How NYC Manages The Most Congested Streets In America - NYC Revealed

New York might have America’s best public transit systems but its roads are just as important. Each day the city plays host to an intricate dance of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. Keeping it all running smoothly takes grit, street sweepers, thousands of cameras and a whole lot of asphalt.
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[@xaninator]

One of the cool things about asphalt is that it doesn't cure or set, it just cools. So it can be almost infinitely recycled by just heating it up and laying it down again. You just need to replace anything that was lost over time and to clean out or account for contaminates

[@eddygci8]

nice

[@JaredPizza]

Now looking up videos about asphalt. Thanks.

[@makatron]

Just a thicc fluid indeed

[@gamerk316]

Right, but the downside is it's much more costly to maintain over it's lifespan then concrete, which while much more expensive tends to last MUCH longer. There's a reason why Europe's roads are in much better condition, and that's largely because they not only use concrete, when they do repairs they repair that entire section rather then just fill it in. While more expensive to budget (and more annoying since it's a multi-week job), it's cheaper overall in the long run.

[@jonathanjuillerat9831]

And repair the base and subbase. Asphalt is soft and not repairing the sub layers often results in a poor outcome.

[@reedperrino6772]

As someone who grew up 50 miles south west from the city in Jersey and frequent visitor of NYC, my family will always park in NJ at the ferries, take them across, then walk or use busses throughout the city.

[@mats7492]

That’s exactly how you should do it

[@kelvincheng999]

@@julm7744 just like all US highways that gutted working class neighborhoods just so that suburbanites can come with their cars from the suburbs? Think of all the families and businesses that got displaced for the sake of a highway.

[@Zadesniper]

@@kelvincheng999 I doubt he was being serious

[@__jonbud______________________]

@@kelvincheng999 compensated displacement is an opportunity to move somewhere... Healthier and more affordable 😬

[@TrainsFerriesFeet]

@@julm7744 Absolutely not.

[@MrBibi86]

*As an Australian I love learning about NYC*

[@adriancastellanos5335]

As a New Yorker I love learning about Australia

[@__jonbud______________________]

But do you know about the rest of New York?

[@nancyfahey7518]

As a New Yorker, transplanted to Florida, now I'm interested in NYC.

[@metalvideos1961]

It's Funny that pretty much no new Yorker knows about the Dutch history of new York that shaped their city and country

[@spencerberg7477]

@@metalvideos1961 I don’t think that’s true. If you went to a public school in nyc you got taught that history

[@mats7492]

If you drive your private car in Manhattan, you’re absolutely mad. Period!

[@sc1338]

Well you have to be very wealthy to even find a parking spot 😂 I couldn’t imagine living there…

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

I wonder where all those people are coming from and going to to be stuck in traffic in that peninsula Doesn't make any sense at all

[@darktronics9901]

Id rather not deal with the financial and time burden of owning a car. Id rather get on and off my bicycle in less then 5 seconds.

[@robertewalt7789]

See the proposal for charging $23 for cars to go below 63rd Street.

[@_jp_3809]

Most of the new transplants moving to the city are bringing their cars and then complain about the traffic that they're causing!

[@nuggets0717]

I live in NYC and I’ve been cycling here for several years. In my opinion it is the best way to get around efficiently, no subway delays, but faster than walking and often faster than driving too. Although the city has improved bike lanes, it’s still very unsafe- I think one of the most unsafe in the US for cyclists. Pedestrians, drivers, and other cyclists all pose a risk. Whether walking, cycling, or driving, you must pay attention, always.

[@peachezprogramming]

Most unsafe in the US for cyclists? Are you insane. Go ride a bike in Houston Texas and get back to me, if you’re still alive.

[@decayw1334]

You See Everything Biking in New York Is Amazing

[@steezy2695]

Most unsafe in america for cyclists? You realize in other citys they literally have cyclists riding on highways right?

[@rockfire1669]

Well in terms of like dying on impact, it can still happen however it is way more common at higher speeds(which is hard to do in New York) Edit: idk why I wrote this comment we should be working towards saying “f u” to the car

[@Fenthule]

@@steezy2695 yes but in NYC there's a TON of psychos who will literally swerve at bikes to try and make them swerve off the roads and stuff. There's a lot of aggression towards them that many other cities have in lesser levels, mostly because in NY they've been soo loud about demanding safer lanes and such. And it's working, the infrastructure is slowly being built and more and more people are getting out there.

