If CS1 has taught me anything it's that more lanes fixes nothing

Induce demand exist

@@XGD5layer it was a joke

@@XGD5layer Exactly. More lanes actually make traffic worse and increase the odds of a collision.

It's not about the number of lanes, it's about how you use them. Better road design would not funnel so many sources of traffic through a single choke point, but would instead direct each of them outward toward different intersections.

Interchanges on this side of the pond are scary

Even in normal parts of America (i.e. not Florida) our diverging diamonds don't have five lanes in each direction

We do have in Europe something that looks like it, but without the intersections. Instead we have "fly overs" these replaces intersections if clover leaf intersections haven't enough capacity;

the arterial road in my neighborhood is 4 lanes wide in total and the train line on it has a daily ridership near 1 million

@@buddy1155 I think I've seen that before. The interchange of I-405 and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles has those

More lanes = more cars More cars = more traffic Less lanes = less cars Less cars = less traffic

I think it needs just one more lane

just pave the planet already and be done with it

It's simple really. Evolve into cars

@@marwanfakhradin2543 In Paris they created long time ago à périphérique of 9 lines to unclog the iner city trafic. And what happend the first day of oppening? Surprise Trafic jam. And today, in Paris they are puting à lot of bike lanes evry where. So automobilist are force to take the bike. other wise there are stuck in there cars.

That makes much more sense!

I agree. Pedestrians and cyclists should be at least completely grade separated from the car traffic. Grade separate the transit while you're at it too!

had me in the first half not gonna lie

And walkability

Mass transit doesn't fix traffic either. Look a london and nyc. But it gives everyone options and that is most important

@@john-ic9vj London and NYC are bad examples because cars are still a dominant force in both cities. Mass transit is undoubtedly the solution, and is not to blame for poor development choices that the aforementioned cities, among others, have made.

London and NYC just need more transit! Look the lack of congestion in Tokyo

GO MASS TRANSIT!

its insane the department of transportation doesnt get sued over those painted bike lanes. Literally telling people to put themselves in most dangerous situation

We have a relatively new diverging diamond intersection not too far from us. For pedestrians most of the crossing has a physical barrier protecting them from cars, but they literally painted a bike lane in the gutter. I didn't realize there even was a bike lane there until about a year and a half after it was completed. It's probably about two feet wide and some of the grates take up about three quarters of it at points. It's horrible and I'm convinced it's safer to take up a car lane instead. Thankfully it's legal here to bike on sidewalks so I just take the protected pedestrian pathway when crossing there by bike and it's not the worst experience crossing a freeway that way. Most crossings of that freeway in this area don't currently have any pedestrian or bicycle infrastructure so I'll take what I can get.

given how bad American drivers are i wouldn't cycle there even if the limit was 20

There is one more improvement that could be done to these diamonds during construction - in areas where water tables allow - put lit tunnels under the road for pedestrians, rather than crosswalks. We have one near where I live, which connects "downtown" to a big park, and it is rare not to cross paths with someone walking through that tunnel.

Bold of you to assume it's only 45...

This is a good way to put it. I like not just bikes but he is a little overbearing sometimes lol

@@JackLeeUKposts Absolutely agree, I stopped watching videos from not just bikes because of the terrible attitude of that guy. This video on the other hand is very well explained and nice to watch

Definitely why I like this video more. It acknowledges the usefulness of cars, HOW the situation happened, why etc without just saying "ban cars put rhe people in commie blocks and execute dissidents" like some of the channels are like lmao. I don't hate cars, I have one. I hate needlessly big roads, and the thought process of "oh traffic is backed up? Well, clearly, we need to keep adding more roads instead of designing the intersection and surrounding area better!" I'm also not a weak willed coward and can actually be outside in weather and not need to run to my car.

Agreed. I love NJB, and I know his approach is what made him become popular where more conventional (and very often boring) new urbanist channels failed, but now that he's more mainstream, I'm starting to find his angry outbursts jarring. Especially when they come out of nowhere in the middle of an otherwise calm episode. I think it's time he dialed it back a little.

@@dankmemes8619 "without just saying "ban cars put rhe people in commie blocks and execute dissidents" like some of the channels are like lmao." I don't know if I've seen a single channel say that. I've seen it put forward as a strawman countless times, though.

That's how it's done where I'm from. The buses/jeeps get their own bay to load/unload passengers at the entrance of the mall (which is beside the road).

​@@masterezekie1613It's the same in my country. Full culture.

@@masterezekie1613in my country too, I’ve never seen such huge parking lots in my life as in the us

The back parking lots for UTC mall ACTUALLY EXIST ALREADY and they work really well compared to the front side. It's too bad they didn't just build more of those where the mall is, build the little commercial strip with the book shop and bento-box place further south where the new aquarium is currently going, and put the mall up against Cattlemen proper.

