Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Why is LA traffic so bad?" video.

@screamingcatchannel9624 The traffic in Toronto/GTA is bad not always because of too many vehicles, but mostly because of bad traffic management. Always pisses me off to be on a major road and see traffic build up because a minor road has a long green light so that two cars can use it and the rest of the 30 seconds there's no cars at all. Meanwhile cars are piling up on the major road waiting for the lights to change. I can't tell you how much better traffic would be if they would simply change traffic light timings to make major roads have most of the priority and be given the longest green lights over minor roads. Just that single change would make things so much better.
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@inspecktorf How about making public transit more safer and secure for the general public from violent people and criminals? And also how about increasing work from home opportunities for more workers where possible? That would probably solve alot more traffic problems and do it much more quickly than building expensive public transit projects. Those who are able to work from home can then not require roads or transit at all and even better they can have more flexibility in where they choose to live and not overcrowd one area while leaving other areas less populated.
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@Adam Bennett Transit only makes sense when you have enough density, is relatively cheap and is safe to use. For many cities one or more of those things isn't true.
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You need more density and better city planning and zoning to make public transit efficient and usable. And more frequently these days you also need to keep transit safer as well from all the violent/crazy/criminals who are on there who could cause harm to riders.
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@pabloaguilar578 I'm not completely against public transit, but far too many people seem to think that transit is the ideal solution to every country's traffic problems without looking at the reality that for many places cars/bikes/small electric vehicles are a better solution. Also crime and violence is a reality that many people face when taking transit and if you don't live in such an area then lucky you, but I really wish you would for a year or two so that you can experience first hand the very real problems and dangers that many people face taking transit in many areas of the world. Maybe then you'll sympathize with people and understand why there are many reasons why transit isn't always the best solution.
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@adambennett805 If you don't mind losing money then sure, build more transit that is mostly empty the vast majority of the day because of low usage. Personally if I lived in a low density area, I'd save up and buy a car ASAP than rely on public transit that's inefficient and takes forever to get anywhere.
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@itsjonny1744 Why not judge WFH on a case by case basis? Namely if some employees have said that they want to WFH and have shown that they're producing as well or even better, then why not let them do so? Even if they're producing slightly worse but they're happy with doing WFH then that's still not a bad tradeoff to have more content workers. As long as people can show that they're producing at nearly the same rate, then it shouldn't matter as much where they do their jobs does it? I think its worth trying if employees want to and see how it goes before saying its a bad idea. As for public transit, I agree trying to implement it retroactively is almost always more costly and that's why you need to build better and high density neighbourhoods so that taking transit is an actual viable option.
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@J B Check the last couple of years and see the crime, violence and murder rates go up significantly. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/us-crime-rate-rise-2020/index.html Also why don't you go to the subreddits of various US cities and read what people who actually live in those cities are saying and whether they believe crime and violence is down or not? Why not read their real life experiences and what they see happening in their cities on a daily basis and see if they believe the media that 'crime and violence is going down'? Also its easy to say 'crime is going down' when the justice system doesn't convict people or only gives criminals a slap on the wrist and they let violent people back on the streets even when they're repeat offenders. Seriously go to places like the New York subreddit and see what they're saying there. When even super liberal people living there are saying enough is enough and that they're interested in voting for a mayor that will be tough on crime and violence because they're tired of seeing their city going in the wrong direction then you know something is really wrong.
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@NamelessProducts How about looking at statistics by areas, regions and cities rather than the entire country? That would be the more accurate thing to do. If there's low crime in the suburbs and rural areas, that's of course going to balance out high crime rates in the downtown of a city for example. New York City and its surrrounding boroughs are very large areas. If you look at it as one single entity then crime and violence averaged out across all those areas would make crime and violence seem relatively low, but if you looked at the crime rates of each area individually then you'll clearly see that some areas are low crime and others are very high crime areas. That's what many people refuse to do when talking about crime, violence and murder because far too often the most crime ridden areas involve the same one or two demographics and to try and point that out is a racist thing to do these days apparently. Also one thing that isn't mentioned nearly enough is the fact that many crimes go unreported and/or the charges are reduced even if the offender is caught and charged. Ask people living in Chicago, New York etc. what their justice systems there are doing with regards to being lenient to criminals and allowing them to be released so that they can offend again and again or else they're given relatively light sentences so that they can be released from prison after a few years so that they can do it all over again.
