunnels if that's the case.
And of course getting more cars of the road is always great.

izdatsumcp

But who's going to deliver to the grocery store? You could have an underground system delivering all the necessary items to a transport hub then local stores could pick up their items from there. That way you'd get yet more trucks off the road. As for it being expensive: don't we have sewers and trains underground? It probably justifies the expense once you have a lot of people and don't need long tubes to serve a given amount of people.

Cult Of Alan

2y↑2

The trash I get, the robots seem like a gimmick.

I think the trash works because you remove the need for industrial machinery to need to use the streets on a regular basis.
But the robots just seem to be asking for problems I agree.

Link 24

2y↑1

In the US for you to have a job you need a car, to have a car you need a job. Majority of American workers are working just to maintain their vehicle/s
The cost of fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance, taxes, vehicle payments adds up taking a big chunk of what could of been a big savings, down payment for a home, emergency, vacation trips or just financial stability.

Shelley

3y↑2

Thank you for completing my holiday shopping list! I needed one more thing for my husband, a fan of real engineering, so I’m getting him a nebula membership! (And now I can use it for my personal favorite channel, yours!)

Bee Eggs

3y↑1

I love your channel! I would love to hear more about places outside NA and Europe in future videos, rather than just your great examples in this and your other videos.

xiomara espinosa

3y↑3

I live in LA and it's an absolute traffic nightmare. I wish we could adopt measures like these, but I don't know how feasible it is due to the city's layout.

neutrino78x

LA has buses and light rail

Nigel Marvin

3y↑270

I don’t know why I read “Car-Free Cities” as “Child-Free Cities.”

neutrino78x

@Anthony Ngu

"yeah no, plenty of places get by just fine with kids just and limited access to cars. You know what happens they are independent and do shit on their own."

Yes, but it's still EASIER if you have a car in such a situation. Your kids can't always do things on their own, that's when they get older.

Anthony Ngu

@Standa K yeah no, plenty of places get by just fine with kids just and limited access to cars. You know what happens they are independent and do shit on their own.

Standa K

2y↑2

This actually is more true than you'd think. My long time hypothesis is that car-free cities are often dreamt up by childless hipsters without the real world experience of trying to manage work hours with their kids' hobbies and activities plus other parents' duties. As they reach their 30s and form families, they very quickly realise how convenient it is to have a mode of transportation ready whenever it is needed and able to take you where you really need, weekend activities outside the city need to be mentioned especially. I'd love to travel more environmentally-friendly but even in my city with its well planned public transport, our car is a more effective alternative about half of the time.

The Renegades

@Devin Heida stop making them ? Lol

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Ross Miller

3y↑1

I can see parts of Boston, New York, Philly, DC, or Chicago without cars. Baltimore too if it had more/better public transit
A lot of places are just too spaced out for it to be viable

Gabriel Silveira

It is definitely more harsh of a process for cities on less "walkable" places, like having hills and mountains

EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos

3y↑1

Oslo did a great job already; Just returned from a roadtrip and I experienced Oslo during rush hour ... not only in downtown streets with pedestrian zones, but also in plain normal neighborhoods at e.g. the 2nd ring road: even during rush hour on a week day there's a low number of individual car traffic going on. On a 4 lane street, only the left lanes are for individual car traffic, while the right lane is for bicycles, buses, taxis and electric cars;
Btw concerning electric cars: more than 50% of all new registered cars in Norway are ALL electric, not even regarding the share of hybrids

Gogle Cohrme

2y↑1

eletric cars are for sure not going to help, even with zero emissions of CO2 it is still a huge problem, the space that a car takes up, and even health issues. but the biggest problem with eletric cars is that they need bateries and we are already running out of lithium and other battery needed metals. theres absolutely no problem at all of living in a car free city, you can see it in the netherlands where using a bike is a big deal and public transport is extensively used because its really well planned and charming, trams and train are one of the least polluting transport methods, they dont need that much of maintence of infraestructure and you can talk and interact with people, they help with human interaction, you can see and appreciate the environment, the city, see other humans live and see a bit of their lives. bikes consume way less space than a big polluting aluminum and metal box and improves body and mental health. cities like the american suburbs are literally one of the worst things for the environment and even for the mental health, its boring, ugly and depressing af, its car centric, has almost no cover like trees, promotes climate change, isolation and just gets cties to go bankrupt. we dont need cars at all, we only started using it after wwii, streets were the place of humans and social interactions and they should have stayed that way