This seems like one of many simple steps that just need to happen. Its hard to suddenly flip car-centric system to a pedestrian in one go, but small things like this are certainly possible to implement straightaway.

omfg i just realised through this comment that this isnt an "established" content creator.

Same! The vibe is as if I had been watching this channel for years. Great start, best of luck

oh yes! very well and professionally made! Thought I was watching an episode of practical engineering until I saw a face I've never seen before :D

Yeah, the production quality, animations, and clarity of explanations are top notch for having

I swear this guy sounds exactly like william osman

Not true. It works for industry. It works VERY WELL for the extraction industry. For them, your concern is an irrelevant externality. The problem here is not engineering, but control of resources and the system by which those resources are distributed.

If it didn't work for anyone they wouldn't spend tens if thousands of dollars for cars every few years and thousands of dollars annually on operating costs. People are willing to pay large sums of money to be able to go anywhere they want and transport goods on their own schedule without having to be dependent on anyone else. As the video pointed out, you'd have to turn the city infrastructure back into the medieval village format for walkable 15 minutes cities or NOME like megacities. Not everyone wants to live that way.

@@umaikakudo "these people with no alternative keep choosing the one choice they have. they must love it!" "they're not dependent on anyone as long as the government keeps spending billions on roads and mandating free parking!"

Maybe people genuinely don't want the urban planners' vision of utopia from a hundred years ago. Work is shifting from labor to information, where physical presence is less relevant. Shopping is moving online with delivery, instead of in person. Entertainment and social interaction are less centralized than ever. The more we connect electronically, the less we need to connect geographically. Urban planners are as biased about how people should live as car and oil companies.

So you think everyone should just stay at home and never go to the shops to buy anything because you can get it delivered... Sounds like a boring and stupid lifestyle to me​@@timewave02012

It's actually pretty good, Road Guy Rob did a video on pedestrian crossing for DDIs and the sidewalk in the middle worked the best because you only had to cross two ramps without a signal instead of four when the side walk is on the outside

still very long ways to walk across, far from a straight line @@AdamSmith-gs2dv

At least you only have to consider threats from one direction at a time unless somebody thinks they can back up. Beats looking at stopped traffic from one side and glancing to the other side to be sure they're not moving right before you get there!

Bold of you to assume they give one shred of care for pedestrians and bikers!

And if you want to get to frontage roads or streets near the DDI, you can't. See University Blvd over I-35 in Round Rock, TX.

Exactly. If you look carefully at the video you can see the problem light: a 4 phase signal for a shopping center

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv 6, 7, or 8 phase, dependent on the left-turn phasing sequence.

If you bash cars the cult will watch. A hack like Not Just Bikes read the Induced Demand report wrong and everyone believed him. From his basement.

Interesting. In which cities did that happen to you?

On thing to keep in mind is that the transportation industry evolved in America the way it did in large part do to the size of America as a whole just the us alone is about the same size as all of Europe and has half as many people leaving lots of empty space between people and place to start with

Have you never seen south east asia?

not only that, giant cities create large uncontrolled areas causing more "crazy people" to roam free without fear of punishment or judgement

what positive change? like destroying 2 car lines in a major chokepoint on a highway just to give it for a bike line that will be used by like 100 people per day instead of tens of thousands of cars? 11:00 "smort" "urbanism" like this is a major cause of traffic in all the eu cities that went with the "smort" urbanism changes....

@@faustinpippin9208 You're criticizing poorly implemented urban design, which I agree is a problem. It would be like me saying "Look how useless roads are! They built that road the other day that leads nowhere and no one uses it. Why do people keep building roads if they wont be used?" Was that road poorly designed? Yes. Does that mean roads as a whole are garbage? No.

@@odach2034 lol the big difference here that road are build first abowe anything else because a road for a car is the foundation of your current civilization nothing nowadays gets build without a road so your example is pretty weird meanwhile something like bike lines are typically useless because you can just get a e-bike and drive with car traffic i drive a e-bike in car traffic all the time without any problems and i actually hate bike lines because they force me to drive slow (like 30km/h) meanwhile in the car traffic i can go even 90km/h

Wow my most memorable Halo 3 era montage uploader leaving positive feedback on urban planning style videos like 13 years later?! Makes me happy to see!

Over 600 now, that was fast :)

And now 800 :)

And now 2.7k :)

I did not expect to see Walshy on the urbanism side of YT haha

Thank you!

I hope you do not share this as a good idea. for large intersections fly overs are way better, no conflicts.. just very expensive. for medium intersections are clover leaf are better. for small intersections two roundabouts on each side are better (what Germans do at off and onramps, and the Dutch sometimes as well) Signalised crossings are slow, dangerous and stupid and are always the poor choice.

