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I will ENLIST in the WAR on cars to bring THUNDER upon the fossil oil industry!

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I live in Liege Belgium. It's a parking lot. Everyone has a company car, everyone drives.

2:00 Um, private healthcare is superior to state-funded; the US provides better services than Canada or Europe, period; and yes a private insurance costs the same percentage of your salary as the state-mandated theft in Europe. So are private schools. And private public transport, like the tram I used in Tokyo Disney Resort, was way better than the crammed trains in Tokyo.

pictures of downtown Houston always remind me of Berlin 1945.

Cities have not been built for cars… they’ve been bulldozed.

We should bulldoze those parking lots and replace them with craters. It will cost the city less in the long run.

Imagine reducing your road surface to build bike lanes nobody uses.

You can just do what Detroit does. Turn all the vacant lots from destitute buildings into paid parking areas.

Copenhagen is that bike stand. But the Netherlands has bikes all over the place.

@@mardiffv.8775 thx for the info. i just like on how many levels this can speak to many different kind of people. car owners see what they saw before, a car on their spot. bikers are finally welcomed to a parking spot. people walking by see how much better the space can be utilzed (1 car vs x bikes), ... . whoever came up with this design put a lot of thought into it

At it's core, it's war against poor people.

@@chrisb9143 Points, known as years in prison!

People should stay at home at this whole space will be free to transport politicansw ith don't need to care of enviroment.

I haven't seen any town changing bike lanes into car lanes or activists advocating liquidation of bike parking spots. In other words, I think you are wrong.

​@@justanordinaryaccount9910Maybe you need to look around, it happens a lot

Double edge. Same can say someone who does not live in the City and needs to drive with car to get into it...

@@sturmman100 good point

now if you live outside the city you have to pay for bike lines and bike infrastructure for privleged city people, that hits hard... and now the peasants who livs outside the city have to sponsor the rich who live in the cities and you even deny them parking that comes from their taxes I know you will say "but hurrr durr they can just use public transport from their rural areas and waste extra 3 h of their day and spend the same amount of money"

@@faustinpippin9208 obviously public transportation would be much faster than a car. So if public transportation is costing 3 hrs of travel, it would obviously be longer for cars.

@@faustinpippin9208 Are you talking about the US? In Italy cities tend to be quite dense then they suddenly end next to a mountain or a forest. The outskirts have really good public transportation whilst simultaneously being cheaper.

That's not true, plenty of blue parking spots ("max 2-4-24h") and there's still quite a bit of free parkings in some places (side of the road types), and many places outside of cities have pretty bad bus lines, like 1 bus every hour and only up to 19:00-20:00. Also the price of public transport is ridicolous.

@@poncio2632 Thanks for the precision, I did not know that.Anyway, it is a clever way to manage parking places.

You might have decent public transit, but is it affordable? I’m from the rural Netherlands. The nearest decent city is Groningen, about 30km away. Public transit, two way, is €15 or more. Car parking is €8 an hour or more. Neither of these are viable options for the underprivileged if they were to commute to the city on a daily basis. Make either parking free, while not allowing for excessive parking spaces thus keeping occupancy high thus keeping non-essential car traffic away. Or make public transit affordable/free. Neither of these are the case over here. The rural part of Europe, or at least the Netherlands, can’t afford to travel.

@@roy_hks In the canton where I live 20 minutes ride, 30km is 16.60fr. (1 to 1 in euros nowadays) just one way, but it's valid to go around in the zones for 4h. The price is determined in zones wich are made to maximize price between hubs. Going around in the city is usually 2.30fr. valid 1h.

@@poncio2632 That’s expensive as well. Not the inner city one you mentioned, that’s reasonable. But that’s again affirming the point that rural Europeans are underprivileged. Over here a bus ticket, valid on all lines for one hour is about that price as well, maybe a euro more expensive, but again; only viable within the city. Not for commuter traffic coming from outside the city.

Why would the Kaiju attack Houston? There's nothing interesting there.

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@@herczy To punish its sole existence, duh!

And there will be even less buildings to bulldoze after each battle to enhance parking lots areas. It's a win-win.

Now that I think about it. Cities in modern warfare act a bit like fortresses. But parking lots would provide little cover and if the people rise up the empire can easily crush them with tanks. Not even a joke, making streets wider for easier use of cannons is a centuries old technique.

