Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars 

Same in Barcelona nowadays, now people just give up and go by train and metro

Same in Central London

Same with copenhagen and in general a lot of european cities. Europe is just better than the us.

@@nielsnielsen9013 Europe cares about people. US cares about money.

Well instead you have traffic jams caused by bicycles.

I've walked 3km from Espanya to Camp Nou and it felt like 5 minutes

Since when did you start being pedestrian?

Dude the bike lane in the middle of the huge streets is kinda scary if you’re decent at biking.

My aunt says the same!

@@Tourarounwarsaw it all started at the day I was born

They exist in Barcelona and other Spanish cities, this is about reducing pollution

But as you said, in old towns and medieval parts (which also exist in BCN by the way) but this is being implemented in urban areas away from that center. That's the difference.

Just only for historic and commercial downtown.

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

​@@scienceownsimposters2142 fuiyo..?

that's a unique way to get depressed

@@nitricfox7895 yeah he was more happy in Tehran capital of Iran lol

So you were not depressed about living in a highly repressive regime. You were not depressed of seeing black sheets with no shape or faces passing by. The shape of a real woman and her face did a number on you?

@@SK-SC That is what is said myself tf? A real man feel threatened by the shape of a real woman to the point he has to cover up from head to toe with a black sheet. Feeling depressed for leaving that behind?

@@SK-SC Yep some lunatics on here, and their wife, mother and daughters have to walk around covered up from head to toes in black hijabs or berkas or whateva they call those things.

Adrian Torres I've been there last summer and coming from a 100k German city it was quite different. Most notably: when you want to walk, most traffic lights tend to be red for you. That means: every 70-100 m (don't know how long the blocks are) I had to stop for around 20 seconds. It was also quite irritating. I was always like: I know how to get home from here, but the reality is more like every crossing looks the same and you think you know it

@@bspringer I'm from Barcelona and I've been in Berlin and Koln. What really surprised me, mostly in Berlín, was the almost absence, in comparison to Barcelona, of trafic lights and pedestrian áreas. I found it quite irritating, and dangerous too, try to find a way to cross the street in some areas. I think in Barcelona, although we are used to cross in red light when there aren't much trafic, we have a good system. The cars and pedestrians have their preference área and any driver will complain if anybody cross the street in red... but yes, Its curious and funny to see the diferences. Not only in the structure of the streets, but also in the perception that we have of them in diferent places.

Oscar Appleman I am from Bluche and was in Amsterdam for holidays and what surprised me was no matter in what direction I walked I always keep ending up in same place where I started to walk from.

Hey Adrian

@@bspringer that's because you have to ignore the red lights, I know it's hard for a German :)

You're right! I don't understand the point of driving through city centers when you can't even travel fast. Cars are a terrible form of transportation and use up a lot of space.

Jack Taylor but you've got a car right??

Jack Taylor I'm a plumber, my truck has loads of material and tools. should I skateboard them to a job?

hudson k we're not talking about eliminating cars, we're talking about prioritizing pedestrians. Do you think that plumbers in Europe carry their tools and materials in a backpack?

our plumber rides a bike. He has all his tools placed in bags either side of the rear wheel.

Octavio Di Gianni how different our cultures are, I’m from Utah and everyone is driving a car. It is almost like the car is a right of passage, when you’re a high school kid and get your license you are the “cool kid” now because you can drive. Or like now because you can drive it makes you more important than me who can’t drive. Very sad honestly

If you have an electric scooter you're set for Barcelona

There is a lot more room here to move around. We need cars to be able to get around. European solutions will not always work in the US, nor should they.

It's probably similar in most European cities... As long as you're living in the city, you just don't need a car Getting around by car is slower than most other ways of transportation anyway

Octavio do ganni So are all their resources within walking distance then?? their job grocery store and doctors office??

Carmen Amaya, Peret, El Pescailla, were born in Barcelona.