4444colin

3y↑1

I live in Laguna Beach California. Since the Early 1990s the big developers created cookie cutter suburban sprawl close by.
Our city has become a drive by drive through city and feels like it's lost its small town charm with car traffic early to late. I often mentioned car free downtowns and people think I am a nut job. Love your videos 👍

Natalya Porter

This makes me feel a lot better about not knowing how to drive yet. I live in a suburb neighbourhood with older houses. And there are plenty of opportunities to bike and walk places. Never knew how much city planning affects everyone. Hope to have car free cities in North America. That’d be cool!

Yasser Al-Saadi

3y↑3

Excellent video! Thank you!! Hamburg is also trying the gradual approach because of very strong pushback from shop owners. It’s an uphill battle because Germans love their cars. But hopefully more and more people will realize how much more a city becomes liveable when there are less cars and instead more pedestrians, cyclists, and public transportation. 🚶‍♂️🚲🚉

Jake

@Yasser Al-Saadi yep his right

Yasser Al-Saadi

3y↑1

@M Apgar how is it a prison? And btw a majority of people support the current changes. And I don’t think it’s because they want to be imprisoned. Seriously though, how is it like a prison?

M Apgar

You call that livable. I call that a prison city.

Moksum

3y↑8

I live in a city where the inner city was made mostly car free(Regensburg). It's very pleasant to walk and bike there. It's quite refreshing walking somewhere and not having to worry about getting run over by cars. In regular roads, i always subconciously think about it, even when I'm on a seperated sidewalk.
Also interesting that i get the same feeling with roads in the old town where there have sidewalks. Sidewalks always make one feel unsafe and obligated to use them, even when the car free area suggests otherwise.

English Rose

Thank you. I’m sorry to see content creators leave to another platform that has a fee. I get it. But for people like myself where money is tight…it’s sad.

shane higgins

hey there, have you ever done a video on the cogswell interchange in Halifax Nova Scotia? it is my hometown, and I think the way they ruined the cityscape for the suburban elevated highway would bode well for you and your channel. Hope to maybe see you talk about it and maybe even consider what might look and work nicely there instead? thanks for your content, I find it fascinating!!

Reed

2y↑2

Walkable cities would be great for small businesses, id be much more likely to try a small new restaurant if i didnt have to drive 15 minutes. If I could walk, and i didnt like what i saw, I could just leave.

shizuwolf Howlajima

2y↑1

Plus it’d make it easier for people with wheelchairs

Gordon Chao

3y↑73

Please make more video about East Asian cities like Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul. 🙏

random dude

Pls don’t

Zhi Han Lee

Shanghai has lots of elevated highways in downtown, which I imagine would be an eyesore to some?

Anson Pang

3y↑5

@Gordon Chao I think he's more of a US urban planner and it's interesting to learn about suburbs and the mess that is US cities lol

Gordon Chao

3y↑2

What I meant is having cities from different parts of the world in 1 topic, like the one about megalopolis, not 1 region for 1 topic, hope you can accept my proposal 😊

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Ag Me

3y↑1

This doesn’t only happen in Europe tho, in my city some streets and mainly historical neighborhoods are basically becoming car free, or only allowing public transport and emergency services. A lot of pedestrian streets too on highly commercial areas. It’s by far becoming a fully car free city, but well neither are most European cities lol

vlad oancea

3y↑1

Many european cities also want to make the speed limit to be at 30 km/h (18 miles per h) in most areas of the cities, mainly because environment but also pedestrian safety

pongop

Great video! Have you read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach? Awesome book. I was reminded of it by this video, and it may give you planning inspiration that is care-free, people/pedestrian-centered, and sustainable.

