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They Finally Built Good Transit!?

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How can a NEW Transit Line be THIS BAD!?
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-can-a-new-transit-line-be-this-bad
https://youtu.be/Qjp7hqXgInI

The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-worlds-dumbest-bike-lane-law-just-passed-in-canada
https://youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI

The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities (trams)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-absolute-best-transportation-for-cities
https://youtu.be/bNTg9EX7MLw

Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-trams-are-great-so-why-are-the-streetcars-so-bad
https://youtu.be/HhQxNHrD6fA

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References & Further Reading

Network 2011 (1985)
https://cancelledtoronto.ca/1980/network-2011

Transit City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_City

Clash expected over competing visions for GTA transit future
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/clash-expected-over-competing-visions-for-gta-transit-future-1.700596

Eglinton Crosstown Backgrounder
https://web.archive.org/web/20200803181141/http://thecrosstown.ca/the-project/fact-sheets/eglinton-crosstown

Comparing LRT and Subway Capacities
https://lrt.daxack.ca/LRTvsHRT/CapacityCompare.html

Transit Costs Project
https://transitcosts.com/

Toronto backpedals on Eglinton bike lanes following Ford government crackdown
https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/eglinton-bike-lanes-toronto-backpedal-ford-government-crackdown-12332316

The Eglinton Subway We Almost Had
https://jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/the-eglinton-subway-we-almost-had/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/16292134992/

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:35 About the LRT and its history
2:36 The features of this LRT
5:17 Transfers and Mount Dennis
7:59 Station design
9:56 Street improvements
13:07 Retail integrations (neg)
15:31 Tunnel and surface design
16:59 Traffic lights & intersections
19:34 Speed limits & (bad) operations
20:30 Expensive & overbuilt
22:06 Metros vs trams
25:02 Should it have been a subway?
26:53 Conclusion & Day Pass

Is This Peak Hot-Weather Urbanism? (Singapore)

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teh siew dai
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Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up - Technology Connections
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References & Further Reading

Seniors First: 7 things that make Silver Zones road safety havens
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/who_we_are/statistics_and_publications/Connect/silverzones.html

Silver Zone Enhancement: A Safer, More Inclusive Space for Seniors
https://marsiling.pa.gov.sg/silver-zone-enhancement-a-safer-more-inclusive-space-for-seniors/

Completed and Upcoming Silver Zone Locations (2020)
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/dam/ltagov/news/press/2020/20200305_factsheet_silver_zones_by_2023.pdf

A Comprehensive Mobility Network
https://www.ura.gov.sg/land-planning/long-term-plan/space-for-our-dreams-exhibition/move/comprehensive-mobility-network/

Road Repurposing
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/upcoming_projects/road_commuter_facilities/road_repurposing.html

Land Transport Master Plan 2040
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/who_we_are/our_work/land_transport_master_plan_2040.html

LTA | Roads
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/who_we_are/our_work/road.html

Written Answer by Ministry of National Development on land use
https://www.mnd.gov.sg/newsroom/parliament-matters/q-as/view/written-answer-by-ministry-of-national-development-on-land-use

Marina Bay
https://www.ura.gov.sg/land-planning/shaping-our-city/marina-bay/

Singapore's oldest MRT stations to get facelift within next decade
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/singapores-oldest-mrt-stations-get-facelift-within-next-decade-4979566

Community lawn, movable platforms among winning ideas for former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community-lawn-movable-platforms-among-winning-ideas-for-former-tanjong-pagar-railway-station

Growing Singapore’s land transport network
https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/upcoming_projects.html

List of countries and territories by motor vehicles per capita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_motor_vehicles_per_capita

COE Results
https://www.motorist.sg/coe-results

The overwhelming majority of footage in this video was filmed by Not Just Bikes on location. A few clips were licensed from Getty Images.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:57 Revisiting Singapore
4:29 Singapore Metro
8:55 Three new metro stations (circle line)
10:27 Transit-oriented development
11:43 Avoiding big roads
12:45 Pedestrianised streets
14:15 Bencoolen street redesign
18:22 Silver Zones
20:06 Friendly Streets
20:47 Cycling
21:25 Crossing the road
22:48 Buses
24:46 How Singapore controls cars
30:27 Concluding thoughts
31:50 Outro, Day Pass, and Nebula

Amsterdam Just Keeps Getting Awesome

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Every Reason to Hate Cars
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-every-reason-to-hate-cars
https://youtu.be/umgi-CbaSRU

Amsterdam Closed this Bridge to Cars but not Bikes (Berlagebrug)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-closed-this-bridge-to-cars-but-not-bikes
https://youtu.be/g0F_hTGYa0Y

The Complicated History of a Car-Free Street (Ferdinand Bolstraat)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-crazy-story-of-my-favourite-street-in-amsterdam
https://youtu.be/06_ggJCU_n4

The Secret to Japan's Great Cities (Japanese Streets)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-secret-to-japans-great-cities
https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U

Why Amsterdam is Removing 10,000 Parking Spaces
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-why-amsterdam-is-removing-10000-parking-spaces
https://youtu.be/mXLqrMljdfU

Amsterdam Just Got Awesomer (Amsterdam Centraal Bicycle Garage)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-just-got-awesomer
https://youtu.be/EqwasBTzZS8

Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road (Weesperstraat Knip)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-just-closed-their-busiest-road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcBC7MFRIk

What is the "Correct" Speed Limit? (Amsterdam 30km/h)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-what-is-the-correct-speed-limit
https://youtu.be/JRbnBc-97Ps

Utrecht changed so much in 17 years! - Bicycle Dutch
https://youtu.be/M0jSNVk46gY

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References & Further Reading

Amsterdam Autoluw - Amsterdam maakt ruimte
https://openresearch.amsterdam/nl/page/49784/amsterdam-autoluw---amsterdam-maakt-ruimte

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Carly Rae Jepsen performing on Canada Day in 2010
By Brendan from Vancouver , Canada - Carly Rae Jepsen, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18908874

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The Complicated History of a Car-Free Street (Ferdinand Bolstraat)

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Relevant Videos

Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-just-closed-their-busiest-road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcBC7MFRIk

Highways Almost Destroyed Amsterdam - Plan Jokinen
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-highways-almost-destroyed-amsterdam-plan-jokinen
youtube.com/watch?v=vI5pbDFDZyI

Amsterdam children fighting cars in De Pijp, 1972 - Bicycle Dutch
https://youtu.be/YY6PQAI4TZE

1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxB9AlYg84

We Went Inside the FEBO Factory 🤫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_viAf92gRM

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References & Further Reading

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Bolstraat

Historic images are available at:
Amsterdam Beeldbank
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/

Nationaal Archief
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoeken

The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/ferdinandbolstraat.txt

This video uses stock footage from Getty Images and other licensed sources.
No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:15 Neighbourhood YY (1872)
2:47 Albert Cuypmarkt
4:13 Poor-quality housing
4:57 Ferdinand Bol (the painter)
5:40 Extensions to Ferdinand Bolstraat
6:09 The RAI
7:27 Car-friendly Plans (1960s)
8:54 Plan Jokinen (1967)
10:19 Frans Halsbuurt
13:12 The Old RAI & The Okura (1971)
14:26 The children of De Pijp (1972)
15:32 Flipping over cars (1975)
17:06 Blij dat ik Rij (1976)
18:43 Briefly car-free (1978)
19:41 The old RAI development (1980s)
20:10 The Heineken brewery (1990s)
22:08 FEBO
23:31 The M52 metro
24:01 Car-free Ferdinand Bolstraat (2018)
25:09 Why I like this street
26:30 Rode Loper plan
27:11 Copying the formula on other streets
28:30 De Pijp today
29:27 We need more car-free streets!
31:21 Day Pass & Nebula

I Climbed the Highest Mountain in the Netherlands!

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Relevant Videos

This Tiny Island has Insane Traffic
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-tiny-island-has-insane-traffic
https://youtu.be/kdz6FeQLuHQ

西久靈 visited the highest point in *every province* of the Netherlands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcFDdRg9ZBg&list=PLlu-xvtgN9FfClYft5Fgwda0p9_MGfhSS

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References & Further Reading

Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987)
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sid_Meiers_Pirates_1987

By scanned bill from my wallet, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22343765
By bill taken from wallet. Originally created by the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24240921

House on the Path, Windward Side, Saba
https://www.remaxislandproperties.com/house-on-path-villa-sale-windward-side-saba-for-sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjpu8oQ5gjM

Netherlands Antillean guilder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder

The Road Which Could Not Be Built
https://thesabaislander.com/2016/01/12/the-road-which-could-not-be-built/

By ikarus78 - Own work (Original text: self-made), CC BY-SA 3.0 de,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37103709

Helicopter for Mt. Scenery Tower Project Arrives on Saba
https://www.sabagov.nl/news/helicopter-for-mt-scenery-tower-project-arrives-on-saba

Phase 2 Saba solar park project well on its way to completion
http://sabanews.nl/2018/12/04/phase-2-saba-solar-park-project-well-on-its-way-to-completion/
https://www.re.powerupsaba.com/

Saba Solar Parks - The Green World Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbXQv5BvWPM

Clean energy for EU islands - Saba
https://clean-energy-islands.ec.europa.eu/countries/netherlands/saba
https://clean-energy-islands.ec.europa.eu/resources/publications/saba-roadmap-smart-energy-
system

Saba and RMI Formalize New Project to Reach Nearly 90% Renewable Energy Production
https://rmi.org/press-release/saba-and-rmi-formalize-new-project-to-reach-nearly-90-renewable-energy-production/

The road that couldn’t be built
https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-179/the-road-that-couldnt-be-built-on-this-day

Saba Island Express
https://www.sabagov.nl/news/public-entity-saba-introduces-island-express-a-new-public-transportation-service-for-the-saban-community
https://www.sabagov.nl/residents/transportation/bus-schedule
https://www.sabagov.nl/residents/transportation/bus-schedule/island-express-1

Mount Scenery Tower Replacement to Begin
https://www.sabagov.nl/management-organization/office-of-communication-public-relations/public-entity-saba-newsletter/february-2026

Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-64_Skycrane

By WikiPedant - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60334655
By WikiPedant - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60334447

CN Tower Construction 1975 S-64 Sikorsky
https://youtu.be/MTB2YX6NOl8

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When Oil Gets Expensive, Cities Get Better

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Suggested Videos

This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

Highways Almost Destroyed Amsterdam - Plan Jokinen
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-highways-almost-destroyed-amsterdam-plan-jokinen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5pbDFDZyI

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References & Further Reading

2026 Iran war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

What's Going on with Shipping?
Hormuz Disruptions, US Navy Escort Plans (or lack of) and Impact on Global Trade | 10 March 2026
https://youtu.be/fOXgrG0Ea44

Trump to Other Counties on Strait of Hormuz: "Go to the Strait and just take it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnt76qtODlY

Joop Den Uyl Addresses the Nation (Oil Crisis, 1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dXlMbC0fbo
https://eloydegen.com/static/oliecrisis.html

Scenes from S&P Global’s CERAWeek 26 | Jeff Currie, CSO of Energy Pathways, Carlyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ2F1HJX4-o

Technology Connections
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0

The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/expensiveoil.txt

Thumbnail photo (Eerste van der Helststraat, 1978)
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/0aad26fc-e9bf-e57e-55a5-602f535594d3

This video uses stock footage from Getty Images, Reuters, and other licensed sources.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:52 The first oil crisis
4:48 Dutch vs American protests
7:19 Changes in the US & Canada
11:13 Two responses to an oil crisis
14:25 Alternatives to oil
15:34 Stop lighting shit on fire
18:16 Suburbia lives off of cheap oil
19:43 A new hope & conclusion
20:41 Day Pass & Nebula

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Corrections
3:02 The embargo started in 1973, not 1972
5:32 Plan Jokinen was proposed in 1967, not 1966

Every Reason to Hate Cars

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Suggested Videos

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-stupid-trucks-are-literally-killing-us
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

What is the "Correct" Speed Limit?
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-what-is-the-correct-speed-limit
https://youtu.be/JRbnBc-97Ps

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-crossing-the-street-shouldnt-be-deadly-but-it-is
https://youtu.be/_ByEBjf9ktY

How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-how-to-quickly-build-a-cycling-city-paris
https://youtu.be/sI-1YNAmWlk

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-cities-aren-t-loud-cars-are-loud
https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8

I'm so Sick of this Lazy Excuse for Bad Cities (Weather)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-laziest-excuse-for-bad-cities
https://youtu.be/BXDP9WQe0io

The Gym of Life
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-i-dont-exercise-my-city-does-that-for-me
https://youtu.be/KPUlgSRn6e0

Would You Fall for It? [ST08]
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-would-you-fall-for-it-st08
https://youtu.be/n94-_yE4IeU

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-why-we-wont-raise-our-kids-in-suburbia
https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw

Strong Towns Playlist
https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes/strong-towns
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-suburbia-is-subsidized-heres-the-math-st07
https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-america-always-gets-this-wrong-when-building-transit
https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI

These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-ugly-big-box-stores-are-literally-bankrupting-cities
https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw

Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town
https://nebula.tv/videos/climatetown-parking-laws-are-strangling-america-climate-town
https://youtu.be/OUNXFHpUhu8

City Beautiful
https://nebula.tv/citybeautiful
https://www.youtube.com/@CityBeautiful

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
https://nebula.tv/citynerd
https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd

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References & Further Reading

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.103817

Crash Not Accident
https://crashnotaccident.com/

Life After Cars Book, from the War on Cars Podcast
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/

Segregation by Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/

Rave DJ mixes available at djnumbernine.com

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:38 Car Harm
3:00 Vehicular violence
6:23 Air pollution
8:14 Other pollutants and tyres
11:10 Noise & light pollution
12:57 Climate change
13:59 Sedentary lifestyle & isolation
15:59 Motonormativity
17:01 Advertising and propaganda
18:53 Disproportionate harm
20:04 Children
23:04 People with disabilities
24:28 Low-income households
27:47 The costs of automobility
30:08 Parking
32:08 Housing
32:55 Infrastructure costs
36:07 Land use and habitat destruction
38:09 Small businesses and retail
39:10 Everyone hates cars
40:51 Reducing car harm
42:14 People want fewer cars
43:48 Concluding thoughts
46:06 Nebula & Day Pass

Copenhagen has a New LRT! #daypass #copenhagen

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This is a clip from my public transit show, Day Pass.