3 km radius (which is 6 km diameter) isn't a 5-10 min walk. Especially in a car-centric hellhole where navigating this distance on foot isn't even close to 3 km. This may as well be 1 hour walk in a noisy, unsafe envirionment. Anything but pleasant.

@@alewis514 > rich private condominium in Brazil Possible language barrier (English is not my first language either), so it might be 3km in circumference, then the numbers would check out.

Once a place is car centric people will drive even if the distance is 200m

Walking is 4 kmh, so 1 km = 15 minuten. You are right about cycling: 1 km = 3,3 minutes of cycling.

@@alewis514 apologies. I was supposed to write *perimeter*! Silly me. This was a rwsidential private condominium and is very safe and pleasant to walk.

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Or even driving on roads that aren't toll roads

Cars are used by working people who contribute to the economy, while public transport is used by hobos and other substance abusers.

"hunk of metal on wheels" - A very useful hunk of metal on wheels if I ever saw one. 😄

@@chettmanly7451because the US government mandates them to have parking. It would be better to use that wasted space to expand the store for example as long as the city provides good public transport

Ford Prefect agrees

@@rapcheecame here to reply this 👍

nobody should care what they think

@@orkhepaj What do *YOU* think about our strange land use choices?

@@barryrobbins7694 i would ban most of the cars , especially those who only have the driver in it and doesnt transport anything else

I have seen a similar story. I had a job in Amsterdam, Westport industry park and a coworker walked 3 km = 45 minuten to work. He did not mind. Riding a bike would have 10-11 minutes, but his house had no bike storage space. So parking a bike on the street is a matter of time before it gets stolen.

@@mardiffv.8775 The walk is nice. I take the train into work in the morning, but frequently walk home*. The exercise is good for physical and mental health, and the gradually changing scenery as I traverse the distance at human speed creates a separation from work. Work is waaay back there on the other side of the river. * Weather permitting. -30 °C? Fine, just bundle up and walk fast to keep warm. 30 °C? No. Just, no.

So a walk uphill when you go back home. You are ignoring that fact because you have a bias and you are trying to paint your preferred story in the best light possible. Most people dont live 15 minutes away, which is probably why your boss was surprised not because you were walking but because he assumed you lived further away, yet another way you are trying to basically lie by construction.

@@mardiffv.8775 No, bad stuff doesn't happen here in Europe... right? We have a narrative to uphold here so we Europeans feel like we are better than everybody else and have to cry ourselves to sleep over jealously less often.

@@thomgizziz Me? Jealous at the USA? No, not at all. I love the fact that in the Netherlands I cycle everywhere in safety. Low crime rates compared to the USA. Yes, NL has a housing crisis, but so does the USA.

Especially the transition to a "free game" only a few sentences after stating, that there is nothing free and that instead someone else paid for it. 😆

​@wookie2222 well, tbf, that's still true with Enlisted. The game may be free, but it's fueled by micro-transactions

@@ShotzInTheLight So, its the equivalent to using a car in a country where all the highways are toll roads?

@@wookie2222 I guess that's a decent analogy, yes. Although, the difference is that tolls typically aren't optional, whereas you don't necessarily have to purchase the micro-transactions if you don't want to

@@ShotzInTheLight You can also stick to dirt roads in real life instead of using high ways.

We do have them, but mostly in city centers...the outskirts are almost all surface level though aside from the occasional parking garage at a major retail or office location

No incentive to utilize space efficiently as commercial land use is heavily heavily encouraged.

They're more expensive to make and take longer to finish, plus are much harder to maintain as well. You don't need much in the way of fire safety codes and stuff for an asphalt island, but you will need that for a building that is meant to be used by people.

Garages also provide shade. Great for parking in the summer

​@@chettmanly7451Americans be like, "we've got lots of lands, so let's waste the most valuable one on which we can grow food and deliver it fast. We'll only stop once we reach the desert!"

Meanwhile, I'm watching this while stuck in a massive line of traffic longer than the eye can see. If we had a train we'd all be there by now

i truly wish we had more asia centric urbanist channels. They do so many things right there and there is no excuse of "this is an old historic city centre" or whatever.

People in Tokyo are busy working, they don't got the time to drive. Ah and we all know how comfortable the public transport system in Tokyo is during rush hour.