@@carlosvanhalen7919 totally right, and still flamenco is not the best music to illustrate Barcelona. For example Peret is rumba not flamenco, and the type of rumba he sings is called Catalan rumba. Using Catalan rumba to illustrate Barcelona, great idea.

es que no usan flamenco por barcelona, usan flamenco porque es españa jaajaj pero igual de todas formas sigue siendo bastante cliché

Wrong. Flamenco is also very Catalan, theres a branch of flamenco which is " la rumba" and it was in Catalonia where the Catalan rumba was invented. And as a Catalan Spaniard I can attest.

@@iuliuscaesar9078ya lo digo en un post anterior. Pues que usa rumba, no flamenco 😂😂😂

Guy Bowker thanks! i think it’s one of the things that i like the most about my city and i’m glad you enjoyed it too

Guy Bowker * ingenious sorry it was annoying me ( ・∇・)

@@cbgeger dona gust veure americans gaudint de bcn oi?

Gerard Agusti collons si en dona de gust 😂😂😂

I have been there for a 2 weeks workshop program years ago. It was a kickass experience. I would love to visit there again with more free time to explore and wander.

shut up and bring me a paella and sangria, ole

@@edu5257 😂😂 And the famous Tortilla de patatas jaja.

Hahaha tienes toda la razon, siempre la lian con la musica flamenca.

Verdad, no hay Txarango :/

YES I was triggered too!! I like flamenco, but having it used to "illustrate" (I don't know how to express it) Barcelona, capital form Catalonia, that has it's own tradicional music... I'm from Barcelona too and the topic of this video seems funny to me, because it is a quite new project with whitch a lot of people totally desagree (people with cars tend to be protective with their space). With our last major, a fight for taking the space back from cars to pedestrians and bikes has started, and everyone is unhappy with the space being redistributed (bike trails in the wider pedestrial zones, cars having to share space with bikes and car-free zones). The only happy ones are the ciclists, among whom I am counted :).

Then dont waste money in useless stuff

In barcelona they also have a very good public transport system so less people commute/pass through the center in cars. In america youd have to blow out most of the space under the city center to make room for all the cars but in barcelona this is a viable solution.

@Nemesis If i go from (Netherlands) Utrecht to Amsterdam. I park my car some km before i enter Amsterdam(that have cheap parking) There i take the bus ore train. No problem at all.

@Nemesis Wel back in the 80s,i hated our Dutch anti-car loby. That changed when i was sitting on a terras,and saw the same cars driving by,looking for a parking spot in the centrum of the city. I realized,i did the same with my car.

The only underground parking that you can find in big american cities belong to fancy Hotels. We had to pay 50 Dollars for one night of parking...

Oh I can’t wait to see the Americans response.

You nailed it

No American said it...you moro

@GanargXKraken nice little bubble you are

chokes on extra cheese burger

I was also happy that Vitoria was mentioned, I love living here :D

Lets switch cities please.

+p.d.d.p Or you could just move?

AUPAAAA CELEDOOOON

Drawn808 That cost money

No! First of all it's a Logarithmic scale. An increase of 3db represents a doubling of power, 6db a doubling in Sound Pressure level and 10db a doubling in perceived volume (human ears don't react in a linear fashion). Therefore a 5.5db decrease does not mean a noise reduction of 3.5 times but ca 0.4 times

ok... so he's smart and corrected something wrong! oh no! how could he do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@nok9355 right? How dare he try to put out correct information when given false information?

It's bull, anyway. What ends up happening (like here, in Belgrade, where they're closing more of the inner city - old town) is that instead of light /er traffic everywhere, you get a CONSTANT jam everywhere around it. Basically there is no more rush hour, but from the morning until night: never-ending streams of traffic all around it. It's a HORRIBLE idea. :/

Was thinking that

Lol

@@raahimhadi4905 but true

no no no ... flamenco is from the south of Spain

No not the same but oke

Country music is from everywhere in the US, not just wherever you stereotype it from.

Everyday I wish Canada had the kind of city planning that Japan has

It's not unique for Europe, just the scale they are planning it in Barcelona is. More cities in middle and Northern Europe have car free centres or situations like in the city of Groningen.

Where are you from mate?

Bloomington, Indiana. USA.

Yeah greenways, rails-to-trails, street diets, etc. are not uncommon in the USA. They're just not prevalent in the big city-centers where they are needed for de-congestion reasons.

