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Just a quick FWI in reference to the bike lane solution: tunnels are extremely difficult and more costly to build in Florida due to the sandy soil and limestone most of the states ground is made of

Roundabouts are only safer if all the drivers obey the traffic rules. At least in my area a significant portion of drivers are confused about how to drive a roundabout.

"Growth, expanding suburbs into rural areas, brings economic growth and new opportunities..." Said generically, nearly hypnotically, occluding that these projects bring those laudable advantages, primarily, by design, to particular actors, not generally. Many will lose their land, their lifestyle, the investments made over generations, in both. Simple back of napkin thought. Consider the total footprint of a new proposed suburban development. Build a continuous 10-foot-tall basement the whole footprint. (Let's leave aside the structural challenges for a moment ~they aren't insignificant, nor are they insurmountable.) Maybe extend all the houses downward to include those areas under the houses. Maybe not. In any case, imagine the whole areas demarked by the streets above, with entry-elevators that would connect to the streets above, some to the houses above, privately, distributed so they function like bus stops, linking the basement. Only EVs allowed, not cars, more scooters, bikes, quads, and such. All utilities for the above ground housing as well as all the shops, community centers, schools, and such in the basement... are run with the ready access for repair and upgrade. Now the amount of space, useful space is enormous. Room for storage, for gardens, clinics, schools, community centers. All able to be constructed without needing weatherization, saving material cost, simplifying construction, extending durability, and adaptability. And, built in factories! Ala boxabl.com, only no need for weatherization. It takes a while to see past the fog of "they'd never let you build that" and "great idea but not practical" to see the advantages. Then imagine a 40-foot-tall subbasement to that! With a 40-foot subbasement the objection to the height disappears. With a 40-foot subbasement there is the volume to construct 30-foot-tall buildings within! Mix of heights-stories, mix of use, residential, commercial, retail, community, along with dense automated hydroponics, and even some light manufacturing. Oh wait, there's more, since that fog nearly guarantees that this whole idea will be dismissed and disregarded out of hand already, this other bit is just what is icing, as they say: Then, under that, another 10-foot-tall sub-sub-basement! There all the services, more hydroponics, and utilities can be set up. Upside to this back of napkin sketch? More than 10xing the total density on the same land with a higher livability, sustainability, and means to reduce the pressure to rip apart rural areas. All done with no use for combustion driven vehicles. Energy efficiency, and food security.

Florida is the poster child of how not to do things. It is the state of inconveniencing others.

Here I thought the Tobin Bridge was the worst! So bad that drivers actively choose longer and more traffic-laden routes over using this bridge.

Bikes don't belong on the road, especially not a highway

That bike lane was designed to discourage bikers

haha the bike lane and overall solution is exactly what I was thinking of! It's baffling they'd think of putting a bike lane in the middle of a five lane major road. And then did.

Usually I agree on what you say, but I have to disagree with the points of the 'gated pool for just the subdivision' and 'isolation.' I'm not one to support HOAs, but the the maintenance and upkeep of said pool is paid for by HOA dues from within that community. The pool WAS made specifically for them. If you're an outsider to that community who wanted to use the pool, then your permission to use that pool has to come from someone who will 'sponsor' your use of the pool and take liability if you do something where charges could be incurred. Otherwise, that pool is private to that community -- it's not communal and doesn't have a membership for outsiders to use it. They typically aren't built large enough to support anyone and everyone anyways. The subdivision's pools are just a perk of living in that subdivision FOR those people who live there and at best their visitors, and nothing more. Next is the point of isolation. I agree that having something like a corner store to buy things from that's more easily accessible and you don't have to drive to it IS better than driving a race course to get out of your suburb and then an additional drive to the central grocery store, but this video sees isolation as if it's not desired by anyone, which is largely untrue. I'm not saying the existing common design of the roads is good, but people are buying properties with "privacy and space" not located in the middle of nowhere because they explicitly wanted a large plot for their property but a surrounding community. I know these larger plots eventually lead to people being tucked away to the farthest driving distance from the exit of suburb, but again, people CHOOSE this. People are not choosing expensive houses and neighborhoods without foresight. Finally, the idea of building 'community' is two-pronged. A targeted community-focused suburban design can help lay the groundwork for better community, but the burden of building and engaging in community falls to the community itself through activities such as proactive engagement and outreach. Positive suburban design can be helpful to foster community, but a strong community lies in the ideals of the people in the suburb and their values for community. A well-designed suburb is little more than convenience for residents if strong community doesn't matter, and vice-versa: a strong community doesn't truly need good infrastructure if it matters enough to them (though it can aid in getting one that's 'on the fence' going more easily.) A lot of the points in the video are great and they all stem from a positive place but my point is it's not as black and white and this makes it out to be.

