The other week, my family was forced to go to a Yum Cha restaurant, grab some snacks in Burwood Chinatown, play in the newly built playground in Burwood Park and then we had to choose between Westfield and Burwood Plaza to do some shopping before heading home. Pure hell!
Exactly. You were rushed by proximity. If there was a long drive between these places, you could have considered which of the identical shopping centres to attend.
As someone from the Sydney suburb of Antarctica (founded in 1424 by Scott Morrison), i can confirm that 15min suburbs are terrible. I would much rather take an 8h plane ride which emits a lot of Co2 then simply walking 15mins in Burwood to get all my essentials. Note: i think i tried to hard to be funny.
It's a shame that the only mall in 1 of my country's neighbourhoods was banned from having eateries because residents feared that'd attract more visitors & jam up the roads there. As a result besides a minimart in a petrol station there, the next nearest shops are a few km away in other neighbourhoods (~1/2h bus ride), in a country where car taxes are 200+%
Burwood is crap - in one sense only, other than this it's great: it has awful streetscape with way too many cars squeezing pedestrian space and slowing buses. If Burwood Road was made bus-only or better yet replaced with Light Rail, and Burwood station recieved a second entrance, it would be absolutely fantastic.
@@MitchellBPYao No it isn't - there are North-South roads on either side of Burwood Rd which should be the alternatives: Shaftsbury Rd & Wentworth Rd. Burwood Rd is the road which is used by all of the frequent bus services.
I live in a beachside suburb which is 15 mins drive from the City (or 30 mins 100% electric double decker bus trip). Where buses run every 5-10 mins. Where our suburban shops is only a 5 minute flat walk away, nearest bus stop 1 min away. Our suburb has its own cinema, cafes, pharmacy, post/video shop, parks, and two primary schools. Where the beach is only a 10 min walk away. We call it island bay (in Wellington, NZ). High school students have to go into the City since high schools are located in the City. We're the largest southern-most-populated suburb in both Wellington and the North Island (of NZ). We have a strong sense of community here (over 50% people under 40 years old).
That's pretty cool, ignore the drone's comment. I live in an urban city, right outside the capital. Lots of public transport everywhere, all the shops are 5 to 10 minutes walk, with specialized shops like furniture, tech, paint and all the other amenities people don't often need to buy from, being way more sparse, like 40 minutes walk from each other (I've seen others try to fit in between just to close in less than a year because of low sales). We don't live in towers, we have small houses with the lucky ones in the corners having a bit more backyard than the rest or people buying two properties to demolish and make bigger houses. Guess where my work is? That's right! The equivalent of a 15 minute city! Like almost every other employee in my company, like most people living near European big cities or you know, sardine like packed trains to Tokyo where everything is 10 minutes walk away once you travel the 30+ minutes by train from outside the city. These cities cannot sustain themselves, they need an influx of working force from outside the city.
I have come to the conclusions that people prefer exclusivity over convenience. So a desolate, but well maintained suburb where outsiders only come to visit family or friends is preferred over a lively, equally well maintained 15 minute suburb. The psychology behind this through process is that the 15 minute suburb inevitably would have suburbs nearby which are not 15 minutes suburbs and "peasants" from those suburbs will come in to get the "facilities" and cause crowding and crime. Thus everyone understands the benefit of the 15 minute suburb, but no one wants to live in one. Thus the demand for these residential only suburbs with 1 Woolies and 1 bus service sky-rocket - eventually only rich people able to afford them.
In a way, this can change as I feel younger generations are moving away from your traditional 1950s own your own block of land and drive everywhere mentality
Not even 1 woolies lol. At most an independent convenience store that only stocks a few essentials at very high prices. Still gotta drive to get to a proper supermarket.
Haha, this was very cool! I have been brainwashed to believe a compact and functional city, aka 15-minute city, is somehow good and I actually live in one. Don't really know why because I don't have the luxury of congestion to think about it. Groceries are only 5 mins away, bus stop around the corner, and it just all works for me too easily. Where I lives before overseas, my office was an 18 min walk away - such a major bummer because all the extra time I had at home with the kids. This led to too many nappy changes because I was around too much! Please people, fight against convenience, fight against ease, fight against lower cost of daily living, fight against a calm and enjoyable environment! Let us sprawl endlessly, destroy prime farming land and nature, and live in our cars, fuming away!
What do you mean you live in one? They don’t even exist. The news says it is just a conspiracy theory. “ I live in one” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what? They don’t exist
I realize it's an April Fool's thing, but you obviously haven't been on a subway in NY lately. Literally, you could die. Which is why I live in the country, breathe fresh air, enjoy the wildlife, hike with my dogs, and travel 30 mins for my essentials. It's awesome.
Nice! BTW: If you buy a fast motorcycle & they eradicate speed limits the whole of Sydney could become a 15 minute City. Plus, if you fit a really loud exhaust all your neighbors will want to come & talk to you.
thank god this video wasn't 15 minutes like those 15 minute city disasters waiting to happen great video Sharath and thanks for uploading this at 12:00AM AEST
A perfect city would be good transport and good planning. Cars are great for some situations like a fun day out. Or going on road trips. Visiting places far away. But it shouldn't be the only option of transportation. I love walking and bike riding as well.
