Drivers wouldn't stop... even for an 8-ft CHICKEN! (Why did the chicken cross the freeway?)

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Road Guy Rob

Road Guy Rob

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@JoshDoesTravel
@JoshDoesTravel 3 жыл бұрын
I feel like this video was made so Rob could rationalize getting a chicken suit
@drivers99
@drivers99 3 жыл бұрын
He can write it off as a business expense!
@lo1bo2
@lo1bo2 3 жыл бұрын
How do you know he didn't already have one?
@ebnertra0004
@ebnertra0004 3 жыл бұрын
@@lo1bo2 Am I to believe he had one before now...and never used it? Don't be silly...
@dannydaw59
@dannydaw59 3 жыл бұрын
I think Rob is the one in the chicken suit and he's not telling us.
@shadiester
@shadiester 3 жыл бұрын
What came first, the chicken costume or the video?
@JoePCool14
@JoePCool14 3 жыл бұрын
The 51' tall pedestrian bridge is an absolute eyesore. Who approved that?!
@laurencefraser
@laurencefraser 3 жыл бұрын
Worse, it's not even practical. One can generally put up with the occasional eyesore if it's as a side effect of the thing actually being useful, after all.
@nitehawk86
@nitehawk86 3 жыл бұрын
The Stay-Puffed Marshmallow man authorized it.
@chicken_punk_pie
@chicken_punk_pie 3 жыл бұрын
And the "wheel chair accessible" ramp? Would have to be an olimpic wheelchair racer to get up that.
@creditableme1
@creditableme1 2 жыл бұрын
The worst thing about that pedestrian bridge imo, they destroyed a home, or maybe two, to make it.
@GeorgeMonet
@GeorgeMonet 2 жыл бұрын
@@creditableme1 For that amount that thing is going to cost the city into the future, I would say they destroyed more than two homes.
@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 3 жыл бұрын
Jesus, that bridge looks like it's out of Rollercoaster Tycoon. What where they thinking when they designed it
@thethyphoon.
@thethyphoon. 3 жыл бұрын
oh damn iron here nice to see you watching my fav teacher
@mjrc123
@mjrc123 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I’d love to know who signed off on that design 😱
@iact1
@iact1 3 жыл бұрын
which one
@MathiasGmail86
@MathiasGmail86 3 жыл бұрын
THAT'S what it reminded me of!!
@somethingelsehere8089
@somethingelsehere8089 3 жыл бұрын
Which one?
@saad_ghannam
@saad_ghannam 3 жыл бұрын
This man traveled through three states to cross freeways while dressed as a gigantic chicken, respect.
@pjrt_tv
@pjrt_tv 3 жыл бұрын
I can probably cross any and all of those intersections, but sadly that's how a lot of ppl think of this: can someone do it? Yeah, sure, someone can. But the real test is "will you allow your 10 year old son/daughter to cross it by themselves?". That's the litmus test for pedestrian safety, can a kid do it on their own? Be it crossing a street or using the street in general (biking). If the answer is no, then this is not pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.
@christianbarraza2899
@christianbarraza2899 3 жыл бұрын
Thats what I was thinking the whole time. Like yeah I could cross these as a 21 year old male in shape, but is it safe for children or people with disabilities?? Ehhh the whole environment is too unsafe for sure.
@Archimedes115
@Archimedes115 3 жыл бұрын
Then there’s no such thing as pedestrian-friendly infrastructure
@jarjarbinks6018
@jarjarbinks6018 3 жыл бұрын
I completely agree. We should develop our civil engineering projects to a higher standard when it come to safety.
@johnsmith34
@johnsmith34 3 жыл бұрын
​@@Archimedes115 Nope! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q53Cqa2veKmHb5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5C2iYuKd96jf8k
@pjrt_tv
@pjrt_tv 3 жыл бұрын
@@Archimedes115 there is, we just choose to put car convenience over safety here in the US.
@SimplyJpk
@SimplyJpk 3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Australia, but yet I've never been more interested in American road design/layout. Almost seems crazy how large the roads are over there! Great video!
@AtomicReverend
@AtomicReverend 3 жыл бұрын
You guys have trucks that are size of freight trains (not that north American commercial trucks are small but Aussie trucks are a wow factor). Anyways you all don't have large roads?
@kombirat
@kombirat 3 жыл бұрын
@@AtomicReverend We don't really have the freeway through the middle of a neighbourhood thing except maybe in a few big cities, but we also aren't Europe small roads.
@ChedwardThe3rd
@ChedwardThe3rd 3 жыл бұрын
Everything seems bigger through a video camera. Or is it smaller? I don't remember. I just know toilets in Australia swirl the wrong direction. I think.
@kombirat
@kombirat 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChedwardThe3rd I don't think I've ever seen a toilet that actually swirls. They are all the wrong type
@illiiilli24601
@illiiilli24601 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChedwardThe3rd Our roads are smaller than American roads, especially downtown/CBD, because we never bulldozed them to make way for cars. Or at least not to as great an extent. And I'm very happy we didn't bulldoze our city centres, means we don't have to start from scratch
@zsoltturi6989
@zsoltturi6989 3 жыл бұрын
If you really want a level-separated pedestrian crossing, at least build an underpass. It needs only 3-4 meters (9-12 ft) down, but if you make an overpass (bridge) it has more vertical difference and therefore more ramps/stairs. The 15,5 meter (51 ft) high bridge is absurd and insane on every level.
@waharadome
@waharadome 3 жыл бұрын
It was the first thing i thought of, but its also a tradeoff of visibility/safety
@laurencefraser
@laurencefraser 3 жыл бұрын
@@waharadome Strangely, plenty of places seem to manage it just fine. Mind you, a large part of the trick to that seems to be actually dealing with your crime problems (which generally involves having a not-completely-defective criminal justice system and actually reducing poverty, so...), with a side order of actually maintaining your infrastructure...
@zsoltturi6989
@zsoltturi6989 3 жыл бұрын
@@waharadome How is it not safe/visible? Lights and usually a few cameras does the business here. Also I very like when local artist groups paint the walls, if so it is also very aesthetic. I do not know how dangerous your neighborhood, but if a neighborhood is safe, the tunnel is also safe. So nothing really about the tunnel.
