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Bigger lanes means bigger roads means more accidents. Bigger cars for those bigger lanes means harder to see pedestrians and blind spots, and as a result more deaths.
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@raufsat8261 This same channel has a video on trucks growing in size and the size increasing with the rate of automobile related deaths.
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NJB, I think you have a great cause, but I think there's an even worse underlying problem. The American people are simply uninterested in local issues at the city level. People often push for big presidential candidates (of which don't care for car dependency) and maybe state governors who also still focus on large initiatives fueled by political motivations. How can the American public see, understand, but also sympathize and becomes passionate for wanting to improve American cities large and small?
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What's the best way to solve this problem in the U.S.? You're surely doing a great help with these extremely well-made and researched videos. However, I'm not entirely sure voting is the catalyst for these changes. I think it needs to be more economical while also making sense to society naturally. Most people don't observe these issues on a daily basis, even though all the problems you stated do make sense and occur much more in the U.S. than E.U. counterparts. I guess, I'm hoping there's a better, quicker, and natural way to make the U.S. better for people and have it be a central topic for all political candidates. I have a feeling this is a generational solution though. I'll try my best to spread via word-of-mouth about your videos.
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The U.S. is also a young country comparatively, that is an important point to leave out considering how the U.S. grew so much with evolving car technologies. Isn't it highly generalized to talk about population density, especially in the U.S.? It only describes how much land there is compared to people, not how that land is used. If you ignore population density and look at tax dollars generated per-city, that should describe where people live and how. I'm sure there are better places to allocate budget that would solve swathes of issues dealing with car dependence at once. Cars will always be needed for more isolationist areas. Japan already functions like this. No reason for higher population suburban cities to also have better transportation and less car dependence, too. We have a huge network of roads for truckers to take advantage and get supplies to any part of the U.S.. Let's use this advantage and make people drive less.
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@ed1726 What's the typical numerical comparison between the U.S. and other urban dense populations? The nice part is that if you already have huge roads for more dense areas, it is easier to take away space from those roads than to add to them while they're surrounded by buildings. There is no catch 22 to that, besides that it certainly takes time build differently and to transition away from societal habits of driving everywhere and walking nowhere. It costs money, but at this point the average citizen is paying for a car, too. The U.S. highway system introduced infrastructure for cars and somewhere along the way car culture grew up also because people could drive from their cheaper homes (that were in the sprawls) to work. But with this, we're taking a lot of long-term generational debt if we want to keep living the way we are.
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@ed1726 Sure, I can see where certain large cities have become large sprawls. The reason being that housing was cheaper in the outskirts. My issue is more so with that local municipalities are failing to create incremental change. The density varies quite highly state-to-state, but there are also pockets of populations in suburban areas (especially ones that are new developments) alone that warrant more walkability. The U.S. due to its low density should be able to build onto empty land quite easily. I fail to see how a relatively new town is forced to be stuck in old ways. I'm not completely bought into the population density argument because there are perfectly normal suburbs which have new small businesses with an extremely healthy local customer base within months. Business is most certainly viable, people already live here and are ready to pay, why not make both of them more accessible to each other?
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How can such amazing individual perspectives like this exist, yet be argued against by the general public and have that same public opinion support popular candidates that don't address any of these issues? Is car dependence not the biggest issue in the U.S.? Stuff like this disillusions me from the general U.S. populace.
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