Comments by "Bushrod Rust Johnson" (@MilwaukeeF40C) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. Strip malls with more annoying layouts and mostly froo froo stores for women with small dogs.
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  2. The people who live in these kinds of places don't value walking to parks that much. They probably have a yard anyway.
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  3. What a vain ass way to live.
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  4.  @Revelwoodie  "I'm going to have apps do everything in my life."
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  5. People never rode horses around like they were cars. Only farmers, rich people, and delivery businesses had draft animals. Everyone else walked until the 19th century.
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  6. Suburban sidewalks are 4 or 5 feet wide, and usually separated from the street by a grass utility strip with trees in it. If you are going to make a wider sidewalk to park cars, why not just make a wider street instead?
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  7. The "wider community" is not entitled to any particular outcome.
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  8. I don't know about the Glenn Beck stuff, but I do know that eminent domain for private development, zoning bureaucracy, targeted subsidies, and governments trying to manipulate behavior and economic choices is going to piss certain kinds of people off. I work in engineering. Most of the "sustainable" stuff is pure crap and tiring. LEED, what a joke.
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  9. "Public private partnerships" are usually worse than either fully private or fully public entities.
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  10. Dang ol' cold beer right between the dang ol' legs, man.
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  11. My children can play in a junkyard if they want. My yard is for me, my tastes, my hobbies, my food, and my hatred of the idea of having to put up with shit at a park. I had private yards to play in at various times during my childhood and it kicked ass. Living in apartments and condos sucked effeminate urban planners' balls.
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  12. Those were crackhead deer.
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  13. Even contemporary garages are short as hell. My Corolla barely fits in the place I currently reside at. A sedan would require me to move the garbage cans to a spot with less fung shooey. My company pickup that is loaded with equipment I need will not fit at all, nor would the Galaxie that was offered to me that desperately needs indoor space.
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  14. Illinois is an armpit of the midwest and it has nothing to do with Indiana. All of the leaching off the Illinois economy is by its own state and local governments.
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  15. Lego Mindstorms was an autonomous weapons program. The Lego parent is a rent-seeking equity company controlled by a legacy family in cahoots with the E.U. and Danish state. At least one of these things is true.
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  16. I hate going in to a building and smelling cooking odors.
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  17. CAR! GAME ON! GAME ON!
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  18. Most cities everywhere started with single family dwellings.
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  19.  Marc T  Where grids are feasible they are much better.
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  20.  @xhonkeri4066  Millions of dollars are spent by most high value municipalities in "suburbia" every year on bike paths. Nobody uses them. All they do is suck up more land and make runoff worse.
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  21.  @ShaudaySmith  "A lot of communities have a list of preferred vendors to work regularly on their properties if you live in a high end community." And a concierge that sets these things up!
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  22.  @OatmealTheCrazy  When it is worthwhile it is done.
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  23. Would people choose cars as much if road paving couldn't be subsidized, and highways were private toll roads?
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  24. Retail places of any kind are endangered. Douchey sushi places will not be enough to keep these "trendy" strips alive.
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  25. Screw the NFL. Bring back XFL.
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  26. A garage makes an ideal storage and utility space with its huge door, while being okay to get dirty. Modern cars do not need to be babied indoors. Attached garages surrounded on the sides or top by living space are also inefficient in extreme outdoor temperatures, every time the door is opened. Parking more frequently used vehicles on the street can save time.
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  27. "Homelessness is whole separate issue that the us (preety much alone) has to deal with." Wrong.
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  28. WHEE HEEE!!! SHAMONA!!!
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  29. @Untergrundmaschine American small towns are completely walkable. Most are not more than a mile long. Before cars existed rural residents used to walk for miles to these types of towns, no sidewalk or bike path needed. All of the same roads are still there and in fact easier to walk on with pavement.
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  30. The type of development that the goals of "smart growth" most resembles is just an idealized version of how things were turning out when there was very little government "planning" and involvement in transportation and land use at all. Most of the "problems" that sustainability agendas attempt to address were just caused by past top-down agendas, such as subsidized highways.
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  31. National City Lines DID keep some profitable streetcar lines in service in L.A., even bought new equipment, and they weren't shut down until the public transit agency took over. Also, Pacific Electric interurban lines were separate from Los Angeles Railway which was the city system. National City Lines was not involved in Pacific Electric.
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  32.  @barvdw  Zoning is a fringe issue. Populism led to governments subsidizing the shit out of road infrastructure and real estate debt that skews the market away from higher density development. Almost all "zones" are created on vacant, soon to be developed land because that is what the private developer is trying to get approval for. Apartment buildings, commercial, and industrial property zoning changes quite often to get redeveloped.
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  33. South America has a different kind of homelessness. Historically bad property rights enforcement, so they lived like next to homeless nomads getting chased to a different temporary claim all the time. This has gotten better in the past couple decades in some states and has contributed to less rainforest destruction.
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  34.  @sarowie  Lots of suburban businesses avoid work in the main city. Not worth it.
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  35. Most Europeans can not get admitted in to a program worth more than an associate's degree under their "free" system.
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  36. I wouldn't tear up existing layouts as that just screws up land records.
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  37. Property owners should really be responsible for the infrastructure anyway, if they want something other than dirt.
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  38. Taxes are inefficient and coercive. They hide the direct costs of infrastructure and create moral hazard.
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  39. "Debt doesn't matter, you could have $1 in debt with a gdp of $2 or $1 trillion in debt and a gdp of $4 trillion. The $1 trillion in debt is twice as good as the $1 in debt, as the gdp ratio is 25% vs 50%." No. Public debt does NOT scale that nicely. Fucked is fucked.
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  40. Some people are just not incentivized by cliquey bullshit, which is what draws and drives most modern middle class city culture. The stuff about corruption, crime, and a shit public sector also sticks. It's not "hard right". That's simplistic crap.
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  41. Pretty much all streets originally come from a private land developer deciding where they want the street to be. Then they dedicate it for public use or a private easement in a legally recorded plat. The private developer usually pays for the initial street construction costs too. This is how they get sellable lots.
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  42. A lot of roadways in the U.S. are technically on the land of the surrounding property owners.
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  43. Some of those Belgian cars were made with recycled PCC guts from the U.S.
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  44. Jackasses are going to drive slow camper vans anyway. At least the U.S. has room to go around them.
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  45. Housing shortages are always caused by development restrictions.
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  46. The "pandemic" is not an excuse for forcing social engineering in unrelated shit.
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  47. Kids just like that shit. Most kids never get more than a few sets, and they'd probably select police and fire related ones first.
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  48. The Liberty lines were essentially heavy rail commuter. Those can be time competitive with cars because of distance traveled.
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  49. I will never be without automotive transportation.
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  50. Ordinary platted and prescriptive streets and roads can not be sold because no specific entity has complete ownership of them unless they are legally vacated. Access to them is a Lockean style property right, affirmed in common law, that assures people can make practical use of their own private property and get from one parcel to another.
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