@@chivasroco1752 you mean slacking in the office (scrolling social media, grinding levels in Asian MMO's famous for griiiiindy gameplay) pretending to be working. Let's face it, humans cannot work fully focused for that many hours per week. It's just a stupid work culture that mandates ridiculous number of ass-hours spent in the office. But this doesn't translate into actual work being done.

@@alewis514 you described pretty much every office job in existence, your point?

@@aturchomicz821 There are some people who are disabled where public transit hasn't been able to accommodate them _yet_ and they rely on a family member to chauffeur them. It is extremely rare, but there are some who need it. However, making parking too accessible will make them compete with people who aren't disabled and that makes it difficult for them.

@@aturchomicz821you need to reach a certain size of city to unlock public transport, unfortunately

​@@schwarzwolfram7925I've observed that good public transportation is even more accessible to disabled people than cars. And nobody is trying to completely get rid of cars anyway. We're trying to get rid of car dependency. Fewer personal vehicles on the road makes life easier for those who *need* to travel by car. Less car congestion. Walkable neighborhoods. Sidewalks that are well maintained. Less noise pollution. These are just a few things that benefit disabled people immensely.

​@@schwarzwolfram7925new busses and trains are very accomodating

@@joemorgan6738 There will be mods for that 100% as there were for C:S1 - Although I have to say that it looks like they didn't address the issue of every building needing to be connected to a road, so that sucks.

Rather be stuck in traffic than be on a bus like a pleb

So your bus does not get stuck in traffic jams? How? Extra Bus lines?

@@Dexterlissimo Yes, but also you're not the one driving the bus, so you can be productive while stuck in traffic.

​@@Dexterlissimoonly 2 specific bus lines (toi come and go) and the road is less jamed, for car and for the bus

@@wta1518 Sure, but Adam and also 'NotjustBikes' and 'CityBeautiful' startet that if your bus get stuck in traffic jams, the demand is extremely low (and, you cannot be productive when the Bus is also overcrowded, what they usually are, when their time-schedule is interrupted)

Thats for sure an issue here in britain because tories are in government. Heck currently they are making transit so bad that entire towns and villages are actively or already lost their vital bus service to other towns.

@@davidty2006 I'm the furthest thing from a Tory defender, but sadly this issue isn't limited to Tories. Where I live in Scotland the Tories have almost no council control, but the public transit is shocking and the "pedestrian friendly" solutions seem to be limited to reducing parking in the city centre and increasing the price, without actually improving accessibility. It's like people think that if something is hostile to cars it must inherently make things better for pedestrian and that's just not always automatically the case. But raising parking fees and painting lines is easy, while adding bus/metro/tram infrastructure is hard, so they do the easy bit and don't bother with the hard bit.

Imagine not having park and ride spaces

Those bike racks are in Copenhagen, if I remember correctly.

I was thinking the same thing.

I want those bike racks in my city! 😆

Only problem is that you need to access the bike racks from the sidewalk side and can't do it from the street side

@@jan-lukas 🤔I think that shouldn't be a problem, because this style of rack is meant to sway opinions in car-dominated cities. If you have that many cars, the street's probably not safe enough to take the time to unlock your bike from the street.

Back when I used to need a car for commuting, I lived in the closest old-time neighborhood right outside of the downtown area, small old houses usually without garages (the neighborhood predated widespread auto ownership). There used to be a huge problem with downtown workers & visitors parking in our streets & walking downtown, denying the spaces to locals and clogging up our pretty little streets. The city actually fixed that by issuing permits to people who actually lived there and prohibiting parking for everyone else - boy there was an uproar from people who felt entitled to "free" parking right outside my building!

so the 81 people who parked there did that for fun? Or did you make someones live more difficult and still forced them to pay taxes for bikes lines and bike racks? you people....ugh.... you think that you are so forward thinking and great, because now you forced people to park further away from their work or forced them to pay for parking, and made them more poor meanwhile their taxes stay the same no matter if they get free parking or not

