Comments by "Safe-Keeper" (@safe-keeper1042) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1.  @randysavage1  you know dozens of people who happen to like Cards Against Humanity, laugh at their own cards to get points, and get easily offended? Cool story, bro.
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  2.  @adanactnomew7085  his point is the usual butwhataboutchina you always get from those people.
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  3.  @djwestbrook36  Sorry, but that's a myth. You've got newer European cities, and older American cities. Then you have all the cities that were bombed and rebuilt when WWII came around.
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  4. "Walking, what is this, Star Trek"? Seriously, though, what's horrifying is the idea of being forced to get everywhere by car, or be dependent on a neglected public transit system.
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  5. No one claimed there was.
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  6. Please don't give them ideas.
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  7. NIMBYs and xenophobia. They prefer oceans of single-family housing with all the houses in roughly the same price range and nothing else (like cozy corner shops or cafes) permitted, because otherwise 'the wrong people' (their words) might move in or come to visit.
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  8. Exactly. I mean, buying in bulk makes economic sense, and I try to shop to fill my fridge and freezer myself, but it's good to have the option -- if I just want a small treat or a carton of milk, I can just walk 10 minutes to my local store.
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  9. My hometown of Bergen, Norway is planning to remove a four-lane highway and put light rail tracks in its place, and build a new highway in a tunnel, out of sight :). It'll be a huge improvement.
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  10. No one is proposing no vehicles. Drop the knee-jerk rections and try watching the vid.
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  11. Scandinavia handled covid wonderfully, thank you very much. And we use public transit a lot. Try again.
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  12.  @Rommie26  completely irrelevant. There are other countries out there equal or larger in size and they aren't deliberately planned to be as car-centric as the USA.
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  13.  @stacysilverman6366  here, have some attention.
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  14. It's not 'dumb', strictly speaking, it's a product of lobbying from oil and car companies, and racist city planning. To just write it off as stupidity is being too nice to them.
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  15. Did you ever in your life go near an English class? If you're going to post racist drivel at least try to come across as someone of average intelligence yourself.
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  16. If you think those bikes take up too much space, wait until you see a car.
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  17. Americans can always be trusted to do what's right, once they've tried everything else.
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  18. You don't say.
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  19. The last part of your comments just shows how high demand there is for these places. Which in turn means they should build (many) more of them.
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  20. ​ @KyrieFortune  you don't see a tiny difference between selling cans of beer which customers tend to, you know, take with them, and a bar where you tend to drink your alcohol... at the bar? You know, in regards to... drunk driving?
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  21. It's as if there are advantages to these bikes. Like less noise and no pollution. Crazy, I know.
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  22. You don't disagree with him. You'd see that if you stopped splitting hairs.
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  23. You realise city planning itself is political, right? And that 'all lives matter' completely misses the point (perhaps deliberately)? It's like me saying I'm interested in fighting cancer, and you reply with "but all diseases matter!". It's not even a stance, it's just just empty noise, at best a strawman that people saying 'black lives matter' mean that ONLY black lives matter. It's like that "Twitter as of 2022" cartoon where one person says "yeah, rescuing cats is important to me!", and another person replies with "oh, so you hate dogs".
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  24.  @deezynar  I read all your comments. Few arguments or examples, just the same baseless claims over and over. Very condescending attitude throughout for some reason. 2/10, would not recommend.
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  25.  @deezynar  yes, you've said repeatedly that the Dutch government manipulates its citizens. You've said nothing about *how*.
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  26.  @deezynar  " I'm intentionally being provocative" That explains a lot. You might want to reconsider that, given that respect and just straight up telling people what you think makes people think way more than a smug attitude.
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  27. I never understood comments like this. Like... rain gear? Warm clothes? It's like some people have never been outside their house.
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  28.  @MrJaaaaake  I never understood this argument. If you're going to buy something big like a piece of furniture or whatever, fine, use a car (or just have it delivered to you, like I do). How often do you do that, though? What about the remaining 99.99% of the time when you just want to get from Point A to Point B?
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  29.  @MrJaaaaake  I love the "but USA is big" knee-jerk reaction. It's as if you think every country in Europe is a mile wide or something.