it’s time every decision about public policy be examined for its effect on global warming. how ridiculous is it to have to urge people to engage their survival instincts?..

$80M for that???? Where did the money go? Bridges were already there, no additional land was purchased.

This is American heritage

The disconnected places that are actually close together make me absolutely rage over suburban community design. I grew up in a 1950’s postwar neighborhood in a large city. Streets are more or less grid layout, with many crossings over collector roads, and commercial development nearby. There are many cycling route options, and many ways in and out of all the residential areas. To me it’s just a better way to live.

I can’t believe they spent $80 million on that interchange, that amount of bike/walk/bus infrastructure you could build with that money is insane

There's no distinction between a Street and a Road in English.

The problem with traffic engineering in the US is that you can theorize and optimize all you want, but most American drivers are gonna do whatever they feel like when they're behind the wheel. They literally don't care about anyone else on the road and they certainly can't be bothered to actively cooperate with other drivers or actually follow traffic laws. I've even seen people turn the wrong way into traffic circles with clearly marked signage and physical barriers to discourage them from doing it. Any time you make something "idiot proof", nature will design a better idiot.

round abouts are best for T or 4 way junctions

Not everyone wants the suburbs to be the city. Please stop.

randomly came across your chanel. Love traffic engineering and love the game cities skyline for this. You'd probably enjoy the traffic sim Junxions as it is a traffic simulator.

It could be called "The Grand Expense Bridge "

Twin Double Decker Bridge using scrap from Border Wall , duh derp

Im in cincy and this is fascinating

Speed is not the only variable. Adding more speed or lanes causes more people to use the road because it has more capacity, which increases congestion and decreases speed much more than the road with less lanes, even without building any more destinations. With less lanes it is much faster because less people are shoving cars onto the road. The real way to reduce traffic is to reduce the number of cars, by using and improving public transport. The only solution to driving is viable alternatives to driving.

If this intersection scares you, just move to Downtown Sarasota where things are nice and walkable. Because Florida is well-run, there are many homes in both this suburban area and in downtown at a variety of price points, low and high. But before you move, let me warn you about one thing: the heat and humidity in Florida are so oppressive 9+ months out of the year that you will instantly regret giving up your air-conditioned car. Didn't see that mentioned in your video.

Homebuilders are in it to make money. And they make money by building houses that people want to buy. If enough people wanted to buy 1,200 sq ft tin-roofed shanties with no back yards on busy thru-streets, developers would happily build those. The reason the developers pushed back so hard on the Sarasota plan is self-evidently because they couldn't make money building to that plan, which means that the local homebuyers in that market aren't buying what you're selling. It seems like you'd be just as happy to enforce a high-density mixed-use plan on an unwilling market, which makes you a Central Planner. Which is just a polite way of saying Communist. And Communism is evil, boys and girls.

3:59 - 1,200 or 1,420 sq ft is not a "decently sized" single family home. And living in a suburban single family home with virtually no back yard is a cruel joke. Just give up and live in a high-rise downtown before settling for a cramped rabbit-hutch like that, is my advice. Or move to a sane state, like Texas or Florida, where they still build real houses on real lots.