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Every Metro System Should be this Beautiful

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References & Further Reading

Art in the Subway: Explore 14 Beautiful Stations
https://www.visitstockholm.com/see-do/attractions/art-in-the-subway/

Världens längsta konstutställning (the world's longest art exhibition)
https://sl.se/aktuellt/konsten-i-trafiken

https://sl.se/aktuellt/puls/utforska-konsten-langs-bla-linjen

Varför hörs det ett klickande ljud i tunnelbanan?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250807190503/https://slussenstidning.se/new/webbredaktor-vt18/2018/04/16/varfor-hors-det-ett-klickande-ljud-i-tunnelbanan/

Guide till konsten i Stockholms tunnelbana
https://stockholmartwalk.se/

https://www.thelocal.se/20130904/50064

180 miljoner till konst i nya tunnelbanans
https://www.di.se/nyheter/180-miljoner-till-konst-i-nya-tunnelbanan/

About the new metro
https://nyatunnelbanan.se/en/stockholms-nya-tunnelbana/

De nya stationerna
https://nyatunnelbanan.se/stationer/

The Sweden Case: How Stockholm Builds Infrastructure Cheaply, and Why It's Becoming More Expensive?
https://transitcosts.com/city/sweden-case/

Östermalmstorg Station: A Contest for Art
https://estocolmotours.com/en/ostermalmstorg-station-a-contest-for-art/

Om konsten i kollektivtrafiken
https://www.regionstockholm.se/kollektivtrafik/konsten/

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:38 Visiting Stockholm
1:27 The list of stations
2:56 T-Centralen
3:58 Cavernous stations
5:15 How to visit
6:31 Citybanan
7:35 Subway tiles
10:07 Other stations on the list
12:01 Suburbs and other stations
14:52 Metro exits and land use
16:13 The joy of beautiful stations
17:21 The cost of beauty
19:14 Concluding thoughts
20:20 Day Pass & Nebula

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Corrections
2:46 It's actually the newer stations along the RED line, not green.

Why Google Maps Fails in Amsterdam

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Relevant Links

Stop Signs Suck (and we should get rid of them)
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-stop-signs-suck-and-we-should-get-rid-of-them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oQN7fy_eM

Fietsersbond Routeplanner
https://nl.routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/

Fietsknoop Route Planner
https://www.fietsknoop.nl/fietsroute-planner

Toertje App:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.trifork.fietsersbond.routeplanner

Amsterdam plusnetten en hoofdnetten infrastructuur
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/plushoofdnetten/

Ontvlechten van fiets en snelverkeer
https://www.verkeerskunde.nl/2014/06/23/ontvlechten-van-fiets-en-snelverkeer-vk-4-2014/

Google Maps map data copyright Google

Maps from OpenStreetMap copyright open street map contributors:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:47 Designing for drivers vs. people
3:00 Hoofdnetten & Plusnetten
3:50 Ontvlechten (unbundling)
6:00 Stop signs & one-way streets
7:56 Bicycle safety
10:50 Keeping cars out
12:41 Navigation for cars vs. bicycles
16:43 Car-bias in maps
20:10 Car-bias in directions
22:29 Conclusion
22:57 Thanks, Nebula, & Day Pass!

How can a NEW Transit Line be THIS BAD!? (Finch West LRT)

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Toronto Advocacy Links

Find your Toronto City Councillor
https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/members-of-council/

The TTC Riders Advocacy Group
https://www.ttcriders.ca/

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Relevant Videos

The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-worlds-dumbest-bike-lane-law-just-passed-in-canada
https://youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI

The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities (trams)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-absolute-best-transportation-for-cities
https://youtu.be/bNTg9EX7MLw

Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-trams-are-great-so-why-are-the-streetcars-so-bad
https://youtu.be/HhQxNHrD6fA

How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-toronto-got-addicted-to-cars
https://youtu.be/KkO-DttA9ew

You Need a Train to Get to this Hotel (Switzerland)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-alpine-hotel-you-cant-get-to-by-car
https://youtu.be/Q1du2Z-cF2c

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References & Further Reading

Line 6 Finch West
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_Finch_West

Transit City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_City

Citadis Spirit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadis_Spirit

Opinion | Huzzah! The Finch LRT is finally opening! Now here’s the bad news
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/huzzah-the-finch-lrt-is-finally-opening-now-heres-the-bad-news/article_ebe786f7-339b-4916-ad6e-29455142794b.html

Calls grow from TTC riders to improve Line 6 Finch West LRT trip times
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/08/line-6-finch-west-toronto-trip-times/

Opinion | Why must Toronto make public transit slower on purpose?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/why-must-toronto-make-public-transit-slower-on-purpose/article_2eee75d0-2d88-4c79-bf07-ee20d3463756.html

Opinion | Why does Toronto insist on taking the ‘rapid’ out of rapid transit?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/why-does-toronto-insist-on-taking-the-rapid-out-of-rapid-transit/article_75d6cb30-9db1-474b-b625-a3f0bf07b650.html

‘It’s a slap in the face’: Fix for the Finch West LRT will take time says city, angering local commuters
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/its-a-slap-in-the-face-fix-for-the-finch-west-lrt-will-take-time/article_85445c82-4fbc-4b9d-8206-5e8e80554e34.html

The Finch LRT is the sum of all government failures, and the answer to them
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-finch-lrt-toronto-public-transport-streetcar-subway-ford-chow/

‘I know it can be faster’: Mayor Chow looks to speed up Line 6 Finch West LRT amid complaints
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/09/line-6-finch-west-lrt-trip-time-latest/

Alstom report blamed soft tracks, design flaws for LRT derailment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-lrt-train-wheel-rail-problem-report-1.7588002

Council gets ready for festive debate about a faster Finch
https://toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/council-gets-ready-for-festive-debate

Line 6 Finch West LRT sees multiple service suspensions as snowfall arrives
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/26/line-6-finch-west-lrt-service-suspended-due-to-issues-with-switches-as-snowfall-begins/

ION | Kitchener-Waterloo's Rapid Transit System
https://youtu.be/Nfx8sGHpb0M

Line 1 (O-Train)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_1_(O-Train)

The majority of footage in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes with some stock footage licensed from Getty Images.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:05 Riding New LRT Lines
2:08 History & Transit City
3:48 The Good Stuff
6:41 Stopping at Traffic Lights
9:39 Speed Restrictions
12:00 Slow Acceleration & Stop Spacing
13:36 Car-Centric Transit
17:55 The Streetcars
19:02 Passive Canadians & Complaining
22:23 Conclusions & Call-to-Action

You Need a Train to Get to this Hotel

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Relevant Videos

Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-are-the-best-trains-in-europe
https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc

The Slowest Express Train in the World - The Glacier Express
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-slowest-express-train-in-the-world-the-glacier-express

A Tale of Two Towns: Car-free vs. Not (Zermatt & St. Moritz)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-a-tale-of-two-towns-carfree-vs-not-zermatt-st-moritz

This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse 😢 (Canadian 24-Hour Night Train)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-train-just-keeps-getting-worse
https://youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc

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References and Additional Reading

Gornergrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornergrat

Stellarium Gornergrat
https://stellarium-gornergrat.ch/
https://www.gornergrat.ch/en/stories/reach-for-the-stars
https://www.gornergrat-kulm.ch/stellarium/
https://www.hfsjg.ch/en/gornergrat-2/stellarium-gornergrat-3/

Gornergrat Railway
https://www.gornergrat.ch/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornergrat_Railway
https://www.gornergrat.ch/en/stories/geschichte-electric-railway-three-phase-current
https://www.gornergrat.ch/en/stories/geschichten-railway-technology
https://wikimapia.org/11227340/Gornergratbahn-gauge-mountain-rack-railway

Popular Landscape Railway In Switzerland rack EMUs ordered
https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/popular-landscape-railway-in-switzerland-rack-emus-ordered/55421.article

Rack railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway

Sleeper hit: how Europe is revelling in the return of the night train
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/23/sleeper-hit-how-europe-is-revelling-in-the-return-of-the-night-train

France Invests in Modern Night Trains to Revive Rail Travel
https://www.railway.supply/france-invests-in-modern-night-trains-to-revive-rail-travel/

These four European night trains are set to be launched for tourists in 2026
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visit/these-four-european-night-trains-are-set-to-launch-in-2026/articleshow/125699481.cms

Abt rack system used on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, CC BY 2.5
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=396364

Guide to the new generation Nightjet sleeper trains - The Man in Seat 61
https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-generation.htm

Nightjet of the new generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZU5a10FKQ

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Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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American SUVs and light trucks are dangerous. We cannot allow them to come to Europe.

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Relevant Links & Videos

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - Not Just Bikes
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-stupid-trucks-are-literally-killing-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

Joint Statement on a United States-European Union framework on an agreement on reciprocal, fair and balanced trade
https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-statement-united-states-european-union-framework-agreement-reciprocal-fair-and-balanced-trade-2025-08-21_en

The intention to accept lower US vehicle standards risks increasing deaths and pollution on EU roads
https://www.transportenvironment.org/uploads/files/2025-10-20-Civil-society-city-letter-on-risk-of-EU-accepting-lower-US-car-standards-FINAL.pdf
https://res.cloudinary.com/www-mo-be/image/upload/v1761044735/PDF/2025-10-20-Civil-society-city-letter-on-risk-of-EU-accepting-lower-US-car-standards-FINAL_wq7jvb.pdf

European Road Safety Organisations:

European Transport Safety Council
https://etsc.eu/
https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/
https://www.ecf.com/en/news/european-commission-reneges-on-road-safety-promises-new-trade-deal-framework-could-open-door-to-dangerous-us-pick-up-trucks-/

European Cyclists' Federation
https://ecf.com/
https://www.ecf.com/en/news/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/

Transport & Environment
https://www.transportenvironment.org/
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-vehicle-trade-rules-will-cost-european-lives-as-us-pick-up-trucks-flood-into-europe

Global NCAP
https://www.globalncap.org/news/accepting-lower-us-vehicle-safety-standards-would-put-lives-at-risk

CITA
https://citainsp.org/
https://citainsp.org/2025/08/28/cita-concerns-on-us-eu-mutual-recognition-of-vehicle-standards/

Find your European Member of Parliament
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/chamber

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References & Further Reading

Concerns over loopholes allowing American pickup trucks to bypass safety and environmental regulations
https://etsc.eu/concerns-over-loopholes-allowing-american-pickup-trucks-to-bypass-safety-and-environmental-regulations/

Latest Safety Ratings | Euro NCAP
https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ratings/

Crash test footage from the Euro NCAP YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@EuroNCAP_forsafercars

Meer verkeersdoden hier door handelsdeal met VS? Europa versoepelt veiligheidseisen voor grote Amerikaanse auto's
https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/meer-verkeersdoden-hier-door-handelsdeal-met-vs-europa-versoepelt-veiligheidseisen-voor-grote-amerikaanse-autos-161867


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No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video. EU quote provided by Simon Clark.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:04 US cars are dangerous
4:29 Mutual recognition
5:33 EU cars are safer
8:27 US safety testing is inferior
10:22 People walk in Europe (unlike the US)
11:00 Who benefits from this?
12:41 The US can't be trusted
13:22 Conclusion
14:05 Outro, Patreon, and Nebula

