New York City Has A HUGE Problem...
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2023
- New York City’s infrastructure is failing. The city once revered for its well designed grid-like road system and public transit system that were symbols of a new era of American infrastructure. But decades have passed, and New York’s complex system is suffering from a chronic lack of maintenance, funding, and support. And this is not just an issue for the city itself, but a life or death issue that will affect the lives of the 20,000,000 people who live inside its metro area.
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Roads and highways are the most expensive form of transport infrastructure, as they wear out the fastest. Should've invested in rails instead.
only because cars are so heavy, and everyone drives. Its weird to think that NYC is one of the least car dependant places in North America, but still has this problem
@@superknugs6327 I think it's due to the fact that there are freeways going through the city. That causes people to become more car-dependent, aside from the deteriorating metro system.
@@ilanlattke6092 The city is also huge so you kinda need a car to get the the outer parts not to mention people often go in and out of the city to other parts of the metro area with not so good public transit
@@yann9378 If you want to get to certain outer parts you could go on a train but I see your point
@@yann9378 it might be large, but lack of public transportation at the very outskirts of the city is by far no good excuse to need a car to go downtown. If there's that problem at the outskirts, there's usually the option to take a car to a nearby station and take public transportation from there on ...
This is going on across a lot of America as a whole
Yes, definitely a problem across the country.
@@infrachannel Americans as a whole seem to despise paying for infrastructure. 😞
@@ajs11201 that’s because our excessive car infrastructure is super expensive and can’t be cheaply replaced.
@@TheAmericanCatholic Who said to replace it? Many other countries seem to be able to keep their infrastructure in good repair--it's just Americans that want the service but don't want to invest in it to keep it running well.
@@ajs11201 that's because it cannot be easily maintained---Americans absolutely do not want to be inconvenienced and stew in traffic due to lane closures for highway maintenance work.
Typically, "vertical beams" are referred to as "columns".
And I was just about to subscribe to this channel, then I heard him say "vertical beams". Noooo🙃!
This is a bigger issue all over the states.
The US has the problem that it has overbuilt wayy too much and the maintenance costs are eating up cities from the inside.
The main culprits here are the collosal waste of money for military projects and suburbia/car dependancy.
As explained beautifully by Strong Towns suburbs made up solely of single family homes cannot support themselves financially, ever. They just do not generate enough tax money to cover the costs of their infrastructure.
Add to this that car dependency has destroyed downtowns, the economic engines of cities, all across the country and you can see the problem.
Also mixed used development and midrise housing are illegal in most of the country while TODs are a novelty instead of the norm, so the country has precious little of the most productive type of housing there is and there really should be no surprises that this is happening.
Even New Yorks infrastructure doesn't just support New Yorkers but over 20 million people living all over the metro area who don't directly pay for that infrastructure and mostly live in suburbia.
New Yorke's and Americans need to be better aware and educated about these matters and need to hold their public elected officials accountable. The only way this changes is if the people themselves bring these issues up. Unfortunately due to lagging education compared to the rest of the developed world, many voters simply do not understand the importance of holding elected officials accountable. Many sadly just vote for one party or another no matter what. Many also don't understand how the political system works and how funding should be allocated. A more educated city would be much better equipped to face the challenges that lie ahead.
"New York has a huge problem"
Man, New York has always had a huge problem
I agree. In fact, much of the U.S. seems to not keep up with the rest of the world, which is constantly maintaining their infrastructure, and modernizing things that need to be modernized. There is a lack of public funding for some reasons. For one, we constantly ignore the deterioration. And as well, people don't seem to understand how investing so much in roadways destroys the roads.
Not to mention how many us cities are in severe debt
Also not to mention the current neoliberal and anti-tax mentality in politics and most civilians
And also not to mention that the US is trapped in an endless cycle of widening the roads and driving more because of it.
Not enough people understand how transit-oriented development would really help in keeping their city from losing money for maintaining infrastructure.
"vertical beams" lol
When you think about it, walls are really just vertical floors.
Some of the stock scenes in this video are not from New York.
Most of the scenes arent New York
I love your videos! What software do you use for video making?
Same issue in many parts of the world. A lot of infrastructure needs replacing, and economic incentives lead to a lack of maintanance in the last 20-30 years.
‘Vertical beams” are piers or posts.