[@AbeEmersonJr]

I love NYC. I live in Texas but I deliver furniture from all over the country pulling a 24ft trailer that's 8ft wide. So I'm about 42ft long. It's definitely a challenge but it's fun. I quickly understood how moving around NYC is well organized chaos. All you have to do is follow the rules. Dont run red lights, no turns on red, don't stop in the crosswalk, if you're going down the ave a good way just drive in the middle, don't see your lane as your's just slide over, if you make ANY kind of turn or lane change check your mirrors for bikes, goimg into the tunnels it's gonna look crazy with bumper to bumper or bumper to door but no one is mad. (That was a seriously long run-on sentence). NYC is magical.

[@ikmarchini]

I did it daily, sometimes with a 45' trailer. You do what you can and turn if you can.

[@yaycupcake]

I grew up in the city, and currently live in midtown, 15 minute walk from Times Square. What I really want to see is more open streets like in Times Square and down Broadway. I really love that there's just open public seating and walkable plazas, essentially, but I wish there were more. I don't have a car -- for better or worse, my parents never enrolled me in driving lessons in high school, and as an adult I simply have not had the time to learn, because life is busy. But at least here, I don't strictly need a car. But it'd be nice if there were even more areas friendly to pedestrians. I am disabled so it's not easy for me to walk far distances (like 1 mile or more) without having to sit down, but I can walk down Broadway because of all the wonderful public seating and open streets there. We don't need every street to be filled with cars. They should not be a necessity of life. Of course having taxis and other for hire vehicles available for times they're needed is important, but not everyone should need their own car. And I really think just having to deal with less roads for cars would make the city a better place. It would also set an example for other cities too, because right now, for folks like me who simply never had the opportunity in life to learn to drive, it's not even possible to relocate to other American cities, much less suburbs or rural areas. But NYC and all cities can learn a lot and become more walkable, more green, more accessible, and more maintainable.

[@greenmachine5600]

I would love to see more open streets. Car free areas are so nice.

[@tthomas184]

Don't limit yourself to NYC because you can't drive. There are numerous driving schools in the city, and learning to drive is easy. Just look at all the knuckleheads who somehow managed to pass a driving test. I agree with everything you said about more open streets and pedestrian friendly places. My complaint is the lack of benches on most city streets. Maybe the city is afraid they would encourage loitering and homeless people sleeping on them, so I don't know what the solution is, but it sure would be great to have more options for resting while walking about.

[@yaycupcake]

@@tthomas184 You don't understand about the driving thing though, it's not about just "not having learned young or in high school", but that my lack of free time as an adult simply does not allow me the time to put toward going to driving school. Plus, as I said, I'm disabled, so I'm not sure if it's even safe for someone of my physical condition to drive or not. I think this is also a societal issue, that a lot of adults are just grinding through every day and don't have the free time to pursue anything else that takes any significant amount of time (whether it's learning to drive, going back to college, pursuing a hobby, volunteering, or anything else). I think one of the perks for folks who did learn during high school is that they really only had that and school to worry about, and school is less of a time commitment than a 40 hour a week job (since it's usually 30 hours, at least it was for me). That leaves a lot more time, and now that I have to work in order to keep a roof over my head, it's just no longer in the cards to learn to drive, at least considering my medical issues which, even if it was safe for me to drive with them, I also have to go to doctors regularly, which cuts into my free time quite a bit. (I also pay quite a lot in rent+utilities, so paying for a car also isn't in my budget at all.) Regarding the benches, definitely, we need more of them. The "issues" the city seems to worry about in regards to homeless folks is honestly its own issue -- I believe that is its own separate issue, and by addressing the housing problems we have, regarding cost and availability, then this problem would solve itself, because there wouldn't even *be* any homeless people... It's not as if other places in the world haven't done well with tackling this issue... I guess it's just a matter of "priorities" with the city. Benches really would go such a long way though. Especially ones that don't go out of their way to be unfriendly to homeless people -- not even just for the homeless, but also for folks who, I dunno, feel sick while they're out and about, and just need a moment to lay down, or for larger folks, who often have to squeeze into uncomfortably sized sections of a bench that have awkwardly placed handles or whatever attached to. That again is another issue. But by being hostile toward homeless people in this way, it also inconveniences sick, disabled, elderly, tired, and large people, as well as people with lots of stuff to carry or if they're maybe with lots of kids. I think it'd be fantastic to be able to go to the grocery store on foot, and carry home groceries, and just be able to rest on the way home, instead of walking 5 blocks with 5 bags in each hand the whole time trying to not die. Just being able to take breaks is a huge deal.