@@faustinpippin9208 well we all pay taxes for roads whether or not we park on them. The tax support for bike lanes is just a rounding error in transportation funding. If your beef is with paying taxes that get used for things you don't personally value, brother, bike lanes is small potatoes. Take it up with (fill in the blank). Those guys are the ones who are REALLY wasting tax dollars. Does it make those 81 parkers lives more difficult? Who knows. Perhaps they are parking somewhere else. Perhaps the perceived lack of "free" parking made them choose a different mode of transportation. I can tell you as one of "you people" that it makes life measurably better to not have your street jammed up with the cars of people who don't live there and aren't doing business there. Possibly you live in a place with assigned parking or proprietory garages. Presumably you value the fact that when you come home at night you will have a place to park. On my street, we didn't have garages because that wasn't a thing then. And we weren't assured of parking until the city banned it for non-permit holders. Do you think that is an unreasonable burden on the people who wanted to evade the $5 parking fee at the museum 3 blocks away? Should cities prioritize the demonstrable benefit to citizen A, or prioritize the hypothetical convenience of resident B?

@@faustinpippin9208 you sound like you didn't even watch the opening of the video. Demand can be induced - and with the induction factor gone, the people will find other previously overlooked transportation options more useful than being fused with their cars.

@@WinderTP yes you forced more people to use something they dont like, really a reason to be proud of yourself.... Im sure the bike rack and bike line that some priviliged minority can use is a better choice then parking for working people paid by their taxes.

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I walk pretty much everywhere. I've rarely needed to even use public transport. A more expansive network of pedestrian routes (and cycle tracks) would be fantastic.

What is happening with our society that not having a basic skill is now something to brag about. What's next, being proud that you can't lace your shoes?

@@justanordinaryaccount9910 Or swim. 😄

But people NEED their freedom. They can't be expected to _walk_ all the way to the bus stop, to _wait_ for the bus to show up, to get on the bus with all those _poor_ people etc.. They want to get from A to B as quickly and directly as possible and if there is anything that makes is slower or more troublesome for them then it just isn't good enough.

Ireland is crazy about EVs and it makes me want to rip hair off my head. I don't WANT to have a car, any car. Cars are expensive, break down a lot, and deadly car crashes are wayyy too common. But if I ever want to escape paying insane rent for a studio in the city, I will have to get a car, because the public transport only serves few biggest commuter towns and it takes 2.5h one way just to get to work from 20km away... We need a) legislation forcing companies to allow remote working, so that people are not chained to the cities purely because micromanagers love forcing employees into offices and b) public transport that does show up, runs more than twice an hour and doesn't cost 80 quid to go from Cork to Dublin... But also, we need to go back to publicly flogging some people I think, because the absolutely horrendous behaviours common on public transport make me wish I could just teleport.

I'd say, most people charge their cars at home, where they are parked overnight anyway, most of the time. That's a plus for electric cars and a minus for hydrogen cars. Filling stations are massive polluters and a waste of space. I'd think electric cars are a net plus.

@@karlkoehler341 What about people living in flats, should they just stretch the charger from let's say 8th floor to their car parked on the street? Most people in the cities nowadays live in shared houses, often old ones, imagine the strain on the electrical wiring if i.e. 4 people charge cars via the same house? Also, a) batteries are expensive, require difficult to mine minerals, have relatively short lifespan, don't function well in low / high temperatures and recycling them is a horror story and b) EVs are only green if the electricity put into them is green too, not obtained i.e. from burning coal...

@@Subjagator "But people NEED their freedom." Exactly. So then PEDESTRIANS and CYCLISTS are FREE TO USE THE SAME ROADS THAT CARS ALREADY USE, and NO BIG GOVERNMENT i.e. cops will stop us. Right?

that's why I installed a commode in my SUV. Now I can multitask when stuck in traffic.

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The sad thing is that Sydney and Melbourne are very car centric. The Public transport is great if you are going into the city and city landmarks, but it starts to become car reliant when you start leaving the center of the city. For example Melbourne used to have train networks that connected each of the train lines we have at present, but it's been removed and now you either have to rely on a bus, going into the city to hop on a train to the line you want, or using a car which is often faster (despite the heavy traffic)

As a visitor Sydney public transport is good, as you will be in a hotel somewhere close to where you want to see. As a middle class person working and living in Greater Sydney it’s a drudge as it is such a sprawling metro area. Long commute times whether it’s a car or on public transport.