@johnathin0061892
@johnathin0061892 3 жыл бұрын
@@laurencefraser The crime problem is a lack of fathers in the home, lack of discipline in schools, and a very soft criminal justice system.
@tonywalters7298
@tonywalters7298 3 жыл бұрын
@@johnathin0061892 The usa locks up more people than any other sovereign state
@onnajeda7534
@onnajeda7534 3 жыл бұрын
I don't understand how you make content like this *so* engaging, Kudos!
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 😃! I owe everything to Costco-sized boxes of fruit snacks and gallons of Trader Joe's grapefruit juice.
@onnajeda7534
@onnajeda7534 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob Haha I will try to support these businesses, but I don't think there are any Trader Joes on my continent :/. Either way, I'll make sure to explain this to my chickens; they have a tendency to cross various streets and roads near where I live... Also, really nice to see you look at some of the challenges of diverging diamonds after looking at the pros, a balanced perspective is eggsactly what we want from you
@josephj6521
@josephj6521 3 жыл бұрын
Making pedestrian crossings over/through/under/around freeways interesting takes a whole heap of talent. Poor guy living next to that enormous pedestrian bridge. How was it approved?
@dizzle6709
@dizzle6709 3 жыл бұрын
For real. I feel like I’m an interstate expert.
@Astromontana
@Astromontana 3 жыл бұрын
It's because he's so enthusiastic about the subject. When someone is really passionate about something and is excited to explain it, it's more likely to retain your attention compared to someone reading off a script or facts in a very bored, monotone voice. Plus it helps that is editing game is on point.
@pink1433
@pink1433 3 жыл бұрын
FYI - the cost of the chicken costume was totally worth it. It really made me laugh while absorbing knowledge at the same time 🐓
@LeeHawkinsPhoto
@LeeHawkinsPhoto 3 жыл бұрын
I’m very glad to see you addressing walkability more! And I personally enjoy the chicken jokes...but somehow I think a frog 🐸 might be great for those free-flowing intersections 😨
@danieljackett4193
@danieljackett4193 3 жыл бұрын
A real life game of Frogger
@Ian-uu7st
@Ian-uu7st 3 жыл бұрын
Make a DDI in cities skylines
@RPSchonherr
@RPSchonherr 2 жыл бұрын
Frogger ! Yes!
@andrew2473
@andrew2473 3 жыл бұрын
Road Guy Rob: travels to three different states and delivers a quality video that’s over 20 minutes Me: why doesn’t he post more this is ridiculous
@mybigyear
@mybigyear 3 жыл бұрын
Quality vs Quantity young grasshopper
@forrestihler504
@forrestihler504 3 жыл бұрын
Can we all just stop for a second and just appreciate that Rob literally traveled from the north end of Utah, down to Southern Utah, than down to Las Vegas, and then up to central California, just to visit different interchanges just to film them and talk about them for our enjoyment? Rob is obviously very passionate about this stuff and it's amazing to have people like him that put this kind of effort into videos like this.
@grandinosour
@grandinosour 3 жыл бұрын
Yes....and his videos seem to be well.....mmmm...engineered?
@namenamename390
@namenamename390 3 жыл бұрын
I think there's a fundamental problem with the road layout if pedestrians have to cross at freeway interchanges in the first place. Freeways in urban areas are awful, they should mostly exist at the edge of cities (which is a problem if the city grows, but anyways) and as intercity routes.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
Nearly every example I show are cases where the highway interchange existed (as a rural interchange) and the city grew around it. Retrofitting the old to better fit the new--- with budget restraints.
@namenamename390
@namenamename390 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob of course, it's better to retrofit existing infrastructure in the ways shown in the video as opposed to just leaving it in its now unsuitable state, all with budget in mind. The problem is when a city is bulldozed to fit in a freeway, which is what sadly happened a lot in and around the 60s. Of course, that's not really the topic of this video.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
Even if they do go through the middle, tunnels!
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
@ISeeDogs Unfortunately, that's how things should be. Yes, I know they're very expensive, but it could be worth it in the long run, especially since having a highway cutting through the middle of your city makes things less pleasant for citizens. You could take the cut-and-cover method that reduces costs though.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
@ISeeDogs Eeeek... If you can't tunnel or bridge, your options would be to build it on the surface or to not build it at all. However, if you're able to dig the tunnel as cut-and-cover to reduce costs, and wanted to shift a highway underground, there would be benefits in that the land value around the highway could increase, you would be able to build more homes, and it would also free up more land to reconnect neighbourhoods. There are also some health benefits from not having a highway on the surface.
@shirknado7953
@shirknado7953 3 жыл бұрын
can we talk about how inhuman all of these "people-friendly" designs are?
@samuelworkman51
@samuelworkman51 3 жыл бұрын
They're car friendly, not people friendly.
@jayjackson5705
@jayjackson5705 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, road guy rob really needs to do that.
@jayjackson5705
@jayjackson5705 3 жыл бұрын
I mean the proof is in the video itself. He's dressed as either a 8 ft tall chicken or in high vis vest. How much more conspicuous can you be and cars still don't see him or stop. What chance does an 8 year old have or a 70 year old or even a regular person in normal clothing?
@notcarrotnose258
@notcarrotnose258 3 жыл бұрын
I was hoping he'd address the fact that any road is meant to carry people, not cars. People can be on a bike, on feet, or in a car, but not exclusively the latter. I'm baffled by how he thought that last crosswalk at the end looked good.
@adamt195
@adamt195 3 жыл бұрын
I actually think the standard diamond is about as pedestrian friendly as you can get, if you get rid of the slip lane right turns. Roundabouts/dumbbells would be pretty decent too. But if you want to look at the safest, just look at the Netherlands. Its mostly Parclos (AB2s) so a separated bike path can be on the side with no ramps. Or the bike path is on a bridge parallel to the interchange, but not with 50ft of winding ramps, the highway is lowered below the road so the bike path/MUP can cross over completely flat. Or the highway is raised and the bike path goes underneath.
@6yjjk
@6yjjk 3 жыл бұрын
Definitely a Colonel of truth in this chicken video.