Corrections
8:30 To be clear: the EU Motor Vehicle Type Approval process is less stringent than the full Euro NCAP process, but "type approval" is still required before going to market

This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America (Vehicular Cycling)

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Relevant Videos

I am not a "Cyclist" (and most Dutch people aren't either)
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-i-am-not-a-cyclist-and-most-dutch-people-aren-t-either

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-stupid-trucks-are-literally-killing-us

Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one)
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-why-dutch-bikes-are-better-and-why-you-should-want-one

Toronto's Newest Painted Bicycle Gutters [NJB Live]
https://youtu.be/umbiR1sbap8

Intersection design, the Dutch - cycle friendly - way - Bicycle Dutch
https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA

Protected Intersections For Bicyclists
http://www.protectedintersection.com/
https://vimeo.com/86721046

Well There's Your Problem Podcast - Vehicular Cycling
https://youtu.be/zm29fd-s7tQ

CycleYYZ
@cycleyyz

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References & Further Reading

Effective Cycling, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262516945
Bicycle Transportation, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262560795

‘Bike Boom’: Lessons from the ’70s cycling craze that swept the U.S
https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/28/15886810/bike-transportation-cycling-urban-design-bike-boom
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2023/09/a-half-century-after-the-big-bike-boom-a-retrospective/

America Could Have Been Building Protected Bike Lanes for the Last 40 Years
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/06/30/america-could-have-been-building-protected-bike-lanes-for-the-last-40-years

Vehicular Cycling - How Cyclists—Not Just Cars—Blocked Safer Bike Infrastructure
https://thehappyurbanist.substack.com/p/vehicular-cycling

Bikeway Planning Criteria and Guidelines
https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022317/http://drusilla.hsrc.unc.edu/cms/downloads/BikewayPlanningGuidelines1972.pdf

1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar - BBC Archive
https://youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM

2007.05.17 John Forester - Google Tech Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmT4x6eWDjA

USA 1977: Chevrolet Impala/Caprice takes the lead
https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/1978/01/usa-1977-ford-f-series-takes-the-lead-of-trucks-ranking/

The Marginalization of Bicyclists
https://iamtraffic.org/equality/the-marginalization-of-bicyclists/

Ontario Highway Traffic Act
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08#BK245

Road safety and perceived risk of cycle facilities in Copenhagen
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235358599_Road_safety_and_perceived_risk_of_cycle_facilities_in_Copenhagen
https://bikefriendlyoc.org/2009/07/08/ask-the-experts-s%C3%B8ren-underlien-jensen-and-dr-lon-d-roberts-phd/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214140518301488
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/04/road-rage-shooting-gun-highway-deaths/
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/road-rage-shootings-per-day/

Bicycle Today - Automobile Tomorrow
https://archive.org/details/BicycleToday

The Racing Cyclist
https://archive.org/details/TheRacingCyclist

Oslo Street Design Manual - English translation
https://www.cyclescape.org/library/documents/124

Map of buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction
https://code.waag.org/buildings/

Velo-city 2025 in Gdańsk | Bicycle Dutch
https://youtu.be/9ZNKQAqQacM

Comments by John Forester under a Bicycle Dutch blog in 2016:
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/crowded-cycleways-lead-to-new-urban-design-approach/#comment-17985

The footage in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, with some images licensed from Getty Images and other sources.

Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
3:54 California tried to marginalise cycling
6:25 The birth of Vehicular Cycling
9:38 The MAMIL's Manifesto
20:15 Just ride like a car, bro!
28:05 Bicycle lanes are ... unsafe?
46:09 The second book is even worse?!
58:16 The actual problems with bike lanes
1:06:14 But what about the Netherlands?
1:13:30 Forester at Google
1:21:18 The Cult of the Vehicular Cyclist
1:26:16 Bicycles are not cars!?
1:31:29 Concluding thoughts
1:32:28 Acknowledgements & Nebula

Corrections
1:18:49 It makes no material change to this video, but apparently John Forester was invited to a bicycle safety conference in the Netherlands in 2013. He was openly ridiculed by the experts there.

I'm so Sick of this Lazy Excuse (for bad cities)

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Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDYVjDwgwA

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References & Further Reading
Fresno: A City Reborn - rare 1968 documentary by Victor Gruen Associates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTS_LLJvcw

Fulton Mall
https://www.flickr.com/photos/81918828@N00/albums/72157603574663279/
https://www.pediment.com/blogs/news/the-original-fresno-county-courthouse
https://www.kvpr.org/community/2014-09-02/fulton-mall-at-50-when-things-dont-go-according-to-plan
https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2014-02-11/is-it-terrible-or-a-treasure-fresnos-fulton-mall-debate-heats-up
By Bryan Harley - Own work {Bryan Harley,own work}, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91790930
By Michelle Baxter - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21664245
By David Prasad - https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6191573398/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124016206
By David Prasad - https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6189802045/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123750104
https://esotericsurvey.blogspot.com/2024/01/fulton-mall-update-2024.html

Beaufort scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

NK Tegenwindfietsen
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_Tegenwindfietsen

The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing (Tom Scott)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMinwf-kRlA

Cycling to work in 90 large American cities: new evidence on the role of bike paths and lanes
https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Lib_of_Res/SS_ST_Rutgers_impactbikepaths_bikecommutingbehavior_042012%20-%20Copy.pdf

Weather is not significantly correlated with destination-specific transport-related physical activity among adults: A large-scale temporally matched analysis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5551438/

Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A crosscomparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2%3A1343725/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Modelling the impact of weather conditions on active transportation travel behaviour
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920911001143

Promotional Umbrella SENZ wind tunnel test
https://youtu.be/EZyfUq4lt-k

Some clips of winter cycling provided by CycleYYZ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHinhHYjd7k_K7d2lEmC73w

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1:19 Copenhagen (Strøget)
2:41 Fresno (Fulton)
3:53 The weather didn't make the difference
5:09 The wind in the Netherlands
6:08 Sunnyvale, California
7:13 The weather isn't a predictor of cycling
8:12 It sucks to film in bad weather
9:54 Fewer people cycle when it's raining (surprised pikachu)
11:05 You're not made of sugar (so quit your bitching)
12:25 It's not all the same everywhere
13:15 Infrastructure matters even more in bad weather
15:00 It builds character (suck it up)
15:58 Winter cycling
17:51 Ughh ... another requisite rant about ignorant Canadians 😫
19:59 You get used to it
21:41 Good urbanism in hot weather
24:31 The worst way to design for the heat
26:19 Concluding thoughts
27:41 Outro and Planet Wild

This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse 😢 (VIA Rail "The Ocean")

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The Canadian VIA Rail Train Skyline Car Forward View Crossing South Saskatchewan River
Trip Clips (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJdKfNKDSQ

Rail project to reduce heavy truck traffic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-rail-project-to-cut-truck-traffic-now-under-construction-1.6855003

Explosive Demolition To The London Ontario VIA Rail "CN" Train Station
https://archive.org/details/videoplayback-2021-05-07-t-135853.747

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2:20 The second-best train in Canada
3:16 Forgettable Halifax
4:19 Lunenburg
5:07 Halifax train station
5:45 From six to three days per week
6:50 The CN era
9:22 Boarding "The Ocean"
10:20 The Budd Company
11:09 Our sleeper rooms
12:24 "The Ocean Limited" in 1965
13:32 Departure
15:04 Lunch
16:23 Chronic underfunding
16:55 Renaissance cars
20:14 Dinner
20:32 Other sleeping options
21:31 Seating cars
22:01 Station stops
22:41 The missing Park car
24:30 Sleeping
25:08 Terrible, terrible tracks
28:06 Breakfast
28:42 Arriving in Montréal
29:04 Booking this train
29:56 The future of "The Ocean"
31:15 Our continued travels
31:48 Supporting this channel & Nebula

This Might Just Be the World's Best Metro System

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References & Further Reading

수도권 전기철도 (1974-08-31)
https://www.ehistory.go.kr/view/movie?mediasrcgbn=KV&mediaid=906&mediadtl=6753&mediagbn=DH

Redesign of the Seoul Metro map for the first time in 40 years
https://english.seoul.go.kr/redesign-of-the-seoul-metro-map-for-the-first-time-in-40-years/

20 Years of Subway Platform Safety Door Installation, “Mayor Oh’s Seoul Subway” Achieving Global Recognition for Safety
https://english.seoul.go.kr/20-years-of-subway-platform-safety-door-installation-mayor-ohs-seoul-subway-achieving-global-recognition-for-safety/

Mayor Oh Se-hoon Sets Global Safety Standard With Seoul Subway System’s 20 Years of Platform Screen Doors
https://english.seoul.go.kr/mayor-oh-se-hoon-sets-global-safety-standard-with-seoul-subway-systems-20-years-of-platform-screen-doors/

Seoul Metro Protects 7 Million Daily Passengers with Safe Security System
https://english.seoul.go.kr/seoul-metro-protects-7-million-daily-passengers-with-safe-security-system/

인천역 자동안전발판 작동영상 (Seoul Line1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n70OkiVT-hE

Subway music gains newfound interest
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/3107428

Do you know this Seoul Subway Song?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MbPpXVW53es

Metro Music Dances
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ajpBSvJCZxY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AK1GtKsI7nQ

Seoul Subway Transfer Music to Change for the First Time in 14 Years
https://creatrip.com/en/blog/13341

Buses in Seoul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses_in_Seoul

GTX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_eXpress

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0:58 Brief history
1:26 An extensive regional service
3:45 Platform screen doors
6:53 App integration and efficiency
8:22 Jingles & wayfinding
10:30 Other niceties
10:52 T-Money card
12:19 High-speed trains
13:39 Constantly building new lines
14:42 GTX
16:48 Amenities
17:48 Metro station exits
19:28 Wide roads and unpleasant streets
22:02 Surface transit & buses
24:46 Reducing car traffic
26:42 Progress is being made
27:55 VPNs & travelling

Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?

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More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
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https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4

How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars
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https://youtu.be/KkO-DttA9ew

A Plan to fix Toronto's Streetcars [RMTransit]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSj162rSoc

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References and Further Reading

Photos of Historic Streetcars courtesy of Transit Toronto, Richard Glaze, Howard Wayt (used with permission):
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4114.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4116.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4133.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4120.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4118.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4136.shtml
https://transittoronto.ca/streetcar/4138.shtml

Historical streetcars in Canada
https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/streetcar-list.html

Shuffle Demons - Spadina Bus
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlpwwfamSo

Toronto: Let's Talk About the Streetcars.
https://nextmetro.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-the-streetcars

Cost of running buses instead of streetcars on Queen Street
https://web.archive.org/web/20170611182254/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-street-without-streetcars-the-city-might-give-it-a-look-1.4152158
https://stevemunro.ca/2017/06/14/the-cost-of-running-the-queen-car/

Streetcar Stop Spacing
https://stevemunro.ca/2024/08/05/streetcar-stop-spacing/

Wheelchairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRxc6Jliuo
https://nowtoronto.com/news/be-on-the-lookout-for-us-toronto-resident-in-wheelchair-calls-on-ttc-to-be-more-aware-after-streetcar-passed-him-twice/
https://www.enables.me/rvs-ttc-streetcar-adventure/

Changes to Amsterdam tram lines
https://www.at5.nl/nieuws/231818/gvb-wil-tramlijnen-fors-wijzigen-wethouder-vraagt-aanpassingen-aan-plannen

Switches
https://stevemunro.ca/2015/06/25/the-state-of-ttc-streetcar-track-switches/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150701203823/http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1413525/why-ttc-workers-manually-switch-directions-of-streetcar-tracks/

Streetcar Frequent Dewirement Spot (Lithic Halcyon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOtMf1Oj4os

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1:17 Brief History
4:00 Trams vs streetcars vs LRT
5:19 Stuck in traffic and at red lights
7:55 I'm sorry, but I needed a "winter" segment or Canadians will just blame winter and stop listening to every other argument. It's a cultural flaw of Canadians. Make fun of them for it every time you see it, please.
9:00 Dedicated lanes are still slow
11:27 Streetcar stops and wayfinding
13:46 Level boarding and wheelchair access
18:16 Streetcars vs buses vs subways
19:43 Pedestrianisation and great urbanism
21:56 Streetcar streets should not have through traffic
22:55 King Street Transit Priority Pilot Project
25:14 Suburban sabotage of the streetcars
28:18 The results of the King Street project
32:54 Toronto is addicted to cars
34:19 The solutions to improve the streetcars
35:37 Eglinton Crosstown & Finch West LRT
38:30 Cobbling together 100-year old technology
43:29 The streetcar network is frozen in time
45:45 The right-wing attacks on the streetcars
46:58 Concluding thoughts & how to support the channel

The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)

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How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed
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Business Parks Suck (but they don’t have to)
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References & Further Reading