Personaly I just don't want to live in a world where I can't ,Step from my living room into a mobile living room , directly into another room somewhere else . I just want that to be made non polluting . Anything else is going backwards imo.

Windoges same

I'm on youtube on my phone to try and avoid getting on my pc because I have class in the morning and don't want to end up playing games till 2 am. You're not helping.

this guy knows whats up haha

My thoughts exactly.

I think I created Utopian traffic management with a grid of elevated highways around a grid of super-blocks.

@@arnautorronteras2602 still a different culture innit

its a video from americans. did you really expected that Americans know something about european culture?

@@ezyzet different xD

@@arnautorronteras2602 Are you serious here? Each region of Spain is diverse, we love flamenco music in Catalonia but it is not a piece of representative music from the region. The same way bagpipes are common in the north of Spain but not the South. What if they would do a video about andalusia with celtic music from Galicia? It just doesn't make any sense!

At least it's not mexican music this time

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

@@scienceownsimposters2142 What?

I agree. This could work in Times square, but leave some room for truck deliveries only and the disabled.

i live in denmark. This is lies.

Uhm, more like Americans are slaves to their cars. Not having to have a car is freedom, and leads to better cities you actually want to be in. Better for everyone. If you feel you need a car, then you live in a really badly planned city.

epSos.de yea i really hate how i have to drive 10 mins and 10 mins back to get some decent food

Do you live in Barça?

How does this help reduce pollution?? Instead cars have to travel more due to roads being closed out. People still need to travel from one place to another and walking is not a solution for long distaces so the no. Of cars should remain same

Siddham Jasoria Well if we continue at this rate, fossil fuels won’t be able to power cars anymore. Add on top of that pollution and emissions...and yeah nah

@@siddham have you ever heard of public transport

Siddham Jasoria the point is that if you reduce the road options for the cars, they will end up using the same route as the buses. There is no point in driving your car if the bus is going to take the exact same route and for cheaper (and better for the environment)

Ever see people in Japan wear masks on public transportation? Don't worry, you'll soon find out why if this "solution" comes to your city. There are PLENTY of reasons to use your own vehicle, depending on what city. This is *not* a solution for everywhere...

US sidewalks are narrow indeed. I'm from Barcelona, I have traveled all over the world and I have not find better sidewalks than the ones we have in Barcelona. US cities are horrible to walk...

If US cities are horrible to walk what more the Philippines.

+Bert Sesame us sidewalks are like 1 metre wide If that

phillipines is a spanish country too and they will find ways to urbanized it better trust me spanish are good with city and culture and lyfestyles

The same happens in Costa Rica...

Exactly it's also why the stereotype of a paranoid soccer mom comes from isolation makes people ignorant and fearful of the outside world unwilling to let in new information and they push this on there kids sheltering them from everyone and everything

Penny Lane omg pleeeease I need that

next DLC don't worry ;) only 13,99€

there's ways around that, best solution i've seen is zone a 4X4 area of commercial in every now and then in your residential zones

Which country city Greece belongs to?

Adventures & Events bruh

yeah tho they do want to go green here especially in Athens cause the parthenon and other antiquities are at risk even tho back in the eighties they tried to fix it and rlly did

@@Tourarounwarsaw Athens Granderia Metropolis Se Districto

Your experience doesn't sound like urban planning because the whole point of urban planning is to intentionally make space for pedestrian travel (w/o cars). It's a bedrock of their planning so if greece doesn't have that, I wonder if it could really be considered in this category. Maybe it LOOKS like urban planning, but you really need organized government effort in order to pull this off on a mass scale, and plan street setup, transitways, etc. Idk if your community had those initiatives?

To walk with you

Along the avenue

Oh God, I see what you did there...

Michael Caplin :) Bill Newman is the best #BeYourMythicalBest

TheMorris360 I wish I were in Barcelona now.

Most People in the United States also aren’t crammed like a bunch of slaves traveling to the new world like most Europeans are. The united states in fact has one of the lowest population densities of any western country

@Dragon wayyyy less then Americans

@Dragon American act if u don't own a car u don't belong in the society

non americans realize we cant control how much we can walk and its all up to the government

@FlyingMonkies325the thing is that they have the choice to walk, in america its dangerous to walk next to fast cars and everything

Excellent points, Kyle Li! I am in my 50s, and my children are grown. I would so enjoy being able to carpool or use public transit. Public transit isn't available in this area. It's hard to get people interested in carpooling, despite the fact that it saves money for each participant.

