I live in germany and I always assumed that the highways in the US would work the same ay as they do here. Considering the German Autbahn hat major influence on modern US highways, this is very surprising to see. Also considering the US systematicly prioritized Highways over Railway networks makes this even more stupid.
The biggest mistake here was developing cities at extremely low density with single family homes making the provision of rail or even bus public transportation to be utterly unfeasible at worst, economically impractical at best.
@@edwardmiessner6502The best way to move people closer together is to make their long commutes troublesome and time demanding, plus to take away much free and low cost parking everywhere. In addition to build rail and subway along coridors that are densified. More people will choose the new life of easily accessable and fast public transit.
I have generalized anxiety and super-wide highways are one of my worst triggers. But strangely enough I hardly ever have issues with the 4 lane (2 lanes in each direction) highways like shown at 5:56. I also find the presence of endless miles of trees to be comforting as well rather than a super wide open desolate sea of asphalt.
@@matthew8153 haha well that is quite out of the ordinary. Basically all traffic is back to prepandemic levels now. If that was normal, then we have waaay too much infrastructure for the demand.
You forgot one critical factor that really makes US highways slow, confusing, and dangerous: the sheer number of drivers on the road. Seriously, 90% of all motorists and truck drivers should NOT be on the roads! They seem to have got their driver's license or commercial driver's license from a Cracker Jack box.
@@th5841 Viable alternatives (e.g. transit) will reduce traffic, but improved driver training and licencing standards will reduce traffic deaths. BOTH are good.
Something I didn't see mentioned is low visibility entrances, like ramps up to the freeway with a short merge. It can be pretty terrifying trying to find a space to fit in and get up to speed without being able to see traffic until the last second, especially with so much traffic, including semis taking up the road.
Lack of driver training, especially lane etiquette on highways, is a HUGE factor in the inefficiency of Interstates. And they never even seem to learn over time either.
Yes YOU need to be retrained that you cannot go faster then the traffic in front of you, even in the left lane. It's a highway not a NASCAR race track.Chill out and slow down a bit and maintain a safe following distance.
@@edwardmiessner6502 only when people keep passing me on the right and won't let me move over, but yes I drive "slow" (55-70 mph) to keep back and as far away from the rest of you psychos driving 80+ mph down the freeway tailgaitng and lane weaving (cutting off) each other...... I drive alone behind the packs of cars on the freeway and follow the 3 second following distance rule. I care more about my own safety then maintaining a high rate of speed on the freeway no matter what.
@@Senator_Senartspot on. Failed planning models can’t be blamed on everybody not being collectively perfect enough. Beyond its optimal carriage a road can’t flow smoothly at any amount of skill. Build bad roads and you get suboptimal capacity in the first place. Build only roads and you exceed optimal capacity too. Simple maths problem a child could figure it out without copping out.
Brussels Ring (bypass) : coming from Halle, first obstacle is the "Bocht van Vorst", an almost 90 degree bend (because the Ring was not finished as intended) then further on First lane becomes an exit lane. Further on there is an entry from the left (Erasmus). Then you get to the infamous interchange of Groot-Bijgaarden and its bottleneck : 3 lanes first become 2 lanes, then 1 lane. That 1 lane becomes the third lane of the Ring. And that's just a few km of that bypass.
At least we're turning things around now, we're no Netherlands but the infrastructure we're building now is pretty good while also trying to fix past mistakes. Also almost all countries had a "cars are the future" phase and basically every city was ruined by the car, but it's getting better
People merging on the highway from on-ramp thinking they have the right away and expect you to slow down or lane Change, if you don't they'll cut right in front of you. that just bad drivers don't know how to drive safe.
Oh tell me about it!!! I especially hate in when like a pack of 6 or more cars tailgate each other in a long line coming off the entrance ramp and like all 6 cars cut you off in the right lane.
The answer to why American highways are so bad isn’t about bad design and stupid fetishes. It is about making every single citizens having to drive their own big car. Autobahn is better because it isn’t filled with unnescesary traffic. Only a relative small percentage of people in Germany drive every day. The average yearly total milage driven, is much much lower in Germany and elsewhere in the world.