Waarom 'de hele wereld' komt fietsen in Houten
https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3875045/waarom-de-hele-wereld-komt-fietsen-in-houten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkyeMHaOta8

Nearly Car-Free Areas (A View from the Cycle Path)
https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/02/nearly-car-free-areas.html

Robert (82) ‘bedacht’ het dorp Houten: ‘Trots is niet het goede woord. Ik ben vooral blij’
https://www.ad.nl/utrecht/robert-82-bedacht-het-dorp-houten-trots-is-niet-het-goede-woord-ik-ben-vooral-blij~ac3b3b6f/

Houten is relatief verkeersveilig, maar elk ongeval is er één te veel
https://www.houtensnieuws.nl/lokaal/verkeer-en-vervoer/954333/houten-is-relatief-verkeersveilig-maar-elk-ongeval-is-er-een-#closemodal

Historical photos of Houten from Het Utrechts Archive
Public domain or CC/BY:
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/840CA54571E38187E0534701000AAB1C
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/C03381F519EA566B974FBBD91028DA7F
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/79666BC6E00A5D4E980430B7E869D3A8
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/119B82E056E55553A984C48CB009B65E
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/4F97C35AC1A85804B7ED8166A8C7B762
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/40858864BBFD51BEA3DB81B3A0FB2FA5
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/52915A26122A5A4F961CE7B20DA451E2
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/8EC693301C655AD09E952483BC9A6E1A
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/ECA62A8B3D0852B6A27EB542EA13B121
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/E3982DB6DA51565BBFD4D50DB8B41273
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/37092E42A9815783A98D94CC022CEA8B
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/2EA67B58B88D579C84E101C5B2DCF6A4
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/D9DFFBE4936FA018E0538F04000AB4D4
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/03742848034755EEA1245BDFC7DE4665

Houten Tram
Door Mauritsvink - Eigen werk, Publiek domein, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5493396
Door T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1810526
Door Steinbach (overleg · bijdragen) - zelf gefotografeerd, Publiek domein, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=820183
Door T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1810530

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Chapters
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1:41 Houten history & context
2:57 Autoluw
4:30 Getting there from Amsterdam
5:13 The train station
5:52 Houten centrum
6:56 Linear parks
7:29 Houses bordering the bicycle paths
8:34 Different housing types
9:38 Quiet suburban residential streets
10:58 Modal filters
11:50 Fast and efficient cycling
13:15 Independence for children
13:55 Commercial spaces
15:21 Interesting architecture
16:09 The old villiage
16:27 The book about Houten
17:01 Is Houten ... perfect?
18:04 Public transit
19:09 Nitpicking
19:33 Those @#$*ing mopeds
20:34 Returning to Amsterdam
21:00 We need actively restrict cars
22:33 What we should learn from Houten
23:39 The future of Houten
24:17 How to support Not Just Bikes

When Building a Brand-New City Doesn’t Go as Planned

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The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits
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References & Further Reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangyo,_Seongnam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongtan,_Hwaseong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_eXpress

Developer Feuds With Korean Partner Over Busted ‘Smart’ City
https://www.wsj.com/articles/developer-feuds-with-korean-partner-over-busted-smart-city-11560261729

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:23 Background
1:55 Songdo
9:51 Sanbon
14:00 Pangyo
17:33 Bundang
20:15 Dongtan
24:47 Concluding thoughts
25:27 Samsung Digital City
25:58 How to support this channel

They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better)

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References & Further Reading

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/20d568c1-f55a-5c0f-9d43-4bb7b89dcf4f
https://seoulsolution.kr/sites/default/files/policy/%5BEN%5DCheong%20Gye%20Cheon%20Restoration%20Project.pdf
https://vimeo.com/232410052
https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-design-guide/streets/special-conditions/elevated-structure-removal/case-study-cheonggyecheon-seoul-korea/
https://issuu.com/ann1224/docs/cheonggyecheon_restoration-_ank
https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%B2%AD%EA%B3%84%EC%B2%9C
https://www.seoulsolution.kr/sites/default/files/policy/%5BEN%5DCheong%20Gye%20Cheon%20Restoration%20Project.pdf
https://www.si.re.kr/sites/default/files/2006-R-34_0.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X12000108
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/seoul-cheonggyecheon-motorway-turned-into-a-stream
https://thebentway.ca/stories/cheonggyecheon-rip-it-up-and-start-again/

청계천, 과거와 현재를 기억하다ㅣKUTV 수습다큐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fUAp2cNvY

All that remains of Jonchigyogak, the Cheonggye Expressway Overpass on the Cheonggyecheon Stream
The Seoul Guide
https://youtu.be/eSUX57eZmms
Seoul’s Viewpoint: Seoullo 7017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrLQfxeuQfI

Historical photos of Cheonggyecheon
朴昌根：《解读汉江奇迹》 同济大学出版社 ISBN：978 756 084 7979,

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53245569
By 대한민국 국가기록원 -
https://www.archives.go.kr/next/search/searchTotalUp.do?selectSearch=1&upside_query=%EC%B2%AD%EA%B3%84%EC%B2%9C+%EA%B3%A0%EA%B0%80%EB%8F%84%EB%A1%9C#none, KOGL Type 1,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115743685

Seoul Museum of History
https://museum.seoul.go.kr/archive/NR_index.do

Historical Newsreels
https://www.ehistory.go.kr

http://www.koreaphotonews.co.kr

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:03 Cheonggyecheon history
5:19 Gwanghwamun square
6:18 Cheonggyecheon stream
8:40 Safety & flood prevention
9:27 Accessibility
10:17 Urban places are better with fewer cars
11:55 Seoullo 7017
16:52 Urban highways need to be removed
17:53 Public transit connectivity
18:37 These projects didn't need to be this nice
19:16 Concluding thoughts
20:27 Outro & 80,000 Hours

The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities (trams)

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I Visited the World's Busiest Train Station
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The Secret to Japan's Great Cities
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https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qeYRI34C8

When Transit isn't Built to be Transit (with RMTransit)
The Urbanist Agenda Podcast
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References & Further Reading

https://www.sparvagnsstaderna.se/en/tramways/tramways-are-environmentally-friendly

https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/light-rail/amsterdam-urban-rail-switches-to-renewable-energy/

https://www.fareast.mobi/en/brt/risks/BRT-Project-Risks-What-Could-Go-Wrong
https://streets.mn/2024/03/12/bus-rapid-transit-creep/

https://itdp.org/library/standards-and-guides/the-bus-rapid-transit-standard/
https://itdp.org/library/standards-and-guides/the-bus-rapid-transit-standard/the-scorecard/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170611182254/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-street-without-streetcars-the-city-might-give-it-a-look-1.4152158
https://stevemunro.ca/2017/06/14/the-cost-of-running-the-queen-car/

An American Pickup in Europe
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/vm8hu3/an_american_pickup_in_europe/

Bussen, metro’s en trams staan in grote steden 110 seconden stil uit protest tegen ov-bezuinigingen
https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/bussen-metro-s-en-trams-staan-in-grote-steden-110-seconden-stil-uit-protest-tegen-ov-bezuinigingen~b82891e8/


Incogni
National Public Data Breach
https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1797047998481854512

Thanks to Extra Credits for the quote read!

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8:37 Trams as a walking accelerator
9:35 Trams encourage development
11:59 Trams make urban places better
12:58 Trams improve pedestrianised places
14:52 Metros also fit well in great urban places
16:05 Streetcars were replaced with subways
17:42 Trams and metros have different purposes
19:21 Trams can be faster than metros
21:01 Buses are not a replacement for trams
23:45 Trams are better for cycling
25:16 BRTs are problematic
27:26 Your city should not be building a BRT
29:49 Trams are not "in the way"
31:16 We need to properly fund public transit
32:51 Toronto streetcars are terrible
33:25 City with good trams reap the benefits
33:29 Outro and Incogni Sponsorship

These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math (Urban3)
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References & Further Reading

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https://notjustbikes.com/references/bigbox.txt

Strong Towns
https://strongtowns.org
@strongtowns

Urban3
https://www.urbanthree.com/

Big-Box Swindle - Stacy Mitchell
https://stacymitchell.com/front-page/

Big box stores are costing our cities far more than we ever imagined
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/3/big-box-stores-are-costing-our-cities-far-more-than-we-ever-imagined

Big Box Urbanism
https://www.newgeography.com/content/004887-big-box-urbanism

The Walmart Effect
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

Old Penny's Building, Asheville - John Warner
https://www.pubintproj.com/project/old-penneys-building/

McAllen Library
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/7/15/the-mcallen-main-library-a-model-for-big-box-retrofit-or-not
http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/about/newmain

Abandoned Walmart photos (CC BY 2.0 or Public Domain)
By Kirjtc2 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11911811
By Brave New Films from United States - Hamilton County, Tennessee abandoned store Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628471
By Brave New Films from United States - Abandoned La Junta Wal-Mart, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628260
By Brave New Films from United States - Laramie, WY Formerly store #142Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628808
By Brave New Films from United States - former Wal-Mart store #395, abandoned 1/05Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628011
By Brave New Films - originally posted to Flickr as IMG_0858, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8250486
By Allison Chase from Pontiac, Michigan, USA - Old Wal-Mart Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628221
By Brave New Films from United States - Beaver Dam, Wisconsin abandoned Wal-Mart Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628301
By Brave New Films - originally posted to Flickr as IMG_0860, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8250420
https://flic.kr/p/3R2TB
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https://flic.kr/p/2JhaU
https://flic.kr/p/WhZdZb
https://flic.kr/p/3TpEL

Walmart Chants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1D5kI1TyMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6a-l_L-pDQ

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Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter
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How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great!?

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Bergen is a city on the West coast fjords of Norway, surrounded by mountains. And they just built the best bicycle tunnel in the world.

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Train Tunnel at Snoqualmie Pass, 2.3 mile one way hike, bring a flashlight!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SYoh5002w

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References & Further Reading

See Inside the World’s Longest Purpose-Built Cycling Tunnel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-longest-purpose-built-cycling-tunnel-just-opened-in-norway-180982029/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Don’t forget your headlamp: The Snoqualmie Tunnel is over 2 miles of total darkness
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/dont-forget-your-headlamp-the-snoqualmie-tunnel-is-over-2-miles-of-total-darkness/

Bergen Historical Photos:
Opphaver: Øivind H. Berger, Fotoregistrering av Bergen. Ø.H. Berger. Rettighetsforvalter: Bergen Byarkiv. Delingslisens: cc by. Originalbilde: digitalarkivet.no (https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/source/279931/photo/66acd182-97eb-4f2e-9d38-df7492f01f25).
Opphaver: Ukjent, Bergen kommune. Reguleringsvesenet. Rettighetsforvalter: Bergen Byarkiv. Delingslisens: cc by. Originalbilde: digitalarkivet.no (https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/source/280137/photo/95295f63-aa33-4122-9e5f-c4bee0515342).
Author : Øivind H. Berger, Photo registration of Bergen. Ø.H. Berger .  Rights manager : Bergen City Archives .  Sharing license: cc by ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) . Original image: digitalarkivet.no ( https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/search/photo ) .
Opphaver: Ukjent, Bergen kommune. Reguleringsvesenet. Rettighetsforvalter: Bergen Byarkiv. Delingslisens: cc by. Originalbilde: digitalarkivet.no (https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/source/280154/photo/27ae5f1d-8bab-4034-a6da-ad353694911c).
Opphaver: Knud Knudsen, Schou, Einar Oscar, arkitekt. Rettighetsforvalter: Bergen Byarkiv. Delingslisens: cc by. Originalbilde: digitalarkivet.no (https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/source/280012/photo/a17749f1-f7e0-40ec-af21-0cec61d9481e).
Opphaver: Bergen kommune. Havneingeniøren, . Rettighetsforvalter: Bergen Byarkiv. Delingslisens: cc by. Originalbilde: digitalarkivet.no (https://nye.digitalarkivet.no:/source/280132/photo/d3493f95-3b09-4107-91fa-93d1318f3c1f).

Heritage Impact Assessment of the planned Bybanen Light-Rail Extension on the World Heritage Property Bryggen / Bergen
https://www.michaelkloos.de/en/projects/heritage-impact-assessments/bybanen-light-rail-extension-bryggen/

Bybanestriden fortsetter etter ny rapport
https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/X8gBRg/naa-kommer-rapporten-som-kan-avgjoere-striden-om-bryggen

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:51 How the tunnel came to be
2:00 "Architectural psychologist" is a thing?!
2:33 Season-themed rest stops & safety features
4:02 Lots of thoughtful elements all come together
6:04 The centre is the best part
6:45 This tunnel is popular!
7:52 Sorry Yanks, but the Snoqualmie tunnel doesn't count
9:03 Surrounding bicycle infrastructure
9:55 Acoustic bikes & bikeshare
11:14 The LRT line that made this possible
13:35 Before you start making excuses about oil ...
15:01 Buses in Bergen
15:57 The insane parking garage
16:30 Trains in Bergen
17:32 The original LRT line
18:22 Damage done by car-centric development
19:24 Future LRT plans and "historic preservation"
21:51 Designing for humans makes cities feel alive
22:37 Historic streets
23:24 The funicular and terrible weather
24:20 Concluding thoughts
25:05 How to support this channel (Nebula)

Natural Handcrafted Artisanal ... Streets?!