[@tthomas184]

@@yaycupcake You're right, I didn't fully understand your lack of time issue. I've learned the hard way thru recent medical issues and growing older, about the lack of benches. I am relatively lucky in that at least with one of the grocery stores in my neighborhood, there is one route I can take that goes by a park, where I can stop and rest, which I often do. The other thing I do is more frequent quick trips where I buy less. Less to cart, less need to rest. If I have a large order, I'll avail myself of free delivery. But if I have to go somewhere else from that one route, I'm looking for benches, usually in vain. And yes, homelessness is a subject of its own.

[@Fenthule]

YES! We need less destination shopping malls and more walkable cities. I just left a long winded comment myself listing a bunch of things that we as a society should work towards. We're waking up to realizing that having millions of cars on the road isn't sustainable. They damage infrastructure, burn dinosaur sauce and emit tons of pollution, and genuinely require a ton of raw materials to even make. Cars take A LOT of metal. Imagine a society where everyone have battery assisted pedalcars like a Veemo rather than 2k lbs of steel, taking up tons of space, weighing a literal ton, it's not a great use of a raw material. ugh, I go on tangents lol

[@marknc9616]

The primary purpose for street sweeping isn't beautification. It is to reduce street flooding during rain events.

[@Fenthule]

Which is also why they've been sinking a ton of money into greenification and drainage in recent years. Since the water can't permeate the pavement it collects and floods, so they've been adding greenery to help absorb it and also designing ways to get the water into the ground and not flood with planter boxes that retain water and other cool stuff. NY is finally starting to make some big moves towards being less of a concrete jungle but oh boy does it have far to go still.

[@Stache987]

And reduce infestation

[@all3n1k]

no its to bleed private car owners dry of whatever money they scrambling to save, fuck outta here

[@dudmic]

At 3:04, those might not be cobblestones, but cobblewood, slices of timber used to pave roads, it was a lot cheaper and quite available

[@philipface30]

When my buddy lived in the city I drove on one of the low overpass expressways and it was the best thing in the world to drive without trucks and buses.

[@fangyideng3131]

I swear there is a level of serenity and pleasure when driving on freshly paved road that nothing else can compare

[@ferjvm]

Open Streets is one of my favorite initiatives from the city in the last few years. It's great to see the program expanding all over the boroughs!

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

I wish they completely and permanently converted some of these to open streets. Pave over them, got rid of street lines and signs and made the surface nice for walking.

[@elizabeths.1888]

"How NYC manages the most congested streets in the America" They don't. 😒

[@MateoQuixote]

The sports car in the "bus only" lane at 4:17 I have to laugh. Symbolic in a way, if you will

[@Bronte6497]

That’s a revel taxi

[@emie9858]

It's absolutely nuts to me that NYC, especially Manhattan, allow private automobiles to exist in the city whatsoever. If the New York City government used the enormous amount of money and space they dedicated to the most inefficient form of transportation humans have ever created (cars) and instead used that money to expand and maintain the subways, bus lanes, light rail, bike lanes, and expanded sidewalks NYC would become one of the nicest cities in the US overnight. It's absolutely ludicrous that there are 100 foot wide roads that transport far fewer people than a single subway line a day on an island of several million. Sure we should have small, narrow, low-speed roads for service and delivery vehicles but those don't need to be more than one lane in each direction, tops.

[@HarryLax44]

At 00:58 I love how they use the soundcraft VI Series Audio mixing desk layout.

[@thebuzh3rd]

NYC does not manage its traffic by anything means that can be measured as "success"; not even in the slightest.

[@GapedProlapse]

Is this what you meant to say?: "NYC does not manage its traffic by any means that could be considered as 'successful', not even in the slightest.

[@Demopans5990]

No city does at the amount of cars NYC has

[@nehcooahnait7827]

@@Demopans5990 I think Delhi has more cars. They are not managing well of course, despite the late efforts to catch up with the new metro system.

[@Demopans5990]

@@nehcooahnait7827 With NYC, it is everyone in the 4 state metro area that potentially wants to do something on the tiny island that is Manhattan. You physically can't even fit that amount of cars in the worst case

[@ceneika]

Which is what brought me to this video BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW WHO IS MAKING THESE RIDICULOUS CHANGES THAT MAKE MORE TRAFFIC TURNING ALREADY CONGESTED TWO LANE STREETS INTO ONE LANE … CREATING A BUS LANE THAT THE BUS IS NEVER IN …DOUBLE AND TRIPLE PARKED CARS

[@updownleftrightasdw8423]

9:05 I went to middle school there the crane painting was out there the year I left. I was the first year. I loved cycling up and now hunters point.