Well, sure. The other problem is that cars also represent one of the most prized of American ideals: independence. Owning a car means you get to go where you want to, when you want to. Using public transportation means shackling your independence to others, depending on an outside system to make your way to where you need to go. Even carpooling means limiting your freedom to just impulse drive somewhere else on your way back home, which is something I would commonly do if I needed a break from my standard routine. In a city built on walking, we'd be able to get that independence without cars, but I travel anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes one way just to do anything where I live, and those kind of distances (17 - 50 miles) simply aren't feasible for your average walker.

good point, but another reason why cars are so popular and broadly used is the amount of privacy that you get vs public transportation and that will be pretty hard to beat.

I show off my wealth by not owning a car. I can afford to live close to a city centre and my work place. Cars are dying as a status symbol in the netherlands because of this change in showing off wealth.

Electric cars, uber, and lyft are a start for the U.S.

Ooooh, where is this?

Michelle Almere, the Netherlands.

Michelle Actually, I don't think you can see it anymore without living there. There used to be a restaurant with a view on the top layer, but that went bankrupt.

Do you want to switch lives? We never get cool things like that in NYC.

p.d d.p NYC must have cool things too. I mean, about 10 million people live there. There must be something.

yea cars are for people in suburbs/rural areas.

Yeah

@@Gos1234567 nah, but they are certainly not for city centres

Ye same

@Adrian No they would be considered part of that city/town,in Ireland or the UK they would be anyway

Cities aren't noisy. Cars are. American suburbanites say they hate the city's noise, but the irony is they don't realize how much of the noise is their fault(unless you live near a stadium or a nightclub, practically _all_ of it) because when they drive into the cities, they come in a noise-resistant cabin, unaware of the grating ambience of their engines.

@@gino14 only cars produce noise? Guess you've never been to a crowded space

@@poisonpotato1 You speak to me of crowded? I live in Tokyo nowadays. Yes there is occasional noise, but of all the noises the only one that irritates me with how reliably constant it is... is that of the _cars._

@@gino14 Would prefer cars to noisy neighbours or barking dogs any day, thank you

Welcome!

nice absolution profile picture

Have you moved yet?

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out….

You sound like you live on the west coast

too loud. too dangerous.

we aren't rich like u

Way too expensive and we have nowhere to put them.

We use bears here in Russia, no pollution, sounds are natural and not harmful to ears, sometimes pedestrians get attacked, but only tourists, so that's ok

@@elvirjade4742 no more tourist income for you.

I was thinking just that! :p I'm from Seville, and flamenco is a very Andalusian thing - not so much Barcelona. It's an interesting video though, and reminds me of the concepts laid out by Jay Foreman in his Unfinished London series, where they were planning on building three big ring roads in London to reduce the traffic load in the centre - but sadly the project was never finished.

I was thinking just that! :p I'm from Seville, and flamenco is a very Andalusian thing - not so much Barcelona. It's an interesting video though, and reminds me of the concepts laid out by Jay Foreman in his Unfinished London series, where they were planning on building three big ring roads in London to reduce the traffic load in the centre - but sadly the project was never finished.

thanks! my parents are British, but I was born and raised in Sevilla, so will always consider myself sevillana :)

+Draw Curiousty So even if a dog is born in a stable it can be a horse, is what you're saying?

spanish and english aren't separate species though ?

Laughs in not streets or roads or traffic rules in Bangladesh

Why is it like that tho

@@karlofilipec84 jakarta does have, but the other state of the country? i dont think so

Yeah i mean we are 3rd world country. There's still a long way for us

@@aliefgifranmuhammad7615 yeah India too..here people get overpatriotic when criticised. loads of uneducated and mannerless people will just charge at you.