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References & Further Reading

Build the Lanes
https://www.youtube.com/@buildthelanes

My Street Was Rebuilt - Build the Lanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvpCxW2H04

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - Continuous Sidewalks
https://youtu.be/9OfBpQgLXUc

Klinker (steen) - Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinker_(steen)

Time Lapse Road Construction in Russia
https://youtu.be/GN8U93OZ2nM

How are baked klinkers made?
Hoe worden gebakken klinkers gemaakt? - Bestratingsweb.nl
https://youtu.be/pW9G8uRLbgY

Pakketteren gebakken klinkers in Amsterdam
https://youtu.be/biXUbYJsKvc

Vieze klinkers weer schoon met de STENENWASSER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwPoMgU2PgM

Het nieuwe straten maken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bbHxpRxxg

Machinaal h klinkers leggen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHWx2FqfXk

VB Bestratingen herstelt historische klinkerweg machinaal met Tiger-stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxholiqUCQQ

Stratenmaker van 74 jaar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRq1GbLtjBw

RoadPrinter Bricklaying Machine, paving the easy way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8C0vhwR40s
https://www.youtube.com/@roadprinter/videos

Historical Photos of Grote Market Haarlem
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/EA5A54BFA39642B785124657D5DDD3E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/BFC3FBB14A124EE687125DD3495E81E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/3D24F8509106491FA7B44E0BAD270B55
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/EA5A54BFA39642B785124657D5DDD3E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/6DE714A2C90048B19690BE6CEF499DD5

ZOAB
https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/wegen/wegbeheer/aanleg-wegen/zoab

Incogni Links:
https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1797047998481854512

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The World Needs More E-Bikes! #ebikes

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Ebikes are an ideal solution for many people living in a city. So why are there so many subsidies for electric cars, but much fewer for ebikes?

List of ebike subsidy programs:
https://notjustbikes.com/cheaper-ebikes

Referenced Articles:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-bike-commuter-cargo
https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-bikes
IEEE Spectrum YouTube Channel: @ieeespectrum

These Two Cities Used to be the Same

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https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd
https://nebula.tv/citynerd

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https://www.youtube.com/@RMTransit
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References & Further Reading

Mobility protests in the Netherlands of the 1970s: Activism, innovation, and transitions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000769

The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/the-hidden-history-of-american-anti-car-protests

The Baby Carriage Blockades
https://medium.com/vision-zero-cities-journal/the-baby-carriage-blockades-9b33c64db34d

Dymph Verdiesen - Omdat ik daar woonde
https://dymphverdiesen.nl/project/omdat-ik-er-woonde/

1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxB9AlYg84s

Oliecrises en de veranderende samenleving
https://www.autosnelwegen.nl/index.php/geschiedenis/8-1973-1991-oliecrises-en-de-veranderende-samenleving

How you can get involved in cycling advocacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bV-TTwL3E

The Past, Present, and Future: Effective Advocacy with Mike Layton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7uzVRBGDY4

The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada

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Contact Information

Cycle Toronto
https://www.cycleto.ca/
https://www.cycleto.ca/respecting_local_democracy
https://linktr.ee/cycletoronto

Friends and Families for Safe Streets
https://www.ffsafestreets.ca/

Contact your local Ontario MPP:
https://www.ola.org/en/members/current

Contact Doug Ford:
https://fordmpp.ca/contact/

Contact Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria:
https://www.ola.org/en/members/all/prabmeet-singh-sarkaria

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Build the Lanes - Shutup About Road Capacity
https://youtu.be/kqOxBZJ6c1g

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)
https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU

How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars
https://youtu.be/KkO-DttA9ew

The Best Country in the World for Drivers
https://youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k

I am not a "Cyclist" (and most Dutch people aren't either)
https://youtu.be/vMed1qceJ_Q

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References & Further Reading

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Chapters
0:00 The Dumbest Bike Lane Law
0:39 The Traffic Emergency!!!1!1
2:25 Only 1.2% of people cycle!!!1!1
3:45 Business owners are not happy
5:30 Bike lanes make streets safer
7:05 Bike lanes don't even cause traffic
8:26 The rest of the lies
9:39 OMG stop texting me about this
10:16 Douggie the lying populist
12:15 Transportation sucks in Ontario
14:03 The Eglinton Crosstown
18:33 Saving You Time is not for transit riders
20:31 The "Cyclists"
21:50 Toronto is different
23:58 Doug's Toronto Obsession
25:55 The most overstudied infrastructure projects
27:33 Doug's stupid tunnel
29:46 Why you should care even if you don't bike
32:04 The University Avenue puzzle
34:42 Conclusion and call to action

How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

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Related Videos

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-more-lanes-are-still-a-bad-thing
https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-cities-aren-t-loud-cars-are-loud
https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8

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References & Further Reading

Safe Street Rebel - Not without a fight
https://www.safestreetrebel.com/

Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-driverless-cars-block-ambulance-on-way-to-hospital

Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/

What is Vision Zero?
https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/

Uber Takes Us for a Ride
https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-for-a-ride

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/robotaxis-wont-get-us-there-so-lets-stop-being-used-to-sell-a-future-that-doesnt-serve-us/

Segregation by Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/

cars.destroyed.our.cities
https://www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/

Bamberg merchants, city officials say downtown open for business
https://thetandd.com/news/bamberg-merchants-city-officials-say-downtown-open-for-business/article_fec5d451-61bd-5fe2-904c-bdfecdb19392.html

Historical photos of Utrecht
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/

Historical photos of Fake London
https://search.ourontario.ca/
https://images.ourontario.ca/london/search

De Markt in gebruik als parkeerplaats voor auto's.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12115/NL-DtAD211303220

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https://notjustbikes.com/references/selfdrivingcars.txt

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
1:17 Reasons for optimism & skepticism
2:33 Moving fast and breaking people
8:50 Fatal Uber Crash
10:34 The Real Road Safety Issue
14:27 Promoting car-centric cities
17:03 Cheaper taxis (yay?)
21:07 Traffic congestion will be even worse
25:19 The promised future (past and present)
28:04 How AVs will destroy cities
29:56 Eliminating public transit
32:37 Consuming all streets
34:02 Eliminating pedestrians
36:05 Eliminating speed limits
38:05 Pollution and noise
39:41 Eliminating traffic lights
42:16 Do we actually need AVs?
43:28 Utrecht vs Fake London
48:33 What should we do about it?
51:53 Where to learn more & Nebula

I Spent Over 12 Hours on an Amtrak Train (on purpose)

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The speedometer app I use is Blue Square Speedometer:
https://github.com/nhirokinet/bluesquarespeedometer

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More Traintastic Content

I Rode the Craziest Trains in Japan
https://youtu.be/hTPIs370dPM

I Visited the World's Busiest Train Station
https://youtu.be/6dKiEY0UOtA

DINOSAURS AND TRAINS!!!!! (with TierZoo)
https://youtu.be/6FwQp0xnFEE

This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good
https://youtu.be/HACaRm2KP6Q

Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe
https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc

The Trains that Killed an Airline - Italian HSR
https://youtu.be/IbFGG4T3_Yo

The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA

Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada - VIA Rail
https://youtu.be/n1G0Lyh3uik

America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)
https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI

More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4

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References & Further Reading

Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/2190fKUEtatQoCjOJLPFMR/fa2b40bc94b7bf4504b8f9555772844a/Campaign_for_Better_Transport_Emissions_Comparison_Project_Methodology.pdf

Looking east at the widest segment of Highway 401
By Clashmaker - Cropped version of File:Highway 401.png, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100929861

High-Speed Railways: Present Situation and Future Prospects
https://www.scirp.org/html/4-3500117_31817.htm

Mission Impossible 7 filming in Stoney Middleton
Richard Bowring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ryzBWDpYY

An eastbound VIA Rail Canada train passing through Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga (Port Credit), Ontario
By Milan Suvajac - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123144142

Northbound Northeast Regional #94 arriving at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in March 2019
By Mark Levisay from Ruckersville, VA, USA - D7K_5938-1, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150986157

Amtrak train #156, The northbound Northeast Regional, is led today by GE P42 #158.
By Mark Levisay - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlevisay/52757845161/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144610905

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:24 Leaving New York
3:04 On the train
4:03 The views
4:38 Freight trains & delays
5:37 The train is so much more comfortable
7:09 The border crossing
8:17 The Canadian side
9:24 Should you take this train?
10:20 Comparisons to Europe & Japan
11:20 We need more high-speed rail
12:02 VIA Rail is bad ... and getting worse
12:58 VIA Rail is expensive!
14:11 The new VIA Rail baggage policy 🤦‍♂️
15:49 Better train service is important!
17:14 Concluding thoughts

Are Taipei's Roads Still a "Living Hell"?

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References and Further Reading

Taiwan’s ‘living hell’ traffic is a tourism problem, say critics
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-traffic-war-tourism-intl-hnk/index.html

Nora Sun 孫穗芬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Sun

Taipei requires backseat belts in taxis
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/01/11/2003493224

Road safety projects announced
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/03/26/2003796754

Taiwan traffic deaths in 2022 up year on year and highest since 2013
https://taiwanenglishnews.com/taiwan-traffic-deaths-in-2022-up-year-on-year-and-highest-since-2013/

Taiwan sees traffic fatalities rise by 6.4% in first half of 2023
https://taiwannews.com.tw/news/4985145

Taiwan’s ‘living hell’ traffic is a tourism problem, say critics
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-traffic-war-tourism-intl-hnk/index.html

Rear-seat passengers with no seatbelt set to face fines
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/01/30/2003524243

Is Taiwan a ‘Living Hell for Pedestrians’? | Taiwan Talks EP118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdR6216I_S0

Is Taiwan Really a Living Hell For Pedestrians ?｜台灣是個行人地獄嗎 ? 街訪外國人
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GevroNftcyA

Is Taiwan's Traffic Really a 'Living Hell'? | TaiwanPlus News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFwtB76DdZI

台湾の運転手が学生を迫害する Taiwan Motorists not giving way to pedestrians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmlwY8HNb9A

外媒評行人地獄 台去年交通死亡近3千人
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPBr7SNz-c

Taiwan Struggles To Upgrade Pedestrian Safety | Taiwan Talks EP170
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEk83heAd1s

台湾、歩行者の地獄だ。 Taiwan is living hell for pedestrians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1WkaDWT7vY

台灣交通亂到老外心驚驚...　CNN點名宛如「人間煉獄」－民視新聞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-3GZeGMtiw

CNN report: Taiwan is a living hell for pedestrians. Is that real? Sidewalk is as long as greatwall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCdJM1ddxY

Statistics on death and injury of traffic accidents in counties and cities
https://168.motc.gov.tw/en/countrydeadhurt/%E8%87%BA%E5%8C%97%E5%B8%82

台北101阻尼器於20150808蘇迪勒颱風來襲晃動情況
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqELmBNyWfU

台北101 公仔動畫 (介紹Damper篇)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsNyCBSgrM

萬大線施工黑暗期 撤連城路、中正路圍籬恢復右轉車道
https://udn.com/news/story/7323/7809384

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:42 Drivers yield now!?
3:39 Sidewalks
4:13 Lanes & narrow streets
7:47 Major roads & avenues
8:52 Xinyi
10:41 Taipei 101
11:28 Changes in Xinyi
12:01 Cycling
14:43 Mopeds
16:55 Traffic
17:49 New MRT lines
19:39 High-speed rail
20:10 The metro
21:59 Zhongshan linear park
22:29 Wanhua
23:28 Nighttime and night markets
24:38 New Taipei City
26:05 Zhonghe
28:05 Concluding thoughts
29:59 Ground News

How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed

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If you live in the Netherlands, please install the HartslagNu app with the locations of automatic defibrillators:
https://hartslagnu.nl/

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References & Further Reading

This video has more references than can fit within the description limit of YouTube, so you will find a full list of references here:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/firetrucks.txt

Blue Lights Geneva:
https://www.youtube.com/@BlueLightsGeneva

Fire Brigade in the Netherlands using Bike Lanes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/155iwzc/fire_brigade_in_the_netherlands_using_bike_lanes/

Ambulance using the cycle lane CS3:
https://x.com/westcountrytim/status/1684935636732522496

HAI: Why the European Siren is Scientifically Proven to be Better
https://nebula.tv/videos/half-as-interesting-why-european-sirens-are-scientifically-proven-to-be-better
https://youtu.be/_dgYgshLAwQ