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@williamhuang8309 You know what's even more efficient? More people working from home so that we don't need to build huge expensive transit projects to begin with. And also get businesses to have more small offices throughout a region so that even if people need to go to an office they don't have to make long commutes to do so.
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@austinhernandez2716 You're right everything I've said is anecdotal. Now please put your money where your mouth is and move to certain parts of a number of major cities that are only 'anecdotally' known to be violent and dangerous and live there for a couple of years and see what you have to say? Will you ever do it? Of course not because HYPOCRITES LIKE YOU WOULD NEVER EVER live in the areas with certain people that you defend so much from the comfort of your home that is probably located very far away from those people. And I bet you never will if you can help it because hypocrites like you NEVER do what they preach.
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@muhilan8540 Sure New York is much better than in the 80s, but its still pretty bad in a number of areas and again just go to the New York subreddits and ask the people who live there how they feel about their city. They'll probably say the same. Not as dangerous as decades ago, but still not very safe in a number of places and at different times of the day around certain demographics of people. Ask asian people who live there if they feel safe there even before the increase in attacks against them in the past year or so? They've always been the victims of crime and violence from certain people, but no one ever cared because it went against the narrative that the media and politicians like to push so hard these days.
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In many cases creating more bike infrastructure is easy, but city planners and politicians are too stupid to do it. Namely at least if we're talking about the suburbs, hardly anyone will use the sidewalks for walking so why not convert all that wasted infrastructure into dual use bike/pedestrian lanes that are fully separated from vehicles? That would be the easiest and safest thing to do and yet politicians and city planners are too stupid to do it. This is the case in my city of Toronto where the suburbs are literally devoid of pedestrians and the city could simply repave the sidewalks and have instant bike infrastructure that is 1000x safer than trying to bike on roads where cars easily average 60kph+.
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@edwardmiessner6502 If several decades ago crime and violence was a 10/10 bad, today in many cities its still an 7 or 8/10 easy. Lets put it this way. You SAY that crime and violence is down, but you STILL wouldn't want to move to many parts of US cities and prove that violence and crime has truly gotten better in those areas. Why? Because you know that even if some places have improved abit, its still pretty damn far from being safe enough that you'd feel comfortable in putting your money where your mouth is and moving there because you'd be afraid for your life and your property.
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@patbingsoo5219 Yes I'm a racist. Everyone who has a different opinion from people like you is a 'racist'. We must believe everyone is good and equal and ignore real life experiences and facts because those are all evil. Everything I say is so false and racist that even one of the co-founders of BLM who's fighting against all that racism chose to buy an expensive 1.4 million home in a predominately white area instead of living among the very people that she supposedly believe are good people who aren't very violent and criminal. So I guess that makes her a racist too for negatively profiling her own people?
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@Ciph3rzer0 Dude do you not understand that crime can be 'declining' when fewer crimes are reported and recorded? Sure you can't ignore shootings and murders and such, but there are lesser things like assaults that don't result in serious injuries and muggings and the like that are often not reported by the victim because they don't feel like going through the hassle and also when they believe its likely not going to be solved. I live in Toronto and people keep saying 'crime is down' or that 'its still a very safe city'. That may be true for the most part, but if you look at the number of shootings that happen every year, in 2014 and before Toronto was averaging about 200 shootings a year. In 2016 and ever since then Toronto has been averaging 400+ shootings a year including setting a historic record high almost 500 shootings in 2019. So for Toronto they've had 5 CONSECUTIVE YEARS of 400+ shootings with 2021 looking to make it 6 straight and you're telling me 'crime is going down'?!?!? Maybe that's true for some cities, but it certainly isn't the case in Toronto and we haven't even talked about the hundreds of stabbings that happen as well. And the other thing is the public aren't allowed to even know WHO is committing all this violence and crime. In 2019 Toronto police stated they would start collecting race based data again after being prevented from doing so for almost 30 years because a certain demographic got upset. I was looking forward to seeing the stats this year and what Toronto police released in their 'report' was a whole bunch of bullshit that included ZERO ACTUAL CRIME STATISTICS. You know like what the US government releases that shows which race committed the most murders, violent crimes and so on. Toronto police released NONE of that and I'm pretty sure we all know why because in the age of BLM where we have to pretend a certain group of people are victims, its hard to keep that lie going if police release hard data that shows the opposite. The bottom line is maybe there are some cities that are having a decline in crime, violence and murder, but that certainly isn't the case for Toronto where the stats don't lie and even in super left leaning places like the Toronto subreddit, even THOSE ultra progressive people are complaining about how the city is getting less safe.