@@randommexican5664I live in Oslo, Norway. In average people here are quite rich. Still the amount of cars used here is pleasantly low. One of the bike path into the city center from one of the rich areas is nick named Tour de Finance because so many rich people use it to bicycle to work. So it is not about rich people drive, poor people take the subway. It is about not having to have several cars in the househokd. It is about needing the car much less. If your job demands a car to function, you don’t have to be stuck in traffic with all those who have to drive to job because there are no alternatives. In my city there is no «only poor people take public transit, only the wealthy people deserve a car».
@@th5841 in a country with fewer people than the state I live in, that isn't very large, and average income being stupid high, sure that's practical. You live in your small town or even in a city like Oslo, which isn't even very large, and everything is right there. I might need to drive 300km for certain things in the American west. Comparing the needs of a small, low population, rich country like Norway or Switzerland to a country the size of the entire continent of Europe is pointless. We have trains, no one's taking a 4 days train ride for 5000km when you can fly for cheap domestically or take your own car in the same or less time lol. And forget biking, the nearest town to me is 80km through mountains. It's not feasible. Same in Canada but no one ever goes after them for driving just as much as we do in the states.
The problem here is that the highways got built too close to the cities. Outside of the cities the interstate highway system is great, I actually prefer it over Japan's Expressways because at least most of the interstate system is free while almost none of Japan's Expressways are.
One thing that makes americas highways terrible is that their philosophy is to replace walking. The biggest mistake we made is to try and replace walking to a destination with car traffic.
I see you've been around charlotte. I absolutely despise merging from 77 north onto 277 but from 85 south onto 77 south is even stupider. I don't understand how so many people must've looked at those plans and it still went forward.
Weird, I recently drove 10,760 miles around the entire country mostly on interstates. I averaged about 75-80mph, was only pulled over once in that time, and had zero issues. Made it on time to bookings in 20 states with no problem. Try that on a train lmao
how can the country that invented the car as a mass produced way of transportation for the masses suck so bad at designing roads ??? insane! As a european I agree with almost everything, except the 2 lanes on each side, this should only be the case in very rural areas with little traffic, if it gets a slighlty bit more dense 3 lanes on each side are a godsend, the slow trucks can stay right, the 'normal people' can use the middle lane to overtake the slow traffic and the speed freaks can use the left lane to overtake the ' normal' people. If you have only 2 lanes, there is too much difference in speed and things can get ugly. and I am talking about autobahn kind of speed (although it works well there too) but on roads with a speed limit , where slow medium and fast would mean 55, 70 and 80 mph
Many (if not all) of the early interstates were built to cut across cities in order to displace economically poor neighbourhoods, which primarily were lived in by ethnic minorities like Afro-Americans and Hispanics. White voters complained of their homes' proximity to "colored hoods" driving down property values, and it was one of the reasons the interstate system was popular with white voters. Long story short, the design and locations of your highways have a lot to do with racism.