I like cars, I only use them for when they are best suited (nothing can be done to make going to the woods without one easy). But road trips really aren’t necessary anymore now that we got planes
@@MrStark-up6fi Its not about the Destination. Road trips are more fun in evryway. Plus its cheeper. and you get to visit and drop into small towns for coffees. Road trips are like Driving manual. Theres no point to anymore but people do becuse its fun and they like it. ( I Drive manual ) I did a trip around australia and its the best trip i have ever done. And i love 4WD and camping.
@@kempy2 that’s fair. I know this guy who takes the train across the United States once in a while and I’m like “why? We got planes” and he’s like “flying has been a really inhumane experience recently, and the train is just much more relaxing and the scenery it runs through is incredible”
The biggest issue is if they restrict your travel and force you to stay in your city. 15 minutes sounds awesome as long as it doesn't come with that string attached.
@@kennylee8936 but has it been stated that it won't happen? It's easy to imagine the government using climate as a reason to restrict people's travel. And if they desire to do that, would you be willing to help fight against that?
@@jumpingmoose5554 So you need Government confirmation that it won't happen? When Government back then decided to build Urban Sprawl, did they warn people that they would need cars to get around and that if more people drive...it would cause congestion and clog up the roads? Depends what they enact...if it makes sense...then of course I would fight back. The only string attached that I can think of is making it harder to drive around said 15min city...which I don't think is something worth whinging about. You can still drive to other areas...but do you honestly need to drive locally? I can understand if it's to do big grocery shopping or getting heavy loads...but if it's for lunch/dinner or to see a friend....get over your negative perceptions of public transport and stop being a piss baby. Public transport is shit because not alot of people use it...if demand increases...if car dependency decreases...it will improve one way or another.
Exactly. What it is at this moment, isn’t what they want it to be after 2030 or so. People are naive & don’t look at the rest of their plan. They’re just fine with “own nothing & be happy” 🤦🏽♀️
Look at some of the other countries doing things in smart cities like allowing 100 times/year to leave your zone. As if 100 won’t drop to 60, 20, 5. Some smart cities are only allowing your car use on certain days depending on your license plate #. It’s all fun & games until it’s 110 degrees in summer & snowstorms in winter. Especially for moms with several small kids or the elderly. Walking/biking/walking to RT can be problematic.
I grew up in Longueville and enjoyed the place when it still had a Post Office, one shop, and every kid and most of the adults in the suburb knew each other. There is no way I would want to or could afford to live there now so I moved and eventually ended up in Tamworth. I think I may need to move to Bathurst though as Tamworth could be but isn't a 15-minute city due to negligible public transport (except for school buses) and lack of safe pedestrian and bicycle commuting infrastructure. You would think in a city of 35,000 they could do better.
Always happy to see a collab with Chris Topher. That said, as someone who grew up in Bathurst, I can vouch for the fact that he lives in one of the few “in town” housing options where you can easily access the 200m x 200m city blocks (which in themselves aren’t very walkable at that size). Beyond the CBD, it has the same urban sprawl problem that everywhere in Australia does and nowhere is accessible by foot or easily by bike. Also, as far as parks go, unfortunately the one he is sitting in was rebuilt a few years ago after extensive community consultation and is literally a concrete “X” leading to some benches in the middle…
My backyard made the first drone shot :) Interestingly, I live in Denistone. And I walk 15 minutes to work, 10 minutes to the shops, 2 minutes to the train station, 10 minutes to a hospital and 15 minutes to eastwood. Rarely use the car.
The perfect city is the one with balance. Good public transport, wide roads, lots of free parking spaces (without vehicle max height restrictions). Does not prioritise private over public transport or vice versa. Does not negatively affect those who prefer to drive, take public transport, live in mansions or apartments.
It's absolutely disgusting how close I am to the shopping centre and train station 😖. We need to follow in the steps of our nation's capital and spread everything further apart! Then, and only then, can we escape this hell scape of convenient access to amenities.
If you want a backyard...move to regional NSW. Sure we don't wanna be like HK or China, but I'd rather that than turn Sydney into LA/Houston/Insert American and Canadian City here. Its not freedom being stuck in traffic being unable to do anything else than wait for the other drivers who likely have a phobia of public transport. its not freedom to own a home with a backyard if its bloody expensive and you are far away form amenities...nor is it freedom if your kids rely on you to drive them everywhere instead of them learning independence by taking public transport. Sydney doesn't nor should be bloody dense like HK...I believe we need a balance of all kinds of dwellings, but be prepared to deal with the consequences of your choice of dwelling.
Holy crap, I just realized that the Houston suburb where I live is unintentionally a 15-minute town. My job, daughter's school, shops, grocery store, tons of restaurants, bars, neighborhood parks, healthcare (general health, dental, vision, pediatrics) are all less than 1 or 2 miles from my home. But rarely does anyone walk or bike anywhere, especially in the brutally hot summer months.