[@undertakerfanz628]

I live in New York so you know I love this video

[@nuggets0717]

Me too 👍🗽

[@__jonbud______________________]

Have you ever lived anywhere else, though?

[@Kafj302]

something funny is that i learned of this channel actually at a gas station, and was pleasently surprised at the quality, when checking out the channel.

[@cliffpadilla5871]

Robert Moses is the reason why the Dodgers left Brooklyn.

[@jtgd]

He sucks

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Smartest to move people vs vehicles. Cycling, walking and transit are the best ways. 👏

[@Stache987]

Wait till you can cycle anymore, and can't walk 3 blocks without sitting down due to handicaps.

[@gates10611]

Don't forget electric unicycle! 😊

[@jonathanbowers8964]

​@@Stache987how do you think people get that way? Most elderly people in Europe are healthier because they walk more often. Americans have more mobility issues because we live our lives in traffic. Also electric wheelchairs and mobility scooters exist. Remember people lived in dense cities long before cars were a thing and found a way to get around.

[@julissarendon1264]

I love you guys keep making these videos all support here!!!!

[@Newyorker000]

Counterpoint - from a NYer who bikes everywhere- it is a filthy place, streeets are littered with defects and will break your wrists bc it’s so not smooth, dominated by private cars and street traffic is basically not managed at all. Traffic lights are basically from the 1950s so they don’t change dynamically based on any traffic changes. And we passed congestion pricing years ago but still haven’t implemented it. I love NYC but it’s 1000x more dysfunction and mismanaged than this Gee whiz video let’s on. Seems like Mayor Adams sponsored it as a tourism ad. please have @notjustbikes do a reaction video of how these operations are done in advanced cities like Amsterdam. 🙏

[@Stache987]

I was about to say this was a propaganda post, just like Mashed produces.

[@ahnafj416]

Yes my guy advocate! but as a fellow New Yorker I feel like this is the closest America is getting to the modern infactracture of the rest of the world. I'm just happy it's getting better and better. I like the change, I see it happening in front of my eyes. It's not going to be Amsterdam tomorrow but it's progressing. Especially with how broken politics is here.

[@pat1589]

From New Zealand. We plan to visit NY as theres now direct flights between Auckland and New York. Go the Knicks.

[@plum_pie6402]

its interesting to learn about NYC but i cant help but feel like they need more funding pushed towards public works, of course this is just the perspective I get from the videos

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

Oh there’s plenty of money thrown around. It just gets sucked up by politicians and other con artists.

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

All they ever do is build. It doesn’t need more money probably, but more efficient and smarter spending

[@gates10611]

Thank you for the shout out to the EUC's out there!

[@saranbhatia8809]

Good content!

[@RyanMoran1992]

When I was living in Canada I decided to take a road trip to NYC. I was amazed that it was cheaper and easier (for me anyway) to drive to manhattan and park than take the ferry or train. Public transit like this definitely needs to be cheaper. Also, if tourists could easily hire bikes they would use them to get around too

[@ahnafj416]

Idk what world you live in but man the parking is expensive in Manhattan. The subway is cheap (max 33$ a week for unlimited) the ferry is free and yes there are rentable bikes and e-bikes everywhere called citibike it's like 4$ for 30 mins.

[@ahnafj416]

Like I don't know how to stress it to you enough but it's insanely expensive to park in Manhattan. Especially the crazy traffic like you don't wanna take your car anywhere in Manhattan. Just forget about cars when your here

[@AlexCab_49]

I really like this videos about NYC

[@notfadeaway6617]

Very very interesting

[@Mike-wt7jq]

Those double guywire traffic light mastarms do a lot of heavy lifting managing traffic flow.

[@VladimirPutin.]

"It is a clean city " yeah right 😂😂

[@__jonbud______________________]

I fully agree with the sarcasm behind your words.

[@sc1338]

I agree… it’s a shame so many other American cities are able to be clean why not NY? lol

[@__jonbud______________________]

@@sc1338 don't even have to look outside the state. Compare it to the city of Ithaca, NY

[@MarloSoBalJr]

@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω So is Boston but that city far cleaner than NYC

[@uss-dh7909]

"What would the city be like, it would be filth out there. People come to the city from all over the world, they want to see a clean city. They don't want to be walking around in filth." San Francisco has some /very/ intense questions for you.

[@comradecid]

i don't miss that city or its deposits of human faeces.