Mrudul Jain I don't know about India but I think it might be in a pretty similar situation as in China. This concept of super blocks have always kind of unnoticeably existed in China as neighborhoods inside cities are mostly surrounded by a fence with gates for residents only, which kind of works like this in Barcelona. However, some parts of cities in China experience a problem created by this kind of design as traffic have to drive around for distances wayyyyy too far. This is interesting tho

modi government is busy making statue buying all the media channel so that they can't show the reality.

Mara P what?

Mrudul Jain Wait wait.. about india i agree. but china? umm.. actually china make some progress towards the clean energy. india gov only care bout their military.. dont care about the environment and all of their people.

In China there's no block beside superblocks.

Can you explain why it's being criticised? :o

Yeah, the music made my eyes roll. Such a trite, hokey, and above all, non-representative choice for Barcelona.

Because the traditional media criticises everything that involves the new government of the city because of being from left (real left, not just cosmetic)

what is cosmetic left

It's being criticized bc press and tv is so biased to the right wing and Barcelona's mayor is left wing.

Nurul Ansari LoL dude u joking right! for that before even the city is developed u have to plan 😂

And our over population problem and different people mindset’s 😒👎

Sorry to say buddy but India is a lost cause

Even though it’s not perfect, I feel the Rohini area with its societies and parks is similar to this . With 8-10 societies surrounding a big DDA market with all your basic needs you really don’t need the car much , just walk because there is not much of a need to use the car unless you want to go to school or work . I don’t live in Rohini anymore but I do remember I rarely used the car .

@@moonbeeps nobody asked you kiddo

yes please

Don't let dreams be dreams!

idcaf currently making the dream come true

the future for cars looks dim, i cry every night knowing that self-driving cars will replace regular cars.... :'''''''''''''[

This channel really hates cars though, they seem really biased, cars are also a necessity.

Juan Garcia same here in Australia, I envy people who can walk to markets.

Euro cities are before car and Asian cities are after America

A lot of cities in Asia are also like America's since they had most of their infrastructure from the Industrial revolution unlike the old ancient european cities that already was giant and had a large infrastructure.

In Finland and Sweden we have buses that go trough areas that only have big family houses because those families have kids without a car.

you see me scolling, not hating...

well isn't that an unusually nice thing for a stranger on the internet to say :) have a good day as well

Good day to you too :)

It's always nice to read these kind of comments. My day's been nice so far, I hope yours is even better 😊

Omg such a nice guy. Good day/afternoon to you too :D

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

@@scienceownsimposters2142 Please enlighten us

I don't see this working in Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is so spread out and the only means of transportation is car especially during the hot summer times.

This could work in Fresno, California because the city has a very similar grid-based layout, however there's little to no public transportation and there's 3 freeways that slice the city up

"it just makes it much more difficult for the thousands of people that do not live in the city but go into it every day for work, etc." Care to elaborate?

Well, so even though I said that Barcelona has good public transportation, this doesn't extend as well to outside city limits, so people who live outside of the city but work in the city usually need to drive their cars to work. It is already a nightmare to cross the city and find parking the way it is now. I can't imagine how much worse it will be with all of those streets closed and with so much less parking space. The video talks about underground parking, but it is not like underground parking is suddenly going to pop up where there was none, and even when available, it is prohibitively expensive. All I am trying to say is that this "solves" a group of people's problems while increasing another groups'.

+BountyFlamor people who live in the suburbs and work in the city would have problems getting to work if this system was implemented

it's like stockholm syndrome

I would, but I have a car bed, so I just flop on that.

Right, sorry.

Sorry

Espero que no tengas ningún problema.

Modern architecture. A lot of these European buildings were build ages ago.

OK, but that's no excuse to make modern stuff look ugly.

it's a matter off aestethics and simetric order

it varies from city to city like there are ugly ass american cities there is also ugly ass european cities altough beauty is a subjective term

yea can't argue about new york (I like) altough its simetry is post industrial and too linear and asfixiating misses those european curves

same!!!!

try thessaloniki.

Lawrence Calablaster try allepo

I like Rome better

Rumplelumpa Snickerdoodles Never got to visit the beach: it was a school trip, a choir tour.

Right even if the studies shows it helps businesses and economy. They'd just find a way to say it doesn't, or outright ignore evidence. (Which they've never done before of course).