You're an amazing young man and a Doctor too. Loved your video on Wondabyne, we used to take the train there from Epping and camp for a few nights when i was 15 and walk next to the train tracks to Woy Woy. Used a torch to signal the train driver to stop at night. I've always pronounced it that suburb Long-e-ville ? Best wishes to you for your future :-)
This concept was tested in the 60's in Brazil. Its capital Brasilia has blocks of apartment buildings with their own walking distance commerces and no downtown. However, schools, major supermarkets, malls and such were within drivable distances but not longer than 20 minutes to reach everything by car. Very lonely and there's a sadness and a blandness to it. The apartment buildings that remain from the 60's look like prisons. place and high suicide rates. The 15 minute cities are indeed set up to be a nightmare.
I've watched several shorts from this and finally decided to watch the video, based on the shorts the first thing I did was check the date. The funniest video I've ever seen, goog job
Hi Sharath, this brings back so many memories of the day that we filmed all of this! There’s a lot of hidden references in this video that people should look out for! This video also describes the average struggles of someone who lives in Burwood. Which my support worker said that it’s a hole. And as they have a duty of care to look after me some of the time, I will trust them! From Westies that aren’t used to walking 5 metres and they get so tired and stressed they grab your ankle in sheer desperation. To starting at random NIMBYs flipping the bird at skyscrapers. It portrays the suburb and all 15 minute cities perfectly! Also, please give me back my phone. I’ve let you borrow it to call Chris, but I do need it to film future videos. By the way, anyone who doesn’t get anything on this comment should check the date that this video was uploaded. Great video as always, Sharath!
Thanks Matthew, and thank you for helping out with filming! I’m afraid as penance for not dragging me along when I grabbed you at the park, I’m going to keep your phone 👍
I live in a suburb where I am a mile from a hospital, a mall, a junior college, multiple gyms, a grocery store, numerous coffee shops, and other retail locations. I have a degree from the top of the academic rigor pile, engineering, not the bottom like urban planning, so I always needed to commute 20 minutes to an hour to an employer that hadn't been run out of California by social studies majors. The 15 minute cities are fine if you are employed by an apartment manager or a shop keeper or are leeching off the city as an urban planner. When you look at all of societal ills, they are always focused in the cities, not the suburbs. During the covid lockdowns I looked up the health conditions in our county and found around 16% percent of people were obese in the suburban and beach areas. In the few urban areas, obesity was between 40 and 50% and these areas are know for all sorts of crimes and typical urban problems that are always handled by "awareness" and "give us more money". Do you have an honest counterpoint video? Maybe talk to people on a bus or train and ask them what they thought about switching to owning a car? Only an urban planner would lie and say they love taking 3 times as long to get anywhere in a smelly, noisy, dangerous metal tube.
15 minute cities solve the YIMBYS desire for more housing in Sydney. They did this in Mascot, they built a train station, shopping centre, thousands of units and a park area.
I think its more about the hard restrictions and social engineering that was being promoted by the WEF/Globalist Agenda types that people were speaking out against. Such as restricting car mileage or engine types, monitoring everyone with Id, carbon credits, forced diversity, preventing/forcing business quotas. There does seem to be an element of interference that will turn convenience into restriction.
if there's anything i want to point out: i don;t think the 15min cities meant to include your place of work; surely, unlike schools, modern day employees tends to move a lot seeking career opportunities, new challenges and experiences.
I'll be honest, I was listening to this video whilst putting laundry on, and it took me until Sharath started speaking about Denistone for me to realise this was an April Fools day video...
i love your ferrari sharath. especially that toyota build, i mean who could possibly guess. cars are the best and i love using the m7 and eastern distributor everyday. the best part is it only costs $20! i love australia, but places like those where everything is so close together itches my brain 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 happy april fools lol love ur vids sharath
I got the best Kebab shop up the road from me about 8 minutes walk from Yagoona. I got the train station at Yagoona about the same walking time. I got my workplace at Chullora which is about a 10 minute drive. Bankstown Central which is about an 11 minute walk. Life aint that bad. Just need to get the locals to stop doing so much rubbish dumping... I came from the northern beaches and the rubbish dumping out here is insane.
If it’s voluntary then there’s not really any prison, except in the overactive imaginations of people who actually want to live in an area with gridlock traffic.
What about somewhere like Sylvania. You have 2 shopping centres, a Bunnings, car dealerships, a hospital, schools, parks etc all a 15-20 minute walk away and you still have spacious houses and not many apartments.
Where I live in Montreal, it is already difficult to visit people in some parts of the city because the streets are basically a maze that you get stuck in if you dare to enter. Parking in the city is a skill in itself as the city is notorious for its many rules and they are super quick to give out tickets. It is difficult to get around the city quickly by car and the roads are so full of potholes that you almost need a tank to get around. The metro is constantly stopped by people walking on the tracks or broken parts during rush hour. It really is a terrible experience to get anywhere in the city, but we have lots of cycle lanes and these cyclists do not have to stop, so it is up to the drivers to ensure their safety and it is always their fault if something happens. We used to have such an amazing city before these green activists took over!
ye 15 minute cities aren’t good you are referring to 15 minute towns. just have stronger public transport and road networks like asian countries and europe
Every 15 minutes in Sydney, a quarter hour passes
Together, we can stop this
Move to Adelaide. Every 15 minutes 5 hours has passed, yet every 15 years things advance 5 minutes.