[@illyasvielemiya9059]

"Building over lover people in color's neigbourhod" seem to be a trend in the US. I remember they did the same think to build a park, also a video by Cheddar if I recall.

[@izzitheraider24]

Central Park, they did that to.

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

@@izzitheraider24 It was a small part of the park, not the whole thing. Honestly, despite that not being a “nice” decision, I’d say central park is necessary, and you can’t imagine NYC without it

[@JesseLewisACTOR]

This was really interesting 🤔

[@Mike-wt7jq]

NYC has very unique looking streetlights and traffic lights. You just know you are there 1:12 when you see it.

[@eddygci8]

In nyc. It is faster to travel by bicycle than bus or train, especially if you carry decent speed and know how of city traffic

[@helenk2800]

Especially if you live in Bronx, only two hours and you are in the city 😂, what about senior people or people with kids, how they supposed to use bike

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

@@helenk2800 E-bikes are better and easier. Maybe someone can make a safer one for the elders, like 3 wheels, sit down scooter or something

[@jonathanbowers8964]

​@@helenk2800well buses and trains do exist and are pretty efficient at moving people in NYC. I would argue that it depends on the type of journey you are taking. If you need to go from one end of the city to the other, the subway is the best transit. If you have some "unorthodox" long journey that isn't covered by the subway, take a bus. If it is a shorter trip, walking or biking work well. Also mobility scooters and wheelchairs exist for a reason. There just isn't any logical reason to drive in NYC

[@helenk2800]

@@jonathanbowers8964 build any route in google maps and you will see reason to drive in NYC. For example it takes 20 or 30 minutes for my husband to go to work by car and 1 hour 40 minutes by train. For me it takes 10 minutes by car and 40 minutes by bus. Now you see the difference? Did you ever see public transportation in other countries?

[@helenk2800]

@@Ryan-cb1ei I can’t ride a bike, any other suggestions?

[@irfansarfrazconstruction7167]

Good jobs 👍

[@robertewalt7789]

Interesting fact about Robert Moses and highways: he never learned to drive!

[@bytesandbikes]

A semi truck can carry about 7.5 times its own weight in cargo. A bicycle about 6.5× including the rider. A motorcycle, about 1×. A passenger car is 0.3× fully loaded, and 0.03× for a bigger car with one passenger.

[@maheshseetaram1654]

if its one passenger cant you fit weight on the seats that arent used

[@bytesandbikes]

@@maheshseetaram1654 Yes, and that's taken into account, based on payload limits.

[@thomascefalo938]

Good that people care

[@moisesrosario9716]

An "easy fix" that can help is just to eliminate on street parking, this along other measurements to make car use as difficult as possible will decrease traffic and improve public transit use Without the parking lane you can do a dedicated bus (or trolley, tram or whatever) and emergency services only lane or a bike lane on most streets. Just make people in cars go slower and more difficult while expanding public transport and that alone should be good (also bicycle lanes are excellent)

[@agamernamedwill2585]

That’s never going to happen, and not realistic

[@greenmachine5600]

That is a smart idea and should be implemented. This city could be a lot more friendly to pedestrians

[@Fenthule]

They're a LONG way off from being able to do that one. They'd need a substantially better mass transit system before they could have hopes of removing that much parking, forcing people to abandon cars. don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, but there'd be riots in the streets in the current state of things. I genuinely think NY should look into an elevated biking path system that runs throughout. Make it so people with things like ebikes and Veemo's can travel around without worry about traffic or getting hit, and THAT would convince TONS of people to give up their cars, seeing people zooming overhead on bikes.

[@ananonymousoyster365]

@@Fenthule simple solution. On every street where you remove on street parking lanes for curbside bus lanes (or ideally median bus lanes), run a bus at least every 15 minutes. Now you’ve provided an alternative to driving.

[@elifuentes7070]

@@ananonymousoyster365 you obviously has not been to New York City. We have dedicated bus lanes here and parking on those lanes is illegal.

[@KJNZ2011]

1000th like. Very satisfying

[@katjerouac]

If there were less congestion, logistics companies could deliver food and materials etc quicker and might might have a positive effect on consumer prices in the city because of competing lower shipping rates due to lower fuel consumption and less time required per delivery giving room for a grater volume of work. Just an idea.

[@dickburt69]

But the city hates all commercial vehicles and are oblivious that most everything comes off a truck.

[@katjerouac]

@@dickburt69 they should apply high congestion pricing to personal vehicles but exempt all commercial vehicles including taxis and ubers from the tax.