America might not be a first world country, but a third world country with a Gucci belt ... And now it turns out the Gucci belt isn't even that well made :( Sad
2 Things. I agree that if you design highways like you said in this video, they will work better, but as an example in Australia, I think there are cases when you don't have to design highways as you suggested. Yes the left lane should be used for overtaking, but once the number of cars on the road increases to a certain threshold, it becomes more dangerous to operate this way because one lane will be traveling slow while the other lane travels quickly. In fact it's more dangerous for each lane to be moving at different speeds as lane changing is the most common cause of accidents on highways (which is why you aren't supposed to change lanes in tunnels here in Australia). I know in America the speed limits are treated as suggestions, but Australia actually has a very good culture of people following the speed limit, meaning the whole keep right unless overtaking thing is a bit mute, because everyone travels at the same speed anyway (except big hills and stuff, but in those cases the rules are enforced properly). I would suggest that the German autobahns have a good safety record because without the speed limits, drivers are forced by the conditions to pay attention and drive properly. It's complacency that causes accidents. The other reason accidents happen are mainly due to congestion, the easy way to fix this is to have adaptive speed limits that lower when the cars on the road increase. This stops traffic from speeding up and slowing down constantly and gets traffic to move at a consistent and lower speed. In terms of exits and entrances from the wrong side of the roadway, the US highway administration identified this years ago as a potentially bad idea, but most of those wrong side ramps were built years ago and it's a really expensive process to fix them. Interestingly, they don't necessarily make things any more dangerous, because they can actually reduce complacency and make drivers uncomfortable (which can increase safety). The other thing to realise is that even with merges on the "correct" side, drivers in the fast lane still have to get into the right lane in order to exit, or travel over once they enter, you might think that's safer than the alternative, but often what you'll find is that the majority of cars on the road consider themselves "fast lane" users and it's actually likely to make things worse. Also at interchanges if the majority of traffic is making a left or right onto another highway, they will all want to be using the right lane/s to exit and it really puts a spanner in the works of the whole right lane exit things. The reason why they add lanes extra to the right side of the highway and not the left is because often when an entrance comes in to a congested highway, if the entrance is congested too, then all the cars will be trying to merge into just the one lane which clogs up that lane and makes for a very dangerous situation, so they just have the entrance lane become the new right lane. (it's not ideal but there is no real alternative besides having the entrance lane come into both sides of the highway).
I’d counter the notion that introducing complexity necessarily improves safety. You’re correct in the case of tree lined streets or cobblestone etc. but that’s all in countering forgiving design, and it’s to cause drivers to slow down. But on the freeway the design is still forgiving, the lanes are wide and the view is open with no obstacle, and the speeds are high. The separation should be complex + opportunity to think or simple + high speed. They should never mix.
I'd like to see the whole stinking road system be replaced with a rail based system. Street car rail systems in the cities and high speed rail connecting cities.
American highways are always built in response to an issue, rather than preparing for an issue. Entrances and exits are built in wonkey spots not because the engineers are stupid, but because they are constrained to limited amounts of space. Reality isn't cities skylines, you can't just plop down an extremely efficient and beautiful road network without any repercussions. There are land owners, zoning conflicts, budget, and much more. Regular roads through city centers simply cannot accommodate day to day traffic. If there wasn't freeways going through downtown areas it would be grid lock 24/7, much MUCH worse. No widespread public transit was ever devised early on, and frankly there will never be. So we are stuck with what we have for now and there isn't any point in complaining. We can only hope new urban centers are developed for foot traffic and public transport. There is no fixing what we have without deleting half of the cars in the country.
wow had no idea US highways are that badly constructed with exits all over the place, and that people do not use cruise and passing lanes. No wonder people there are struck in traffic daily
The real reason people are stuck in traffic daily is that this country has been misdeveloped and a lot of what was developed before WW2 was ripped out and mis-redeveloped, both in a manner that made public transportation impossible so everyone has to drive a car.
@@Blackadder75 you got half of that right. I won’t be caught dead in a bow tie! Hell idk how I even ended up dailying a dodge truck tbh I’m usually a ford guy.
This is an extremely ignorant video. Many people rely on the interstate highway system to commute to work. If I couldn't use the highway, it would double my daily commute from 20 minutes to 40 minutes.
I wonder how millions of people in Japan commute long distances every day with less pollution, accidents, maintenance, and cost? It’s a real mystery considering how small their nation is. What have they realized that the US government hasn’t? 🤔
40 minutes? You wouldn't even be able to commute at all, thanks to all the horrible drivers having accidents on the road! For example: 6:50 to 7:10 that drive on the freeway in Atlanta downtown literally made me seasick while the German Autobahn drive that followed calmed down my stomach.
no you are ignorant, and didn't get the message of the video.. the video promotes better freeway design, which also means that your commute would not use the freeway where it shouldn't be used, (but instead other well designed roads should be build for your situation that are not interstates) note, I don't know your situation, maybe it's so that a highway is the best route for you, but the point is, for many situations within a city it should not be the best route.
