Why New York Is Terribly Designed

[@felmlyd]

Couple of errors: 1. The average person who commutes exclusively by car spent on average 101 hours in traffic, not the average citizen. 2. I have no idea where you got the 36 number for wheelchair accessible stations. The true number is either 117 or 145 depending on how you count.

[@nomnommaple]

We need more parking lots and walmarts. The city has too many buildings and is too walkable, so every road should be expanded into 4 lanes.

[@Iosif.dumitru01]

Sarcasm 👍

[@RonGerstein]

New York City forbids Walmart from opening any store inside the city.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

The city also needs less parks. They are a waste of space! The sky is enough nature for most!

[@chiefenumclaw7960]

Why can't we build apartments INSIDE the Wal-Mart!? Why should I have to change out of my pajamas to buy 3 tubs of Great Value brand ice-cream!?

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@chiefenumclaw7960 I like your thinking. Maybe not inside the store but above it. Apartments but first floor is a store. This is a great original idea of mine!

[@wyw876]

7:55 lol, that footage of bicycles on the Brooklyn Bridge is soo out of date. The bike lanes have been moved down a level alongside car traffic as protected 2-way , and the upper walkway is now pedestrians only. The only solidly true point in this video is the lack of alleyways for the unpleasant aspects of modern life. We have dumpsters - yes, on the sidewalks - but those are not operated with public funds.

[@heyimapl]

it's a tragedy i'll never be able to experience the thrill of roaming the aisles of a 200,000 square foot walmart. instead i'll have to settle for walkable streets :/

[@derpyyyyyyyyyyyt]

what a waste of space that couldve been used for 27 more lanes to finally stop traffic smh my head

[@connorparadis4804]

Should be noted that the "time lost in traffic" is for car commuters, not the "average person". The average person in NYC does not have a car. Additionally, while the city gov't has made promises to add x miles of new bus and bike lanes, they have consistently failed to fulfill these promises for the last decade.

[@bionicle37]

Why is *insert american city* terribly designed

[@ranfan1820]

And that's why we need to ban cars. You will own the nothing and be contented, or however it goes.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

@@ranfan1820 What they need to do is make car use more expensive and build alternatives to it!

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Most cities have design issues - just different types

[@BuildNewTowns]

@@Blaqjaqshellaq We need more cool walkable towns in the US where ppl could choose to live there if they wanted.

[@Kapro]

What is going on with the pie chart at 7:08? The 36 wheelchair accessible stations are shown as almost 25% of the entirety, instead of the 7.6% they actually are.

[@BCJDM]

Now do Why Toronto is terribly designed. There should be no shortage of information on that. We have a premier that hates the City of Toronto so he's currently working to remove bike lanes and revert them back to car lanes.

[@LegioXXI]

The most ironic part of comparing New York to Amsterdam is, that New York actually was founded as a Dutch colony - even called "New Amsterdam". You can actually still find Dutch street layout leftovers of the oldest part of NY.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Not to mention the Dutch place names: Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Harlem, Stuyvesant, Bowery...

[@officialgreendalehumanbeing]

@@Blaqjaqshellaqalso vlissingen -> flushing

[@Trickaz94]

​​@@Blaqjaqshellaqwall street and Conan island are another few big ones

[@bryan89wr]

"No one in New York drove, there was too much traffic" - Philip J. Fry

[@Trickaz94]

Man i was thinking just that

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

1:27 I live in Chicago and I’ve traveled to NYC. What a difference alleys make! Manhattan is smelly and dirty because all the garbage is out front. I saw it in Brooklyn as well. Meanwhile, Chicago has alleys on basically all blocks and downtown has one sometimes two levels below street side that also function as alleys! Garbage trucks can pick up in the lower streets and parking entrances can be found below as well. But for areas with no lower levels, they have alleys for garbage and more.

[@MrAlexs888]

whats with the shitty photos, they hurt my eyes dude

[@NateCrail]

Should've talked about how the Governor stopped congestion pricing at the last minute SMH

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

I hate car centric infrastructure as much as the next guy but congestion pricing was no different than tariffs on imported product. Just like tariffs, businesses and services coming into the city would have to pay more and thus pass on the cost on to the consumer. It would essentially make living in the congestion area even higher.