Prio 1 Gebouwbrand Rotterdam Kralingen - Kazerne Baan 24/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDdWCuWfS8

FDNY Fire Truck stuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAINl-k-0Eo

San Francisco Fire Engine Co Photo by Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50534112

Script by Jason Slaughter & Nicole Conlan
Thanks to Scott Brody for his expert input

This video uses stock footage licensed from Getty Images

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:30 The Objections
2:14 What Do Fire Departments Do?
4:02 The Do-it-all Truck
6:06 Bike Lanes Slow Down Fire Trucks (right?)
7:18 Custom vs Standardised Chassis
8:37 Giant over-spec'd Trucks
9:13 Ladders
10:01 Giant Trucks are Fundamentally Unsafe
11:31 Stupidly Wide Roads
12:39 Roundabouts
13:53 Traffic Lights
14:33 The Sad Reality of Car Crashes
15:11 The Expert Recommendations
17:58 We Need Smaller Fire Trucks
18:47 We Can Have Both
20:17 The Real Problem
22:53 The Excuses and Dismissals
24:23 My Apology and Conclusion
25:27 Incogni Sponsorship

The Secret to Japan's Great Cities

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References & Further Reading

Life Where I'm From - Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning
https://youtu.be/wfm2xCKOCNk

Machizukuri
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machizukuri
https://participedia.net/method/
https://labgov.city/theurbanmedialab/the-japanese-way-of-urban-planning-the-machizukuri-approach/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237482918_Toshikeikaku_and_Machizukuri_in_Japanese_Urban_Planning_The_Reconstruction_of_Inner_City_Neighborhoods_in_Kobe_Japanstudien
https://strongesttown.com/approach/
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/11/chuck-member-drive-monday

Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks

Fietsersbond
https://www.fietsersbond.nl/

Stroads
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05
https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM

Japan's worst traffic is NOT in Tokyo - Okinawa
https://nebula.tv/videos/lifewhereimfrom-the-worst-traffic-in-japan-isnt-in-tokyo
https://youtu.be/d6h_Dy7VY1Y

Toolbox of Pedestrian Countermeasures and Their Potential Effectiveness
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa18041/fhwasa18041.pdf

How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
https://transfersmagazine.org/magazine-article/issue-4/how-much-traffic-is-cruising-for-parking/

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:56 What makes a Japanese Street?
2:15 Japanese Zoning
4:26 Local Planning - Machizukuri
5:11 Solving Traffic Congestion
7:08 Financially Sustainable Cities
7:57 Different Sizes of Streets
9:17 Traffic Calming & Slower Cars
10:26 Reducing Car Volumes
11:24 Road Design
11:52 Good Pedestrian Bridges?
13:41 No Street Parking
15:31 Off-Street Parking
17:06 Stopping & Unloading
17:38 Kei Cars & Key Trucks
19:36 Cycling without Bike Lanes
21:44 Bicycle Paring
24:49 Horrible Roads & Stroads
25:57 Car-Centric Japan
28:00 Oversized, Empty Roads
19:56 Destroying Great Neighbourhoods for Cars
31:30 The Reality of Japanese Cities
32:45 80,000 Hours

I Rode the Craziest Trains in Japan

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JR East Joyful Trains
https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/joyful/

JR West Trains
https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/train/

Tom Scott - I rode the world's fastest train.
https://youtu.be/4ZX9T0kWb4Y

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Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:38 Shinkansen
02:43 Crazy Fast
03:55 Crazy Pink
05:50 Crazy Nice
08:54 Crazy Recreation Options
10:57 Crazy Decorated
12:21 Crazy ... Stargazing!?
16:14 Getting to the craziest one of all ...
17:31 Crazy Pokémon
20:03 Concluding thoughts
20:40 Ground News

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Corrections
01:36 There have been no fatal crashes, but there have been derailments with no fatalities

I Visited the World's Busiest Train Station

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Nearly 3 million people pass through Shinjuku Station every day, which is an insane number. But despite the massive number of people transported, the area around Shinjuku supports some great urbanism, with vibrant street life and lots of independent shops and restaurants.

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How Tokyo's Subway Keeps On-time, Clean, and Safe
Life Where I'm From
https://nebula.tv/videos/lifewhereimfrom-how-tokyos-subway-keeps-on-time-clean-and-safe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6H_XMDm7s

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Additional Reading and References

Busiest station - Guinness World Records
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/busiest-station

Shinjuku Station - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Station

Metro Map of Tokyo
https://maps-tokyo.com/maps-tokyo-metro/shinjuku-station-map

Rail Map of Tokyo
https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/pdf/routemap_majorrailsub.pdf

Map of Shinjuku Station
https://www.keio.co.jp/english/howto/shinjuku/pdf/ksb01_shinjuku.pdf

Tomoyuki Tanaka — Japan’s major landmarks drawn as if seen by X-ray
https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/tomoyuki-tanaka-on-x-ray-vision-and-shinjuku-station

Apology for leaving 20 seconds early
https://web.archive.org/web/20171118035032/https://www.mir.co.jp/company/release/2017/post_109.html

Passenger Pusher - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pusher

新宿グランドターミナルへの再編
https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/tosei/hodohappyo/press/2021/07/07/08.html

Tokyo starts massive renovation project for entrances to the world’s busiest train station
https://soranews24.com/2021/07/09/tokyo-starts-massive-renovation-project-for-entrances-to-the-worlds-busiest-train-station/

Shinjuku Station is getting a ¥72.8 billion makeover to make it easier to navigate
https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/shinjuku-station-is-getting-a-72-8-billion-makeover-to-make-it-easier-to-navigate-071221

Tokyo's Shinjuku Station undergoes S$755 million renovation to improve layout & ease congestion
https://mothership.sg/2022/07/shinjuku-station-renovation/

JR East 2023 Financial Results
https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/investor/financial/2023/pdf/2023_financialresults.pdf

Poster; Metropolitan Railway fare chart, issued by the Metropolitan Railway, July 1886
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/posters/item/1995-643

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
1:14 Shinjuku is busy, REALLY busy
1:36 Train lines (but no Shinkansen)
2:58 Navigating the station
4:06 Exits and gates
5:12 Not very impressive-looking
5:42 Platforms are boring but great
6:48 Japanese transit myths
8:10 The Hauptbahnhof test
8:52 The great streets around Shinjuku
9:44 Trains are the best
10:15 Connections to other places
10:46 Closing time
11:20 Amenities
12:42 Future construction plans
13:29 Way too many wide roads
14:17 Avoiding busy roads
14:48 The train station becomes a mall
16:04 Real estate, not railroads
17:08 A fractured station
18:30 Conclusion
19:25 Nebula

What is the "Correct" Speed Limit?

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There's a trend towards lower speed limits in cities all over the world, but why is this happening? What is the research behind it? And what is the "correct" speed limit for cities, anyway?

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References & Further Reading

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Charles "Chuck" Marohn
https://www.confessions.engineer/

SWOV Fact sheet - The relation between speed and crashes
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa1304/Resources3/08%20-%20The%20Relation%20Between%20Speed%20and%20Crashes.pdf

Rosén, E., Stigson, H. & Sander, U. (2011). Literature review of pedestrian fatality risk as a function of
car impact speed. In: Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 43, nr. 1, p. 25-33.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21094293/

NACTO - Impact Speed and a Pedestrian’s Risk of Severe Injury or Death
https://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2011PedestrianRiskVsSpeed.pdf

Nilsson, G. (1982). The effects of speed limits on traffic accidents in Sweden. In: Proceedings of the international symposium on the effects of speed limits on traffic accidents and transport energy use, 6-8 October 1981, Dublin. OECD, Paris, p. 1-8.

Kinetic energy management in road traffic injury prevention: a call for action
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4288294/

Stopping Distance Calculator
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/stopping-distance

New crash tests show modest speed increases can have deadly consequences - IIHS News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZChyjaqNBI

Speed and the Laws of Physics
Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec
https://web.archive.org/web/20221108022042/https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/road-safety/behaviours/speed/laws-physics

Shaffer, D.M., Maynor, A.B. & Roy, W.L. The visual perception of lines on the road. Perception & Psychophysics 70, 1571–1580 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1571

Driver Reaction Time
Marc Green - Human Factors & Science
https://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/reactiontime.html

The Effect of Driving Speed on Driver’s Visual Attention: Experimental Investigation
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07515-0_18

The Critical Ten - Stgreets.mn
https://streets.mn/2015/04/02/the-critical-ten/

Zhang, W., & Peterson, M. (2011). Predicting Patterns of Potential Driver Distraction Through Analysis of Eye-Tracking Data.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2011/RSS/program.pdf

Why Speeding – Just a Bit – Can Be Dangerous
ARCON Forensic Engineers
https://arconforensics.com/system/ckeditor/attachment_files/184/the_dangers_of_speeding.pdf

Serious Injuries 2018 - European Road Safety Observatory
https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/ersosynthesis2018-seriousinjuries.pdf

Svenson, Ola (February 1981). "Are We All Less Risky and More Skillful Than Our Fellow Drivers?" (PDF). Acta Psychologica. 47 (2): 143–148. doi:10.1016/0001-6918(81)90005-6.

McCormick, I. A.; Walkey, F. H.; Green, D. E. (June 1986). "Comparative Perceptions of Driver Ability: A Confirmation and Expansion". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 18 (3): 205–208. doi:10.1016/0001-4575(86)90004-7. PMID 3730094.

E. Verheijen and J. Jabben, Effect of electric cars on traffic noise and safety,
RIVM report 680300009/2010, http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/680300009.pdf

Alexander RG, Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S. Microsaccades in Applied Environments: Real-World Applications of Fixational Eye Movement Measurements. J Eye Mov Res. 2020 May 15;12(6):10.16910/jemr.12.6.15. doi: 10.16910/jemr.12.6.15. PMID: 33828760; PMCID: PMC7962687.

Slowing city traffic cut road deaths by a quarter
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2022/slowing-city-traffic-cut-road-deaths-by-a-quarter

Too Fast, Too Furious: New York City’s Speeding Epidemic
https://transalt.org/reports-list/too-fast-too-furious-new-york-citys-speeding-epidemic-and-the-case-for-local-control-of-speed-limits

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:45 False Start NJB Logo
0:51 Real NJB Logo
0:56 Why 30km/h?
1:33 Noise
2:27 Kinetic Energy
3:33 Mass
4:24 Microcars
5:08 Walking & Cycling
6:15 Avoiding Crashes
7:39 Visual Perception
9:00 SMIDSY
9:29 Overconfidence
9:55 "That guy"
10:20 Mobility vs Safety
11:07 Faster and Slower
12:25 Too Much Traffic?
13:07 Brainerd Traffic Lights
14:50 Removing Traffic Lights
15:56 Painfully Inefficient Stroads
16:32 Building Great Streets
17:30 Fuel Efficiency
18:33 The Benefits
19:47 Conclusion & Assholes
20:20 Ground News

The Oldest Street in Europe

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By: Not Just Bikes

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I was in Athens so I decided to visit the oldest street in Europe, ΤΡΙΠΟΔΩΝ, and boy was I disappointed!

The street is called "Tripodon", or "Τριπόδων" in Greek. The uppercase letters on the sign, "ΤΡΙΠΟΔΩΝ" look very different, but that's just because I don't understand Greek.

The tripods along it were apparently trophies for performances at the theatre. I read on one site that the tripods were bronze and on another that they were copper. I went with bronze in the script because it sounds nicer, and bronze is made of copper anyway.