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  30.  @MrJaaaaake  " I was poor and needed a car for work. If you work in the trades people are going to get tired of picking you up for work everyday. Most jobs require vehicles. Not everyone works in an office, retail or a factory. It's really not hard to pay for a bachelor apt and a car in a normal city while climbing the ladder. It becomes a problem when people want to eat out everyday and constantly spend money on entertainment." Oh yeah, the "my experience is everyone else's experience too" approach.
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  31. Are you racist lowlifes ever going to make any actual arguments, or is it just feigned ignorance and stupid leading questions all the way down?
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  32. Do we really? I get everywhere I need to go on foot, on my bike, or using public transport. If I need something heavy moved, I just have it delivered to me (and before you say anything, no one is proposing all cars are banned from downtown, or that literally every street is closed off from cars, etc. Of course we'd still need delivery services, emergency vehicles, etc.).
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  33. (Some) drivers are really the most entitled people you'll meet, they just want to drive their cars wherever they want, whenever they want, and as fast as they want, all other concerns be damned. A byproduct of having everything built and designed around them for decades, I guess.
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  34. You sure are. I envy you your infrastructure.
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  35. Visited Oslo recently, really walkable city.
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  36. Yes, yes, very edgy.
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  37. Better late than never, I guess.
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  38. Yes? I have a feeling it'd be less noisy than delivery cars and vans, so what's the problem?
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  39. Add more lanes!!111 /jk
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  40. Good riddance.
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  41. Giant misunderstanding of history. Lots of European streets are laid out for cars, and most US cities were also designed and built before cars were even invented.
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  42.  @jaceallred  newer? Houston was founded in the 1830s, before the invention of the car. Houston used to be a thriving, walkable city with street car lines. They tore all that for freeways and parking lots. As Not Just Bikes says, America wasn't built for the car, it was demolished for the car.
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  43.  @Amobofchickens638  you have to remember a lot of European cities were bombed heavily during World War II. Traffic engineers then saw an opportunity to 'modernize' them to be car-friendly. So I guess maybe rebuilt is more accurate.
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  44. What's just as annoying as the weird car-centric policies is all the excuses. "Oh, it has to be this way because I don't wanna live downtown in an apartment!", or "Oh, it has to be this way because America is a big country!"
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  45. ​ @germanogirardelli  did you misunderstand their point deliberately? If you're at an EV charger, you're there to charge your car, which you kinda need to regularly do if you own an electric car. The OP is saying that if there's a cafe at the charging station, you can relax and have a coffee while your car charges. That's not driving for a cup of coffee, it's driving to charge your car. This isn't hard.
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  46.  @peterbelanger4094  "You couldn't have your cities with the support of the vehicle driving rural people you look down your noses at. Try the other way around. The cities are the engines of societies. Suburbs bring in far less tax money per capita. Not Just Bikes has some excellent videos on how cities subsidize suburbia.
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  47. The nirvanna fallacy people suddenly experience when talking about green solutions is really fascinating. The moment we're talking about environmentalist innovations, they have to be 100% perfect in every single way or they're hopeless and we should stick with what we have. I suppose the problems with the products we have are so ingrained in us we don't care about them anymore. It's not a question of electric cars vs. no cars, it's electric cars vs. combustion engines. When considering the pros and cons of both, electric obviously comes out on top. I'd rather have a small number of kids forced to do slave labour than millions of kids worldwide getting respiratory diseases and cancer from pollution from cars, oil fields, and refineries. I'd rather have batteries you can remove from the car and store or recycle than fuel you have to constantly refill, and which is emitted as Co2 and exhaust into the atmosphere. I'd rather be reducing Co2 emissions than contributing towards the climate crisis. Btw, even when they get their power from fossil fuels, electric cars still come out on top in the long-run, emission-wise.
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  48. Yeah, that's what North American cities need, even more parking lots.
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  49. Good idea. Not Just Bikes had a video about winter cycling where he showed a city in Finland projecting symbols onto snowy bike paths, so it can definitely be done.
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  50. Don't see how it'd be a loss of liberty. When I think of a typical North American suburb and how all the houses have to have front lawns that you have to tend to in a certain way, and you're forced to build only single-family homes, and you depend on a car to even participate in society... freedom isn't the first word that comes to mind. Not sure why they'd have to raise taxes, either. Higher density brings in way more money than endless deserts of single-family suburban housing. And why would the newcomers have nowhere to work?
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