Please spread the word. Thank you for your attention!
@@BuildingBeautifully Will do
This is the woke agenda
I live a 5 minute walk from the shops, but I always stop in the middle and wait for 11 minutes to avoid government overreach.
This hot hack will protect you from the tyranny of 15 minute cities!
Best comment.
Imbecile
Thank you patriot, for your sacrifice.... We can't let the fascists win.
Hahahaha is this a joke??? Like a slave obeying through fear? HOW MODERN
I deadass thought this was serious for a minute until i realised it is literally April Fools
The fact that you uploaded this at 12am on the dot might confuse people in other timezones and im all for it lmao
I think most people who watch this Chanel are from Australia
@@harrygroundwater2590Didn’t know Australia is just NSW, Victoria & Tasmania. /s
@@harrygroundwater2590I was confused since I live in USA 😂
The channel's like 90% Sydney tho@@anson1269
Yea I'm in QLD and was quite confused lol
Dark Sharath is my favourite version. "The hospitals, the brothel..." and "we know why I'm using the word ghetto. It's full of Chine..." 😂😂😂
So glad someone's finally calling out Burwood for being such a convenient and vibrant place. This has gone on for too long.
Someone had to do it 🤷♂️ (thank you for being in my video!!)
@@BuildingBeautifully Thanks for having me in it!
@@ChrisTopher_Urbanism but seriously, Bathurst? 😢😂
Humans have too many panic moments but i think it's a never crazier version of hurstville and I lived there once
I grew up in a 15 minute city - It's so advanced it's now a 90 minute city.
Damn which area
The other week, my family was forced to go to a Yum Cha restaurant, grab some snacks in Burwood Chinatown, play in the newly built playground in Burwood Park and then we had to choose between Westfield and Burwood Plaza to do some shopping before heading home. Pure hell!
Exactly. You were rushed by proximity. If there was a long drive between these places, you could have considered which of the identical shopping centres to attend.
Oh my God…my most sincere condolences 😢
It's convenient or maybe I didn't feel it
Please UNIFY and stop this nonsense 😢
Please UNIFY and stop this nonsense 😢
I was taking this too seriously, until i realised its April 1st. 🤣
Poe's Law in action.
same 🤣
I swear, I was being dead serious the entire time 🫢
The video was uploaded on March 31st, which ISN'T April Fools. I think you're the fool for thinking such stupidity!
You won't be laughing when you find out that this will be implemented in the not too distant future!
As someone from the Sydney suburb of Antarctica (founded in 1424 by Scott Morrison), i can confirm that 15min suburbs are terrible. I would much rather take an 8h plane ride which emits a lot of Co2 then simply walking 15mins in Burwood to get all my essentials.
Note: i think i tried to hard to be funny.
8 hours is too little. Make it 20 hours then we’ll talk.
He took the joke on burwood
It's a shame that the only mall in 1 of my country's neighbourhoods was banned from having eateries because residents feared that'd attract more visitors & jam up the roads there. As a result besides a minimart in a petrol station there, the next nearest shops are a few km away in other neighbourhoods (~1/2h bus ride), in a country where car taxes are 200+%
Scott Morrison and the Levy on forgein workers made Australia lose 5000 highly skilled construction workers every year.
There are plenty of Siberias in western Sydney
6:46 loongeville? ...ahaha your pronunciations never cease to crack me up 🤣great vid
I'm pretty sure he did this to check if people are actually listening properly 🤣🤣. This is how I'm going to pronounce it from now on ....
Burwood is crap - in one sense only, other than this it's great: it has awful streetscape with way too many cars squeezing pedestrian space and slowing buses. If Burwood Road was made bus-only or better yet replaced with Light Rail, and Burwood station recieved a second entrance, it would be absolutely fantastic.
Agreed!
@@BuildingBeautifullyand well Burwood Westfield is so boring as it doesn’t even have an Apple Store!
@@NeilLavittyeah but its got a CEX
It's just one main road
@@MitchellBPYao No it isn't - there are North-South roads on either side of Burwood Rd which should be the alternatives: Shaftsbury Rd & Wentworth Rd. Burwood Rd is the road which is used by all of the frequent bus services.
No one is suggesting that stone walls be built around 15 minute cities. Your freedom of movement is not restricted.