I live in germany and I always assumed that the highways in the US would work the same ay as they do here. Considering the German Autbahn hat major influence on modern US highways, this is very surprising to see. Also considering the US systematicly prioritized Highways over Railway networks makes this even more stupid.
The biggest mistake here was developing cities at extremely low density with single family homes making the provision of rail or even bus public transportation to be utterly unfeasible at worst, economically impractical at best.
@@edwardmiessner6502The best way to move people closer together is to make their long commutes troublesome and time demanding, plus to take away much free and low cost parking everywhere. In addition to build rail and subway along coridors that are densified. More people will choose the new life of easily accessable and fast public transit.
US copies Germany but always butchers it from highways to light rail 🚈
@@th5841completely agree
I have generalized anxiety and super-wide highways are one of my worst triggers. But strangely enough I hardly ever have issues with the 4 lane (2 lanes in each direction) highways like shown at 5:56. I also find the presence of endless miles of trees to be comforting as well rather than a super wide open desolate sea of asphalt.
So ironic since Eisenhower didn't want highways to go through cities.
White voters wanted it so that black neighbourhoods would be demolished. Disgusting stuff.
Ahhh Charlotte! A great example of how not to do highways in and around a city!
pittsburgh would like a word with you.... lol
I don’t know, it was kind of nice when I drove through during March 2020. I only saw one other car.
@@matthew8153 haha well that is quite out of the ordinary. Basically all traffic is back to prepandemic levels now.
If that was normal, then we have waaay too much infrastructure for the demand.
@@tgibridays
Pandemic? You guys actually took that seriously?
@@matthew8153 for the first couple of months yeah.
1:37 WHAT is that another highway exit right behind it? Why tf do u need two of them literally 100 m apart
what a waste of space
Yes, and it increases risk and decreases throughput too.
You forgot one critical factor that really makes US highways slow, confusing, and dangerous: the sheer number of drivers on the road. Seriously, 90% of all motorists and truck drivers should NOT be on the roads! They seem to have got their driver's license or commercial driver's license from a Cracker Jack box.
Making them more competent will not solve much. Giving them alternatives to driving their cars will.
@@th5841 Viable alternatives (e.g. transit) will reduce traffic, but improved driver training and licencing standards will reduce traffic deaths. BOTH are good.
Something I didn't see mentioned is low visibility entrances, like ramps up to the freeway with a short merge. It can be pretty terrifying trying to find a space to fit in and get up to speed without being able to see traffic until the last second, especially with so much traffic, including semis taking up the road.
Lack of driver training, especially lane etiquette on highways, is a HUGE factor in the inefficiency of Interstates. And they never even seem to learn over time either.
Yes YOU need to be retrained that you cannot go faster then the traffic in front of you, even in the left lane. It's a highway not a NASCAR race track.Chill out and slow down a bit and maintain a safe following distance.
@@Senator_Senart So you're one of the slowpokes in the left lane, blocking the cars that wish to pass dawdlers like you, amirite?
@@edwardmiessner6502 only when people keep passing me on the right and won't let me move over, but yes I drive "slow" (55-70 mph) to keep back and as far away from the rest of you psychos driving 80+ mph down the freeway tailgaitng and lane weaving (cutting off) each other......
I drive alone behind the packs of cars on the freeway and follow the 3 second following distance rule. I care more about my own safety then maintaining a high rate of speed on the freeway no matter what.
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@@Senator_Senartspot on. Failed planning models can’t be blamed on everybody not being collectively perfect enough. Beyond its optimal carriage a road can’t flow smoothly at any amount of skill. Build bad roads and you get suboptimal capacity in the first place. Build only roads and you exceed optimal capacity too. Simple maths problem a child could figure it out without copping out.
i agree and would also add “not trains” to the list
Funny how many similarities Belgium has to the US. We had a very similar history when it comes to urban planning.
like Antwerp, which was even warned by German engineers the ring would be far to close to the city and cause problems?
