I love the "cyclists are dangerous people so they should not have bike lanes" argument. Because giving dangerous people cars is going to make it better. Giving reckless riders an elevated feeling of safety and a many times more dangerous vehicle is just what a city needs to do.
One of the problems is that at this point in North American history, many people have never lived in a walkable city. They have no first hand experience living in a walkable town with non car options for travel so whatever picture we present sound like sci-fi or fairytale to them. You don’t know what you’re missing out on if you’ve never experienced it. You can’t want what you’ve never had. They’re comfortable in their discomfort because they know no other options.
add to that the US propaganda of it being the best in everything and people don't just lack any experience with other options, they believe that those options are outright bad. because the US is the best, has the best and does everything the best. so whatever the rest of the world does cannot be better than what the US does.
Anytime I hear someone say they wouldn't want to live in a city I just laugh. I've lived in a big city, a small city, a suburb of a big city, and in a rural area. Living in a big city is by far the best lifestyle.
The fact that the default way to build cities throughout all of human history (okay, at least since we invented cities) is such an outlandish concept to Americans that it gets its own term ("15 minute cities") and even has conspiracy theories made about it is just _wild_ to me.
The vast majority of North Americans have been to theme parks and shopping malls. The experience would be totally different, if there were no pedestrian friendliness.
Exactly. I've been living in Marseille in the South of France for a year and a half now. Marseille is lacking a lot in terms of cycling infrastructure and cycling in general. We do see more and more cyclists, but I've noticed that most people cycling here are people who grew up elsewhere and only moved to Marseille in the last ten years. A sort of cycling insemination phenomenon.
I lived in Holland for 15 years. The Dutch did not end up with bike lanes because they wanted bike lanes, they ended up with bike lanes because they wanted safer streets.
Agreed, but unfortunately the opposition complain about spending their taxes on good needs. We can just respond back to them how they are hypocritical because their way is more costly in taxes and for individuals. I dislike how they advertise themselves like they don't spend taxes or much of it. It matters because that lie attracted many people to their side. Watch Not Just Bikes and CityNerd on the higher cost of roads, parking lots, cars, and suburbs.
I don’t bike anywhere, only walk or drive. But even I support more bike infrastructure. Well built and well maintained. I cannot put enough emphasis on that last part.
I don't commute by bike at all and drive a van 6 hours a day, and I absolutely support bike infrastructure. Who wouldn't, more people biking would seriously decrease traffic congestion.
@@independentthought3390 I'd gladly stay off the road if it meant people who had to drive for work or emergency vehicles could get where they're going faster. I stay off the road as much as I can anyways.
@@independentthought3390 exactly guys it works for everyone. Removing it hurts us all but that’s just how government is for now. Hopefully we see change in the years ahead.
When talking to ‘drive-or-die’ types the only argument which seemed to cut-through was … if there was a bike lane it could take away a load of those cars ahead of you in the traffic … but reducing road casualties didn’t shake them one bit.
Yep, it's not currently an argument that works. People have normalised death on the roads. Focus on traffic and business vibrancy when making arguments.
I live in Britain and to be honest I was a die hard car driver and motorcycle rider until I had my second stroke at 50 years old, 18 months ago. Due to the loss of vision in the right hand side of both eyes I lost my driving licence. Today my vision has returned to a point that I could technically get my licence back but I've come to love just riding my bicycle and walking everywhere. I still hate the buses and will happily ride 10-15 miles each way rather than catching a bus. The dedicated cycle lanes are beautiful and I am appreciative of the extra freedoms that bicycle riders are experiencing around our cities and towns. I can ride from my town to another local city and hardly ride on the road, that's a win as far as I'm concerned. Build it and they will come.
Bikes are also WAY less expensive than cars. A $600 e-bike can be run and maintained for significantly less than $10 a month. That money can be spent on local businesses. More bike-lanes, more trains, more busses, fewer cars.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g You can't move a sheet of drywall in most cars. And bringing home drywall is not a common errand. With the money saved by using a bike, have large items delivered or rent the appropriate vehicle. I'm likely replying to a silly bot (given the user name).
that sheet of drywall don't even fit in many modern pickup beds, way things have been going. A small bit of the money saved by not using to maintain a vehicle full time could be used to pay for professional delivery or renting a vehicle for the transport. And don't underestimate how much can be carried by cargo e-Bikes. An $8000 brand new cargo eBike will still cost less for you to maintain than the cheapest used car, even if you buy a new cargo eBike each year.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g I bought a bicycle-trailer years ago. I have literally hauled 75 lbs of concrete, a table, planks of wood for a porch, and drywall. You don't need a car for that stuff.
No, we need to build more housing near other stuff so that people aren't stuck with stupid commutes. Walking is vastly superior to everything else. Cars are next best unless parking is constrained. Biking is the worst way to travel.
