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Memphis is an impossible place when it comes to pedestrians. Bigger than New York City (all 5 boroughs) but just 650,000 people, everything is very spread out and people have to get to places fast. 40-50 miles per hour is a "normal" speed here. On the interstate the legal limit is 55 and yet you have to drive 65-70 mph just to survive. Others drive 80 or more. The Hights Line is a great project but that needs to happen at least 100+ more times in Memphis before things start changing.

It’s time to end right turn slip lanes, starting in all urban areas and neighborhoods.

Very misleading. The biggest contributor is JAYWALKING. I live in Memphis. Take a ride down any of the main busy streets and you will see people standing in the middle of the street trying to cross it when there is an intersection a short distance away! That is where the fatalities are happening. Pedestrians who are getting killed are the ones who are not crossing at the designated places! Even the people in your video are walking in the street!!!!

Those streets look insane. They look like 4-7 lane racetracks and then they put an unsignalized crosswalk through the middle. One look at that and anyone would tell you that's unsafe. I don't know why safety isn't a bigger concern. I couldn't design a better death trap if I tried. How do they get away with this. I'd rather have no arterial roads than deadly arterial roads.

You should do Milwaukee it's a great walkable city and it's getting more and more walkable soon it'll be the most walkable in the midwest

Mentioning black and brown people at the end is ironic because they are the reason we have the urban sprawl that necessitates these high speeds in the first place

Not only that, a description of "South of 20" was slapped on those who lived south of the new highway. Businesses and developers were told to not invest anywhere south of I-20.

I read in a book called Divided Highways that Interstates originally were not supposed to go through cities. They were supposed to go outside the cities.

Very interesting! On a similar topic, you can have a look at “Why should speed depend on a road's purpose?” from Urban Mobility Explained

This is what is driving up housing costs, now that cars cant go as fast/far its more expensive because now everyone has to live in the same areas closer to the work district.... Used to be that many of the people could live in the country side, but they also started charging them 2 hours of working pay just to drive the car into the work district downtown... designing streets for a town of over a million as if it was a town of 100k is just wrong.

"Gives Vocabulary" Oh please!!!!! That has to be one of the most condensending things that I have ever heard soming out of someone's mouth.

@8:07 "prevents potential deadly encounters with police for black and brown people." Translation: black and brown have not self control and need special lanes.

"first black mayor" of course he talks like some ghetto rapper and doesnt have any solid plan. Hes gonna turn Pittsburgh into Harrisburg.

I’m happy that these issues are finally getting talked about, and some steps taken. Still it feels like Pittsburgh streets will never be ‘complete’, until the streetcars return.

But there’s one crucial element that wasn’t mentioned. It’s also very important to separate the different modes of transport and thereby also make the distinction with streets and roads. U can’t hope to just add bike lanes and pedestrian paths on roads and hope for the best. That doesn’t work. Roads r only meant to move traffic efficiently and that’s it. They must be placed carefully to ensure that there’s no dangerous mix. Streets on the other hand r indeed meant to slow down drivers and mix all modes. Many countries, not just the US have a poorly designed streets and roads network to begin with that often doesn’t make this distinction or have roads that try to be roads when they clearly shouldn’t (or the other way around).

The current state of development in the US makes me angry. Every time I see a hideous stroad lined with strip malls and nowhere for people to walk safely I just think "What have we done to this country? This place is ugly. This is a place no one would care about." It's a development pattern that should be abolished. Living in an actual town on a street grid with a thriving main street shopping district and places to walk to from my front door has had such a positive impact on my mental and physical health. We should be building traditional towns everywhere instead of soulless strip malls and labyrinthine cookie cutter subdivisions that are completely cut off from the surrounding area. We're building cities the wrong way now and it's hurting this country so much.

8:06 You just ruined the video.

You know what would massively improve the speed of people moving around where they want to go? Mass transit.

Or, here me out, we SEPARATE the fast traffic from businesses and livelihoods. If we need fast regional connections, build a limited access road or highway. Or maybe, just maybe, we don’t need to drive EVERYWHERE.

Atlanta needs to rename their airport and grady hospital.

