THE VIDEO SHELF · urban planning and traffic
The Suburban Traffic Contradiction
Oh The Urbanity! questions the framing that urban planning reforms like bike lanes and traffic calming wage war on suburbanites. It argues that suburban and urban residents alike want less traffic on their own streets.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in urbanism threads as a clear argument that car-dependent suburbs impose traffic on everyone.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Oh The Urbanity!
- Topic
- urban planning and traffic
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Exactly. This video makes that point so crystal clear: [VIDEO] Car-dependent suburbia is about imposing your car on everyone else while not allowing anyone else to impose their cars on you. It is inherently selfish city design.
joshlemer on Hacker News · 2021-11
In The StroadThere's a great video about that too. "The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" by Oh The Urbanity. [VIDEO] One of the interesting points is that there is a commonality between those suburbans and people who want walkable urban areas: few of us want to deal with the …
drivers99 on Hacker News · 2021-11
In The StroadThere's a good video explaining how urban and suburban residents alike want less traffic in their neighborhoods: [VIDEO]
nayuki on Hacker News · 2022-01
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