This street was a big deal apparently, and lots of famous people would walk along it to the theatre, which is why we know about it from ancient times. Here's some more reading for you:

https://greekreporter.com/2024/03/11/oldest-street-athens-europe/
https://athensbylocals.com/tripodon-oldest-street-in-athens/

Amsterdam Closed This Bridge to Cars (but not bikes ofc)

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Further Reading & References

Een van onze meest iconische bruggen 3 maanden dicht
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321113133/https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/achtergrond/berlagebrug/

Berlagebrug: vernieuwing
https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/bruggen/maatregelen/berlagebrug/

Berlagebrug vanaf 10 november weer open voor verkeer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VAGcXDXEkI

Bouw Berlagebrug
https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/1230598/Bouw_Berlagebrug
Opening berlagebrug
https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/1236074/Opening_berlagebrug
Bevrijdingsbeelden Amsterdam
https://www.openbeelden.nl/media/778514/Bevrijdingsbeelden_Amsterdam

1932: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63859637
1935: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82928244
1951: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/6b54c13a-3dfe-7299-8026-23832c98cf8d
1968: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66571374
1968: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66571351
1972: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/0a9562eb-ae51-2529-6813-09919e282e73
1975: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68103661, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68103947, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68103959
1976: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/542fc6f0-6ae1-5651-f088-2d582224e553
1979: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/1b63b055-ad7c-c860-8589-c1dc75c066ac
1982: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/a3ef00c2-9bbc-9d8c-2a0a-f2be3d20fea3

Echte Nederlandse Fietsers Bond (ENFB) op Berlagebrug (1984)
http://hdl.handle.net/10648/ad331a52-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84
http://hdl.handle.net/10648/ad331958-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84

@BicycleDutch
Bicycle Dutch - Berlagebrug, Amsterdam (Netherlands) [159]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0fR2Ul8A_4

I can't believe I need to credit the author for this one, but:
Banana on White Background by Justus Blümer from Deutschland
BananeUploaded by Common Good, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16983269

@BicycleDutch
Intersection upgrade: a Banana and a Chips Cone
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/intersection-upgrade-a-banana-and-a-chips-cone/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZOAb11yKNI

Bus 40 rijdt tijdelijk extra over de Berlagebrug
https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/bruggen/maatregelen/berlagebrug/nieuws/bus-40/
https://www.gvb.nl/sites/default/files/omleiding_berlagebrug_v6.pdf

Nog tot medio 2024 geen trams over de Berlagebrug
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/nog-tot-medio-2024-geen-trams-over-de-berlagebrug-zo-kom-je-toch-met-ov-naar-de-overkant~b1407ea6/

Trams kunnen Berlagebrug na heropening nog maanden niet gebruiken
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/trams-kunnen-berlagebrug-na-heropening-nog-maanden-niet-gebruiken~b127e9b8/

YouTube has a character limit on descriptions, so not all references can be included. You can find a complete at the Nebula link above, or at:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/berlagebrug.txt

This video features stock footage from Getty Images

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:51 History of Berlagebrug
1:31 Amsterdam "before the car"
2:17 Canadese Intocht 1945
2:39 Wikipedia
3:11 Surrounding streets
5:02 Plan Zuid & Berlage
5:58 From cars to bikes
6:45 The East & Amstelstation
7:29 The temporary bridge
8:54 It's nice without cars
9:39 Keeping trams running
10:42 Upgrades for cycling
11:53 The Banana & Frite Cone
13:13 Other upgrades
13:34 The opening
14:27 Buses stuck in traffic
15:04 No trams :(
16:16 Concluding thoughts
16:38 Brillant

DINOSAURS AND TRAINS!!!!! (with TierZoo)

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By: Not Just Bikes

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https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-dinosaurs-and-trains-with-tierzoo

A few months ago we took a train trip to 3 different countries to visit three different natural history museums, and it was great!! Well, except when we tried to get to Germany ... 😬

TierZoo: @TierZoo
https://nebula.tv/tierzoo?ref=notjustbikes

The Crustacean Tier List:
https://youtu.be/MkGypaS-sLE
https://nebula.tv/videos/tierzoo-the-crustacean-tier-list?ref=notjustbikes

The Urbanist Agenda Podcast: @theurbanistagenda
The Urbanist Agenda Podcast (ad-free): https://nebula.tv/agenda

Europe Spends More on Roads than Rails (with Real Time History)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxbljx1k4Q
https://nebula.tv/agenda/europe-spends-more-on-roads-than-rails-with-real-time-history

Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes
NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): @njblive

--- References & Further Reading ---
The Man in Seat Sixty-One
https://www.seat61.com/

Dinosaur facts sourced from these places:
https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Specimens_of_Tyrannosaurus
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/04/15/how-many-t-rexes-were-there-billions
https://www.businessinsider.com/over-a-billion-t-rexes-lived-on-earth-where-are-the-bones-2023-5
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/when-did-dinosaurs-become-extinct
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-biggest-dinosaur.html
https://amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/a-feathered-tyrant
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/
https://www.diffen.com/difference/Spinosaurus_vs_Tyrannosaurus

Allosaurus was predominantly a scavenger
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380022003593

Bahnhofsgebäude Hatzenport
By Joschi71 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68188929

Thanks to TylerMascola for the Surprised Pikachu meme!
Even though he said no credit was necessary, I want to credit him:
https://www.deviantart.com/tylermascola/art/Surprised-Pikachu-Meme-968571785

Development of Transport Infrastructure in Europe:
Exploring the shrinking and expansion of railways, motorways and airports.
https://greenpeace.at/uploads/2023/09/analysis_development-of-transport-infrastructure-in-europe_2023.pdf

European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail

Deutsche Bahn punctuality drops to record low
https://www.railtech.com/all/2023/12/05/deutsche-bahn-punctuality-drops-to-record-low/

Punctuality - Deutsche Bahn
https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2023/en/interim-group-management-report-unaudited/product-quality-and-digitalization/punctuality/

Erläuterung Pünktlichkeitswerte für den Januar 2024
https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen_fakten/puenktlichkeitswerte-6878476?

Deutsche Bahn and German Government launch infrastructure programme on unprecedented scale
https://www.railtech.com/infrastructure/2023/09/19/deutsche-bahn-and-german-government-launch-infrastructure-programme-on-unprecedented-scale/

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction & TierZoo
1:00 The Plan
2:24 The Eurostar to London
3:30 King Cross & Surrounding Area
4:56 The Natural History Museum
8:43 The Eurostar to Brussels
9:19 All about Brussels
9:56 Le Muséum des sciences naturelles
12:24 Sleeper trains are awesome!
13:27 Problems happen ...
15:07 WE NEED MORE FUNDING FOR TRAINS!
18:02 The Urbanist Agenda Podcast
18:25 Getting to Berlin
18:57 das Museum für Naturkunde
21:10 Trains, a love story
24:07 TierZoo & Nebula
25:44 Patreon shout-out

More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing

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Script by Nicole Conlan & Jason Slaughter

Thanks to Matthew Krol (Extra Credits), Chuck Marohn (Strong Towns), & Lane Man (Cities by Diana) for quotes

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References & Reading

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON INDUCED TRAFFIC
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00166218

What Is Induced Demand?
https://www.planetizen.com/definition/induced-demand

Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

INDUCED TRAFFIC AND INDUCED DEMAND
https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/induced_traffic_and_induced_demand_lee.pdf

Highway 401 Expansion
https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/highway-401-expansion-project/

Induced Demand: An Urban Metropolitan Perspective
https://escholarship.org/content/qt5pj337gw/qt5pj337gw.pdf

Supply/Demand graph based on SilverStar (CC BY 2.5)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11044484

405 Commutes Now a Minute Worse Than Before Carpool Lane
https://la.curbed.com/2014/10/9/10036932/405-commutes-now-a-minute-worse-than-before-carpool-lane

Houston commute times quickly increasing
https://www.click2houston.com/news/2014/02/04/houston-commute-times-quickly-increasing/

North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP)
https://www.txdot.gov/nhhip.html

With I-45 construction set to begin in 2024, many facets of the project remain uncertain
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/i45-meetings-txdot-freeway-rebuild-18507217.php

Rethink35 Austin & Frogger
https://rethink35.org/
https://onelinergames.com/games/i35frogger/webversion/

Lawsuit against TxDOT
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundraising/41a2391b-9075-4700-b504-5c4ce1937e3f

Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban-highways-segregation.html

Braess's paradox - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

The Spring Paradox
Steve Mould
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg73j3QYRJc

Congestion Decreases When Cities ‘Delete’ Road Lanes
https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/05/13/three-reasons-why-congestion-decreases-when-cities-delete-road-lanes

Exploring traffic evaporation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X22002085

Traffic Evaporation: What Really Happens When Road Space is Reallocated from Cars?
https://thecityfix.com/blog/traffic-evaporation-what-really-happens-when-road-space-is-reallocated-from-cars/

From Freeways to Waterways: What Los Angeles Can Learn From Seoul
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/departures/from-freeways-to-waterways-what-los-angeles-can-learn-from-seoul

청계고가, 밤 12시부터 전면 통제, 고가도로 철거 오는 10월 말까지 마무리
https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N0311442270

Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration-project

WSDOT VS. REALITY, Puget Sound traffic forecasts don't even pass the laugh test.
https://www.sightline.org/2011/07/13/wsdot-vs-reality/

Every traffic projection is wrong
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2021/09/09/every-traffic-projection-wrong

Traffic Forecasts Ignoring Induced Demand: a Shaky Fundament for Cost-Benefit Analyses
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268293526_Traffic_Forecasts_Ignoring_Induced_Demand_a_Shaky_Fundament_for_Cost-Benefit_Analyses/fulltext/54bc7a710cf253b50e2d2b8a/Traffic-Forecasts-Ignoring-Induced-Demand-a-Shaky-Fundament-for-Cost-Benefit-Analyses.pdf

Traffic volumes declined by 34 percent on SR 520 after deployment of pricing and electronic tolling.
https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/its/benecost.nsf/ID/78a1e4026c2ed620852581a7003b7b87

Carmageddon Leaves Los Angeles in Gridlock With I-405 Closing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r6gGUcAHE0

Downs–Thomson paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox

Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic?
Not Just Bikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQY6WGOoYis

Effects of upgrading to cycle highways
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692316304008

Bikeability and the induced demand for cycling
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220515120

Build The Lanes (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/@buildthelanes

NACTO Transit Street Design Guide
https://nacto.org/publication/transit-street-design-guide/introduction/why/designing-move-people/

How Arlington Is Avoiding D.C.’s Traffic Nightmare
https://wamu.org/story/13/03/26/how_arlington_is_avoiding_dcs_traffic_nightmare/

ARLINGTON TRAFFIC COUNT DATA
https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/projects/documents/historic-traffic-counts.pdf

How Oslo Achieved Zero Pedestrian and Bicycle Fatalities
https://thecityfix.com/blog/how-oslo-achieved-zero-pedestrian-and-bicycle-fatalities-and-how-others-can-apply-what-worked/

More road tolls set to cordon off Oslo
https://www.newsinenglish.no/2017/06/06/more-road-tolls-set-to-cordon-off-oslo/

This video uses footage licensed by Getty Images

I Visited the Best* City in North America

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By: Not Just Bikes

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—
I’ve been making videos for over four years, and there’s one very consistent message I’ve received over and over: that I need to visit Montréal, because it is the best* city in North America.

So I did. I visited and I spent a week there, travelling all over the city by walking, cycling, and public transit. Oh, and a lot of taxis.

* according to literally hundreds of people who have contacted me about this over the years

Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes
NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): @njblive

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References and Further Reading

Montréal Metro Map
By STM/Calvin411 - http://www.stm.info/sites/all/modules/features/stm_metro/theme/images/map-interactive.gif, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47187470

Montréal Transit Playlist - RM Transit
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoYcvp1EGSc8wQ1SvPLXdo9qpKvf7N8v

Calgary +15 Skywalk Network Walk l A Walk Thru Plus 15 Downtown Calgary Skywalk | Travel Calgary
A Dawn (YouTube, CC BY, Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRz-U5Yz_E

Montréal’s car-free streets return
https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/stepping-montreal-pedestrian-only-streets

Montreal's summer pedestrian streets are a hit. So why don't we keep them going?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-pedestrian-streets-winter-1.6640701

'We are not welcome': wheelchair users demand space on Montreal's pedestrian streets
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-pedestrian-accessibility-1.6476400

Drivers say parking in Montreal is difficult. Experts say it should be
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/parking-solutions-montreal-1.6230219

Le REV : un réseau express vélo
https://montreal.ca/articles/le-rev-un-reseau-express-velo-4666
https://montreal.ca/en/articles/ebn-montreals-express-bike-network-4666

Amsterdam Bike Tour by Urban Planner Meredith Glaser
Propel (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku9ZlG8FYGc

Streetcars in Montréal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_Montreal

Amsterdam witfiets bikeshare photos:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020409193259/http://www.depo.nl/en/index.html
https://quip.deds.nl/deel/witfiets.html
https://quip.deds.nl/?page_id=798
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittefietsenplan
Door Onderwijsgek - Eigen werk, CC BY-SA 2.5 nl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2120175
Door Rrustema - taken with iPhone in the Staalstraat in Amsterdam, Publiek domein, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5073029
By Joost Evers / Anefo - http://proxy.handle.net/10648/aabb2954-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65531178

Borough councillors vote to remove Terrebonne bike path in NDG
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/terrebonne-bike-path-1.5717086

Hotly contested bike path in Montreal's west end will be revived with an all-new look
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-ndg-bike-path-terrebonne-1.7013226

VIA Rail schedule, Montréal to Toronto
https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/train-schedules?searchByTrain=false&tsiDs=MTRL&tsiAs=TRTO&tsiDate=2024-08-01

Orange Julep photo:
http://www.bubblemania.fr/en/hermas-gibeau-orange-julep-fast-food/

Man in a Trenchcoat from The Eric Andre Show (s02e03)

The video contains footage licensed from Getty Images

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Chapters
0:00 The Introduction
0:41 The Context
1:24 The Metro
2:18 The REM
4:35 The Missing Middle
5:31 The Cycling
7:37 The REV
8:30 The Jean Talon Market
8:57 The Politics of Bike Lanes
11:33 The Political Structure
13:04 The Pedestrian Experience
14:00 The Green Alleys & Parks
14:47 The Pedestrianized Streets
16:28 The Ending?
17:11 Getting Réal
17:16 Highways
18:25 Missing Streetcars
19:24 Terrible Streets
20:49 No Walking Accelerators
22:17 Issues with Bike Share
23:25 Metro Stroads
25:31 Fractured Bike Network
26:26 Small Street Cycling (only)
28:25 Bidirectional Bike Paths
29:57 Poor Regional Transit
31:23 Fuck Namur Station (seriously)
32:50 Goldilocks Boroughs
34:46 Montréal Suburbs Suck
36:13 No Autoluw Neighbourhoods
36:41 Walkable Islands
38:33 Drastic Changes Block-to-Block
40:02 Downtown is Shit
41:54 Privatized Underground City
43:11 Terrible Train Station
44:59 Braindead Metro Ticketing
45:52 Temporary Pedestrianization
47:27 Is Montréal a Great City?
49:34 Cycling Bonus Video on Nebula

Germany's "Green" City (with more bikes than cars!)