@benovard
@benovard Жыл бұрын
No matter how many crosswalk buttons and other improvements you make, making a pedestrian cross 4 crosswalks just to cross the street is completely insane and an absolute failure of planning
@yon2004
@yon2004 3 жыл бұрын
The solution to crosswalks is stargates tbh
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
*But they are too expensive to be practical at every intersection...*
@ClebyHerris
@ClebyHerris 3 жыл бұрын
That is such a breakthrough. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that yet it’s so good
@thethyphoon.
@thethyphoon. 3 жыл бұрын
You will need a new toaster
@AlecDenston
@AlecDenston 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob I just use an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to portal across to the other side.
@ClebyHerris
@ClebyHerris 3 жыл бұрын
@@MoiraPrime yo we’ve all go the ideas. Why can’t all of them just take our ideas
@cdsmith9553
@cdsmith9553 3 жыл бұрын
You missed the opportunity for a joke/pun when you didn't say that "...it kind of makes helping chickens cross freeways seem kind of ... pedestrian by comparison."
@HweolRidda
@HweolRidda 3 жыл бұрын
In general the engineers do not think ahead. Here in Ontario, Canada the favorite design is the partial cloverleaf (parclo). A standard parclo has 3 crosswalks: one deadly, one a bit less dangerous and one almost safe. Building a parclo that allows safe crossing for pedestrians and bicycles requires advance thought, and some extra budget, before any construction begins. However, since new interchanges appear at the edges of civilization, there are initially few peds or cyclists and the thought is "no need to consider them". Then 15-20 years later population reaches the interchange and "nothing can be done because retrofitting is too expensive". Do I need to mention that the new interchange was typically justified by "we need to look ahead and construct for future growth"?
@MIchaelArlowe
@MIchaelArlowe 2 жыл бұрын
I feel like the best solution is to get freeways out of cities and suburbs entirely. Ideally people who live somewhere would only rarely need to use the freeway in their own city, with commuter rail taking its place. Freeways should be for vehicles that are intending to go longer distances (freight, road trippers, etc).
@lajya01
@lajya01 Жыл бұрын
That's more like a "people" problem. They want to move to cheaper housing outside of the city perfectly knowing they won't be able to walk or bike safely on the current roads and then decide they want to.
@halfgecko3202
@halfgecko3202 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget the bridges that only have like 2 foot wide sidewalks, and speed limits over 60kph. Oh, and zero seperation between you, and cars regularly doing over 80
@foxymetroid
@foxymetroid Жыл бұрын
It's not that they don't think ahead. They're often pressured to maximize convenience for drivers, often at the expense of pedestrian safety.
@custardo
@custardo 3 жыл бұрын
I think that Eric from Henderson stopped receiving complaints because nobody who's not in a car uses that abomination of an intersection anymore. Those patches of green (15:54, 16:01 , 16:05 ) are some the sorriest excuses for cycling infrastructure i've ever seen. Total grade separation like in Manteca is the only way to make these crossings safe and comfortable. All the other solutions are flawed at best and totally unacceptable at worst.
@MrFanatic33
@MrFanatic33 3 жыл бұрын
I was about to say. Someone's going to get killed using that Henderson bike lane.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
Bikes are not cars. Engineers should stop treating them like cars and putting them next to high-speed traffic. They could, at a minimum, turn the median into a protected cycle lane, but what are the chances of that actually happening in America?
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
@ISeeDogs Yeah, you do get some protected cycle lanes, but once you get into suburban areas, cycle infrastructure starts getting worse.
@SCPVIDEOPRODUCTION
@SCPVIDEOPRODUCTION 8 ай бұрын
I drove to Sacramento CA just to travel on that biking grade separation it felt amazing safe. I wish more cities would do that. BTW it was at Watt avenue crossing HWY 50.
@forrestihler504
@forrestihler504 3 жыл бұрын
Also, I just sent this video over to the project managers at ITD (Idaho Transportation Department) to convince them to do the Cedar City design for two new planned DDI's in Rexburg Idaho. They haven't started construction yet so hopefully I caught them before it's too late.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
19:31 I built this in Cities: Skylines (but with the extended ramp on both sides). I call it the extended-left-turn diamond.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
Cool! Sounds like bright minds think alike.
@Pystro
@Pystro 3 жыл бұрын
The one in the video is almost a single point urban interchange, except that the single point isn't centered under the bridge, but to the south of it - and the north side has a T intersection mashed in - which is also how the westbound off-ramp comes in. The only thing it clearly isn't is a DDI, because the straight avenue movements don't cross over each other.
@EntropicTroponin
@EntropicTroponin 3 жыл бұрын
I don't know how you make your videos so engaging, but they are incredibly fun and informative to watch. Being Dutch, I'm not really fond of the car-centered infrastructure and city lay-outs I encountered in North America when I lived and traveled there. But I was pleasantly surprised that many places are taking pedestrians and cyclist more and more into account. I hope that one day you will be able to come visit and cover the Dutch bicycle friendly road designs. Would love to see your take on that!
@dlazo32696
@dlazo32696 3 жыл бұрын
What part of North America did you visit?
@johnathin0061892
@johnathin0061892 3 жыл бұрын
We just like to drive here. It is our culture, it is what we do.
@dlazo32696
@dlazo32696 3 жыл бұрын
@@johnathin0061892 Exactly. Car culture is strong in America! 🚗 🚙
@Sh3rrr
@Sh3rrr 3 жыл бұрын
There's a problem when You've got no choice but to drive, even for short distances. A lot of young people only get the freedom to move around independently when they're old enough to drive. Before that they are often dependent on if their parents want to taxi them to their friends or other social spaces. Otherwise they're isolated. So it's no problem if people like to drive but it'd be nice if infrastructure gets improved so younger, older and disabled people who can't drive get more freedom of movement. It's also nice to have other options in case there's a fuel crisis.
@champanzee6486
@champanzee6486 3 жыл бұрын
@@donnerwetter1905 Not like sidewalks don’t exist in North America, it’s just a little more inconvenient, but nobody is stopping you from walking or biking.
@BlackTomorrowMusic
@BlackTomorrowMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Plenty of folks have asked the age old question "why did the chicken cross the road?" But Rob here is asking the hard questions like "HOW does the chicken cross the road?"
@reddcube
@reddcube 3 жыл бұрын
The center walking path is nice, as long as they can keep it clean. There's a bike path near me that's absolutely littered with road debris.