[@helenk2800]

Nope, $65 for commercial vehicle and $23 for taxi, no exemption for locals whatsoever, the private vehicles only reliable transport in nyc, MTA sucks

[@katjerouac]

@@helenk2800 that's backwards

[@ivanv754]

If you have solid alternatives, those who don't need or want to drive will stop driving, so less congestion for those who need to.

[@SOURAVEMEL]

To be a NYC driver you gotta be a lil crazy

[@Naked69Eye]

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[@q21wak]

Love riding bike in nyc..

[@Gnefitisis]

Mega blocks!

[@mplot0]

2:42 Scaffolding. IFKYK

[@jackmehauf8664]

The KZbin recomended gods showed me biking in NYC compilations recently and the biggest problem i saw was cars stopped in the middle of intersections when their light isnt green. I live in Toronto and you see maybe 1 or 2 cars caught in an intertsection from time to time but nothing like in newyork. Maybe a Manhatten road fee on the Bridges to cut down on the number of cars?

[@ahnafj416]

That's exactly what they're doing. It's a full on like war against cars here. All Tolls everywhere increasing, biking infracture being paved, bus lanes being paved, open streets taking away roads on the weekends. The big push now if to implement a toll on cars entering lower Manhattan just like in central London, Rome and Singapore. America is a car centric and car obsessed nation. New York is the big outlier and some people are really fighting back against this lower Manhattan car toll but we need it passed

[@Olivia-W]

Try having to go (work related, unavoidable) from Manhattan to New Jersey friday afternoon. If you don't cram yourself into some of the intersections when you can, you will not pass, because the cars turning from the side will fill up the road ahead. You can wait several light changes and the people behind you will curse you into eternity. So you end up having to do these ill advised maneuvers just to move forward.

[@alfonsoromario3078]

I have been in New York a few days ago, it was my first time, and the city is so untidy, a lot of litter on streets.

[@TheLiamster]

I was really hoping to hear someone yell “hey I’m walking here” and I’m disappointed

[@kiddream5749]

When is Brooklyn gonna get some 🥰

[@prabhushankar8520]

Good.

[@DusanMilko]

3:38 spelled Brooklyn wrong

[@GriffenDoesIt]

I still don't get why Moses' legacy is so "complicated." He took advantage of his un-elected position to push his personal racist agenda on a city, destroying POC neighborhoods and saddling modern-day NYC with a freeway network it doesn't need. As good as NYC public transportation is, it could have been decades ahead of where it is now without Moses, and better off for it. Where is the "good" in his legacy to counterbalance that? Without him, sure, some of these freeways would still be built, that's the nature of mid-century city planning- but a lot wouldn't! And that's a good thing! Why are we still making excuses for him?

[@makatron]

He did whatever TF he wanted for as long as he could and now we're dealing with the mess, imagine if NYC had a proper bus infrastructure and streetcars to move people back in the 50s.

[@maheshseetaram1654]

@@makatronnyc will eventually tear down some of the freeways in the bronx and queens hopefully

[@makatron]

@@maheshseetaram1654 they don't get anything done unless someone is getting their cut

[@r.d.9399]

NYC traffic lights are the main reason the traffic is so terrible.

[@mikepierce1724]

When young 30 years ago no phone or GPS I started hauling in there and so scared. First Christmas trees to queens then all over even Flatbush av I was 22 .when emergency vehicle is behind you it is hard . They need a utv or 4 wheelers for paramedics with trailer take 1 person .bet alot of people die because can't get help maybe already do just a thought

[@n.m8113]

Having a uninsured petal bikers and electric scooters paying 1/4 the tax to repair the roads that vehicles pay "let's make more room for petal bikers and electric scooters"

[@jamesgray6238]

Damn 27% of the total space is streets🤨 A public space And most of that is dedicated purely to cars🤪

[@coverversionoftheday9941]

So....at around the 9:05 mark the Ghost Bike guy runs a stop sign. ????

[@bryancash9051]

Currently watching this video across the street from the asphalt plant. Random

[@wei8280]

Answer: poorly. This morning just after an overnight rain storm traffic came to a stand still. Commute triple to quadruple the normal rush hour time. My 2 mile 10 min drive to drop my kid off at school became 40 min.

[@Vonononie]

At first I was shocked that you drive the children 2 miles but I’ve seen enough of Not Only Bikes that I remembered your cities and towns aren’t pedestrian friendly so I guess you don’t have a choice. It must be frustrating to take so long to travel such a short distance, especially on the school run!