[@2aj.]

congestion pricing was a terrible idea it raises costs for everyone

[@NateCrail]

@@ItzMiKeKirbY Currently, the effects of our car centric infrastructure costs much more than what we pay for. Congestion pricing is a way to price the harmful externalities of vehicles. How much money will NYC save because of less traffic, better air quality, and an efficient transit system?

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

The fact that no other city in America has taken what positive things NYC has done and improved on it is just sad.

[@austinparagas1371]

I'd just like to point out the **initial** reason that NYC trash is in plastic bags (and not in containers) is because of a sanitation strike which led to NYers stopping use of metal cans, and transitioned over to plastic bags that were easier to deal with and handle from both the resident/business perspective as well as the trash collectors'. Recently, the Dept of Sanitation has also mandated at what time trash can go out at night, so it's not a stinking trash pile ~all day~. It's not a perfect system by any means, but NY is slow I guess lol

[@-Osiris-]

Change the title to "How MANHATTAN was designed for chaos", the other 80% of NYC not mentioned is fine.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Perfectly?

[@agme8045]

I genuinely don’t understand why you’d need alleyways at all in a city. There aren’t any in mine, there aren’t any alleyways anywhere in my country in fact, and we don’t have giant piles of trash bags all around the city. There are trash containers every couple of meters and the garbage trucks empty the containers every night. Every couple of days all the containers and streets are cleaned with trucks by the city, and every apartment building/house/store must clean their sidewalk every morning, on top of the multiple ‘urban janitors’ that are constantly sweeping the streets, emptying trash cans, and collecting leaves so that the sewers don’t get clogged.

[@kubiekemeester]

Like you said, the underground garbage containers like we have in The Netherlands... The newer upgraded containers even have sensors so the trash collectors have a better insight in when to empty the container.

[@MSportsEngineering]

Most German train stations are not wheelchair accessible either because the elevators to the platform are broken for months or years.

[@ShaheenGhiassy]

Travelled to over 37 countries. Manhattan is the best city in the world (for me)

[@BuildNewTowns]

Interesting. Why do you like it best?

[@mind-of-neo]

It's literally not, except for the part below Houston street. the uncompromising, perfect grid above Houston is incredible.

[@ShaheenGhiassy]

I’d love to have alleyways here to clean up the trash. But think of how much housing would be lost to alleyways, and how much higher rent prices would be 🥵 3:00

[@EdvanDomingues]

I live in America: gridlock on the street. Blondie 80's music

[@jonasrettig327]

Make superblocks like Barcelona.

[@Michistrasse97]

Great job on this one! Do you think one day we'll have gridlock in bike lanes too? 😂

[@seanmcmullen4274]

Weak video

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

How would you have done it?

[@oldgreg506]

@@Blaqjaqshellaqnone of these issues he talked about had to do with the grid layout…

[@Inc.Co.]

FYI there are basically no alleys left in NYC

[@markmuller7962]

A cynical ultra-competitive metropoli with zero welfare... No new dumpster is going to solve the problem

[@nknkannadiga9742]

This guy hates grid cities

[@pyeitme508]

WOW!

[@ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl73819]

Hope you keep this consistency in uploads

[@theonsim860]

Yum

[@wassupcuhwatchumeancuh]

6th comment!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RoyMathieuBorole]

Laughs in Johannesburg and Lagos.

[@weamibrahim2146]

Laughs in Damascus

[@miloszkraszewski3533]

​@weamibrahim2146 can't beat that comment. Literally war zone.

[@weamibrahim2146]

@@miloszkraszewski3533 it's also designed like absolute shit though.

[@miloszkraszewski3533]

@weamibrahim2146 I took a look on Google maps and confirm. I have driven a garbage truck earlier in my life. I looked at the maps and saw how it's an ancient city with many citizens pushed up against a mountain and on multiple rivers. The street layout makes 0 sense.