@adamt195
@adamt195 3 жыл бұрын
my problem with the center path is that it makes cyclists have to stop 4 times so that cars can keep moving freely. And the right turn slip lanes beforehand are awful.
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 3 жыл бұрын
With those concrete barriers, the only way I'd see road debris littering that center path is if someone somehow rammed the concrete barrier at a 90-degree angle with high speed. That or an over-zealous rear end collision between two tall vehicles right next to the barrier, but still unlikely.
@travcollier
@travcollier 3 жыл бұрын
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 The barriers trap all sorts of little pieces of junk, gravel, ect. There's a little section of sidewalk with barriers like that on my kid's way to school, and it ends up being a comparable hazard to just going on the shoulder of the busy street instead. Hitting gravel and debris on a bike is a bad thing, especially when there's just a low barrier between that bike and high-speed traffic. Better than no barrier, but not good.
@thedave1771
@thedave1771 2 жыл бұрын
There is a straightforward way to get drivers to stop on a free-flowing crossing: A pedestrian signal which illuminates crossing lights, and a few seconds later, spike strips pop up on the incoming side of the crosswalk. Drivers can be taught, it just takes educational engineering techniques. It doesn’t need to be widely deployed, just at the worst of intersections when there are not other engineering problems. I do love the diverging interchange near here as a pedestrian though, with the sidewalk in the middle.
@wastetimewhenpossible6947
@wastetimewhenpossible6947 3 жыл бұрын
Oh, jollibee reference. Surprise one but feels appreciated.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
I just discovered the one in Rancho Cucamonga. The palabok (sp?) is so good!
@ej_tech
@ej_tech 3 жыл бұрын
Really unexpected place for a Jollibee reference.
@red2theelectricboogaloo961
@red2theelectricboogaloo961 2 жыл бұрын
yeah. i was like "jollibee? that's a new one on me!" that place is from the philippines, never expected it to come up in this vid
@Jprice141788
@Jprice141788 3 жыл бұрын
I drove the DDI in Henderson NV in June! I accidentally came upon it trying to get to a bank and I was like "OMG ITS A DIVERGING DIAMOND!" to my friends in the car and they were really confused. I had a lot of fun explaining it to them and I was living for it.
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 3 жыл бұрын
If you weren't cackling like a madman whilst driving on the 'wrong side' to utterly terrify your friends, I'll be very disappointed in you. Happy SpookTober, by the way.
@thomasgraf1986
@thomasgraf1986 3 жыл бұрын
Damn, Road Guy Rob hustlin' all over the western USA to bring us juicy traffic engineering content. As always, amazing production value and content!
@garcjr
@garcjr 3 жыл бұрын
It's time for KZbin to verify the channel.
@kevina83
@kevina83 3 жыл бұрын
I drive under that red pedestrian bridge almost every day. I never realized how ugly and out of place it looked from the neighborhood side! 😖
@samuelspace101
@samuelspace101 11 күн бұрын
The funny thing about Utah is that there great at pedestrian walking paths, and biking paths, the only issue is that all of there roads are absolutely massive for no reason, city roads can be upwards of 6 lanes, so nobody really uses them. Also one of the best states when it comes to ofroad biking so no suprise its one of the best for pedestrian biking as well.
@scottspeer
@scottspeer 3 жыл бұрын
I accepted a job offer with the City of Manteca today! When I was there for my interview I noticed the new DDI and immediately thought about your last video, and that exact interchange gets a shout out in this one! Love it!
@Jellisman12
@Jellisman12 3 жыл бұрын
I really liked how you used the radio station ids to transition locations! Keep up the good work!
@user-cy5qg4ny5u
@user-cy5qg4ny5u 3 жыл бұрын
Is there any examples of tunnels being used instead? Also will you cover pedestrian friendly planning? I love your videos and the quality of them, the small sound effects you use too.
@user-cy5qg4ny5u
@user-cy5qg4ny5u 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wait you cover a tunnel lol
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Joey. Pedestrian friendly planning sounds fun. Need to find good real-world examples (within 600 miles of me) and the right academic/professional expect to interview and learn from.
@SwarmofAngryBees
@SwarmofAngryBees 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob Eugene, Oregon has a ton of pedestrian and biking accommodations. One of the rivers that splits the metropolitan area into two has the same amount of pedestrian/bicycle bridges as there are car bridges.
@michael-michaelmotorcycle
@michael-michaelmotorcycle 3 жыл бұрын
@@SwarmofAngryBees he covers traffic & pedestrians - in Eugene he’d be scared away by the homeless and drug use and waste his time.
@ashlardarned2540
@ashlardarned2540 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob do a collab with Not Just Bikes, they're all about pedestrian safe design.
@aa-md4qr
@aa-md4qr 3 жыл бұрын
Just crazy how large the roads are there
@natalienatcromancer
@natalienatcromancer 3 жыл бұрын
Eggscellent content as always Rob 🥚
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
I'm clucking with gratitude here! 🐔
@PerogiPalooka
@PerogiPalooka 3 жыл бұрын
Nice yolk!
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 3 жыл бұрын
With all these egg puns, I'm wondering why HowToBasic hasn't commented.
@jovetj
@jovetj 2 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob Get your clucking in before the DONT PECK light comes back on...
@xXxjayceexXx
@xXxjayceexXx 2 жыл бұрын
The fact that the pedestrian went straight to a katana was really interesting.
@JelloJordan02
@JelloJordan02 3 жыл бұрын
3am Road Guy Rob time
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
I'm no early BIRD, that's for sure. This ole night OWL is pecking away at my phone keyboard, snugly in my nest.
@cowboystormchaser
@cowboystormchaser 3 жыл бұрын
This was one of the funniest (and most interesting) RGR videos yet! Keep up the great work!