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A Tale of Two Towns: Car-free vs. Not (Zermatt & St. Moritz)
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Further Reading & References

Type Ashton
https://www.youtube.com/@TypeAshton

Freiburg is fighting to become walkable after being resigned for cars post-WWII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKtz8-rhbAQ

Historical photos from:
https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/de/landesarchiv/standorte/staatsarchiv-freiburg/47231
https://www.facebook.com/vistatour.de
https://www.facebook.com/HistorischesFreiburg
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6JE6WHVFUESGXUZHNFXMFJRVYGCQHB2X
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/URBPYL2J4MRKRQZIG43YHS3DCFK7LHYP
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/FPAQD7GJCETSZ4J36HAVBNDTIP6XRFR5
https://www.badische-zeitung.de/freiburg-mitte/einst-standen-hier-dkw-und-horch--4964152.html
https://www.badische-zeitung.de/nach-dem-krieg-war-der-norden-freiburgs-lange-eine-truemmerlandschaft
https://www.mitwelt.org/kein-akw-in-wyhl.html
https://www.badische-zeitung.de/in-den-1960er-jahren-gehoerte-freiburgs-muensterplatz-noch-den-autos

“Missing Freiburg” - buildings destroyed
Future History
https://www.future-history.eu/de/fh-entdecken-map?t=264,Verschwundenes+Freiburg,19150&ls=2867

Die letzte Autofahrt durch die Freiburger Innenstadt 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUdNJl9zcUw

Freiburg: Germany’s futuristic city set in a forest - BBC Travel
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200715-freiburg-germanys-futuristic-city-set-in-a-forest

Dichte von Personenkraftwagen in europäischen Ländern im Jahr 2021
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/163406/umfrage/kfz-dichte-in-ausgewaehlten-europaeischen-laendern/

Stock of vehicles by category and NUTS 2 regions
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/TRAN_R_VEHST__custom_6385961/bookmark/table?lang=en&bookmarkId=8dee8b9a-0c4f-4f1d-b24c-999f39c62a35

Freiburg's way to sustainability: the role of integrated urban and transport planning
https://www.academia.edu/522549/Freiburgs_way_to_sustainability_the_role_of_integrated_urban_and_transport_planning

The Freiburg Pedestrian Zone
https://www.innovation-academy.de/en/the-freiburg-pedestrian-zone/

The World’s Greenest Cities: Freiburg, Germany
https://www.litterbins.co.uk/blog/the-worlds-greenest-cities-freiburg-germany/

This German neighborhood has everything. Except cars.
https://expmag.com/2021/09/this-german-neighborhood-has-everything-except-cars/

Creating a ‘Car-Free’ Community
https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/creating-a-car-free-community/

By Straßenbahn_Freiburg_Liniennetz_1.png: Grauer Elefantderivative work: Pechristener
This file was derived from: Straßenbahn Freiburg Liniennetz 1.png:
using Open Street Map, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31624475

Von Peter Kappus - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8300001

Car-free futures: How European cities are embracing green transport
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/27/car-free-futures-how-european-cities-are-experimenting-with-green-transport

Is this the greenest city in the world?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/23/freiburg.germany.greenest.city

This video uses stock footage from Getty Images

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:36 About Freiburg im Breisgau
1:06 Altstadt
2:14 Type Ashton
2:43 Destruction from WW2 and Cars
4:16 How Freiburg became so great
6:05 The suburb of Vauban
8:35 Other suburbs aren’t so great
9:10 Bicycle infrastructure
10:00 TRAMS!!
11:39 Getting out of the city
12:24 Freiburg Hauptbanhof
13:13 Why can’t we build like this today?
14:20 Car-free cities & Nebula
15:40 Supporter Shout-out

This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good

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Historical station photos:
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/22599D68EFF552F784281201017A8018
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/7309B47FD07152FEB78FB2C1E118F619
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/BC28CAB481015A659A7485A9733A6C50
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/7DEFD31496505AD99574D7E28D23137C
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/FD561B564C3D5A97B253DB8B7436952B
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/8512F3EA0C1053F89312B54B67C34CE6
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/3AF5ABB5571059C693552EE36E40ABD0
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/9D471C62B1322863E0534701000A93F8
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/F9925969D916544DA571CD207FF3D6C6

Serving coffee at Driebergen-Zeist in 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1zNfL3aCU

@BicycleDutch
https://youtube.com/@bicycledutch

Bicycle Dutch - A public transport hub in the forest; station Driebergen-Zeist
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/a-public-transport-hub-in-the-forest-station-driebergen-zeist/

Bicycle Dutch - The reconstructed railway station Driebergen-Zeist
https://youtu.be/CjQuqJN5Mfg

@CabviewHolland
https://www.youtube.com/@CabviewHolland

Driebergen-Zeist station before construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsd7osVmlA

Cabview Holland - Driving into Driebergen-Zeist by train:
https://youtu.be/tPxB-ia6G7A?t=1471

Removing the old station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsFvhmcddM

Building the station in 16 days (Timelapse) @prorail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiEj3Id5DIo

Pre-project renders
https://youtu.be/2TiyxHVt7Qk

ProRail - Drie jaar bouwen aan landgoedstation Driebergen-Zeist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MhXhYKDlLw

http://www.stationsinfo.nl/DriebergenZeist.htm

My first impressions when visiting Driebergen-Zeist:
https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/109643684843651355

Nederlandse vertaling door Casper de With

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:41 Wow, what a nice station
1:03 Context & history
2:22 The before times
3:22 Construction
4:39 The transportation hub
5:13 Bicycle parking
6:10 Station design elements
7:53 Bus station
9:11 Not an urbanists paradise
10:17 De auto's
10:56 A proper cycling underpass
11:51 Park 'n' Ride
12:46 My complaints
14:12 CROSS PLATFORM TRANSFER, BABY!
15:36 The wrap-up
16:07 Learn math, science, and engineering with Brilliant
17:27 Patreon & Nebula shout-out

Even Small Towns are Great Here (5 Years in the Netherlands)

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We’ve lived in the Netherlands for 5 years now and we’ve been to a lot of small towns and cities in that time. The thing that surprised us the most is that there’s good urbanism pretty much everywhere.

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Thumbnail of Kloosterveen from Google Earth

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:22 Haarlem
01:59 Leiden
02:29 Harlingen
02:52 Lent (Nijmegen)
04:22 Ermelo
05:49 Veenendaal
06:30 Terschelling
06:59 Ommen
08:16 Diepenheim
08:35 Jutrijp
09:09 Zwolle
09:44 Assen
10:23 Kloosterveen (Assen)
11:18 Vathorst (Amersfoort)
11:55 Woerden
12:36 Sneek
13:42 Alkmaar
14:22 Zeist
14:42 Summary & Conclusion
17:47 Patreon Shout-out

Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck (a sense of place)

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Have you ever walked through a great city and thought, wow I love this place? What is it that makes some places great and others ... not? One key factor is what urban planners call a “sense of place.”

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Café Biard, Paris
By Mbzt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63200047

Amsterdam wil 'fastfoodrestaurant' Five Guys niet
https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/amsterdam-wil-fastfoodrestaurant-five-guys-niet~b42c9908/

Writing and research by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter

This video contains footage from Getty Images

Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road

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Amsterdam is trialing its most ambitious traffic project yet. They are cutting off car traffic on a major 4-lane arterial road through the city. This has got the right-wingers panties in a bunch, but the trial is still underway. Will this lead to a utopian city or carmageddon?

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Historic photos of Weesperstraat
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/ab6e2373-b25b-c139-7a0c-5b126b0fe080
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/b1b4feac-ed5a-d672-ac91-b6623fb63ee8
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/446e4ba1-9948-fa11-2412-0a6e7e098f4c
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/350471ef-c3b4-d3c9-93cc-3e92865bbffd
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/2a55bf78-d2f7-0115-32d0-c466e8b398ce
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/b2bca579-9a2d-615e-1648-76cf9d37d4ef
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/3689ff89-d924-aa7e-6602-e20309e28ad8
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/5f7a7867-c92f-6150-e011-af3e1a28a4fb
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/e16b0e44-d84e-6b1f-dd8b-40010f632f03
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/0da3183d-da19-a971-f996-04e4637a2281
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/b35b924e-e31d-daa7-d389-1737697cd950
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/aacef363-0427-e568-bef9-27ee5185401e
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/9f03fdd3-25bd-e11e-3750-e1dcf6f8c789

Weesperstraat-Valkenburgerstraat en omgeving: minder auto’s en groener
https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/weesperstraat-valkenburgerstraat/#he1c9656c-50fd-4c7c-b2eb-7ecd293b829a
https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/weesperstraat-valkenburgerstraat/plannen/?PagClsIdt=16356619#PagCls_16356619
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5427ba88e4b06b86fdab08dc/t/5f836634473a9f011dc04765/1602446920883/plan_van_aanpak_pilot_knip_weesperstraat_maatregel_13_agenda_amsterdam_autoluw_6_oktober_2020.pdf

Een week vol chaos, boze automobilisten én positieve effecten in de Weesperstraat: ‘Dit is véél beter voor de stad’
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/een-week-vol-chaos-boze-automobilisten-en-positieve-effecten-in-de-weesperstraat-dit-is-veel-beter-voor-de-stad~b657aaf1/

Twitteraars steken de draak met verkeersleed na knip Weesperstraat
https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/twitteraars-steken-de-draak-met-verkeersleed-na-knip-weesperstraat~b02df7a6/

https://twitter.com/danielkoerhuis/status/1668291240259989508
https://twitter.com/kuitenbrouwer/status/1670419915784835072?s=20

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/knip-houdt-amsterdam-in-zijn-greep-scheldende-taxichauffeurs-en-borrelende-buurtbewoners-zijn-passanten-in-vervoersexperiment~bee5fa3e/

https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/autobezit-nergens-zo-laag-als-in-amsterdam~b3266903/

Museumplein road:
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/21f42296-4660-9c35-4af1-6c105f0b0729
https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/76e0eb2b-3ffe-3eec-5e0e-e483bde9b4fc

This video makes use of some footage from Getty Images

The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities

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I have no interest in making “debunking” videos, but there’s one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I was literally forced to make this video. It's true: I had no other choice. My hands were drawn to the keyboard to write this script like they were possessed by the ghosts of people killed by cars.

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References & Further Reading

Downtown Houston, 1912
https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62636

Country size comparisons
https://www.thetruesize.com

Number of Vehicle Trips by Trip Distance
US Department of Transportation
https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips

NHTS BRIEF November 2006
National Household Travel Survey - Commuting for Life
https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/commuting%20for%20life.pdf

Urban sprawl erodes rural lands
https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands

Ontario loses 175 acres of farmland to urban development a day, says farmers group
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620

[Netherlands] Agricultural export in 2021 in excess of 100 billion euros for the first time
https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/research-institutes/economic-research/show-wecr/agricultural-export-in-2021-in-excess-of-100-billion-euros-for-the-first-time.htm

Ray Hill’s Tunnel photograph (2019) by Michael Manoni
https://www.alltrails.com/members/michael-manoni
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/pike-2-bike-abandoned-pennsylvania-turnpike/photos

Why did Minneapolis tear down its biggest train station?
https://www.startribune.com/why-did-minneapolis-tear-down-its-train-station-great-northern-depot/600013884/#15

This video contains content licensed from Getty Images.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:57 People don't know this stuff
1:42 The excuses begin
2:30 Most travel is local
3:41 Life is more than commuting
4:35 America was built for trains
5:40 Even intercity travel is regional
6:41 Conducteurs sans frontieres
7:45 Walkability can exist anywhere
8:34 It's all land use
10:43 Wrapping up
11:31 Try Nebula, it's great!
12:42 Patreon shout-out
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