Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "City Beautiful" channel.

That was a major factor in the removal of the viaduct as we saw the same design collapse and crush cars during that earthquake. The main question was whether you go with a tunnel, elevated roadway or surface streets. The tunnel turned out to be cost effective due to the reduced disruption during construction resulting in less lost tax revenue.
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@THEHamBot1 You'd be surprised, it can be rather easy to miss a street sign and wind up having to keep driving a couple miles until you hit the next opportunity to turn around. GPS, especially with voice commands, makes it easier, but it's still a much bigger pain in the neck due to the difficulty in figuring out how far you are from your intended turn.
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I suspect in the long run, it will probably be a combination of the two. Here in Seattle, the major streets tend to be roughly 5-10 blocks apart, which would give ample opportunity for cul-de-sac or neighborhoods without through streets without destroying the ability of random citizens to walk or bike about. Having grown up one block off one of the arterials, there was a large amount of traffic that went fast down the narrow street in order to avoid the stop light on the arterial one block over. They'd drive it as if it was an arterial, even though there was barely room for one car between the parked cards
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The Netherlands is also incredibly flat. Which makes bicycles an option. Around here we have steep hills that are sometimes more than 20% grade and even the flatter ones are numerous enough to cause problems. The moral of the story is that you have to consider what kind of landscape you have when making your transportation decisions as what works in one place may make no sense in another.
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I see a lot of the busier drive throughs having a second lane for ordering. It does speed things up a bit, but more than that and you have logistical issues with needing a way to deliver the food to the other lane, and much of it involves things that are easy to spill like drinks. It's not like banks where they can just put the money into pneumatic tubes for delivery to the car.
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At a certain point, you just need more lanes. You can keep the number lower, by offering grade separated mass transit and defusing economic activity for reduced commuting, but at the end of the day, you can't just remove lanes of traffic and expect good things to happen, the way Seattle thinks it will.
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@RedKnight-fn6jr Something I saw fairly often in China was a bike lane marked on the sidewalk. In this case, they probably could and should, route the bikes onto something similar until it gets past the restaurant. And better still, stop approving restaurants have the kitchen in the wrong location. Those cars should be moving through that drive through lane in the opposite direction. This design generates traffic and crash risks the same way that those clover leaves do.
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Probably not. Having random people coming and going reduces the likelihood of crime as it increases the likelihood that somebody will see that door getting kicked in and increases the ease with which police can randomly cruise down a given street. One of the big things you can do to reduce crime is to increase the likelihood of criminal activities being seen. Dead ends and places which are hard to get to just attract different kinds of crimes.
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@Gigaamped That won't ever happen unless the laws are changed to make them not responsible if somebody walking up to the window is injured by a car.
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Amazon proves that. They got the head tax repealed during an illegal private meeting.
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So, how do you enforce that? By the time you even get to the point of them ordering, it's effectively too late to do anything about it.
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"Looks like"? He has ambulances parked outside the warehouses so he can avoid paying for air conditioning.
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We had most of our railroad buried there. But, the city is kind of narrow and the waterfront is a very smart place to have a highway due time the needs of businesses. Even with the viaduct coming down, we've still got a rather massive street along the waterfront due to the ferries.
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IIRC, street addresses in Japan are based upon the age of the building, so two buildings next to each other won't necessarily have sequential addresses.
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I wish they would, they wouldn't be here if they weren't taking more than they give.
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I've personally only seen that when they're really backed up. I tend to refuse to get in a line unless it's relatively short though. Most of the time, I wind up waiting because there's a longer than normal delay.
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Yep. I grew up there and the place is a s-hole now, a large part of it is Amazon's model. They largely don't hire locally and oppose anything that might cost them money. Now we've got tent cities just about everywhere and it shows no sign of improving. The city used to be high end back water when I was a kid, but now the place completely lacks any soul as most normal people can't afford rent.
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You see that kind of mess East of Lake Washington where there were a lot of subdivisions built to house the people displaced from Seattle proper by increasing housing prices. The area is a mess in terms of traffic because there's few options for getting around. The traffic in Seattle is terrible, but there are slightly more options for travel and a lot of the constraints are based upon the topography of the area, rather than artificial constraints. For the most part, the streets themselves are either on a grid or off the grid due to hills and bodies of waters demanding something else.
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That initial restaurant's drive through is operating backwards from how it should, making it even worse. As you go straight for a right turn in, you should get to the entrance before the exit. The city should have a median in the street to prevent people from turning left into the driveway with a left turn/ U-turn lane at the next signaled intersection. And, since that is a bike lane, perhaps put some of those pylons in that deter cars from driving in the bike lane. Also, the drive throughs around here that get super busy tend to have a second lane to take the orders, and presumably more people inside to hand the bags as they get to the window.
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@BluePieNinjaTV Yes, it's doubtful that they do every drive through order first, they probably just put the order in after whatever the most recently taken order is. This isn't that much different from theme parks with express lanes or lanes for the disabled. They have some formula to tell them how much spacing they need to keep things flowing as best as possible for everybody.
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LOL, Lake City Center, that's the Oreilly's I use.
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The way he uses the term metro is nonstandard and I don't think even a word. He means a subway. It's also misleading because Seattle has more than one light rail system that are independent of each other. We built 3 independent systems, 2 street cars and one that's above, below and on the ground in various places. Trying to bury a line completely in a city wth huge hills would require some stations to be several hundred feet below ground.
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