Comments by "Bushrod Rust Johnson" (@MilwaukeeF40C) on "Residential streets are too wide. Here's why." video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. CAR! GAME ON! GAME ON!
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  5. Most cities everywhere started with single family dwellings.
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  6. Screw the NFL. Bring back XFL.
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  7. 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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  8. Jackasses are going to drive slow camper vans anyway. At least the U.S. has room to go around them.
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  9. Garages are a somewhat climate controlled, semi clean but okay to get dirty, large with easy outside access multi purpose space. It could be argued that the dumbest thing you could do is waste that space on your car. I park outside in the winter so that salt and dirty snow doesn't get in the garage.
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  10. Technically, adjacent landowners have some ownership rights of streets. So they should get to park on them if there is room. Streets can not really be sold off, so the space is sort of locked in to public use unless they are vacated (abandoned).
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  11. I hate electric cars. But if they force them on the market, the massive potential torque is going to be tempting as fuck.
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  12. Metric units are derived from theoretical scientific shit that is not very intuitive in an everyday setting. A meter is based on the transmission of light. A foot is about the length of your foot. Any arbitrary unit can be made to work like the metric system does with multiples or fractions of ten, so who is to say that the "meter" shouldn't have been made slightly shorter or longer?
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  13. In my profession, converting from English to Metric is not legally advisable, because of how the measurements may have been obtained and precision error from any of several conversion standards. A foot may not be a foot, but may have a scale factor, horizontal feet may be different than vertical feet, and there is distortion over larger distances. I have never checked, but I am pretty sure that British counterparts in my profession are just as experienced with the English system as I am.
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  14. Parking on sidewalks is legal NOWHERE in the U.S. The sidewalk and parkway grass is part of the street's fixed right of way from when the land was first officially divided. Technically the city or local government does not own the right of way, it is just a custodian. The adjacent landowners retain some real estate rights (mainly direct access and reversionary full ownership if the street is ever abandoned), while "the public" has dedicated rights such as travel, vehicular operation, parking depending on the facilities. One more thing: nothing requires the city government or anyone to provide any level of facilities in the right of way, the right of way is just the designated area reserved for that by a land developer. Most towns have some right of ways that are never used.
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  15. Having to pull into driveways and stuff like that to pass does NOT save fuel.
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  16. Typical U.S. street right of way width is 66 feet (one chain), or 60 feet or sometimes 70 or even 80 feet. This goes back to English land divisions based on the chain and the earliest days of U.S. settlement, well before cars existed and roads were dirt. It is not going to change on existing platted subdivisions, and new ones still have plenty of land to find something to do with. The real estate is there, why not have some breathing room for moving trucks, garbage trucks, fire trucks, and houseparty parking for the occasions it is needed? Sure, parking lanes probably could be cut from two to one. We don't want to litter streets with "hazards" like the social engineering Europeans do, as this interferes with the common law purpose of a right of way. Most of that trendy complicated "green" shit is not going to be maintained properly either. The wide right of way widths will be appreciated in existing platted areas if they ever do densify.
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  17. It happens in teardown neighborhoods as it always has. Ones with long, straight, wide streets like the one at the very beginning of the video are ripe for it especially if they are somewhat close to a "downtown" or new office center. The two "extra" lanes may be utilized for parking or travel. Ranches and splitlevels? Nobody wants those anymore. I'm not so sure how modern isolated, curvilenear subdivisions will turn out in 50 years when the dwellings depreciate but some of them are already getting pretty worn out. There comes a time when housing ages to a point where it is only valuable for renting. Large sections are purchased by investors. Homeowners associations go away or get court appointed trustees, and renters don't complain about redevelopment with as much skin. Some structures are lost by attrition. Eventually the townhouses, condos, and apartments come in whole blocks. The other option is lot consolidation with fewer, bigger houses. That still pushes development or redevelopment somewhere else. Nobody does this in neighborhoods that are complete shitholes, just dated ones. At some point housing just has to be replaced and the "natives" can't do much about it, but hopefully the land is still wanted. Otherwise we will end up with suburb versions of Detroit and south Chicago. It is not going back to farmland. I am ignoring government driven redevelopment and eminent domain schemes because I hate them. But those happen too.
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  18. I would never live in a shithole neighborhood that won't let me store a canoe on the side of the house.
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  19. Under common law, roads should be open to all forms of travel that fit as a public property right, but should not favor any particular form in convenience. That's why I am in favor of Bangkok driving rules. Motor vehicle licensing and registration are also deprivation of a property right.
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  20. Not just a place, but a state of mind.
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  21. What is curve coins?
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  22. Solution: privatize fire departments. They began as private companies, and the government ones are all starting to charge for services anyway in addition to taxes.
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  23. Smelling what the far easterns next door are cooking...
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  24. This dude looks like Weezer.
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  25. New York City is not Manhattan. AT LEAST half of households have cars, as well as rarely set foot in Manhattan.
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  26. Many neighborhoods in the U.S. have curbless streets with ditches along them. The problem is they fill in and nobody ever reshapes them. Homeowners never clean their driveway culverts, and then complain to the government when their yard fills with water.
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  27. Stalker.
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