[@wei8280]

@@Vonononie yup, the 2 miles traversed near 2 major highways, those service side roads don't have bike lanes and are narrow. It's why traffic so bad when the highway got flooded and one was closed all traffic spilled onto ALL local roads, nowadays everyone has map on their phone so all small roads are packed.

[@__jonbud______________________]

I don't know if it's feasible or reasonable to suggest you move but as a lower middle class home owner in a small city with a yard, a few gardens, car in my garage, deck, and plenty of fresh air; come on up to the Fingerlakes. You're safe outside at night, there's less noise, you have more personal space, less racism, the air is generally fresher, and you'll be less vulnerable to airborne illness. I really like some of the local wines. Ithaca is nice but there's also places closer to Syracuse or Rochester.

[@wei8280]

@@__jonbud______________________ that thought has crossed many times. Would love to move and avoid all the crap of nyc, been to and lived in many other parts of US but...extended family is in NYC and wife don't want to leave. Sigh.

[@__jonbud______________________]

@@wei8280 my wife stayed behind in her city. We're seperated (practically but not officially) but anytime either of us needs help, the other is the first option for it... Or when she needs more groceries than what she budgetted for every couple of weeks. She doesn't want to bother with moving but she's very insistent that I continue to make sure that there's room for her stuff, my father-in-law, and my youngest step-child in case of any large-scale emergencies (like if there's another lockdown but in the middle of an economic/infrastructure crisis). I just helped her switch jobs to one closer to her home (which I've been telling her for years, since the extra 5+ hours every week she was spending on getting to/from work is wasted time that's both unpaid and not even being used on herself; now it'll drop down to roughly 1 or 2 hours per week with slightly higher pay), so she's probably not moving unless something makes her lifestyle even less sustainable than it's become in the past couple of years. She hated the house out here until she got a chance to see it and all the local food and parks so now she's a mix of jealous, at ease, and hopeful but while still being kinda bitter about the idea of packing. Traditionally/historically, sometimes an adult's gotta go on ahead of their family to prepare a place for them to move. That's what some of my ancestors from all four hemispheres (no matter which way you divide the map) did. After you move, if you're successful your extended family might see you as an example and your pressence there might be considered a benefit to picking somewhere near you. Like I said before though, I don't know if that's reasonable in your circumstance (especially with your extended family being a complicated factor to consider) and I'm going to lean more towards you having possibly already considered some of what I've just said, if you've already been thinking about all this in general. Either way, I wish you and your family good luck.

[@seltzerbot8730]

0:39 murica

[@josephcarland]

Fry from Futrerama. Nobody drive in New York because there too many cars.

[@weetikissa]

0:14 Bikes are vehicles too, you know.

[@2ocelyn]

I’m a true believer owning a car in nyc is a waste of money unless you use a car to work which in that case you work at an office which you should have an option to work remote which means less car in the streets are more bikes and PLEASE UPGRADE the public transportation (btw born and raised New Yorker for 21 years)

[@squeaksvids5886]

9:47 Cycling at night with no lights will help you get killed on a bike!

[@okdok3742]

another thing city planners/developers have to work on is manholes and the covers. some of these manholes are like 6 inches deep and are pretty much potholes themselves. theres absolutely no reason for manholes to be indented so deeply into the asphalt. it wont prevent any clogging or flooding of any sort. if thats the worry, then road planners should take into account the incline and decline around the manhole instead of just digging the manhole 6 inches into the ground. another thing is the manhole cover, cant they just design a simple cover instead of one with all them stupid designs on it? like these manholes feels worse than actual potholes alot of the times. please do something about this.

[@johnlebzelter4208]

Many “cyclists” don’t know how to follow simple rules and think they own the road ways…even on back roads!

[@bruhbutwhytho2301]

You could say the same about drivers.

[@ARBUZIK.dudkin]

I wished that the money they spend on road signaling they would spend on subway signaling.

[@bikeny]

As for repaving, it would help if there was coordination between the DOT and the utilities (i.e., Con Ed) who have to rip up the roads for repairs. And for some folks, ASP is a PITA. It does generate quite the windfall for the city when folks don't move their cars on the assigned days. Moses legacy is the concept of Parkways. That is, roads that can't support the commercial trucks. So, in NYC, no trucks on Parkways only Expressways. And now we have the MTA who oversee the bridges and tunnels but also the buses, subways, and railroads. So the tolls on the bridges and tunnels are designed to generate a surplus which then gets sent to the railroads and some to the buses and subways.