I've driven over the temporary DDI in Leusden (A44 /Rijnlandroute) and was impressed with the efficiency and feel of it. My past addiction to building them in Cities Skylines might have helped me understanding what I was doing when I first drove on to it. I think fly overs are better if you have the space, but this one seemed to work very well when I used it. I think the nearest DDI is now in Belgium (Waregem).

@@buddy1155 it’s not meant as in to share this intersection type. It’s about sharing the idea of “when will it ever be enough”. You see this interaction and it’s massive, a insane amount of lanes. What I find good about this video is that he shows that it’s overkill. And he shows that the urban planning is the result of all this. He brings a solution to the problem, and that’s to fix the broken urban planning practices happening over there.

@@DobberD Ah okay, I see the real value in this video for a Dutch audience that it makes you realise how good our infrastructure is. We don't have to fix major issues, in the Netherlands it is more a matter of fine tuning an already good infrastructure.

1 word: overpass viaduct.

​@paulofelipebbraga9634 actually that's two words 🤓🤓🤓

The people I know retiring to Florida are the exact kind of ignoramuses that don't want to learn anything other than what they think they want They want to drive their giant pickup trucks everywhere, hate traffic, want designers to build more and bigger parking spots, yet make all traffic flow cleanly

thanks!!

Yes exactly! Pedestrian space should be isolated from vehicle infrastructure, not directly interacting with it.

There is a separate bridge across the Interstate going in just south of that diverging diamond at Benderson Park. It's promoted as an extension of our local rail-trail to get to a big housing/shopping development on the other side, but well into the process we found out it will have 4 lanes of cars going over it also. At least there will be protected bike lanes and no ramps to the Interstate, but cyclists and pedestrians will still have to deal with car intersections on either side.

😂

Thank you!

typical misconception you really think that removing roads and lines for cars is better for cars? or you think that someone will start biking 15km to their work because there is a new bike line that removed a car line? there is less cars on the road only when the gov makes driving artificially more expensive then the other options look at all the countries with very little cars on the road and check the cost of driving there compared to their salaries and then do it for the US...

I think that would have fixed it! 😆

Bike infrastucture is cheap and effective. There is absolutely no issue in diverting a tiny amount of road construction and maintenance budget for it while also taking a much larger cut to fund great public transit.

That can be fixed with a "do not block the box" sign. Anyone in the box after the signal is red gets a ticket

Honestly, the near-side signals in Florida drive me absolutely bonkers. They are hard to see sitting in the drivers seat when you’re at the front of the line. At some intersections, it’s easier to look through the sunroof. Either add lower side signals or put them on the far side (or both, even) and you’d have a lot more visibility.

@@triphius I think eye level signals on either side of a nearside signal set up are a good solution

@@frafraplanner9277 I totally agree. It’s not that the signals are on the near-side, it’s that you’ve gotta hunch over and look up to see them when you’re at the line. Eye-level signals would fix this phenomenon.

You want to avoid bridges for pedestrians/bikes. Let cars go up/down or down/up. Keep pedestrians on their current level.

@@buddy1155 You'll waste an awful lot of fuel in the long run making tons of vehicles go up and down just so bikes and pedestrians don't have to. Also compare the strength required for a bridge that carries vehicles, versus the strength required to carry a few people.

In America, about 10% drive without a license, and 33% without insurance. Also, you can pass your license exam without taking any classes in most states, just by learning from your parents or friends.

North-Americans learn to drive from there parents mostly, or other acquaintances. Almost no one drives properly.

Nevertheless it happens in Germany regularly. It's almost unavoidable on a large intersection like this one, where you can't oversee whats happening between the two traffic lights.

Here in Tennessee you don't even need to parallel park or do a three point turn to pass the driving test. You literally just drive around the block and thats it lol

@@AdamSmith-gs2dvMy God, and you’re not surprised by the enormous amount of traffic death in the US compared to other western countries? And no one has the logical idea to change this handout driver’s license in America to a driver’s course of several weeks ending in a thorough driver’s exam? Traffic deaths will plummet almost immediately with skilled drivers. America amazes me by their stupidity sometimes.

Almost all the signals in the US are on the departure side as well. I'm not sure why they didn't do that for this interchange - perhaps since the departure side is so far away from the stop line. They could have included both though and I think that could have helped.

Roundabouts lose efficiency at 25000 vehicles per day per lane. That is why America DOTs are very specific where they can be installed. The traffic here is much greater than that, so a roundabout would fail. Roundabout interchanges are reserved for light suburban and rural settings.