Tony

I love these videos but as a locksmith/automatic door installer I can't see how someone like me could work somewhere with no parking or cars

JonBlond3000

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UzuMaki NaRuto

3y↑8

Europe may end up with fewer cars on the roads in the core of their cities, but it will NEVER EVER be car free because all these ideas are mostly only feasible in the very heart of a city where its most dense and busy and it might make sense to drastically reduce the number of cars in those areas. Outside of that core area for many cities, I don't see why many people would want to drop driving if they can afford it. Drive less? Perhaps, but not drive at all? I doubt it.

Also outside of enviromental reasons, why stop driving if you actually enjoy it? If I lived in a city with great transit I would consider driving less, but I would NEVER give it up completely when I enjoy simply cruising the streets and going where I want to go without having to be cooped up with other strangers on a bus, subway etc. and being restricted to where I can go based on where the transit goes.

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@UzuMaki NaRuto even without and actual restrictions and taking parking space away Oslo is so far that even during rush hour there's no traffic jam at all, it rather feels like Sunday 7 AM in other cities with close to no traffic around. People have their cars, they have their parking space, but still many choose public transit, bike, walk or electric scooters to get around. And this is not just in the very heart of the city, but also in other parts of the city

UzuMaki NaRuto

@L0ndon42
The point is Boston didn't so much as reduce traffic by a ton if any as they chose to simply bury it instead. So I don't know how they're reducing car usage by alot rather than moving it elsewehre. As for LA lets see how things trend in the next few years before calling their measures a success.

'But as you say, people will generally use whatever is convenient for them. Being able to take a commuter train to work everyday for a significant minority of people might mean they get a smaller car instead of a larger one, or go from 3 cars in the family to 2, all important steps and yes these changes will take decades. '

Unless Austin has some expansive transit plan, most people are still going to choose to drive than to take transit which will often if not most times take more time to get anywhere let alone going to multiple destinations in one day. That's the beauty of having a car that I and many others wouldn't ever want to give up which is the ability to go wherever you want to go, when you want to go with few restrictions.

I can originally make a plan to go from A to B, but along the way perhaps I see C and decide to drop by for a quick visit first. Then after I visit B, on my way home I decide to visit D and E for abit before finally heading home. All that can be easily and efficiently accomplished by driving to all those places while it would often be very difficult and time consuming to do the same on public transit. And really in many cases no matter how much transit you build, it will never reach the level of ease and efficiency with getting from A to B as you can with a car.

L0ndon42

3y↑2

@UzuMaki NaRuto but boston investing so much in undoing some of the damage caused by cars is still a huge step forwards right? And Los Angeles is actually beating their current targets on sustainability. It’s actually all on this channel in a video called ‘can los Angeles can sustainable?’

And yes Austin’s transit plan won’t change things overnight. But as you say, people will generally use whatever is convenient for them. Being able to take a commuter train to work everyday for a significant minority of people might mean they get a smaller car instead of a larger one, or go from 3 cars in the family to 2, all important steps and yes these changes will take decades. But the general trend is strongly in our favour.

UzuMaki NaRuto

L0ndon42

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paintkiller93

3y↑24

Greetings from LA. For obvious reasons I would LOVE to see fewer cars here. It definitely won't work citywide but in certain areas like the touristy areas of Hollywood, downtown, and other places.

neutrino78x

there's plenty of public transit in LA. Use it. Solved.

MikeN Ike

That wouldn’t help much with freeways being congested country wide.

LoveToday8

I think it can be bigger than that. Check out Streets for All Los Angeles.

7saany

I absolutely love your content. Would you say this is an urban planning and development content? Considering for a career

Kroy Web

3y↑1

We should make Oslo or the entire Europe human free. They will be perfect !

Andrew M

2y↑1

Car dependent suburbs as well as exclusive single family zoning is one reason America has fallen to 33rd (next to Greece), as these policies have helped bankrupt the Fed. There are immediate solutions such as commuter cars that are about the same size as motorcycles as well as e-bikes and scooters. Europe has used these types of vehicles for a long time.