Luckily it's not as severe. We at least tried to make the highways go around cities
Brussels Ring (bypass) : coming from Halle, first obstacle is the "Bocht van Vorst", an almost 90 degree bend (because the Ring was not finished as intended) then further on First lane becomes an exit lane. Further on there is an entry from the left (Erasmus). Then you get to the infamous interchange of Groot-Bijgaarden and its bottleneck : 3 lanes first become 2 lanes, then 1 lane. That 1 lane becomes the third lane of the Ring. And that's just a few km of that bypass.
At least we're turning things around now, we're no Netherlands but the infrastructure we're building now is pretty good while also trying to fix past mistakes. Also almost all countries had a "cars are the future" phase and basically every city was ruined by the car, but it's getting better
People merging on the highway from on-ramp thinking they have the right away and expect you to slow down or lane Change, if you don't they'll cut right in front of you. that just bad drivers don't know how to drive safe.
So basically a Mishitgan driver in a nutshell.
Oh tell me about it!!! I especially hate in when like a pack of 6 or more cars tailgate each other in a long line coming off the entrance ramp and like all 6 cars cut you off in the right lane.
Mo Money Mango: 2 lanes each way is fine
Truck passing trucks: Am I a joke to you?
The answer to why American highways are so bad isn’t about bad design and stupid fetishes. It is about making every single citizens having to drive their own big car. Autobahn is better because it isn’t filled with unnescesary traffic. Only a relative small percentage of people in Germany drive every day. The average yearly total milage driven, is much much lower in Germany and elsewhere in the world.
Your comment: "only the wealthy elite deserve a car"
@@randommexican5664I live in Oslo, Norway. In average people here are quite rich. Still the amount of cars used here is pleasantly low. One of the bike path into the city center from one of the rich areas is nick named Tour de Finance because so many rich people use it to bicycle to work.
So it is not about rich people drive, poor people take the subway. It is about not having to have several cars in the househokd. It is about needing the car much less.
If your job demands a car to function, you don’t have to be stuck in traffic with all those who have to drive to job because there are no alternatives.
In my city there is no «only poor people take public transit, only the wealthy people deserve a car».
@@th5841 in a country with fewer people than the state I live in, that isn't very large, and average income being stupid high, sure that's practical. You live in your small town or even in a city like Oslo, which isn't even very large, and everything is right there. I might need to drive 300km for certain things in the American west. Comparing the needs of a small, low population, rich country like Norway or Switzerland to a country the size of the entire continent of Europe is pointless. We have trains, no one's taking a 4 days train ride for 5000km when you can fly for cheap domestically or take your own car in the same or less time lol. And forget biking, the nearest town to me is 80km through mountains. It's not feasible. Same in Canada but no one ever goes after them for driving just as much as we do in the states.
The problem here is that the highways got built too close to the cities. Outside of the cities the interstate highway system is great, I actually prefer it over Japan's Expressways because at least most of the interstate system is free while almost none of Japan's Expressways are.
This video will finally blow up
Nice video my dude, entertaining and informative
Thank you for this dialogue!! I moved to Charlotte and jeez
One thing that makes americas highways terrible is that their philosophy is to replace walking. The biggest mistake we made is to try and replace walking to a destination with car traffic.
I like how you use Atlanta as a prime example and as a native of that city I couldn't agree more 😂😂😂😂
1:15, what's the name of this app?
Only left lane entrance and exits should be for express lanes
I love how this whole video is just a roast of charlotte lol
I see you've been around charlotte. I absolutely despise merging from 77 north onto 277 but from 85 south onto 77 south is even stupider. I don't understand how so many people must've looked at those plans and it still went forward.
Weird, I recently drove 10,760 miles around the entire country mostly on interstates. I averaged about 75-80mph, was only pulled over once in that time, and had zero issues. Made it on time to bookings in 20 states with no problem. Try that on a train lmao
how can the country that invented the car as a mass produced way of transportation for the masses suck so bad at designing roads ??? insane!