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@OhSome1HasThisName Not at all true especially when we're talking about the safety part in a number of cities these days. Try taking transit in New York, Philly, Chicago etc. these days and see how you feel.
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Because whoever manages the traffic in the GTA are ABSOLUTE MORONS. If these people in charge did nothing else but retime traffic lights to mostly favor major roads and give them the most green light time, traffic would be flowing much, MUCH better. Try driving along a major road like Steeles Ave. for a while and you'll see exactly what I mean. Steeles has tons of traffic going east/west and yet lesser roads and even roads that come out of residential neighbourhoods will still have long green lights that run 10-30 seconds that will cause the traffic on Steeles to needlessly pile up while only a few cars are going north/south. If the city's traffic managers weren't such morons, the simple change of giving Steeles Ave. the majority of green light time would immediately improve traffic on that major artery through the city. Now do that for every major road throughout all the GTA and see how quickly traffic would improve.
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At least you have great weather there year round. Winters really suck balls and if I were rich I'd move to a winterless location ASAP.
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@williamhuang8309 Seriously if you believe that crime on public transit 'rarely happens', then I invite you to go to the subreddits of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, DC, Detroit and a number of other US cities with significant black populations and ask the people living there whether they believe that crime and violence on public transit is a 'rare' occurrence. I think you'll get a far different answer that will go against what you believe.
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@williamhuang8309 Where do you live? There's a HUGE difference between taking transit in Tokyo vs taking transit in Chicago. Seems like the area you're in is pretty safe. Why don't you try taking the transit in Chicago for a month and then report back and see if you don't have a different opinion? And also I'll say again, we all know that transit works best and most efficiently when there's high density of people. However there are many areas in the US and elsewhere that don't have very good density and cars are almost a must. If you want to change that then you need to change the way cities are planned, but with how much land is available in North America its going to be hard to change developers and people's minds when they're use to having houses. Unless you start building large condo units that can support raising families in that are affordable, I doubt you'll ever get a mass of people switching from houses to condos. Also alot of car accidents are a result of bad road planning and drivers rather than cars being bad themselves. If city planners would switch roundabouts instead of sticking with stupid traffic lights you could probably cut down a huge amount of accidents and deaths in North America.
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@spinecho609 Are you saying wanting to limit the number of immigrants who often have different cultures, religions, beliefs etc. and have difficulty integrating into western countries is racist? If that's the case how come no one is criticising Israel and the Jews for their isolationist and racist immigration policies? Why aren't people like you complaining and moaning that Jewish people need to be more inclusive, diverse and multicultural instead of being so anti-immigration?
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@alec_cooking_channel Apparently many people disagree with you when so many WANT to continue to work from home and avoid wasting time travelling to and from work. Heck there are 100,000+ government workers on strike right now in Canada where one of their demands is for the choice to continue to work from home if they want to. Some people don't mind making the commute and going into the office to work there and interact with people and others prefer to not have to rush to get to work on time and instead do it from the comfort of their own home. It sucks for businesses that rely on workers to go to their establishments to spend money there, but at the same time its helping the environment and reducing traffic like we all wanted isn't it?
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@alec_cooking_channel Even with great transit I think many if not most people would still choose to work from home most of the time if they could with only going into the office for a couple days at most. If that wasn't the case so many people wouldn't be fighting to keep the option to work from home with their employers instead of rushing back to the office. I mean why waste time getting ready in the morning, then potentially riding a full bus or train of people to the office when you can take your time getting started during the day? As I said maybe more businesses should consider smaller satellite offices so that workers can make shorter trips if they want people to go to the office.
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That's what happens in most nations where you have plenty of land to spread out on. They'll tend not to build up density in those places. Move the entire US population into a country the size of Japan and you'll bet your ass that there will be high density dwellings everywhere.
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In most parts of the US there's plenty of land to build on so the need to increase density and efficiency is less pressing. Until city planners start forcing increased density and discouraging low density subdivisions then nothing will change. Also these days planners and developers aren't making neighbourhoods more livable when they don't create good mainstreets and other areas of interest for people to want to walk and bike locally and instead people are more likely to drive to go for their daily as well as entertainment needs.
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@ARTiculations Do you live in Toronto/GTA? If so you can just drive around for a while and see for yourself how poor the traffic light timings are in many places here. Like I said it makes no sense that roads that have relatively few cars on them are given the same priority as major roads when simply changing that one thing would improve traffic flow so much better.
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