[@brendendoran4852]

I’m going to tickle the offenders hehe

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

NOPE! Tokyo has many many more people, cars, bikes, and buses. Yet they don't have traffic jams like in the States. Buses & trains are Always on time, streets & train stations are super clean. The city itself is clean & hightech. lol They managed to do it, yet New York can't, yet its smelly and dirty!

[@stopmakingsense9915]

There is a reason for that but it is one that we are not allowed to verbalize.

[@jonasverhaege1774]

bike lines ? is easy to clean a road if its only road

[@JwinBabyy]

What’s up Broski 🦋,

[@damnjustassignmeone]

It’s a complete mess. NYC doesn’t manage traffic well at all.

[@Brick-Life]

Lots of traffic!

[@Tj-uc5sx]

New Orleans take notes

[@nehcooahnait7827]

“… than anywhere else…” IN THE US

[@scruf153]

they add more car lanes by getting rid of sidewalks

[@calvinallan2208]

When people say they're visiting US they just mean they are visiting NY or Los Angeles or perhaps Orlando lol! No wonder those cities have the worst traffic

[@incogneter]

From my experience, most cyclists illegally zoom through intersections without even looking, yet it's always only the driver's fault. And don't even get me started on pedestrians.

[@Redhollow]

As a pedestrian I agree-cyclists suck and we hate drivers. I'll square up with any car that gets silly. If they hit me they can be the ones to tell my mama what happened. 😂

[@reckonerwheel5336]

Advocate for separated bike lanes and car-free/low-traffic zones so pedestrians don't have to cross wide roads, or advocate to subsidize vehicles for these cyclists and pedestrians.

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

*"Manages"*

[@RellupNorth]

Also as a NYer, sanitation is full of the shit they claim to clean up. They do nothing

[@sethmaki1333]

So, Robert Moses is the guy I can blame for having to drive my bunkhouse all the way down Flatbush through Brooklyn instead of taking the shorter, truck-unfriendly route. Gotcha.

[@ikmarchini]

Moses, like all megalomaniacs, started out well. The Henry Hudson Drive-Riverside Park works in the 1920s/30s were a vast improvement, covering the railroad and cleaning a dump site. By the time he got to the Cross Bronx in the 60s he was a destroyer. Luckily citizen Jane Jacobs stopped him from bisecting lower Manhattan and put him out to pasture.

[@murdelabop]

Robert Moses didn't build New York City. Robert Moses nearly destroyed New York City. The only reason he didn't finish the job was because Jane Jacobs stopped him. Of the buildings that my great grandparents and my grandparents lived in, all but one of them fell to Robert Moses' bulldozers. The sites are under the BQE. Robert Moses is the prototypical example of an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat with way too much power.

[@SOURAVEMEL]

The 25 mph speed limit is outrageous, the city doesn’t want cars on the streets at all.

[@murdelabop]

Assuming the cars can actually get to 25mph.

[@julissarendon1264]

If you go to any other part of the us it’s easy to drive because of the streets they’re made for cars not as much here you see how narrow and small our sheets are how do u expect us to go more then 25 mph

[@SOURAVEMEL]

@@julissarendon1264 we did it forever the speed limit changed in 2016

[@jaykuno2913]

11:40 in the video he’s passsss the walking line

[@AnthonyClauser]

Obviously the very last solution to congestion is removing infrastructure. I'm not against a single block or few being closed occasionally for public events. But to suggest doing so does anything except add to the traffic problem is naive at the very best, and a blatant lie at worst.

[@jc9561]

Notice that they openly say, they want to minimize the amount of PRIVATE cars on the streets.... total government control over the masses.

[@bhazinumbr]

Cedar is the Casey Neist of News

[@B-hm7rg]

NYC stays behind when it comes to this problem. Mexico City has 20 million people but the whole urban area around it + Mexico City it’s around 40 million people. Literally just to drive 5 miles would take you around 1 1/2 hours and around traffic hours, or traffic jams you could be sitting in the car for 3-4 hours. That’s the main reason I move out of Mexico City… traffics sucks

[@bruhbutwhytho2301]

It doesn't have 40 million people lol

[@Veritech]

Cause more congestion in order to justify congestion pricing, a tax on the poor and working class that benefits the rich and either does nothing to or worsens emissions.

[@yongchen4158]

NYC know worldwide tourism in America city that never sleeps made famous in movies and tv shows

[@replica1052]

with air walks everyone in nyc would get a central park address

[@helenk2800]

STOP Congestion pricing, audit for mta

[@n.n.8423]

The Moses bit about having too-low bridges to accommodate buses is fake news.

[@DSAhmed]

Officially NYC banned motorized unicycles. (1:24) For some stupid reason.