@@AgentAC1998 even then compared to new zealand its a god send

@@AgentAC1998 I completely relate to this. I was born and grew up in Melbourne but left to live in Europe because the car centric intensity was too depressing. 12 years of not owning a car in Europe now and life is loads better 😊

Lol going to the city is best via public transport. Everywhere else not so much

yeah I think there's not always enough thought given to poor and working class car owners stuck on the outer limits of cities, usually living with parents because rent is so high. obviously the end goal of affordable walkable city is great but the midpoint is what concerns me, people not living in the city essentially not being able to hang out here unless theyre middle or upper class leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. I don't think it'd be very popular for working class or poor people to not have their friends and relatives be able to visit them if they have to drive and would lead to significant backlash. Transit and rent need to be fixed up before parking is reduced.

Yeah, the two measures need to be linked. I see a lot of celebration about how parking becomes so much easier when you make it more expensive without considering WHICH cars you've gotten rid of; those of the working poor, who live in outskirts with the worst transport links.

I can't afford my car either, buses help but depending on where someone is what would be a 30-40 min car ride turns into a 1:30 to 2 hour busride which limits people coming in. driving and maintaining a car sucks and is a huge pain I'm in the exact same position actually it's just I can see center right to center left governments taking awhile to get the affordable housing and expanded bus routes and transit down, but being real quick on the increased parking fees.

North Korea has those.

where do you live? this sounds awfully like my city

@@ponteirodorato Lincoln Nebraska. But I'm sure this city isn't the only one.

@@fivestringslinger Yeah, unfortunately. I'm from Guarulhos, São Paulo (Brazil). Your description matches a bit, especially the poor bus system. Sure, now it's much better than it used to be, but many stops don't have shelter or benches, just a bus sign (when there's a bus sign), and this goes for both municipal and intermunicipal systems. Guarulhos is kinda abandoned when it comes for the local residents. It looks like our government cares only about the Airport (GRU) and the International Shopping Mall. There's a train line, which serves only the airport and connects directly to the state's capital (São Paulo), so for locals, there's no use in the daily life, only for who's arriving in the airport and wants to get out of the city as soon as possible. But even though I'm complaining, Guarulhos is probably the most sustainable and clean city that is not a state capital. There are some plans of bringing a LRT and two metro lines in the future, I just hope these don't get cancelled in the next municipal elections (which are worryingly happening next year).

Did you not watch the video? How do you make public transport free exactly? Somebody will be paying for it... Likely somebody that won't actually be using it but hey it works for parking so why not for public transport - so free parking and free public transport paid by everybody!

@@simonneep8413 The major difference there is that anyone can use public transportation, it's a public service that's already subsidized it just needs to go all the way instead of catering to cars. Vehicle ownership is a luxury that shouldn't be essential to living a normal life; charge for parking and use the funds to further subsidize public transportation.

Co-rrect! Now he just needs to cover (in a pragmatic and factual way) the differences in population IQ for different races and how it affects their success or failure in society 👍.

@@jamesspacer7994 IQ measurements are bollocks.

@@soundscape26 Is that the reason why they have such a high predictive ability regarding the subject's socioeconomic status?

@@soundscape26 James Watson was right.

@@jamesspacer7994 You really want to think youre so smart when youre literally doing correlation equals causation. Have you ever considered that systemic racism oppresses and disenfranchies certain groups thus forcing that group to experience poverty more than a non-oppressed group? That such oppression and poverty leads to worse eduation and less opportunities? Y'know, the thing thats been shown to be the cause time and time and time again?

Yeah it's one of the few good reasons to build underground parking. For instance, all of the underground parking lots in Helsinki are actually just the entrances to a massive underground complex of nuclear bomb shelters.

That's a nice idea, not relevant to the video sadly. I love traveling by train as well, when it's around 0-70% capacity. Above that it's not that easy to relax. But there even 100% means that everyone has a seat to themselves. What the video is actually about is public transit, in a big city, during rush hour. This means, that on a good day, you have all the space your body occupies to yourself. Similar to sardine in a can. Good luck being productive, or relaxing like that. And before you say "add more buses etc.": Induced demand. It works for a lot of things.

​@@vitkosbence3705but there's a difference in how it works with different types of transportation. Car lanes are so inefficient that adding them cannot deal with the new traffic they induce, meanwhile bike lanes and more trains usually are efficient enough

'Hostile architecture'?

@@Ergeniz That's a term for features that are meant to drive away homeless people and other folks that businesses would rather not have near them. The incredibly uncomfortable lean-tos at bus stops, for instance, that seem to have replaced normal benches in a lot of places.

