Why Cars Ruin Everything

Alternate Title: How the Car Changed Mobility in Such a Way, That Building Places Using Lots More Space And Accidentally Inhibiting All Other Forms of Transport Became a Strong Financial Temptation in the Short Term, Although It Works to the Detriment of People Everywhere in the Long Term

This video was made possible thanks to the generous support of my Patreon members. If you wanna join them in helping to keep my channel going, or simply to get free e-mail updates for all new uploads, Patreon's the place.

You can also contribute to the channel with a simple money transfer.
No sign-in, no recurring payments.

MERCH

SUBREDDIT

Sources and Further Info:
Happy City by Charles Montgomery

#Cars #Sprawl #UrbanDesign

[Tapakapa]

Discuss the video in the Tapakapa Subreddit!

[RemnantCult]

Car dependency ruins things for drivers too. It turns it into a necessary evil, people who aren't into driving have to drive, and ruins roads and makes them not as safe.

[Critical_Hit]

Car dependancy was one of the greatest mistakes of the last century.

[mohammadhijazi]

I've been making this argument for years but have never been able to put it more eloquently.

I want to be able to drive. Not to have to.

[Icenri]

I'm 35, I don't have a driving license and either work remotely or at an 8-minute away office. That sounded good until Irealize that's the only job I could take without taking the car for a 30-minute ride because public transport sucks.

[zerbutterftw]

I love cars. I'm a car enthusiast. But I really hate car dependant cities.

[PJTierney]

Fun fact: The “nyom” noise you hear at 0:19 is from when a fan at the US Grand Prix (Formula 1) spotted one of the broadcast microphones up on the big spectator tower.

He did a bunch of these noises and they appeared live on the world feed, so you had the commentators... commentating, while a random guy was going “neow!” every few seconds 😄

[SabreVDM]

1:57 - Tapakapa somehow puts my character in the exact situation I'm in - There are 10 buses every day, 6AM, 7AM and 7:30AM, then 9:15AM, then 1:35PM, and then following that are two buses that only operate during the school term (3:15PM and 4:05PM) and then we end the day with a 5PM, a 5:30PM and a 6PM. No other buses that aren't exclusively for schools. It's ridiculous.

[AdamSomething]

Train good, car bad, urban sprawl horrible.
Also great video!

[ryanscott]

As someone who has just read Happy City after following NJB, City Beautiful, and the Life Sized City for several months, this video makes me very happy :) The growing awareness of urbanism and its importance for human wellbeing is great to see.

[ryanscott]

Where I grew up in New Zealand, there was nothing within walking distance except detached housing. No local cafe, pub, restaurant, grocery store, nothin'. I didn't have a car so I was trapped at home. If I wanted to do anything besides wander aimlessly around the neighbourhood, I would walk to the bus stop for a bus that would often never come, and endure the sometimes 40-50 minute journey to the hollowed-out, half-vacant, car-infested city centre. A journey that would otherwise take 15 minutes by car, I must add.

Needless to say, my childhood sucked, I had no sense of community or independence, and I had to rely on my parents to shuttle me around everywhere or drive me to a friend's place to stay the night. Shit that I should have had the freedom to do *on my own.* All because of braindead car culture ideology. Allowing a child to grow up in a car-dependent suburban environment like that is borderline child abuse imho. I'd go as far as to argue that it _is_ child abuse. I will NEVER allow my kids to endure what I went through. It's the main reason I moved to the UK, along with the housing crisis and skyrocketing cost of living for even the shittiest areas back in NZ.

[kirkrotger]

Not to mention the fact that car crashes are the number 1 cause of death for all people under 35 and 3rd leading cause of death overall.

[MobCat_]

As someone who lives in a "country" area I feel this video.
10km walk.
30 min buss ride that costs an ok amount of money.
2 min drive including finding somewhere to park and it's cheaper over the long term.

[fuctako]

While here in Malaysia, even if we wanted to take the train, we’d have to bloody DRIVE to the station. It makes absolutely no sense. Housing areas are so far apart from each other and public transport stations are even further apart from those housing areas. Honestly makes me so mad that whoever planned our cities made money from their shitty work.

[danieljackson]

"riding bicycle is for idealists and suicidal" hahaha so true

[kademcarthur]

I feel the sudden influx of the videos will eventually ruin car culture for me.

[earicsohtun]

"Off the road you muppet", said the muppet to another.

[rampantmutt]

Cars might be the freedom to get somewhere fast without a schedule, but your legs were the freedom to go anywhere locally with little impediment, something cars have taken from us with unending lanes of traffic and parking lots.

[mat_k]

I am a simple man...I see a tapakapa video I like and I watch (that's the exact order of events :) )

[jaridkeen]

I ride my bike everywhere. I sold my car and work from home now.