Funny point that it actually helps business

canadian cities like quebec, montreal or vancouver started thinking about this by extending pedestrian spqces and investing in bike lanes. but still, we're in deed far away for Europe, japan or sone south American cities in terms of living space.

This is outright moronic and your clearly ignorant of why the u.s designed its infrastructure the way it did I’ll give you a hint it had to do with the Cold War.

But playing devils advocate, it’s also ingrained in American culture since the time of the cowboys to have your own “vehicle” whether it be horse or car or pick up truck. Independence is literally the National Value

Give your enthusiast car card back

You can like something and still recognize there's a right time and place for it. I like videogames but I've always refused to get a mobile gaming platform because I like being forced to read books when I'm not home. Urban driving on crowded streets will always suck. There's a reason besides safety that car commercials are shot on closed courses-they wouldn't sell cars with footage of a crowded freeway.

Evan Derickson True but I would rather be driving in my car in the cold rather than walk. And being Chicago it's definitely more safe to be in your car.

Evan Derickson And console games are wayyy better than mobile games

Yeah I have two massive v8 cars and I live in a rural area with mean I usually use more fuel and create more pollution so rural areas still have to be worked on

Arturo Soria would be better

Cerdà

@@loplopthebird1860 who

But would probably have some trouble in Cities:Skylines

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Robin Tomey Didnt know that you had cars in the Netherlands 500 years ago..

uri1197 can you read properly? Clearly didn't say they had cars 500 years ago I said that the city center was constructed 500 years ago.

uri1197 lmao your hella dumb

uri1197 Is this the first year you started to learn how to read?

Robin Tomey We have squares and inner cities, not superblocks.

Relaxing? Mentirosa.

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

Same, I'm from Novi Sad but live in the horrid Dallas. Can't wait until I move back :/

Enna Silkov I've never been to either one, how do they compare?

Sergi Martín Here are my thoughts on both... :) DALLAS -- a very wealthy city, with a lovely, iconic skyline dominated by enormous skyscrapers. It has some great museums showcasing modern and classical art, as well as a fantastic opera whose building was designed by I.M. Pei (he designed the Louvre's glass pyramid). I appreciate all of the above. However, in Dallas, you can't _walk anywhere_. Given how big the city is (1 million+ people) there are very few parks and pedestrian-friendly areas. Even downtown Dallas is dominated by roads and cars. In Europe sidewalks are lined with shops and stores; in Dallas most sidewalks are adjacent to large, company buildings. So you walk and pass cold windows and closed doors. :/ NOVI SAD -- This is the second-largest city in Serbia, population around 250,000. As everyone knows, Serbia is one of Europe's poorest countries, and certain parts of Novi Sad are slightly unpolished/decrepit in a way that reflects this. Nonetheless, the city itself is gorgeous. You can walk in the city from end to end because it's so pedestrian-friendly... and along the way you'll see a number of lovely parks, squares, and small bakeries. The city sits on the Danube river; on one side is a bustling, lively city, and on the other is an old Austrian fortress and a baroque-style town. You easily walk across the bridge to the old city, because even the bridge has a large pedestrian sidewalk. And it's a very safe city: I'm a girl, and my female cousin and I have wandered around at night multiple times, all while feeling very safe. :) Sorry for the long answer, haha, but I hope I've justified my opinion ;)

Sergi Martín By the way, I really want to visit Barcelona someday. My mother went one year on a business trip, and now it's her favorite city. She loves the architecture, the liveliness, the cleanliness... and unlike London (she says) Barcelona isn't very commercialized. All the brands and stores are tucked away or integrated smoothly. I won't be surprised if she moves there ;)

Dallas is not dominated by skyscrapers

Maybe wanna explain the meaning of this word to our american friends

@@drunkdriving_germany that's for socialist liberals... real americans need their V8 pickups!

@@morganangel340 i prefer golf carts

@@drunkdriving_germany those are for getting around our homes

Why not both?

not london or paris

Wrong. Paris just declared a 3km highway section next to the Seine as a pedastrian space.

You can walk from place to place in London if you want, it's just super crowded and better to take the tube.