Yes, because there is no such thing as affordable living in city centers.

@@j.s.6080 There would be if there were more apartments. Bulldoze those parking space and make communes. And connect those communes to jobs.

​@j.s.6080 I mean the cost of things are determined by supply and demand, right? So by replacing the excess parking spaces with apartments(not luxury apartments because they just make the problem worse), it should make apartments in that area cheaper because of the higher supply.

@@j.s.6080 Which is ironic considering how much more efficient costs are in city centers. Maybe suburbanites should be taxed for all their energy waste and exponential tax-payer burden.

​@@joshuakevinserdan9331Eeeh, landlords, building companies and real estate agencies seem to want to get rich quick. They'll just use the accessibility, density and the vicinity of public transportation as an excuse for high prices instead of parking.

Depending on where you are and where you need to go, even driving alone in a somewhat economical car can be the objectively superior choice. If i was to work in the nearest city from where i live, a monthly ticket to get there and back would be ~140€. My mom drives a Fiat Panda and does actually work in said city, and her monthly upkeep for the car including fuel averages slightly shy of 200€. Of course thats a third more than the bus, but in exchange she saves several hours every day cutting out poor route and inconvenient time table of the bus and has access to the myriad of advantages a personal vehicle has in your private life outside of a major population center.

finally someone smart who understands life...but dont expect to much from Adam he works from home and is a youtuber who's entire agenda is "car bad hurr durr"

3-4 blocks is really short distance to walk for a healthy person.

@@stonefox2546 This. To get to the closest food-get-place is 7 minutes from my home, and almost half of it is a steady uphill. Last year, to get to my then-place of employment, I had to do that walk and do it 3 more times in terms of length. It was a roughly half an hour walk to get to work, and other than the boredom some times and the occasional brutal weather I was subjected to, it was fine. Granted, after 8 hours I was tired and the walk home sucked when exhausted, but it helped my lose weight lol.

@@stonefox2546 I know. It sounds like you're not from America.

Nearly described my life to a T.

Free to play games prey on people with poor self control to stay solvent

Enlisted is such a good game, the only thing I don't like about it is how much of an advantage veteran players have over new players who haven't unlocked all the OP weapons yet. If they would do something about people spamming assault rifles against those with just bolt-action rifles, the game would become a lot more fun, like, I don't know, some kind of matchmaking where you're put against players with similar gear, like how in War Thunder you're not put against King Tigers and IS-2s when you only have a BT-5. I mean, sure, you can kill anyone with a bolt-action rifle, but while you have to carefully aim each shot and if you miss you're done for, the veteran player just have to spam bullets at your general direction and watch you drop dead.

@@stargazer162 That's fair, yeah Personally I was also often frustrated by that, but at the same time it's a lot of fun to watch my brother mow down everyone in the lobby xD He is actually good at the game, but also has a gear advantage. The problem with matchmaking by skill rank is that Enlisted probably doesn't have enough players to find a lobby in a reasonable time frame :/ Games like overwatch have/had this problem a lot, with hours of wait time for similarly skilled players. The solution would be to get as many people as possible into the game, by getting friends and family to play it ;) Eventually they might decide to change matchmaking...

Compared to War Thunder, Enlisted is leagues and bounds better.

Or a freeing way to go where they want when they want in their own time. Unless of course a city makes it impossible by preventing them from driving to work.

"get out of the street peasants! I need more space for myself!"

@@OakIslandPictures im also not stopping anyone from using public transport for the same reason but paid parking isnt benefiting anyone, it only makes the poor more poor, the "cost" of public parking on the tax payer is overblown btw I live in vienna and even tho all the "great policies" are implemented I still pay the same amount of taxes the only difference being that i have to now pay for a extremely privileged minority (cyclist) on top of that biking lanes took away many lines for cars and make traffic worse so...making public transport better=good making driving a car miserable in order to force people to use public transport=bad

@@OakIslandPictures reduce demand by giving a viable option, or go for the compromise and make a "car size" limit for the dense cities so people can still enjoy private transport without clogging up the city

@@faustinpippin9208 you can absolutely enjoy personal transport in a city, it's called using a bike

@@duckface81 unless its winter or it rains, or its very cold or you need to transport something more then just two bags of groceries