As a european I agree with almost everything, except the 2 lanes on each side, this should only be the case in very rural areas with little traffic, if it gets a slighlty bit more dense 3 lanes on each side are a godsend, the slow trucks can stay right, the 'normal people' can use the middle lane to overtake the slow traffic and the speed freaks can use the left lane to overtake the ' normal' people.
If you have only 2 lanes, there is too much difference in speed and things can get ugly.
and I am talking about autobahn kind of speed (although it works well there too) but on roads with a speed limit , where slow medium and fast would mean 55, 70 and 80 mph
Excellent video.
4:29 lol typical altima driver
ikr
the confusion part wont be there because we use gps so it already tells us the route
Many (if not all) of the early interstates were built to cut across cities in order to displace economically poor neighbourhoods, which primarily were lived in by ethnic minorities like Afro-Americans and Hispanics. White voters complained of their homes' proximity to "colored hoods" driving down property values, and it was one of the reasons the interstate system was popular with white voters.
Long story short, the design and locations of your highways have a lot to do with racism.
how does this guy have 65 subs he should have WAYY more
Probably because his arguments don’t make any sense.
hilarious vid from an European point of view
Really loved that sign off lol
America might not be a first world country, but a third world country with a Gucci belt ...
And now it turns out the Gucci belt isn't even that well made :(
Sad
Because it's not a real Gucci belt but a cheap knockoff
why they make the exit on the left? That's make no sense at all
It's because of space constraints that prevent the construction of an exit/entrance ramp on the right.
2 Things. I agree that if you design highways like you said in this video, they will work better, but as an example in Australia, I think there are cases when you don't have to design highways as you suggested.
Yes the left lane should be used for overtaking, but once the number of cars on the road increases to a certain threshold, it becomes more dangerous to operate this way because one lane will be traveling slow while the other lane travels quickly. In fact it's more dangerous for each lane to be moving at different speeds as lane changing is the most common cause of accidents on highways (which is why you aren't supposed to change lanes in tunnels here in Australia). I know in America the speed limits are treated as suggestions, but Australia actually has a very good culture of people following the speed limit, meaning the whole keep right unless overtaking thing is a bit mute, because everyone travels at the same speed anyway (except big hills and stuff, but in those cases the rules are enforced properly). I would suggest that the German autobahns have a good safety record because without the speed limits, drivers are forced by the conditions to pay attention and drive properly. It's complacency that causes accidents. The other reason accidents happen are mainly due to congestion, the easy way to fix this is to have adaptive speed limits that lower when the cars on the road increase. This stops traffic from speeding up and slowing down constantly and gets traffic to move at a consistent and lower speed.
In terms of exits and entrances from the wrong side of the roadway, the US highway administration identified this years ago as a potentially bad idea, but most of those wrong side ramps were built years ago and it's a really expensive process to fix them. Interestingly, they don't necessarily make things any more dangerous, because they can actually reduce complacency and make drivers uncomfortable (which can increase safety). The other thing to realise is that even with merges on the "correct" side, drivers in the fast lane still have to get into the right lane in order to exit, or travel over once they enter, you might think that's safer than the alternative, but often what you'll find is that the majority of cars on the road consider themselves "fast lane" users and it's actually likely to make things worse. Also at interchanges if the majority of traffic is making a left or right onto another highway, they will all want to be using the right lane/s to exit and it really puts a spanner in the works of the whole right lane exit things. The reason why they add lanes extra to the right side of the highway and not the left is because often when an entrance comes in to a congested highway, if the entrance is congested too, then all the cars will be trying to merge into just the one lane which clogs up that lane and makes for a very dangerous situation, so they just have the entrance lane become the new right lane. (it's not ideal but there is no real alternative besides having the entrance lane come into both sides of the highway).