@ProkNo5
@ProkNo5 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for acknowledging pedestrians. I have three comments that I'm hoping you can address in future videos. 1) Beg buttons are dangerous. They have an incredibly high fail rate, and because engineers rely on their activation in the cycles a broken beg button leave an intersection virtually impossible to cross when they do fail. There's also the germ issue with having to touch something. 2) There are ALWAYS pedestrians. That interchange in Nevada may not have anything immediately to the other side, but because the freeway destroys connectivity for miles on each side pedestrians often have to hike for miles out of the way to these interchanges, and when we do get there to find no safe crossing it's dehumanizing in ways that are difficult to describe. Please ALWAYS design for pedestrians. 3) Engineers always forget about buses and local transit. Buses need to be able to stop on both sides of the street, and pedestrians need to be able to cross the street at those intersections. Additionally there are often freeway running buses that need to stop on these ramps to connect with local buses. DDIs are absolutely terrible for buses and through local traffic. I've found double roundabouts to be the best, accomplishing most of the goals of DDIs while also allowing transit and pedestrian access on a legacy bridge. On a bridge between roundabouts, the road narrows leaving a wider berm, perfect for bus stops. Freeway running buses can then hop off the freeway and take both roundabouts to serve local stops in both directions and hop right back on the freeway with no issue. The classic 90 degree off-ramp on-ramp design handled freeway exit bus stops well too, but all of these other crazy designs have engineered transit completely out as an option.
@jayjackson5705
@jayjackson5705 3 жыл бұрын
I slightly disagree with point #2. The Netherlands approach is to design for either cars only or pedestrians and cyclists where cars are guests. The NV DDI is a perfect example where pedestrians shouldn't be, theres nothing for them. The problem is when highway type development happen where peds and bikes should be prioritizes.
@laurencefraser
@laurencefraser 3 жыл бұрын
Issue 3 seems weird to me. Surely the correct logic is that the bus on the freeway actually Leaves the Freeway and stops somewhere Actually Safe to load and unload passengers, then returns to the freeway?
@puffpuffin1
@puffpuffin1 3 жыл бұрын
What is a beg button? If you are talking about pedestrian push buttons (PPB), then just say so. No need to use stupid insulting advocate slang. Regarding PPBs failing, it depends. Many of the older ones do fail, but newer ones (say...last 5-10 years) have been very reliable. The higher quality ones with audio feedback and a feedback light with few or no mechanical moving parts are even better. One manufacturer even demonstrates this in their videos by bashing their PPB repeatedly with a baseball bat to show how durable their PPBs are!
@jayjackson5705
@jayjackson5705 3 жыл бұрын
@@puffpuffin1 transportation engineer here. A beg button is a common phrase within the pedestrians advocacy groups because of the underlying message. Never heard of PPB, but the proper acronym is APS (accessible pedestrian signal) which includes more than a button but audio confirmation and tactile response. A pedestrian shouldn't have to push a button to get a walk signal, they should be able to be detected like everyone else, it's insulting.
@ProkNo5
@ProkNo5 3 жыл бұрын
​@@puffpuffin1 I work with my district DOT office regularly and every engineer I work with calls them beg buttons. Not sure, might be a regional dialect thing. Regarding fail rates, it's encouraging that new beg buttons are failing at a much lower rate than older versions, but they do still fail. The problem is not that they fail, it's that engineers don't plan for safe pedestrian passage when they do fail. It seems that a lot of engineers rely on beg buttons functioning properly and in turn design the cartways and cycles without consideration for pedestrians in the absence of a beg. The result is intersections that are significantly MORE dangerous when the buttons fail.
@ow4744
@ow4744 3 жыл бұрын
I love the ageing skateboarder representing pedestrians
@jefffinkbonner9551
@jefffinkbonner9551 3 жыл бұрын
He seemed like he channeled a similar energy as Rob, but just in his own genre of skater.
@YodaPagoda
@YodaPagoda 3 жыл бұрын
What a well done video, Rob! This really takes a subject that many of us have thought about, but explains it so well. Your graphics and editing are just superb, plus this video involved a fair bit of travel. Hope you enjoyed it! I sure did!!
@theclingyfox7899
@theclingyfox7899 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing content. Feels like I was watching something that was only 5 minutes long. Very engaging, very dense with information, gold standard to for a KZbin video.
@Lokireloaded
@Lokireloaded 3 жыл бұрын
Why did I sit through 20 minutes of chicken jokes? to get to the other side!
@Kurzov
@Kurzov 3 жыл бұрын
Holy moly. I busted out laughing at some of those sketches. "GET RIDDA RED LIGHTS AND MAKE EM ALL GREEN LIGHTS"
@chriscataldo3688
@chriscataldo3688 3 жыл бұрын
I can't believe how much I love this channel
@TroyVan6654
@TroyVan6654 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, here in Minnesota, at an unsignaled crosswalk, pedestrians aren't entitled to right of way unless they have already started crossing. So there's a chicken or egg problem: you don't have the right of way until you start crossing, but it's dangerous to start crossing if you don't have the right of way.
@TroyVan6654
@TroyVan6654 3 жыл бұрын
Citation: Minn. Stat. 169.21, Subd. 2(a). Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk. The driver must remain stopped until the pedestrian has passed the lane in which the vehicle is stopped. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. This provision shall not apply under the conditions as otherwise provided in this subdivision.
@TannishThomas
@TannishThomas 3 жыл бұрын
You make me wish I went to school for Urban Planning instead of Business, I love the videos RGR! Come visit Seattle one day and do a video on the Alaskan Way Viaduct removal/replacement with the SR99 tunnel, I'm 100% positive it would be an interesting video for your viewers!
@tvb3265
@tvb3265 3 жыл бұрын
This channel is the single reason I want to do this planning as a profession! I really find stuff like this super interesting and I was so surprised that there even was a channel with someone that shares my interest!
@jarjarbinks6018
@jarjarbinks6018 3 жыл бұрын
I like the design of the recent north gate pedestrian bridge over i5 in the Seattle Area, Washington state. It’s wide enough and has gentle enough gradients for cyclists and connects right to the new link light rail station
@haserotmalach7324
@haserotmalach7324 2 жыл бұрын
Not only your videos are packed with interesting and, sometimes, unusual information but you're the most charismatic youtuber I've watched so far. Please, keep them coming!
@ashton9699
@ashton9699 3 жыл бұрын
0:26 goes hard and we need a full version
@ryer9646
@ryer9646 3 жыл бұрын
I'll be real, that was the smoothest transition from talking about pedestrian crossings to martian in-situ resource utilization I have ever seen. It's also the only transition from talking about pedestrian crossings to martian in-situ resource utilization I have ever seen.
@jefffinkbonner9551
@jefffinkbonner9551 3 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha! It was indeed smooth, but also there's little competition; true entrepreneurship: finding and dominating a new market.