2:48 - Starting the Y-axis arbitrarily at 4,000 -- and not even using truncation marks to show that you've snipped the bottom half of the range -- instantly marks you as a hack and shreds your credibility. It's a cheap trick that reeks of dishonesty.

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peanut roundabout to preserve nearby homes 💯 love it

I don't know why this is such a breathtaking to me after hearing Immigration ads and Jargon repeatly, I like your ORIGINAL jargon of more providing Solution even though maybe you don't come to everyday cities council but still 👍

4:44" Planned for humans"? What's driving the cars? Deer? Dogs, maybe? Central planning to the rescue! In Soviet Russia, no interchanges at all! Only checkpoints. And gulags. No need for cars. Iz good. You like.

I think the state should hire some designers who play Cities Skyline

Do NOT urbanize the suburbs. No one is asking you to fix them.

so basically, uhm, doing what others do literally everywhere in the world

Thank fuck I'm western European.

Dutch people probably vacation here.

Can we get a Streetcraft Development Fund, to buy a rural piece of land and get it designed and in a mixed use way so we can get people connected agwin

Where are the overpasses and the underpasses?

Wheres that shot at 1:19?

Traffic circles? AS long as they keep them around state universities. It works because the edjamacated are color blind and they need to be plugged in to what is happening. As for me? I am to broke to pay attention. But I want a bumper stick. I am slow because I am 2 millions miles ahead of you.

I agree with a lot of what the guy says, but I don't like when he says "we're not gonna do fake historic buildings..." Most historic buildings started out as "fake" for their time, and part of what eventually made them historic was their accents. Obviously, if he means something like a foam statue coated in stucco, then I agree, but something like the Washington Monument, "fake historic" styled after ancient Egyptian obelisks, should definitely be considered for the project.

Same happened with Greece years ago, the airport was moved and now they are building high rise and expensive hotels, apartments and shopping centers.

When you sleep your way to your degree

All of this costs enormous sums of money. These costs are a heavy, very unpopular, burden on taxpayers... so the money is borrowed. Trillions of dollars have now been borrowed and the rate of borrowing is increasing rapidly. This will not end well. America is already bankrupt. We are not yet insolvent, but you can see it from here.

The problem with suburbs in US cities is that markets, shops, cafes etc are located very far from homes, so people are forced to use cars just to go buy bread. To solve this, you have to put the shops, markets, cafes etc close to homes, close to houses, this way people will only need to walk to buy their food, because the shop, market, cafe etc will be close to their house, and in this way the use of cars will be very low and the streets will automatically be designed and focused on people, with large sidewalks, TOWN SQAURES, parks etc etc, where people meet and spend pleasant moments and meet new people. etc BRING THE MARKETS, STORES, CAFES ETC VERY CLOSE TO HOMES, AND NO ONE WILL NEED TO USE CARS ANYMORE.

The problem with suburbs in US cities is that markets, shops, cafes etc are located very far from homes, so people are forced to use cars just to go buy bread. To solve this, you have to put the shops, markets, cafes etc close to homes, close to houses, this way people will only need to walk to buy their food, because the shop, market, cafe etc will be close to their house, and in this way the use of cars will be very low and the streets will automatically be designed and focused on people, with large sidewalks, TOWN SQAURES, parks etc etc, where people meet and spend pleasant moments and meet new people. etc BRING THE MARKETS, STORES, CAFES ETC VERY CLOSE TO HOMES, AND NO ONE WILL NEED TO USE CARS ANYMORE.

If only there was a way to fit more people into a car, like if we could find some kind of longer, multi seater car, almost like a minivan, but able to seat like 40-60 people or so, with standing room that could be pushed up even more? If we could find a way to build dedicated lanes for them, we could even link multiple together, although at that point the road and wheel maintenance could be a bottle neck, but some kind of long guide rail, with low friction, durable wheels. We could even then consolidate the motor into one super strong car at the front, allowing for more space for seats in the succeeding cars. I think this idea could be BIG!

10:34 where the short starts