Airpods, mobiles, increased population, SUV's and imigrants coming from countries that dont have laws/dont listen to laws for pedestrians is why an increase in deaths.

Hopefully the public transit improves for this progress to succeed. Its becoming very infrquent and unreliable for the ones even on the schedule

insightful video well done!

No mention of the ridiculous and dangerous north American idea of allowing vehicles to make a right turn on red.

This is why I scoff at people who say life is priceless. We put a price on life every time we make streets less safe, not just for pedestrians, but for other drivers as well. If the way we design streets is any indication, not only are American lives not priceless, they're pretty darn cheap.

This is still pretty bad. At the after picture you can see the crosswalk which should be raised making is a raised crossing and narrow the car lanes while also narrowing the road. Getting the community involved on which design they like most while giving up certain critical design elements is absolutely terrible, a community should never be involved with critical safety design except for choosing the crosswalk color, pavers color or just anything for better looks. Never get a community involved on safety designing that the designer could easily get from the internet and look at Dutch road design. If a road/street get repaved it should automatically get updated to the latest design standard which sadly isn’t really safe in the US currently, start improving that first and then do this.

The problem isn't that you can't have both speed and safety. The problem is that we assume people must travel using cars, and then wonder why there are so many fatalities and so much traffic. It's not impossible to have efficient, safe transit. It's just that cars don't fit that requirement for cities and suburbs.

What's the name of the song used during the majority of the video?

Great video🎉

This is a great vision. Hopefully the project can continue help all. And other cities will catch up.

I grew up in the burgh. I left in 2010 and came back in 2021 (because no one ever stays gone for long) and I returned to a completely different city. I love it and wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the US. It's a progressive place with a proud and hardworking community.

My city here in germany has one intersection with a slip lane and this intersection killed ~1 person every year until a crosswalk and a red light when people are crossing was added. It reduced throughput on this ugly intersection but it also saves lifes.

Pittsburgh is quite progressive in changing, which is not easy for a city with older infrastructure to do. I'm proud of your progress, Pittsburgh. You're setting a cutting edge example for other cities to follow suit.

What is with the "play by play"?

Interesting points! Learned some things. My only quibble is that the "and who cares about 3-6 seconds?" is a bit of a sorites paradox. Yes, measurement gaps are problematic, as are unfalsifiable assertions. But we shouldn't categorically exclude benefits like these just because they are hard to relate to on a personal basis.

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It depends on how the highways are built. If they are parkways or sunken, there isn't much of a concern. They still beat arterial/collector routes. Not all trips long run can be done on transit.

I have to argue that sweeping right turns are necessary for Trucks, not higher speeds. I mean semis and delivery trucks.

i wonder what surrounding villages and towns ('the burbs of the burgh') have done in changing their own planning policies vis a vis complete streets. can anyone comment on specific examples of what's happened there since pittsburgh made changes in 2015 to it's planning policy?

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They just added an island and a bike lane gutter? Damn 😅

Are the number of people being pedestrians increasing? If there is a huge increase in people walking and there is an increase in deaths that is different than if there was a steady number of people walking and increase deaths. Both are, of course, bad but it's makes a difference in how we look at things.

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No civil engineering sources? No sources at all

Maybe in a dictatorship, but is that really the way it is done in your country? Are you not a typical liberal democracy where building anything requires mandatory consultations of various stakeholders and environmental studies within a cumbersome bureaucratic process?

Excellent video. It would be better without the background music, which doesn't fit the content, and makes it harder to listen to the voiceover.

Great video. DOT projections are nothing more than job security for the highway industrial complex. They finished building all the highways that connect every city by like 1970. So they should have said "we're done", and then started removing urban freeways that were a colossal mistake. Instead they keep trying to dupe the public and legislators with clearly bogus claims, like everyone saving 1 minute will increase productivity by billions of dollars. And then after the highway widening, traffic just gets worse than it was before. So by their same analysis they SHOULD have concluded that they just spent billions of tax dollars to demolish thousands of homes and businesses AND the result is that we lost society billions of dollars in productivity. But of course they never admit when they're wrong.