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.
@nomnommaple23 сағат бұрын
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.dumitru0122 сағат бұрын
Sarcasm 👍
@RonGerstein22 сағат бұрын
New York City forbids Walmart from opening any store inside the city.
@Homer-OJ-Simpson16 сағат бұрын
The city also needs less parks. They are a waste of space! The sky is enough nature for most!
@chiefenumclaw796014 сағат бұрын
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-Simpson7 сағат бұрын
@@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!
@wyw87616 сағат бұрын
7:55 lol, that footage of bicycles on the Brooklyn Bridge is soo out of date.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.
@heyimapl9 сағат бұрын
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 :/
@derpyyyyyyyyyyyt9 сағат бұрын
what a waste of space that couldve been used for 27 more lanes to finally stop traffic smh my head
@connorparadis480410 сағат бұрын
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.
@bionicle3723 сағат бұрын
Why is *insert american city* terribly designed
@ranfan182022 сағат бұрын
And that's why we need to ban cars. You will own the nothing and be contented, or however it goes.
@Blaqjaqshellaq19 сағат бұрын
@@ranfan1820 What they need to do is make car use more expensive and build alternatives to it!
@Homer-OJ-Simpson16 сағат бұрын
Most cities have design issues - just different types
@BuildNewTowns7 сағат бұрын
@@Blaqjaqshellaq We need more cool walkable towns in the US where ppl could choose to live there if they wanted.
@Kapro18 сағат бұрын
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.
@BCJDM23 сағат бұрын
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.
@LegioXXI22 сағат бұрын
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.
@Blaqjaqshellaq19 сағат бұрын
Not to mention the Dutch place names: Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Harlem, Stuyvesant, Bowery...
@officialgreendalehumanbeing12 сағат бұрын
@@Blaqjaqshellaqalso vlissingen -> flushing
@Trickaz942 сағат бұрын
@@Blaqjaqshellaqwall street and Conan island are another few big ones
@bryan89wr20 сағат бұрын
"No one in New York drove, there was too much traffic" - Philip J. Fry
@Trickaz942 сағат бұрын
Man i was thinking just that
@Homer-OJ-Simpson16 сағат бұрын
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.
@MrAlexs88822 сағат бұрын
whats with the shitty photos, they hurt my eyes dude
@NateCrail20 сағат бұрын
Should've talked about how the Governor stopped congestion pricing at the last minute SMH
@ItzMiKeKirbY14 сағат бұрын
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.12 сағат бұрын
congestion pricing was a terrible idea it raises costs for everyone
@NateCrail11 сағат бұрын
@@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?
@ItzMiKeKirbY14 сағат бұрын
The fact that no other city in America has taken what positive things NYC has done and improved on it is just sad.
@austinparagas137122 сағат бұрын
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-19 сағат бұрын
Change the title to "How MANHATTAN was designed for chaos", the other 80% of NYC not mentioned is fine.
@Blaqjaqshellaq19 сағат бұрын
Perfectly?
@agme80455 сағат бұрын
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.
@kubiekemeester5 сағат бұрын
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.
@MSportsEngineering7 сағат бұрын
Most German train stations are not wheelchair accessible either because the elevators to the platform are broken for months or years.
@ShaheenGhiassy9 сағат бұрын
Travelled to over 37 countries. Manhattan is the best city in the world (for me)
@BuildNewTowns7 сағат бұрын
Interesting. Why do you like it best?
@mind-of-neo20 минут бұрын
It's literally not, except for the part below Houston street. the uncompromising, perfect grid above Houston is incredible.
@ShaheenGhiassy9 сағат бұрын
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
@EdvanDomingues5 сағат бұрын
I live in America: gridlock on the street. Blondie 80's music
@jonasrettig32721 сағат бұрын
Make superblocks like Barcelona.
@Michistrasse9717 сағат бұрын
Great job on this one! Do you think one day we'll have gridlock in bike lanes too? 😂
@seanmcmullen427421 сағат бұрын
Weak video
@Blaqjaqshellaq19 сағат бұрын
How would you have done it?
@oldgreg50612 сағат бұрын
@@Blaqjaqshellaqnone of these issues he talked about had to do with the grid layout…
@Inc.Co.14 сағат бұрын
FYI there are basically no alleys left in NYC
@markmuller796218 сағат бұрын
A cynical ultra-competitive metropoli with zero welfare... No new dumpster is going to solve the problem
@nknkannadiga97424 сағат бұрын
This guy hates grid cities
@pyeitme50822 сағат бұрын
WOW!
@ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl7381916 сағат бұрын
Hope you keep this consistency in uploads
@theonsim86023 сағат бұрын
Yum
@wassupcuhwatchumeancuh22 сағат бұрын
6th comment!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@RoyMathieuBorole23 сағат бұрын
Laughs in Johannesburg and Lagos.
@weamibrahim214621 сағат бұрын
Laughs in Damascus
@miloszkraszewski353317 сағат бұрын
@weamibrahim2146 can't beat that comment. Literally war zone.
@weamibrahim21464 сағат бұрын
@@miloszkraszewski3533 it's also designed like absolute shit though.
@miloszkraszewski3533Сағат бұрын
@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.