Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Residential streets are too wide. Here's why." video.

Because people like cars and driving and in many cases trying to reduce their use is very difficult if not impossible. Also narrowing streets in any place that has significant snowfall? Minus well shutdown the city after every major snow storm then because between people shovelling snow and snow plows clearing the roads, the amount of piled up snow will take up practically all the road space meaning no one will be able to move anywhere.
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@Codraroll I live in Toronto and here we don't have superwide residential roads unless maybe its a newer subdivision. If there are cars parked on both sides of the street you have about 1 1/2 car spaces for vehicles to pass which of course means one person has to wait for the other to pass. It doesn't happen very often, but usually once or twice a winter we have one big snowfall and residential roads narrow alot, especially the closer to get towards downtown which is of course the oldest parts of the city. For me I'm not in favor of superwide residential roads, but I am for them to be wide enough that you can comfortably fit two cars passing each other with one side of the road for street parking and it would be even better if newer subdivisions would have built in roundabouts to move traffic better.
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@Codraroll Here its usually the same thing where often the rule is only one side at a time is used for parking, but in the suburbs this isn't always the case when you at times have cars parking on both sides maybe overnight or maybe temporarily when someone is visiting their friends or family and then you have to let one car pass before another can. Either way many older streets in Toronto are pretty narrow and it would be much better if they were wider, but I guess city planners at the time didn't think that there would be that much vehicle traffic using those roads perhaps.
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@matletico I agree that there are alot of assholes behind the wheel of vehicles, but there are alot of good, decent drivers as well who enjoy driving and do it safely. Also again I'll say until politicians, city planners and developers start building better more people friendly communities nothing will change. I would love to see more of those kinds of communities being built, but the thing is all the people in charge aren't building them. Living in Toronto even when I drive out into new developments outside of the city its the same car oriented neighbourhoods being built even when they could change and build something completely different and far more people centric. Sad to see it, but what can people really do to change things when everyone in charge choose not to change?
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