@LawrenceMarkFearon
@LawrenceMarkFearon 3 жыл бұрын
Rob's channel should be mandatory teaching for driver's ed. everywhere.
@matthew1194668
@matthew1194668 2 жыл бұрын
Man you love that American fork exit haha that was my exit for like for years until I moved three weeks ago. It's so weird seeing Utah and especially a place close to your house on a big KZbin channel XD
@m4d_al3x
@m4d_al3x 3 жыл бұрын
Id love to see a video from you about street design in europe. Thats gonna be much less car-centered, and more bicycle focused.
@sharkheadism
@sharkheadism 3 жыл бұрын
Boring
@einar8019
@einar8019 2 жыл бұрын
@@sharkheadism ah yes because massive parking lots are so exiting!
@langstonreese7077
@langstonreese7077 2 жыл бұрын
My fav “wait” voice is in nyc!!!! “WAIT…” “Alarm goes off” 🤣
@marcberm
@marcberm 3 жыл бұрын
"The most Nevada thing I've seen all day" 😂
@genociderjill
@genociderjill 3 жыл бұрын
A Duramax Dually pulling a oversized Un Covered Wagon? Yep. He’s damn right.
@marcberm
@marcberm 3 жыл бұрын
@@genociderjill Absolutely correct. It was just pretty darn spot-on for a hot take.
@ChrisSmith-of1ob
@ChrisSmith-of1ob 3 жыл бұрын
The amount of effort you put into making a somewhat boring topic extremely interesting and entertaining is what keeps me coming back for more. Never change Rob.
@jamesg1425
@jamesg1425 3 жыл бұрын
I eagerly await every new video. I try to tell people about how great this channel is but they are like "it's about traffic?", if only they knew what they are missing
@lukephillips5618
@lukephillips5618 3 жыл бұрын
I read the description midway through the video. I was completely surprised to see MOXIE mentioned and I wondered how it would relate to pedestrian crossings on freeways. It's cool that you ran into someone who worked on developing it.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
15:54 Gosh, that's narrow. Our bridges still do have crossings on the outisde, but they're not as narrow. Still pretty narrow though!
@HelloKittyFanMan.
@HelloKittyFanMan. 3 жыл бұрын
HEYYY, Mr. Rob., Sir, it was a pleasure for me to meet you at Improv Comedy in Provo the other month after doing my very first stand-up set there! --Mike A. Christensen
@chrisw443
@chrisw443 3 жыл бұрын
pedestrian bridges are built because freeway planners don't care about human size infrastructure. freeways shouldn't cut through dense areas and if they absolutely have to they should be below or above ground therefore not needing crossings. Lastly probably the wrong channel to put this on, but we have to get away from car centric city planning or we are in for a helluva future.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
That's true. A lot of urban freeways never should have been built. Every case I show is a suburban location where development grew to surround an existing rural highway. Which changes the interchange's requirements.
@RealestUrbanism
@RealestUrbanism 3 жыл бұрын
I've used freeway pedestrian bridges on my e-scooter and they are a piece of cake to use. We do have to move away from cars but human ability is too limited, "walkability" is not the answer. Designing cities for e-scooters and e-bikes and other forms of powered micromobility would allow achieving optimal outcomes for safety, emissions and convenience, at minimal cost.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
​@@RealestUrbanism Bikes & scooters + Pedestrians + Transit = Ultimate combo Even if you design your city for bikes and scooters, you should at least leave space for pedestrians. Ideally, you want a mix, because a sidewalk, if done right, can carry large amounts of people, but a bike lane can allow people on bikes and scooters to go much faster without having to weave around obstacles like signs and other street items.
@RealestUrbanism
@RealestUrbanism 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamhuang8309 It doesn't cost much to add a narrow paint-separated pedestrian lane to a bike path, but costs skyrocket when you want to keep walkers from getting inconvenienced or tired. When I say to deprioritize walkability, I am mainly talking about slopes and distances. Pedestrians will jaywalk just to avoid an extra 100ft, this is an unnecessary challenge for urban planning. The "high traffic capacity" of walking comes at too great a cost. All of the traveling public should be on some sort of small electrified vehicle, with only leisure users walking or jogging.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
@@RealestUrbanism Well, if you design streets for pedestrians and cycles instead of cars, you don't need to worry about jaywalking, as long as you lived in a civilised society where people are mindful of each other. If you design your streets to provide good access to shops and workplaces, you don't need any other things to get you around, nor do you need to worry about vehicle theft. When walking, you start to become tired when you reach the 15-minute mark, so as long as everything is within about 1km, you can walk there easily. You could also drive an e-scooter or ride a bike, but that's optional. And if your city is designed in a way that disincentivises driving, you don't need to worry about cars on the roads blocking other methods of transport. And no, you can have pedestrian paths crossing bike paths, you just need to make sure that there is good infrastructure like wide sidewalks and paths that allow both pedestrians and people on other modes of transit to use them. As long as people are courteous of each other, they shouldn't get in the way. Forcing people to only use a bike or scooter is like forcing people to use a car. Ideally, you should have a choice. If you want to walk, walk. If you want to ride a bike, ride a bike! If you want to ride a scooter, ride a scooter!
@overworlder
@overworlder 3 жыл бұрын
No one was ever let down by using a chicken suit.
@microcolonel
@microcolonel 3 жыл бұрын
I love how you visited a place literally called Lard.
@DougVandegrift
@DougVandegrift 3 жыл бұрын
Utah has crazy new age road ideas! Check out 5400 South in Taylorsville. They can change lane directions with X's and O's depending if it's rush hour is going one way or the other.
@chief1b
@chief1b 3 жыл бұрын
The chicken should get combat hazard pay. I hope he was getting union wages instead of chicken feed. Just saying. Great job. Thanks. Cheers!
@LQC2556
@LQC2556 3 жыл бұрын
Once, on the way to Salt Lake City, I had to stop by at a random gas station in Cedar City. The freeway interchange to get there just so happened to be that exact diverging diamond interchange shown in the video...
@slep1654
@slep1654 3 жыл бұрын
Great vid! Pretty interesting sidetrack at the end there.
@OneTrueCat
@OneTrueCat 2 жыл бұрын
As a cyclist I'd much rather have that grade separation with the 360 ramp than try to cross a free flowing automotive ramp at a 90° angle.