@@traffic.engineer we tend to prioritize accident safety over efficiency

@@stevecarter8810 The queuing of the roundabout would spillback into the freeway, increasing crash risk. Hence, roundabout would not be safer in this case either.

You're not European. Have some pride for what your country once was. What type of behemoth roundabout are you planning on building for such enormous traffic flows?

@@traffic.engineer does happen here in Britain, not gonna lie

When reading comments like yours, you realize why voting should be IQ restricted. Having the most convenient, most comfortable form of travel, which is your private car that you can drive anywhere, anytime, in your own speed, on your own schedule, in your own private space - is dystopian, says the leftoid drone.

​@@DesertStateNevada Ah yes being stuck in traffic is really comfortable

@@maas1208 Ah yes the 1% of driving a car vs the 99% of the time when I'm not stuck in traffic and instead getting exactly where I wanna go, in my own private space, in my own speed, on my own schedule, without having to sit next to psychotic anti-social weird people that are so deprived of human interaction due to their own mental illness that the only way they can feel any interaction at all is by bumping into other strangers on mass transit.

Core issue is zoning regulations placing residential and commercial zones so far apart you basically NEED a vehicle to get from one to the other. Tokyo is a city that fixed this, they got rid of zoning entirely. As a result, Tokyo is totally walkable, anything you need is in walking distance and housing is affordable. Politicians in the West know revoking zoning would solve these problems, but there's too much lobbyist money involved for them to actually do it.

While your points are all true and I agree that the system is backwards, you mustn't forget that your car is using energy, insurance, and maintenance. If it's gas powered and you live in an area where gas is currently a bit expensive. A 20 mile round trip might cost you five bucks in gas. At that point you're almost equal with public transit.

Too bad most of us can’t live without a car. I just calculated my total costs for 8 years of ownership and it came out to $1.34/mile. So a simple 3 mile trip each way actually cost me $8.07 and my 15 mile commute to work and back home is actually just over $20!

car-centric ppl often totally ignore the cost of the car (and fuel) in such examples.

@@schzean My commute is 15 miles. I do it by bicycle. Because it's in the Seattle area, it's often rainy and it includes over 1,000 feet of hill climbing. Keeps me in shape!

Use a shopping trolley (looks like a caddie bag on wheels) and you'll be able to carry around a lot more. If you bike, then use a dutch cargo bike (bakfiet).

if cities were built on human scale one could go on the bicycle each day and thus not needed huge amounts of groceries at 1 time. Just for the odd "oversized" purchases you need to bring a car.

That's a problem of city design. If you had all the shops near your local station (assuming you commute to seomewhere) you could easily pick up stuff everyday after work or school. That way you'd only spend a couple minutes additionally each day and only had to carry small amounts at once. If you live in an urban area there should be no point where you live more than 10 minutes walk away from a supermarket, drugstore and other daily essentials. Larger purchases, even in a downtown shopping district, can be delivered. In many good urban cities you can have shopping delivered for just a couple dollars and most of the time you wouldn't make large purchases since you're there so often. If your city enables you to not need a car on a regular basis you can save massive amounts of money. Some of which you can then spend on the deliveries and car rentals for when there is really no good alternative. Getting north american cities to that point will take decades though. And that is assuming there is a concerted effort. But even small steps can make a huge difference. Building bike lanes, road diet, signal priorities and allowing infill development is cheap, quick and even brings much greater tax revenue to cities. Advocating for that is the first step to making your city more liveable.

@@lars7935 I do have shops near my local station, in fact my town is rather blessed in how walkable it is. My problem is that I still can't properly acquire all that I could with a car. No amount of sidewalks will allow a cake to be transported on its side. I've managed for 4 years without a car, so it isn't the biggest problem in the world, but a car is simply a requirement for certain purchases owning to the impracticality of transporting too large material. As for a Dutch cargo bike? I've considered it, but the land here is incredibly hilly and I'm not sure on how effective a bike would be in such a place, especially considering there is a genuine lack of infrastructure for bikes themselves even if there is a fair amount for pedestrians. I don't blame my town for this, limited amount of resources after all, and everybody walks while only some people bike, but it is a factor.

@@isodifbrakiul6387 Ok so why not just get a shopping basket? There are large enough ones for most cakes. There is always a solution

Also, welcome to UKposts! Looks like you're coming out of the gate with decent production values. Looking forward to seeing more.

Suburban Toronto is the epitome of urban sprawl. Worse than most US cities.

www.google.com/maps/@27.3891032,-82.4520815,13309m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu this is what the area sorta looks like there not in a city but kinda is? there is kinda of a bus system, it's just east side of teh road i don't think there is since your more of the outskirts of the city

Roundabouts, just want them to Deep State. 😗