Too many dumb people giving in to right wing conspiracy nuts talking bs on 15min cities
The Glebe sign in the background of "Surrey Hills" makes it 😆
I just knew this had to be an April Fools Joke video to a degree
I live in a beachside suburb which is 15 mins drive from the City (or 30 mins 100% electric double decker bus trip). Where buses run every 5-10 mins. Where our suburban shops is only a 5 minute flat walk away, nearest bus stop 1 min away. Our suburb has its own cinema, cafes, pharmacy, post/video shop, parks, and two primary schools. Where the beach is only a 10 min walk away. We call it island bay (in Wellington, NZ). High school students have to go into the City since high schools are located in the City. We're the largest southern-most-populated suburb in both Wellington and the North Island (of NZ). We have a strong sense of community here (over 50% people under 40 years old).
Sounds like hell to me 🤮🤮 I’ll stick to Denistone thanks
That's pretty cool, ignore the drone's comment.
I live in an urban city, right outside the capital. Lots of public transport everywhere, all the shops are 5 to 10 minutes walk, with specialized shops like furniture, tech, paint and all the other amenities people don't often need to buy from, being way more sparse, like 40 minutes walk from each other (I've seen others try to fit in between just to close in less than a year because of low sales). We don't live in towers, we have small houses with the lucky ones in the corners having a bit more backyard than the rest or people buying two properties to demolish and make bigger houses. Guess where my work is? That's right! The equivalent of a 15 minute city! Like almost every other employee in my company, like most people living near European big cities or you know, sardine like packed trains to Tokyo where everything is 10 minutes walk away once you travel the 30+ minutes by train from outside the city. These cities cannot sustain themselves, they need an influx of working force from outside the city.
"Suburbs like Surry Hills, where I am right now"
In front of a sign that says Glebe
I have come to the conclusions that people prefer exclusivity over convenience. So a desolate, but well maintained suburb where outsiders only come to visit family or friends is preferred over a lively, equally well maintained 15 minute suburb. The psychology behind this through process is that the 15 minute suburb inevitably would have suburbs nearby which are not 15 minutes suburbs and "peasants" from those suburbs will come in to get the "facilities" and cause crowding and crime. Thus everyone understands the benefit of the 15 minute suburb, but no one wants to live in one. Thus the demand for these residential only suburbs with 1 Woolies and 1 bus service sky-rocket - eventually only rich people able to afford them.
Once humans get over the mind-prison of needing a higher status, we can fix a few problems or two...
In a way, this can change as I feel younger generations are moving away from your traditional 1950s own your own block of land and drive everywhere mentality
This is a very interesting take, one I’d agree with.
Not even 1 woolies lol. At most an independent convenience store that only stocks a few essentials at very high prices. Still gotta drive to get to a proper supermarket.
"the hospital, the brothel"
1:51
that caught me so off guard ahahahhaha
😂
It was at this point my suspicions about it being an April Fools joke were confirmed
Very important to have both next to each other
@@lordjayvideos agreed after they're done with your broken arm you go across to deal with that out dry arm lol
This is a masterpiece
Thank you for your support!!
Haha, this was very cool!
I have been brainwashed to believe a compact and functional city, aka 15-minute city, is somehow good and I actually live in one. Don't really know why because I don't have the luxury of congestion to think about it. Groceries are only 5 mins away, bus stop around the corner, and it just all works for me too easily. Where I lives before overseas, my office was an 18 min walk away - such a major bummer because all the extra time I had at home with the kids. This led to too many nappy changes because I was around too much!
Please people, fight against convenience, fight against ease, fight against lower cost of daily living, fight against a calm and enjoyable environment! Let us sprawl endlessly, destroy prime farming land and nature, and live in our cars, fuming away!
What do you mean you live in one?
They don’t even exist.
The news says it is just a conspiracy theory.
“ I live in one” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what?
They don’t exist
I realize it's an April Fool's thing, but you obviously haven't been on a subway in NY lately. Literally, you could die. Which is why I live in the country, breathe fresh air, enjoy the wildlife, hike with my dogs, and travel 30 mins for my essentials. It's awesome.
I took the train once just like you did. There were warnings of "mind the gap" everywhere. So dangerous!
It’s not worth risking your life over. Better to drive in cars, which famously never cause fatalities.
Bro this has gotta be one of your best videos ever
Thank you! 😊 about time I spoke my truth.
Nice!
BTW: If you buy a fast motorcycle & they eradicate speed limits the whole of Sydney could become a 15 minute City. Plus, if you fit a really loud exhaust all your neighbors will want to come & talk to you.
Facts
You’re onto something!
thank god this video wasn't 15 minutes like those 15 minute city disasters waiting to happen
great video Sharath and thanks for uploading this at 12:00AM AEST
puueds spotted!!
A perfect city would be good transport and good planning. Cars are great for some situations like a fun day out. Or going on road trips. Visiting places far away. But it shouldn't be the only option of transportation. I love walking and bike riding as well.
I like cars, I only use them for when they are best suited (nothing can be done to make going to the woods without one easy). But road trips really aren’t necessary anymore now that we got planes
@@MrStark-up6fi Its not about the Destination. Road trips are more fun in evryway. Plus its cheeper. and you get to visit and drop into small towns for coffees.
Road trips are like Driving manual. Theres no point to anymore but people do becuse its fun and they like it. ( I Drive manual )
I did a trip around australia and its the best trip i have ever done.