@gideonstargrave417
@gideonstargrave417 3 жыл бұрын
ken is straight out of king of the hill
@Anonymous-lc9vy
@Anonymous-lc9vy 3 жыл бұрын
Rob, you have the most underrated channel on KZbin. Bravo!!!
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
9:43 again, extremely poor design. Generally, in NZ, they will sometimes give a free left turn (we drive on the left) but the ramp is narrowed with the use of lane markings, and the ramp is split by a pedestrian refuge area such that the crosswalk is split into two. Even if there's no free left turn, generally, the curves on the road will be adjusted such that the turning radius is tighter, reducing the length of the crosswalk. In some cases, they could even shift the crosswalk back.
@dand5829
@dand5829 3 жыл бұрын
Yea but see that’s because you live in a place that values people equally. Here in America if you’re on foot you must be poor, and if you’re poor you don’t matter.
@thwiftlythwept7023
@thwiftlythwept7023 3 жыл бұрын
These are places that are unliveable for old people who can't drive safely and everyone gets old. How did we get so dumb?
@kayzeaza
@kayzeaza 3 жыл бұрын
Old people shouldn’t live near major highways anyway! They should be retiring up the country!
@Gurrcities
@Gurrcities 3 жыл бұрын
This is honestly so sad to watch as a German. Just the idea of crossing such interchanges here in an urban setting is somewhat alien to me, if at all we have crossings with wide sidewalks, underpasses or reasonable bridges. Luckily we have (mostly) working public transport here and the distances are small.
@johnathin0061892
@johnathin0061892 3 жыл бұрын
The places he visited developed around the freeways after they were built. Not much you can do if people choose to settle around it knowing it is there and want to walk under it.
@jefffinkbonner9551
@jefffinkbonner9551 3 жыл бұрын
Germany is also about the size of the states of Washington and Oregon combined. The distances and space in North America is so vast, much of which has only been settled by modern civilization for about 150 years. And much of the sprawling suburbia was built after the second world war. Who knows, Germany might've rebuilt more spread out after the war had it more space to do so. I flew out of Frankfurt about 10 years ago, and I was highly impressed at all the little villages and hamlets neatly dotting the countryside wherein a village had 4-6 story buildings along narrow, winding streets, an old, beautiful church, and then the town ended after several blocks giving way to countryside of fields and patches of woods before the next little town. I remember thinking: Leave it to the Germans to have perfectly organized land use with no wasted, sprawling, mixed space. But none of it was on a grid, and there wasn't a straight line through any of it. It was obviously planned, but it had a very organic, human look to it.
@lajya01
@lajya01 Жыл бұрын
@@johnathin0061892 That's the big difference with Europe where every bit of land was already developed before cars came about. They just couldn't build big car infrastructure in existing cities. While in America, big cities are recent and were actually built for cars and continue to grow because it's still a relatively new territory.
@4149stonepony
@4149stonepony Жыл бұрын
Well Germans are taxed out of there ass to pay for those things and, the have succeeded politically by wasting money on trains and other liberal garbage.
@princekamoro3869
@princekamoro3869 3 жыл бұрын
Regarding width (9:37), about 30% of that crossing distance is just from the huge corner radius. It would be reduced substantially if the sidewalk deflected away from the road just a little, crossing the ramp where it is narrower. The problem with diamonds is storage space? Yeah that tends to happen when you put traffic lights on what is essentially a roundabout. No really, the space between ramps on diamond is just a really skinny roundabout if you think about it. So if we treat it as a roundabout, and give traffic inside the "circle" priority over traffic trying to enter, then we've just re-invented the dogbone interchange.
@constanttraveler
@constanttraveler 3 жыл бұрын
They could be like PennDOT and put "No Pedestrian" signs at all intersections outside of corporation limits. Outlawing pedestrianism is easy and cheap.
@meme-lu2yu
@meme-lu2yu 3 жыл бұрын
Don’t have to make safe for pedestrians if you make the pedestrians illegal 🤔🤔
@jblyon2
@jblyon2 3 жыл бұрын
The pedestrians should get where they're going in their cars like the rest of us! They should put up "No Accidents" signs too.
@x--.
@x--. 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I loved, just *loved*, walking through the weeds in Penn because they felt like the only acceptable way to get to Target from the hotel was without a sidewalk and over a highway. What a..... scam state?
@AdamSmith-gs2dv
@AdamSmith-gs2dv 3 жыл бұрын
PennDOT has to be the absolute worst DOT in the country. They don't even try to maintain the roads they just let them go to shit and then build new ones
@jblyon2
@jblyon2 3 жыл бұрын
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv RI does the same thing...except they skip the build new ones part...
@barcancelN2
@barcancelN2 3 жыл бұрын
Hearing you reference Jollibee and use KHOP’s jingle is just so surreal considering I’m a local of San Joaquin County who hears that station on the radio while driving up to Sacramento for Chickenjoy, and I thought you including Manteca’s DDI in the last video was surreal
@machinerin151
@machinerin151 3 жыл бұрын
I love the music you put in your videos
@JonnyRicter
@JonnyRicter 3 жыл бұрын
Road Guy Rob, I just saw you on History Channels new show The Engineering that Built the World. Congratulations!
@fauzirahman3285
@fauzirahman3285 3 жыл бұрын
Damn, this episode is wild. It's nearly got everything in it.
@ericcarabetta1161
@ericcarabetta1161 3 жыл бұрын
You make road design so fascinating I just want to keep watching and learning.
@x--.
@x--. 3 жыл бұрын
THAT BRIDGE?! My gosh, how did that ped bridge ever get built? It has the same appeal as living next to a 5 story parking garage. Poor neighbor. Also, @RoadGuyRob I'd love a quick video on the new (to me) - I don't have a name for them - indicator of off-ramp lines in California. Not in urban areas but on 40 they have a break in the shoulder line and then it does a smooth arch from the edge of the road, to the shoulder-line point and then follows the exit ramp. I *love* these for night driving. They are so incredibly helpful and it's such a simple change. What are they? Where did they come from? Why are they not every-the-wheres?