Yeah, but it really depends on the routes you're walking. Since London isn't on a grid system, there are long ways and short ways to places and it ends up being more direct taking the tube.

I am from the Netherlands i don't really get what you mean by that. Because I see plenty of straight roads. Maybe it depends on where you live

Mariëlle Tielens no it is because all streets are form the LGBTQ community

i guess you mean streets, so what its ok to have curve ahaha

@@Ma-pm1wq I think he means that you don't have a grid like most US cities or barcelona.

Same here in Macedonia

It's a long time since I have seen the reoccurrence of this dead meme in the comment section of a video *So Edgy Bro*

West Yorkshire edge

how is 420 even edgy?

So dank

Seriously, who cares about 420. You twelve?

that's how you explore the city

Yeah, I like wandering around in cities when I visit so it wasn't a problem for me because I had plenty of free time. But it causes a problem when you are in a rush.

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening..

For me, it’s literally impossible to live without a car. It’d be like walking a half-marathon just to go to Lowe’s. That’s the closest thing to me and I’d have to go even further for anything else. This is the rural Midwestern experience.

@@ichijofestival2576 That's a valid point but when I've been in the US I felt exactly like my polish fellow. I didn't had a car and the infrastructure was so unwelcoming and careless about biking and taking public transit. There wasn't any interest to support such mode of transports; biking was just viewed as a sport activity and taking public transit just for the poor. And everything was so distant from each other. I felt so lost and I guess many people in the US without a car feel that way too. I think the US has to go another way than Europe but right now your infrastructure and mobility seems to be highly exclusive just for one mode of transport and this isn't good for the overall urban development.

Usa is super big + it's not spain that's going pedestrian it's just a city. Imagine going cross state or living in the suburbs and not having access to transportation relying only on your feet & your e-bike...

Well I live in “ruralish Texas” and I do need a car to get places

@@LightsOut276 imagine having a great transportation infrastructure

And you force everyone to live like you. What a great person you are.

Flemming Tønnesen AH WHY ARE YOU FORCING ME TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND FRESH AIR AHH STOP IT I WANT TO LIVE IN PAIN PLEASE

even if eletric non-polution cars dominated our cities, this car culture is really harmfull for human interaction, mobility and time wasted...

and we have to do it through awareness, forcing people with laws and using the state for ecological coercion is very oppressive and imoral. The change need to be with people.

DRK is not forcing anyone. They are saying 'it was so much nicer without cars everywhere all the time, maybe we could all benefit'. Have you ever wondered why people prefer living away from cars?

Same in Spain, but in Barcelona they want to reduce pollution

Same in France. European city are built around the historical center which is not made for cars but US was created for Economy so...

exactly, so its weird barcelona isnt also built like that

The Barcelona's medieval city center is already pedestrian. They want to implement this thing in the grid part of the city that was built in the 19th century.

I see

RU-vid is stalking you. Watch out! It might be behind you!

Hello 👋 from nepal 💓

Big tech knows everything about you. Is that a surprise to you?

as long as you have a google account, google which owns RU-vid knows your location. wait don't people Oder things in Barcelona so if google doesn't know your location how would it work? it simple they always know your location.

Same happens in most of Latin America; we don't have to drive to get to the store because there's always a corner shop at every street, a bakery and some markets in most blocks. One tends to get depressed in the US whenever you have to buy something and the Walmart is way too far away and you can't even use a bicycle because there's no cycle lanes; even the cities that do have them usually don't have too many. The worst is when you go to the store, go back home, park the car and realize you forgot to buy something... It is a waste of fuel, money and time!

+Yukino Neno Japanese cities also have limited the areas in which cars can drive in as well since the 50s. Japanese planners during the great planning age of Japan 1950s to 1990s saw city planners thinking ahead, Japan had car issues already in the 1930s in Tokyo and because of this experience they decided to have huge main roads for cars but for residential areas these places are built with narrow streets, only good for emergency vehicles and squish two cars through but not meant to be driven in to get from one side to another. These efficient city designs thanks to the planners reduced traffic issues in Japan greatly and air pollution, it also helped with the fact that public transportation is easily accessible in Japan.