HauntedShadowsLegacy

Imagine this: With cities cut into more-efficient 'centers' that contain a little of what most residents need, small businesses would flourish. Parks would see more use, increasing exercise opportunities for people of all ages and promoting more of a sense of community. If smaller health clinics and pharmacies were integrated, getting health care would be a lot quicker. Larger businesses like farms could try more hydroponics inside the city and more traditional farming in gaps between clusters of centers. Fire stations and police stations could be situated every few centers. Hospitals could take two or three centers between every couple dozen centers.

And (here's the biggest thing for me) if schools could be integrated in each of these centers, taking up only a few floors of one or two buildings, it would reduce classroom sizes and overall school sizes. School busses wouldn't be needed anymore except maybe for young kids with mobility issues. It could also open up the way for a better school system, focusing on critical and abstract thinking rather than the harmful factory method we're stuck in. After kids learn the basics, they can start focusing their education more on topics that suit their strengths, optimizing education and better preparing them for life after public school. The mixed nature of each center would promote a variety of career paths to the kids, expanding their horizons beyond the 'everyone goes to college' funnel of our current system. After that, bigger institutions like colleges could be nestled between those centers, making housing more accessible for college kids without the need for expensive car payments.

Just thinking about how beneficial center-based city design could be for literally everyone (and especially the future generations) has me hopeful. We know how to create better cities; all that's left is to actually do it. Even if it takes several decades, we have the evidence we need to take the first steps forward.

sqdtnz

2y↑2

Cycling daily in Amsterdam Center, cars are such clumsy dinkeytoys, that regularly block entire neighborhoods when they get stuck with each other. When you look at it better, and if you count, it's just 4 or 5 individual people taking up so much space. Amsterdam is regularly praised for traffic, but if you look at the canals, for example, and if you measure the space, still ~70% of the space between houses and water is used for cars and their parking spots.. If you look at the Bickersgracht though (without cars) you could see how great it could be.

Stefano Kob

2y↑1

most cities in europe suffer heavily from car traffic, its noise and air polution. i am living in the center of salzburg, a city not too big for walking and old like a stone. this city is full of cars all the time. even if you live in the medieval streets closed to traffic most of the time, the early morning delivery traffic jam from 5 am till midday is making you suffer besides from absurdly high living costs in this city. the traffic in my street is so heavy that everything is full of black dust and you cannot breath freely nor hear your own thoughts. my flat is shaking from every truck passing. the green image that austria is portraying to the world is one big fake

I. K.

3y↑1

Car traffic is actually allowed within the rings of Houten. Car ownership is rather high, and most people have a driveway or parking right in front of their house. Car travel between different neighborhoods is restricted however, so within the city you are forced to use the ring road. That is why for most short distance travel, people choose the bike. It is worth a visit. Really nice satellite suburban town. If you want to build suburbs - not saying you should, but I guess it is unavoidable sometimes - Houten is probably the best example how to do so.

James Cochran

3y↑2

Love your channel, man. Keep it up!

Lea M

3y↑2

I remember the first time I've been to London I was very confused that there were cars everywhere.
In the German cities/towns I lived near to plus the few Mediterranean cities/towns I visited on holidays there just aren't cars in the city centre and or in the old part of town.
The parts with alot of cars weren't really worth visiting.

Koninkrijk C

3y↑1

A similar 16 million USD trash collection system was built in one of the neighbourhoods in my city in 2008 but it is now too broken to be repaired... They've now opted for automated trash compactors that get collected by trucks regularly

Karsten Gjesdal

3y↑4

As an oslo-person myself, i gotta say it is more convenient biking or walking around the city centre

Tebanovich

I come from Mexico City, and I´ve been a bicycle advocate for over 25 years. Watching this video (and others like this) makes me sad, as it´ll be a cold day in hell before CDMX adopts measures like these since most people there have this sick respect for their cars.

Timen Kompagne

3y↑1

Something about Houten, most parts except the centrums are reachable by car, but every neighborhood is splitted for cars. Which means that cars have to take the "rondweg", that road u were talking about, to go to the next neighborhood. So all car traffic inside the "rondweg" is traffic that is either leaving or entering that neighborhood. but still you wound't want to be found dead in Houten.