@yuwtze
@yuwtze 3 жыл бұрын
Do they allow busses or slow semi trucks to drive on the shoulder there? From streetview/imagery, they look like they're intended to guide someone driving down the shoulder to merge into a travel lane prior to the off ramp to prevent a conflict with exiting traffic. That consistent with the rumble strip stopping prior to where shoulder-driving traffic would be merging. But with that area being so desolate, I wouldn't have expected a need for shoulder driving. I'd also be interested in the official reason for these.
@x--.
@x--. 3 жыл бұрын
@@yuwtze I've never heard of driving on the shoulder being allowed except in the cases of emergencies in California. In fact the 40 has "truck" lanes for slow vehicles on long uphills. If they serve some other purpose and helping me is just a side effect that'd be awesome too! I really love them as a user experience improvement and miss them in other states.
@FunkyMonk4Life
@FunkyMonk4Life 3 жыл бұрын
It's always great to see a RGR video in my feed. Great production and interesting subject matter. Plus, the chicken outfit was hilarious.
@davidroddini1512
@davidroddini1512 3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting to hear about pedestrian safety and freeways NOT 20 minutes of chicken jokes. I’m going to have to cry fowl.
@liva236muzika
@liva236muzika 7 ай бұрын
These videos are so funny, I can't believe how you put it all together and made it work so humorously.
@NotJustBikes
@NotJustBikes 3 жыл бұрын
All of these places are horrible, asphalt-covered car-infested hellscapes. I can't imagine how awful it would be at any of these places, as a pedestrian. Thanks, Rob, for reminding me why I'm glad I don't live in the US anymore.
@Allocated_Brain
@Allocated_Brain 3 жыл бұрын
How much I want to gtfo.
@chrisgeorge74
@chrisgeorge74 3 жыл бұрын
When you don't know the DDI is from France
@driversofboston4767
@driversofboston4767 3 жыл бұрын
@@chrisgeorge74 you know what channel you are responding to right? They have a pretty solid idea of livable communities. French roadways hold LITTLE in common with American ones.
@jarjarbinks6018
@jarjarbinks6018 3 жыл бұрын
@@driversofboston4767 I wouldn’t want to live next to an American freeway OR a French freeway. Are you really trying to say you would be ok with living right next to a major freeway interchange as long as it is French??
@driversofboston4767
@driversofboston4767 3 жыл бұрын
@@jarjarbinks6018 Have you ever been to Europe? The sphere of influence a freeway has in France is FAR lower than that of the US. We treat all our surface streets like highways. These awful streets are far less common in Europe.
@HenrikMyrhaug
@HenrikMyrhaug 2 жыл бұрын
I really love how this channel manages to make these topics seem important and interesting, with a lot if funny little jokes!
@Maxime_K-G
@Maxime_K-G 3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know pedestrians crossing the freeway was something that even happened in the US.
@stevenjlovelace
@stevenjlovelace 3 жыл бұрын
We have so many freeways...
@carterrk
@carterrk 3 жыл бұрын
I play a lot of Cities: Skylines and you always give me interesting ideas. Strange how much of this translates
@cobaltmn5716
@cobaltmn5716 3 жыл бұрын
I had to cross that DDI in cedar city a handful of times when I attended SUU, it was a pain, but by no means the worst part of the five mile walk. There are 200 meters of stroad with no sidewalk just out of view of that picture u showed at 10:54, so IDK why they even tried. The other freeway exchange there was a parclo that I also had to cross, which was comparatively easier.
@williamhuang8309
@williamhuang8309 3 жыл бұрын
Fix the stroads, then the interchanges.
@filipBuj
@filipBuj 3 жыл бұрын
I srsly can’t believe how good you are at this. I both laugh and consistently learn
@marcberm
@marcberm 3 жыл бұрын
Would it make (cost-effectiveness and safety) sense to use cut-and-cover underground walkways to replace/retrofit surface ones?
@subicstationditosailor4053
@subicstationditosailor4053 3 жыл бұрын
In Florida we have a hard time keeping water out of tunnels.
@1985toyotacamry
@1985toyotacamry 3 жыл бұрын
@@subicstationditosailor4053 from South Florida that's pretty accurate
@matthewparker9276
@matthewparker9276 3 жыл бұрын
There is also a safety issue with underground walkways, particularly if visibility is low between inside and outside the underpass.
@RealestUrbanism
@RealestUrbanism 3 жыл бұрын
@@matthewparker9276 the "safety issue" of tunnels can be solved with more foot traffic. I grew up in Hong Kong, which has lots of pedestrian walkways yet incredibly low crime rate. For America and our low density cities, plastering the tunnels with CCTV cameras is probably the only realistic solution.
@matthewparker9276
@matthewparker9276 3 жыл бұрын
@@RealestUrbanism there can be more done than just cctv, especially in cases where the highway is already raised, so it's not always a bad decision to have an underpass, it's just something that should be considered.
@andrewmurray9391
@andrewmurray9391 3 жыл бұрын
Desert highways on foot at night are not as fun as they might sound. It's literally pitch black like SAW trap, and you have to know there's a barrier that comes up to your knees, at best keeping you from falling off a cliff, while you have to just trust there is floor there when you put down every step into nothingness. I'm not trying to make this preachy, but yes, can't say I've seen him either, but just about literally stuck my hand in the hole. and something bit me!
@chrispontani6059
@chrispontani6059 3 жыл бұрын
Love the beginning of the classic Hot 97 top of the hour ID at 2:00.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
YAY! I'm glad you recognized it.
@chrispontani6059
@chrispontani6059 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob I’m originally from NY. 😎
@GillhamFamilyShenanigans
@GillhamFamilyShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын
I LOVE that middle (median) sidewalk. It’s streamlined and you have a great view of everything.
@Arlae_Nova
@Arlae_Nova 3 жыл бұрын
That Californian solution is probably how the Dutch would do it. That's the only safe one to my Dutch eyes.
@RoadGuyRob
@RoadGuyRob 3 жыл бұрын
It also has California money.
@Arlae_Nova
@Arlae_Nova 3 жыл бұрын
@@RoadGuyRob that does make things a lot easier haha. Anyway, great vid as always, love diving into American road design.
@jeffreykregel3821
@jeffreykregel3821 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, Manteca went into overkill mode. Which is a great design for pedestrians/cyclists. Where even the Netherlands would say: Impressive, nicely done! I'm from The Netherlands originally, so I know.
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