Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "City Beautiful" channel.

@pinkfloyddwc I live less than half a block from a bus stop in a neighborhood as gridded as the topography makes practical and much prefer that to more modern designed areas around my city, thank you very much. The area is extremely walkable, with its grid, sidewalks, and everything you need withing walking distance and still manages to keep much of the neighborhood fairly low traffic by simply using 1-way streets to encourage use of the main roads and save space and pavement. Public transit is great and we need more, not less of it.
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@pinkfloyddwc such a cutting and thorough rebuttal. /s stay in school kid, and pay attention in class. You might learn something.
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@autohmae counterpoint: it means more people driving at any given time which means more accidents overall, even if fewer will happen at that particular intersection. Without these designs we could have more walking, biking, and public transit, which come with all sorts of advantages over cars, including less accidents.
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@kansasthunderman1 please look up the prisoner's dilemma. It applies to public transit vs driving (among a great many other things) Everyone doing what is in their personal best interest in a situation quite often leads to worse overall outcomes.
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EpiDemic117 you know what would be cheaper than that or even what we already do? Just giving every homeless person a small efficiency. The costs in things like crime and emergency room visits are greater than what it would cost to simply house every homeless person in America. We could also greatly reduce crime by ending the war on drugs, which funnels money into organized crime by pushing it to the black market. Problem (mostly) solved for better than free rather than just pushing it elsewhere at great cost. Just food for thought (and no, not making it up, as surprising as the first part may sound)
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EpiDemic117 it's not really a different problem though. You're proposing treating the symptoms, which seems reasonable at first glance, but I'm proposing treating the causes of those social issues instead.
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@kansasthunderman1 there is no workable alternative to public transit in large enough cities. More roads just lead to more traffic after a certain scale. As usual in the modern US, driven by the consumerism fed to us constantly and lobbiests influencing our politicians, we simply refuse to accept the real solution because it requires change. Frankly, for a country known for its forward-reaching vision for the best parts of our history, this attitude disgust me as a patriot. E Pluribus Unum
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@TrevorEMayo for your reference, in the US, Libertarianism refers to a hyperindividualistic anarchocapitalist politics that basically makes a religion out of laissez-faire capitalism, putting faith in the free market to solve every social and economic problem if only the government would get out of the way. And yes, it completely misses the contradiction between wanting personal freedom and allowing unchecked accumulation of private power, so they're not exactly playing with a full deck.
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EpiDemic117 nice strawman. Muted (dumbass)
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@thatgoodpain it's more than that, actually. It exists because it's something to threaten the working class with.
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@FunkyJeff22 environmentally friendly =/= forces everyone to buy a car
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