I love how Adam ignores cases like your but cherry picks only cases where it works (typically city centers that have close car access anyway with good established public transport and only when that street is a niche case)

​@@faustinpippin9208 yeah, i do agree with the content creator on big cities with established public transports - i wish my countrys capital city and at least 2 other large cities would go towards bicycle and/or pedestrial friendly infrastructure - but smaller cities in my country really can't follow (and there aren't many large enough, only 6 cities reach population larger than 150k and some of them are too wide and spread for this planning, only 3-4 would have tense enough city centers that it actually could work) edit: i don't even have a car, but i do try and see city-politics both from pedestrian and car owner perspectives

It’s definitely the best quick fix while we build more expensive and time consuming other options

i agree but in winter or rain its miserable, i often use a motorcycle in rain myself but a car is way better, i think there should be a size limit for car for city centers, this way you can still have a car but it doesnt take much space and doesnt destroy the road.

@@faustinpippin9208 the only problem with that is most people still drive long distances to get to the city, adding the extra weight of a full car but still having a small engine drastically reduces speed and in turn range. With proper gear riding in the rain or cold isn’t bad at all.

I take it you're also from the US? I know one thing, around here, even if you do have the option of public transit; you never chose to take it, the very real risk of crime just means public transit is a no-go unless you seriously have no other choice... and I think that's something a lot of people in these comments woefully overlook while trying to cheer on removing cars... the risk factors of crime and public transit. I feel a lot safer in my car than I do on a bus or train, given the average crime rate around here.

@lunasakara7306 Canada but we suffer a lot of the same issues. I'm all for robust public transit but right now it would cost me more money to take the bus to work and I'd he late every day.

first smart person in this comment section

@@electric7487 Not realising they can just go back to the commercial vehicle market producing vans, busses, trucks and components.

Not Green Party.

NOTHING is absolute politics. ALL politics is a CHOICE. PHYSICAL consequences FROM a political decision are NOT. PHYSICAL consequences are ABSOLUTE/DETERMINISTIC.

Although I am a supporter of UBI myself I recognize that a lot of people (ignoramuses) are against it on principle, but I know one doesn't even have to go that far. If everyone *needs* something; like food, water, and shelter; is there really a good excuse for a society that doesn't make a necessary portion of them available at cost to its citizens? Even in a place with UBI tbh, I believe in state markets that people can buy tax-free, non-profit essentials like flour, milk, veg, cereals, and toiletries at. When it comes to necessities for life with no alternative available I think profit just becomes extortion

A UBI would still be faced with the problems of the market. Wouldn’t decommodification of these goods be better? Let’s start with water. This shouldn’t be to hard. For this all that would be required would be an expansion of pre-existing services. In most developed states, the government already provides water to some degree. Food is the trickiest. While full nationalisation is an option, I don’t think that would be wise. Heavily subsidised, with some price caps should be enough. It’d be somewhat expensive, but it’s not like Europe, or America have a shortage of capital. Now, land and housing is probably the one where I have the most radical proposition. Housing as a commodity has been, imo, an enormous negative for society. The solution I believe is a form a quasi-nationalisation. This isn’t to say people won’t be able to own their houses, or that all land would be owned by the state or anything like that. How it would work is effectively by removing the market. Effectively, the only person you can buy land from, or sell it to is the state. There would be standardised housing provided to all people. If you want to build your own house buy a plot of land from the state, and spend the money to build the house, and you own it. However, you can’t later sell the house for a profit. If you want to sell it, it has to be to the state, for the same price it cost to build (accounting for inflation).

@@azlanadil3646 Oh how I have dreamed of a nationally-controlled property market for the longest time. Nice to see someone else has noticed that the commodified property market is actively ruining society

The UBI has pros and cons. Who would pay for all that? How would you avoid many people to simply stop having an incentive to work? Wouldn't companies use the UBI excuse to automatically reduce salaries? Would you also pay to the people who are well off? If no where would you draw the line? Would it be fair do discriminate? I don't dislike the idea but we're in uncharted waters.

@@soundscape26 Not uncharted water. UBI trials have been done & they continue to be done. Finland ran a limited trial of it in 2017 & 2018 and although they haven't implemented it nationwide the findings were promising, and the UK is about to run a limited trial of it this year

Cities used to exist even before cars, so it is possible