Columns? Vertical beams makes me think the collapse already happened 😅
Overwrought alarmist "report"
As a New Yorker one thing nyc does need to replace are these old ass buildings. It’s hard to believe some are still standing. I’m speaking specifically about the tenement buildings
The nation is behind 30 to 35 years in infrastructure..way to go Washington DC. according the quadrennial report on USA infrastructure by American Society of Civil Engineers..What do they know?Can they dance? Can they sing?Can they perform?
Is it the same report that recommends spending trillions to save billions?
I think ASCE is part of the problem. Their solution is just "throw more money at it".
1:15 & 2:12 Talks about New York City, shows a modern city in China
I enjoy going to NYC but it’s a dump from the airport to the subway to all of that ugly scaffolding. It feels like it’s days are numbered
You would think with several of the largest banks in the world headquartered there, the city government would have more than enough tax revenue to maintain the city's infrastructure.
It does . This clown is exaggerating a bit as usual clickbait . NY is only slightly worse than the rest of the US. Has any bridge ever collapsed in NYC ? Wisconsin ,WV , Penn. etc. have had bridge collapses. NY fixes what needs fixing while having a huge amount of old stuff that is in constant deterioration. Looks bad but not necessarily unsafe.
1:15 wait a minute, this is not NY
It's China
@@edwardmiessner6502 yeah look like Hong Kong to me
You don't know what you're talking about as you speak from a historical vacuum.
Thanks to Felix Rohatyn, NYC has been maintaining and improving it's infrastructure since the mid-1970's and NYC has done a hell of a job improving it, growing it and making it better. Before the financial crisis of the mid-1970's, NYC didn't know the word maintenance and left itself to deteriorate. All you need do to see how far NYC has come is to watch the movies The French Connection and Godspell, filmed in NYC in 1971 & 1973 and concentrate on the background instead of the movies plots.Those movies will show you a city on the brink of implosion that almost occurred 5 years later.
Can NYC do better, of course, but it hasn't abandoned improvement, instead it's constantly building on it.
New York’s infrastructure problem isn’t just a New York problem. It’s an American problem. Chicago, Philly, LA, Boston, Detroit, Baltimore, etc. all suffer from old crumbling infrastructure. It’s not sustainable. Now the thing is, old infrastructure can last a really long time if it’s well taken care of and refurbished a lot, but here in America, we tend to completely neglect our infrastructure once it’s built so it falls into complete disrepair where it’s too late to fix. Sure infrastructure is expensive but not doing anything about it is even more expensive
It's a cities problem.
All major cities have
So underrated >:((
You showed Miami in some places and where’s all the money NYC collects?
0:40 few != two 🙂
Using a lot stock photos of Miami for a video on NYC 😂😂
The NYC subway is always dirty
Here's an idea: just as the infrastructure falls apart, lets bus millions of unskilled migrants into NYC.
I've been living in NYC for the pass few months here at Greenwich village, and I have to say, this is city is like an old man who use to be handsome but now because his old, some chronical disease is slowly getting into him. The road is horrible and the subway which USA is proud of as a Foreigner who had very very good public transit system back at homeland I have to say is also horrible if not terrific as well. The city don't need a rebuilt, because quiet frankly, there is no way to rebuilt it at all. It would require a lot of money and a lot of time, the first one which NYS don't and the second one which NYC and it's residence don't have. My suggestion is to built some new cities that serve the same purpose as new york city, such as a new wall street kind-of in NC or Texas, where they need new development, and keep NYC as a symbol, a symbol of USA concert jungle amazingness, it doesn't matter what kind of plan it is, it should focus on reducing the stress of NYC instead of trying to push it again and again to it's limit by fixing it just so it can work at a bare minimum.
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Ny state and city have spent problems. They billions on migration hotels and food that go fix road. They high tax on everything. Everywhere tolls money go .
Should stop blowing all of their tax revenue on social programs and hideous public art fixtures
Maybe spending 300 billion dollars a year less on the military might also be an option. How do you have 5 trillion to waste in forever wars but no money to spend on infrastructure
The story and my comment are about new York, you're complaining about a federal problem...
@Mr Wonderful Yes I am, because you're aiming your anger at the wrong problem. Social programs are not the problem, look at literally any developed nation outside the US, they have social programs too
@@michelangelobuonarroti4958 while the US enemies are getting stronger everyday and all of our Allie’s are raising their military spending, it would be retardation to cut the military budget. And we are supposed to be the worlds police for a reason, free and open sea lanes forever