@@SMGJohn are the japanese ahead of others in urban planning?

Just curious, why not?

Flamenco is typical of Andalucía (south of Spain), it's like if you introduced London with bagpipes.

Jordi Piqué Sellés it's one country, what's the difference? One culture.

christianr2897 It's not one culture. Barcelona belongs to a region called Catalunya that desires to be independent from Spain and doesn't really like the rest of the country.

bisdaha no te motives que no la mitad se quiere independizar

'Simply'

if you think that's simple, you have no idea the scope of what you're suggesting.

An Australian seeing the Tokyo train service is annoying because how train service just does not work. There is one route the Sydney to Newcastle and that almost always has a problem.

+TheMagrathean What's even odder, is that all Trains in Tokyo seem to fit the platforms like a glove! In the UK I'm so used to seeing over/under hang and some carriages not getting access to a platform, due to Trains being too long/the stop never getting expanded for longer trains.

Cyber Pixels Tokyo's is magical. You go on a train and all the platforms completely fit the trains. There's also music that plays when the train stops, so blind people can use it easily. Oh and let's not forget about how clean it is!

Well yeah cause it’s a lot of hills and mountains (my family is from there)

eres de guanajuato? conoces a fernando? es amigo mio

Nicholas M Underground? What?

Emily Norris The city is has long hills and they used it to their advantage. So there are streets above ground but they often went through the hills. Not over so the pedestrians had full range. I didn’t explore Guanajuato completely but they had bridges over cars too. It’s a beautiful city, you have the resources check it out

Do you think I want to interact with some random people

@@Jake.03-g3k they're citizens of the same country as you bruh

@@Jake.03-g3k then just like,dont talk

Yo man, what's up 😂

I wonder if wide pavements have this effect - instead of spending all the time trying to dodge people and avoid being walked into.

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

Thank you from Catalonia 🇪🇦🇪🇦🖤

what policies do they propose?

@@lukesoler6697 nice, thanks for the explanation. i read some about the citizens party, it is interesting that it is against catalan independence. are more people on the left or right catalan nationalists? i would guess right but you never know. also, would you say you are anti-feminist? or just anti radical feminist? also if you were in the US what party would you support.

GO VOX

It is the same as Le Pen in France, Trump in US, Toni Brunner in Switzerland, Gabor in Hungary, Timo in Finland, Jensen in Norway ..Wilders in the Netherlands Each country has a party of the right

@@lukesoler6697 social liberalism? 😂😂😂 ciudadanos is much near of Vox

Why did you use a lowercase Ä hahah

I was searching for that comment

In Croatia we call it the "PJEšAčKA ZONA"

*laughs in Skopje"

delhi: are you challenging me?

Ever been to Delhi??

*laughs in Beijing* I am sure you never go to the Beijing, the legendary Hidden Megalopolis of Smog

*Laughs in laughs*

I think the population being less is a real advantage; I doubt it can be implemented in other countries. 🤔

holland has pretty densed populated cities which makes it easier. More shops and etc can open up in a smaller area with a dense population which is why people in NYC and Toronto walk more than other cities... Think a bit..

Jay Population density in The Netherlands is actually 12 times higher than in the US on average. Of course we're talking about cities here and not the total area, but you get the point I hope. I think that the real reason why it works this well in the Netherlands and Belgium is because we aren't afraid of walking or going by bike. We don't take the the car if we'd only need to travel 2 blocks. And also our public transport is way better.

Are you sure? Go from plaça catalunya to el carmel by bike or to horta. Yeah barcelona is Not plane and will never be, it has its uphills and is not a bike city but a motorbike city

William 威廉 que

you don't look french

Australia is even worse

Men, I love you bro

Hexagons are indeed the bestagons. If I get to see a Superblock - ed Hexagon city I will cry.

Currently I think there's only been implemented in a district called "Poble sec", so if you want to visit one you know where to go.

Poblenou!

Bruce Lee Ooops, that's true xD

The most famous one is called "la rambla" you will hear about it when you get there, is in the center of Barcelona.

Dude it's not that big of a deal lmfao.

You will pass out when you find out what Barcelona really is.The Great Awakening.

Which American cities were made less walkable?