Comments by "" (@jasonreed7522) on "Can we make cities car free?" video.

  1. I wouldn't say it doesn't create traffic. Traffic isn't about the mode of transport, its about how much congestion and backup and delay happens. Inside buildings when a hallway is crowded it is said to be a high traffic area. Its just bikes and pedestrians fit a lot easier than cars do into the same space and as such are less likely to cause "traffic" that inconveniences you. And i do agree with the idea of a bike "highway" just more in the sense of having a lot of multipurpose paths to take shortcuts intentionally unavailable to cars. Cars have a use, but that is more for rural regions and not urban and suburbs that should focus on transit and bike/pedestrian infrastructure.
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  2.  @isaaccastillo5080  you have discovered the concept of the metropolitan area, (technically this breaks for small cities). The metro is all contiguous counties that are highly urban in what most would recognize as functionally 1 city. For instance Albany NY is only the west side of the Hudson, and Rensselaer NY is the county on the east bank of the Hudson, but functionally it is just 1 city divided on a historical border determined when rivers where hard to cross and the place was basically just a small fort town. The real questions are why is Staten Island in NY and not Jersey (states, and cities) and Yonkers hasn't been absorbed into NYC yet. The answer is basically just a bunch of historical legacy nobody is willing to clean up and a local myth about sailing around islands.
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  3. You can modify the cul-de-sac design to include multiuse trails (bikes and walkers) for shortcuts and have trams/street cars on main roads with stops in convient places (like infront of schools, stores, and apartment complexes as well as every few "blocks" of culdesac spurts off the main road. You could even try having higher density on the main roads with the low density on short culdesacs to balance everyone's needs and not "need" a car for everything. Obviously not everywhere can ditch the car but urban and suburban can atleast minimize the dependency and have a interface with the countryside through train stations on the outskirts that have extra large parking so those people can park outside the city for free/cheap and take transit in.
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