American Reacts to Why City Design is Important (and Why I Hate Houston) Not Just Bikes Reaction

Why City Design is Important (and Why I Hate Houston) American Guy Reacts Not Just Bikes Reaction

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[baskoning]

The dad of a girl I knew walked down a street, and got a coke bottle thrown at his head. He dead a few days later because of the brain hemorrhage. Throwing things from cars to pedestrians is attempted murder.

[whatever]

To the defense of everyday Americans - when I as a European naively went for a walk to the store in an Arkansas town, and the sidewalk disappeared, a lot of people stopped and asked if I needed help. After the 5th or 6th stop I just gave up explaining I was fine and just walking and let a nice woman give me a lift to the local store. Americans are ok people generally... but this design is truly horrific. If you walk around a compact city, you also meet people, that is nice. Driving everywhere is so... sad :)

[darrenislar]

As Dutchman those area's shown on this video look like warzones to me, it is all grey without color with hardly any green. It looks unlivable (and I understand that those area's are not for living, but still ...). It looks really depressing

[tomasruzic]

I have only been to the U.S once. That was a busniness trip to Houston 3 years ago. I've been to 30+ countries on four different continents. Of all the cities I have been to, I rank Houston last when it comes to cities I would like to live in. If other U.S cities are even remotely close to Houston in let's just say that I am happy to live in Europe (Sweden)

[maartjewaterman]

I now realise how happy and free my youth was. From the age of nine I went to the swimming pool, later to highschool, nearby lakes, discos, restaurants, visiting friends, the movies, skating and later to work. All of that on my own and biking. When the children were small, I took them to school by bike and just a few hours before the labour of the youngest one started, I had seen the midwife also by bike. I bet my life has been, and still is, much more interesting and divers than the avarage American one and I have never owned a car.

[ChokyoDK]

Glad to see that your channel is really gaining some traction

[Renzsu]

Thumbs up for those reaction suggestions you made. Would be fun to have a walking through town video and for your reactions on those other mentioned channels.

[MrMarinus]

17:45
I feel a lot of that is leftovers from racism. While racism itself has decreased significantly many of the attitudes that came with racism have not. Those at the bottom of society as still treated as subhuman.

[lorrefl]

As a Belgian when that road is shown with no sidewalk, my reaction was also "where are the bikelanes". On wide roads like this in my town we have seperate bikelanes. Cars definitely have to take into account the bikes and pedestrians because in Belgium bikes and pedestrians always have priority on cars.

[manonvanginneke]

To answer your questions at +- 7.20 oh hell yes, I would love to see how you people live, and what daily routines are like over there, and I think a lot more people would be interested to see that!!!

[ellisgarritzen]

When I watch these video’s, I always get the confirmation that America is a third world country. Big mouth, big promises, but nothing really there then poverty or filthy rich. Unpopular opinion, I know. Probably gonna get hate for it. The one time I was in America was in a university city. And it did not have any character or nice buildings. I didn’t felt at home at all and was happy to be back home. But I am grateful to live in a ‘small’ city in the Netherlands.

[whitedeepak]

@3:40 "I didn't realize Tornoto was friendly to those without a car ..."
He's talking about the downtown - within the area served by the two subway lines
which is also the area criss-crossed by transit street cars.

Maybe 1/4 to 1/8 of Toronto is very walkable. The density and timing of streetcars peters
out, and out a bit further the buses and subways peter out. After that it's car dependence.

[dnxproductions]

Love to see how it is in your neighborhood. This video is a good explainer how terrible the situation is in the US and it's true that a lot people in Europe have a general idea that american people just drive everywhere because they're fat and lazy.

About your idea of making video's in your hometown, I think for you and Amy it would be nice to look back to these videos if you eventually move to The Netherlands.

I'm also still learning stuff like you because of your reaction video's!! You learned a lot about for example the netherlands i actually learn more about the US also.

You guys keep up the good work! Love your video's!

Groetjes van Dylan uit Nederland (grtz from Dylan from The Netherlands) ;)

[justus]

its cool to hear that you guys enjoy to walk more (I think we humans just are made for walking/running and enjoy it if we do). To bad that its really not nice to do in the US. I saw it myself when i visited. I was just used to walk :D I would like to see an IRL video about your city/area!

[freudsigmund]

if you're serious about moving to the Netherlands, start applying for a job, (shouldn't be that hard with more vacancies than unemployed) and have a company sponsoring your move. As an expat you're exempt from many rules that would otherwise apply.

[JustClaude]

"Overnight" means that Houston laid out the proposed routes and one morning they started to run the new routes.
The intersection at 21 minutes crosses at an acute angle. Cars wouldn't be able to turn right without slip lanes. It's a bad design.
When bike lanes were proposed in Los Angeles, I heard the quote, "LA isn't Amsterdam."
The first thing I thought was, "Fifty years ago, neither was Amsterdam. Amsterdam was LA-lite.
It looks like that because they deliberately chose to build it like that."
America looks like it does because the single largest contributor to funding urban planning institutes was General Motors."

[amtorraziert]

8:43 about crossing the street. In New Jersey even at a two-lane road, you simply have to start walking when there is a gap in traffic and prey to god that the cars on the other side wait for you cause if you don't you can literally wait hours until there is a large enough gap for crossing or someone waits for you.

[pietergreveling]

He also has a great video about business parks! ✌🏼

[stevealt]

As a Northern Irish we have poor cycle infrastructure too. Its been proven that the more highways you build the more congestion it creates. But I guess the car dealerships support it for obvious reasons. But I like to randomly ride my bicycle on car dealerships public land just to annoy them.

[realdariavalley]

I have lived in Boston my whole life, it was very walkable city and convenient public transportation. I didn’t carry driver license because I thought i didn’t need it until we moved to Florida. Florida have public transportation but not the best and not reliable. Some parts of Florida do have walking sidewalks and bike lanes but not safe since everyone speed like crazy here. Heat is insane too. I was told many NYC residents don’t carry driver licenses as well because they have biggest public transportation and not so many parking spaces available. I also remember Texas and Florida don’t have state tax so it makes sense that they don’t provide enough sources for walkers and bikers. I hope they have better ways for walkers and bikers in the future, maybe not in my lifetime unfortunately