And i love 4WD and camping.
@@kempy2 that’s fair. I know this guy who takes the train across the United States once in a while and I’m like “why? We got planes” and he’s like “flying has been a really inhumane experience recently, and the train is just much more relaxing and the scenery it runs through is incredible”
Happy Birthday, Sharath.
Hope you had a great one today, mate.
Many European cities have been walkable for centuries.
in portugal, europe, we have the 5 minutes cities its been 900 years or more. its really good. cars just ruined everything
I have a 1 hour wait for a train
That's how long it takes to wait for a bus off peak in Paramatta
In Soviet Russia, train waits for you!
That’s how Australia should be!
That's roughly 4 sets of 15 minutes!
@@yesand5536 You sold me! Packing my bags now!
Walking --> wolking --> wolk --> woke!!! walking is woke!!!!!! wake up people!!!
What a fantastic channel, I just watched your Peats Ridge Road video it was great .
Burwood isnt bad. But they really need some more of those "no spitting" signs
its april fools joke
Denistone is built, beautifully.
Happy Birthday to Sharath!
According to his completely unedited picture of his licence.
The biggest issue is if they restrict your travel and force you to stay in your city. 15 minutes sounds awesome as long as it doesn't come with that string attached.
That idea has been overhyped by fearmongers
@@kennylee8936 but has it been stated that it won't happen? It's easy to imagine the government using climate as a reason to restrict people's travel. And if they desire to do that, would you be willing to help fight against that?
@@jumpingmoose5554 So you need Government confirmation that it won't happen?
When Government back then decided to build Urban Sprawl, did they warn people that they would need cars to get around and that if more people drive...it would cause congestion and clog up the roads?
Depends what they enact...if it makes sense...then of course I would fight back. The only string attached that I can think of is making it harder to drive around said 15min city...which I don't think is something worth whinging about. You can still drive to other areas...but do you honestly need to drive locally? I can understand if it's to do big grocery shopping or getting heavy loads...but if it's for lunch/dinner or to see a friend....get over your negative perceptions of public transport and stop being a piss baby. Public transport is shit because not alot of people use it...if demand increases...if car dependency decreases...it will improve one way or another.
Exactly. What it is at this moment, isn’t what they want it to be after 2030 or so. People are naive & don’t look at the rest of their plan. They’re just fine with “own nothing & be happy” 🤦🏽♀️
Look at some of the other countries doing things in smart cities like allowing 100 times/year to leave your zone. As if 100 won’t drop to 60, 20, 5.
Some smart cities are only allowing your car use on certain days depending on your license plate #.
It’s all fun & games until it’s 110 degrees in summer & snowstorms in winter. Especially for moms with several small kids or the elderly. Walking/biking/walking to RT can be problematic.
I saw the thumbnail and thought Sharath had succumbed to the TH-cam algorithm, then remembered the date today 😂
Me succumbing to the algorithm? Not today, mate. Not today.
I swear i saw you at castle towers the other day 😂
1:54 😂”-the hospital.., the BROTHEL….” 😂 Nice sense of humor
If you dont think it’s government overreach then who is planning it? Who has the power to change zones and buildings codes?
Check the lobbyists as well
I grew up in Longueville and enjoyed the place when it still had a Post Office, one shop, and every kid and most of the adults in the suburb knew each other. There is no way I would want to or could afford to live there now so I moved and eventually ended up in Tamworth. I think I may need to move to Bathurst though as Tamworth could be but isn't a 15-minute city due to negligible public transport (except for school buses) and lack of safe pedestrian and bicycle commuting infrastructure. You would think in a city of 35,000 they could do better.
Why not lithgow? Bathurst has shit public transport
@@Drsteveturley69 Bathurst was mentioned in the video and I also want access to a university campus.
Burwood is interesting because I think it should be the centre of Sydney. Cycling in Burwood is pretty average but it is a lot faster than the car
Always happy to see a collab with Chris Topher. That said, as someone who grew up in Bathurst, I can vouch for the fact that he lives in one of the few “in town” housing options where you can easily access the 200m x 200m city blocks (which in themselves aren’t very walkable at that size). Beyond the CBD, it has the same urban sprawl problem that everywhere in Australia does and nowhere is accessible by foot or easily by bike. Also, as far as parks go, unfortunately the one he is sitting in was rebuilt a few years ago after extensive community consultation and is literally a concrete “X” leading to some benches in the middle…
Bloody marvelous. 🙂
My backyard made the first drone shot :)
Interestingly, I live in Denistone. And I walk 15 minutes to work, 10 minutes to the shops, 2 minutes to the train station, 10 minutes to a hospital and 15 minutes to eastwood. Rarely use the car.
Cant be worse than a car-dependent concrete corporate wasteland like Pearland Texas.
That what typical dumb people want
The perfect city is the one with balance. Good public transport, wide roads, lots of free parking spaces (without vehicle max height restrictions). Does not prioritise private over public transport or vice versa.
Does not negatively affect those who prefer to drive, take public transport, live in mansions or apartments.
