Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Why tech billionaires suck at fixing transport" video.

15 years ago my city [Burgas Bulgaria] ripped up every road narrowed them, widened the pavements and put in dedicated bike and scooter roads - NOT lanes, separate roads and they put on masses of extra busses at a flat rate of €0.75 pre-ride no matter how far you go It has utterly transformed the city. I no longer have a car - just don't need one even though I live 7km outside the city. Even my rich neighbors leave their SUV's here for days and use public transport, its just quicker and easier. The center is booming -all thos e people previously stuck in cars miserable are walking and buying coffee and food and other stuff. This year our high speed rail connection opens and then I can go anywhere in Europe
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@Free-g8r - It would be a really good case study. If you google "Burgas Bulgaria city center" everything you see was roads for cars when I moved here, then we had 3 years of utter hell and chaos, now 80% of the city is for people, bikes and scooters. I owned a Mercedes CL500 coupe, when I moved to the city it just sat outside until the tires went flat, then the brakes seized on and I could not move it, in the end I gave it away cos the council put an "abandoned car" notice on it. Cos its just WAY easier to use the bus.
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@kacpermalinowski8215 15 years ago my city [Burgas Bulgaria] ripped up every road, narrowed them, widened the pavements and put in dedicated bike and scooter roads - NOT lanes separate roads and they put on masses of extra busses at a flat rate of €0.75 pre-ride no matter how far you go It has utterly transformed the city. I no longer have a car - just don't need one even though I live 7km outside the city. Even my rich neighbors leave their SUV's here for days and use public transport, its just quicker and easier. The center is booming -all thos e people previously stuck in cars miserable are walking and buying coffee and food and other stuff. This year our high speed rail connection opens and then I can go anywhere in Europe
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15 years ago my city [Burgas Bulgaria] ripped up every road, narrowed them, widened the pavements and put in dedicated bike and scooter roads - NOT lanes separate roads and they put on masses of extra busses at a flat rate of €0.75 pre-ride no matter how far you go It has utterly transformed the city. I no longer have a car - just don't need one even though I live 7km outside the city. Even my rich neighbors leave their SUV's here for days and use public transport, its just quicker and easier. The center is booming -all thos e people previously stuck in cars miserable are walking and buying coffee and food and other stuff. This year our high speed rail connection opens and then I can go anywhere in Europe
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@guyvannifterik - I found out yesterday that sadly some cities have gone the other way and become more pro car. I guess this is the downside of having a governmental system where the mayors have a LOT of actual authority and power...
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@johndoh5182 TRANSLATION "we built really really dumb cities wiht car dependant suburbs that are unsustainable but instead of admitting it we prefer to be arrogant about it and pretend this is an inherent feature of America instead of a very stupid decision" EDIT " In a lot of places where I live you might have to drive 10 miles just to get food" how astonishingly DUMb is that???? I can get almost any food I want within 400m of my home. Seriously - please stop trying to sell the world's worst planning decisions as something inevitable. You built unsustainable car dependent low-density single occupancy suburbs cos they were ethe most profitable at the time - now you are stuck with the catastrophic bad decision. But its NOT a law of nature that it has to be this way cos its America.
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@vasiliyt8600 - Thats like my home country the UK - half a project on the cheap and then abandon it when it does not work
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@olenickel6013 - Please do - its lovely.
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