I’d counter the notion that introducing complexity necessarily improves safety. You’re correct in the case of tree lined streets or cobblestone etc. but that’s all in countering forgiving design, and it’s to cause drivers to slow down. But on the freeway the design is still forgiving, the lanes are wide and the view is open with no obstacle, and the speeds are high. The separation should be complex + opportunity to think or simple + high speed. They should never mix.
what a great video, at first i think this have like 300k views... soon algorithm is gonna make its job :)
Thoughts on restricting or banning cars in the US or just urban areas
Was this written by someone who hates highway probably a liberal
cars are overrated
I'd like to see the whole stinking road system be replaced with a rail based system. Street car rail systems in the cities and high speed rail connecting cities.
They should all be banned, trucks too, because Americans don't know how to drive. I live here so I ought to know.
High speed rail down the middle of highways would be good
American highways are always built in response to an issue, rather than preparing for an issue. Entrances and exits are built in wonkey spots not because the engineers are stupid, but because they are constrained to limited amounts of space. Reality isn't cities skylines, you can't just plop down an extremely efficient and beautiful road network without any repercussions. There are land owners, zoning conflicts, budget, and much more. Regular roads through city centers simply cannot accommodate day to day traffic. If there wasn't freeways going through downtown areas it would be grid lock 24/7, much MUCH worse. No widespread public transit was ever devised early on, and frankly there will never be. So we are stuck with what we have for now and there isn't any point in complaining. We can only hope new urban centers are developed for foot traffic and public transport. There is no fixing what we have without deleting half of the cars in the country.
then delete them
Germany or Belgium have much less space, yet they mostly manage to avoid these problems.
@MadLink delete them
@@CZpersi trains
trains build em
cars aren't the future don't sink more money into them
Do you know why us highways arent high speed? You arent allowed to drive as fast as you want!
I dont trust the people here to drive faster than 70
There are too many cars on the freeway for driving fast. There are slowpokes in every lane!
wow had no idea US highways are that badly constructed with exits all over the place, and that people do not use cruise and passing lanes. No wonder people there are struck in traffic daily
which also explains, why they need like 20 lanes.
The real reason people are stuck in traffic daily is that this country has been misdeveloped and a lot of what was developed before WW2 was ripped out and mis-redeveloped, both in a manner that made public transportation impossible so everyone has to drive a car.
They actually work great. You have very picked and chosen complaints.
Yeah, his arguments are crap
Yeah they work really good especially for those of us who have to drive 30 minutes or more just to get to work every day.
i think ur a troll, i see you everywhere commenting Bull***
@@Tatusiek_1 Saying that something works great is trolling now? I'm going to start spreading that around just for you.
@@ChadwickTheChad yeah same
Y’all can use me as a dislike if you want.
let me guess, you drive a chevy pick up truck and watch Nascar
@@Blackadder75 you got half of that right. I won’t be caught dead in a bow tie! Hell idk how I even ended up dailying a dodge truck tbh I’m usually a ford guy.
@@hilljackzack7284 damn, I was typing ford f150 at first, but then I changed it to chevy
@@Blackadder75 🤣😂 technically both would be wrong but I miss my 7.3! That truck was badass!
@@Blackadder75 I’m currently rebuilding the front end of my dodge and hating every second of it.
This is an extremely ignorant video. Many people rely on the interstate highway system to commute to work. If I couldn't use the highway, it would double my daily commute from 20 minutes to 40 minutes.
I wonder how millions of people in Japan commute long distances every day with less pollution, accidents, maintenance, and cost? It’s a real mystery considering how small their nation is.
What have they realized that the US government hasn’t? 🤔
40 minutes? You wouldn't even be able to commute at all, thanks to all the horrible drivers having accidents on the road! For example: 6:50 to 7:10 that drive on the freeway in Atlanta downtown literally made me seasick while the German Autobahn drive that followed calmed down my stomach.
no you are ignorant, and didn't get the message of the video.. the video promotes better freeway design, which also means that your commute would not use the freeway where it shouldn't be used, (but instead other well designed roads should be build for your situation that are not interstates)
note, I don't know your situation, maybe it's so that a highway is the best route for you, but the point is, for many situations within a city it should not be the best route.
I will never ever understand when people say freeways and highways split cities. WALK UNDER THEM