It's absolutely disgusting how close I am to the shopping centre and train station 😖. We need to follow in the steps of our nation's capital and spread everything further apart! Then, and only then, can we escape this hell scape of convenient access to amenities.
Absolutely! Finally, someone who gets it.
Being out in the sprawling suburbs without access to a car is waaay more liberating 🤔
If you want a backyard...move to regional NSW. Sure we don't wanna be like HK or China, but I'd rather that than turn Sydney into LA/Houston/Insert American and Canadian City here.
Its not freedom being stuck in traffic being unable to do anything else than wait for the other drivers who likely have a phobia of public transport.
its not freedom to own a home with a backyard if its bloody expensive and you are far away form amenities...nor is it freedom if your kids rely on you to drive them everywhere instead of them learning independence by taking public transport.
Sydney doesn't nor should be bloody dense like HK...I believe we need a balance of all kinds of dwellings, but be prepared to deal with the consequences of your choice of dwelling.
Holy crap, I just realized that the Houston suburb where I live is unintentionally a 15-minute town. My job, daughter's school, shops, grocery store, tons of restaurants, bars, neighborhood parks, healthcare (general health, dental, vision, pediatrics) are all less than 1 or 2 miles from my home. But rarely does anyone walk or bike anywhere, especially in the brutally hot summer months.
You're an amazing young man and a Doctor too. Loved your video on Wondabyne, we used to take the train there from Epping and camp for a few nights when i was 15 and walk next to the train tracks to Woy Woy. Used a torch to signal the train driver to stop at night. I've always pronounced it that suburb Long-e-ville ? Best wishes to you for your future :-)
#ProtectSharath'sCar we need to protect all Australians from the contraptions known as Trains and the torture of walking 🤣
This concept was tested in the 60's in Brazil. Its capital Brasilia has blocks of apartment buildings with their own walking distance commerces and no downtown. However, schools, major supermarkets, malls and such were within drivable distances but not longer than 20 minutes to reach everything by car. Very lonely and there's a sadness and a blandness to it. The apartment buildings that remain from the 60's look like prisons. place and high suicide rates. The 15 minute cities are indeed set up to be a nightmare.
I've watched several shorts from this and finally decided to watch the video, based on the shorts the first thing I did was check the date. The funniest video I've ever seen, goog job
1:30 i don't think Sydney town established in 1424 ... Do you mean 1924?
EDIT: I realise the date now...
He meant BC.
I'm pretty sure Sydney town was established in 1424 - the same year the first iPhone was released
No one is suggesting building thick stone walls around walkable cities. Your freedom of movement is not being restricted.
When it got to your love of Denistone, I knew something was a miss, I mean the 10 cars should have been a give away! 😂
Hi Sharath, this brings back so many memories of the day that we filmed all of this! There’s a lot of hidden references in this video that people should look out for!
This video also describes the average struggles of someone who lives in Burwood. Which my support worker said that it’s a hole. And as they have a duty of care to look after me some of the time, I will trust them! From Westies that aren’t used to walking 5 metres and they get so tired and stressed they grab your ankle in sheer desperation. To starting at random NIMBYs flipping the bird at skyscrapers. It portrays the suburb and all 15 minute cities perfectly!
Also, please give me back my phone. I’ve let you borrow it to call Chris, but I do need it to film future videos.
By the way, anyone who doesn’t get anything on this comment should check the date that this video was uploaded.
Great video as always, Sharath!
Thanks Matthew, and thank you for helping out with filming! I’m afraid as penance for not dragging me along when I grabbed you at the park, I’m going to keep your phone 👍
Imagine mate what he thinks of Hurstville
Lived in Sydney for 30 odd years and always learning something interesting about it, like how to pronounce Longueville
I live in a suburb where I am a mile from a hospital, a mall, a junior college, multiple gyms, a grocery store, numerous coffee shops, and other retail locations. I have a degree from the top of the academic rigor pile, engineering, not the bottom like urban planning, so I always needed to commute 20 minutes to an hour to an employer that hadn't been run out of California by social studies majors. The 15 minute cities are fine if you are employed by an apartment manager or a shop keeper or are leeching off the city as an urban planner.
When you look at all of societal ills, they are always focused in the cities, not the suburbs. During the covid lockdowns I looked up the health conditions in our county and found around 16% percent of people were obese in the suburban and beach areas. In the few urban areas, obesity was between 40 and 50% and these areas are know for all sorts of crimes and typical urban problems that are always handled by "awareness" and "give us more money".
Do you have an honest counterpoint video? Maybe talk to people on a bus or train and ask them what they thought about switching to owning a car? Only an urban planner would lie and say they love taking 3 times as long to get anywhere in a smelly, noisy, dangerous metal tube.
15 minute cities solve the YIMBYS desire for more housing in Sydney. They did this in Mascot, they built a train station, shopping centre, thousands of units and a park area.
I think its more about the hard restrictions and social engineering that was being promoted by the WEF/Globalist Agenda types that people were speaking out against.
Such as restricting car mileage or engine types, monitoring everyone with Id, carbon credits, forced diversity, preventing/forcing business quotas. There does seem to be an element of interference that will turn convenience into restriction.
1:38 Surry Hills where I am right now? Sign says Glebe?
got him. rekt
ah, right, it's tomorrow today in Australia.
For the algorithm 🎉
if there's anything i want to point out: i don;t think the 15min cities meant to include your place of work; surely, unlike schools, modern day employees tends to move a lot seeking career opportunities, new challenges and experiences.
I get the joke but I realy hope you do a proper 15 minute city video.
Likewise, also maybe some good examples of Sydney suburbs with medium density?
So clever 😂😂😂 thanks.
Can't believe it took me so long to watch this, this might be your best video yet! Haha
“If you’re not careful, I’ll turn our 15 minute city into a ten minute city” - Andrew Barr
That would be even better.
But unfortunately 15 minutes cities aren’t real.
They are just theories.
@@thebrunetteinroom7 most towns and cities before the highway boom in the 1950s were 15-minute cities
1424 was a big year! 🤣🤣🤣
The Mayan Calendar ended then. Look at all the problems we've been having since!
I think that's also the same year trains and coffee shops were invented!
I'll be honest, I was listening to this video whilst putting laundry on, and it took me until Sharath started speaking about Denistone for me to realise this was an April Fools day video...
Sydney established in 1424! 😂
I absolutely lost it when you grabbed Matthew’s leg at 5:43 🤣🤣
What is wrong with walking? Walking is NOT WEIRD
i love your ferrari sharath. especially that toyota build, i mean who could possibly guess. cars are the best and i love using the m7 and eastern distributor everyday. the best part is it only costs $20! i love australia, but places like those where everything is so close together itches my brain 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
happy april fools lol love ur vids sharath
Suddenly I want to move to Burwood.
Nice Ferrari, Sharath! Imagine if you had a Toyota that would be so weird! Only Sharath can have a Ferrari!! 🏎️
i still find it so weird that Burwood Westfield is the only one in the entire state that doesn't have a JB HI-FI. it's so bizarre.
That is shocking 😲 😂
I walked past you in Melbourne the other day 😊
Noticed you have discovered sarcasm. Keep it up
Why would I want to walk everywhere for free, when I can pay my freedom tax to transurban?
I’m more partial to 17 minute cities. Prime numbers make your life so much simpler.
Primed for simplicity I gather?
I got the best Kebab shop up the road from me about 8 minutes walk from Yagoona. I got the train station at Yagoona about the same walking time. I got my workplace at Chullora which is about a 10 minute drive. Bankstown Central which is about an 11 minute walk. Life aint that bad. Just need to get the locals to stop doing so much rubbish dumping... I came from the northern beaches and the rubbish dumping out here is insane.
This killed me 💀💀💀 Just amazing work!
Surry Hills aka Glebe 😂
Ah you got me! April fools!!
I love these videos!!!! Sometimes conterdicting oneself is the best way to make a point.
It took until the 1424 reference to see what you did there lol.
Also loved the fast and furious music for the car bit.
6:49
HOLY FRICK I AM OFFENDED
LUNGEVILLE?
AS A LANE COVE NATIVE ITS
LONGAVIL
I KNOW ITS APRIL FOOLS, BUT THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH TO TAKE
💀
As a native of Vaucluse AND Bellevue Hill, we may even subdivide one day.
Longueville
@@Drsteveturley69 ??????????????????
Didnt have to do my homeboy Lysaghts dirty like that!
Finally, the nugget of info that every Strayan has been yearning for: travel time between Luehnjvil and Lysachts!
Volunteer public prison
If it’s voluntary then there’s not really any prison, except in the overactive imaginations of people who actually want to live in an area with gridlock traffic.
Got me in the first 3 minutes, thought I'm listening to Overheard Paddington lmao
Finding this video not on April fools haha oh the satire 😂
What about somewhere like Sylvania. You have 2 shopping centres, a Bunnings, car dealerships, a hospital, schools, parks etc all a 15-20 minute walk away and you still have spacious houses and not many apartments.
Needs a train station
Great video, I gotta subscribe to the patreon as soon as I figure out how to post money to them.
Where I live in Montreal, it is already difficult to visit people in some parts of the city because the streets are basically a maze that you get stuck in if you dare to enter. Parking in the city is a skill in itself as the city is notorious for its many rules and they are super quick to give out tickets. It is difficult to get around the city quickly by car and the roads are so full of potholes that you almost need a tank to get around. The metro is constantly stopped by people walking on the tracks or broken parts during rush hour. It really is a terrible experience to get anywhere in the city, but we have lots of cycle lanes and these cyclists do not have to stop, so it is up to the drivers to ensure their safety and it is always their fault if something happens. We used to have such an amazing city before these green activists took over!
why am watching april fools in may 😅
I love your sarcastic humorous approach
ye 15 minute cities aren’t good you are referring to 15 minute towns. just have stronger public transport and road networks like asian countries and europe
check the date
@@Lumiobytei know he is being sarcastic. my comment is genuine