@@thequietstag4366 Plenty and it sucks unless conditions are perfect, which is rare around here. Weather, terrain, safety, forced stops, parking, they can all be a nuisance or worse when biking but are usually irrelevant when walking, driving, or taking transit. It's fine if you want to do it anyway, but it still sucks.
@@jyutzler you do realise that proper infrastructure improves every complaint you have about biking? Safety, forced stops, parking are all easily improved. Terrain is a lot more manageable with proper paved paths. Its literally only weather, and honestly if the rest is great weather barely matters, ignoring extremes of course
Another reason drivers think nobody uses protected bike lanes is bikes don’t jam up in them like cars do in theirs - they’re always moving, unlike the jammed-up cars. Unless they’re constantly watching the bike lanes, they miss the passing bikes. The only place I see bikes bunched up is at intersections when they’re waiting for their turn.
I specifically bought the house I'm in because Aldi, Target, Walmart, Lowes, and local small businesses in downtown are within 10 minutes by bike. Our city has a dedicated intercity trail system for pedestrians and cyclist. It almost doesn't feel like the US.
Here in Canada we had people arguing that bike lanes were ableist and ageist...neglecting that 1) the overwhelming majority of people who are disabled in a manner which impact their freedom of movemeng can walk but can't drive, not the other way around, and 2) bike lanes decrease car traffic, freeing space for the people who absolutely must drive, benefiting even them.
Here in Canada its below zero for half the year. Nobody is cycling - anywhere - for at least half the year. OK, weirdos in Vancouver and Victoria. What's that? Less than 1 percent of Canada's liveable geography?
10:17- The Community Note feature is one of the best features ever added to Twitter (X). If a politician or a civil servant that represents them lies, their BS is exposed to the public for all to see. It made my blood boil how they used data that PRE-dated the implementation of bike lanes to lie through their teeth that a small percentage of people cycle and that traffic is worse when the opposite is true. These people should be grilled for trying to lie like that in order to undo all the hard work that was put into implementing infrastructure that would actually make things better.
City planning does indeed seem to increasingly be a science-driven push for better conditions for people outside of cars, versus a populist, 'alternative facts'-based car-centric narrative with griping, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
Road should be built to benefit all four (4) users. Walking (pedestrian ) riding ( cyclists) driving (motorists) and public transit users. True freedom is having the option to select any mean of commuting at any moment.
Bikes and cars transport the same number of people - thereby making short distance cycling use so much more space efficient. Here in Edinburgh, we've got so much more cycle infrastructure, making it so much easier for me to travel around vs. walking or even slow buses that I'm now regularly showing up for things earlier by accident because I underestimate how quickly cycling gets me places by weaving through traffic easier and using alleyways and non-car paths which speed up journey times for me so much.
In my city you can spend most of the time looking for parking. Drivers used to be more antagonistic towards bikes when I first moved here, but now it seems like most people recognize that if I'm on a bike, that's one less car stuffing the intersections and taking up parking on the street.
@@AB-wf8ek Awesome! I can live on a lower wage in central Toronto because I don't need a car. By doing this, I take one more car entirely off the road.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g my existing city was one not made for cars and originally had a train system, it was so important and cool it inspired a superhero. the only thing not normal in my city is the car, historically speaking. the infeastructure for other mdoes of transportation and bikes are there in my city's DNA its being paved over by a bandaid solution that is a car. instead of building their city, the car lovers invaded instead!
I've been saying this for so long. I'm not asking people to not drive, I'm asking to make it safer for people like me who want to ride so that drivers can enjoy less traffic and more parking. Luckily, the city I live in seems to understand and has gradually been increasing protected bike lanes, and it's really paying off. With the amount of people choosing to ride in my area, it's easy to imagine how much more congested it would be if we were all in cars instead. I remember when I first started riding 20 years ago, cars were much more antagonistic, honking, yelling, and zooming by, but now it seems like people get it. At this point, cars will often yield for me at intersections and recognize when it's not worth trying to run me over just to stop at the next intersection. And I'm sure my neighbors appreciate that I'm one less person taking up parking on the block.
The big diffrence is when they color the bike lanes and raise them. If it doesn't look like a car would go it most likely wont. And billards needs to be put in a lot more areas to prevent cars from using path.
And to keep out-of-control cars driven by drunken idiots or overworked drones falling asleep at the wheel from running off the road and killing someone.
I would want to use them, but there are none and the closest idea to one is the "painted gutter" with no separation from the cars. I will get hit eventually, since I may not be biking fast enough for people especially in the beginning of getting into shape with all of the exercise I would be doing.
@@anubizz3 It's not even about 'a bridge' anyway. You'll need loads of connected bridges going everywhere cars can go for people to use them. And they will.
@@mourlyvold64 Well the bridge already built but no one use it..... Instead try to find out why it not being used you want to build another bridges.. Maybe just maybe... Because there is a subway and the parking in the other side so expensive..
I'm writing a letter to Doug Ford for a school project about the bike lanes (and other issues) lmao If only this came out before I had to turn it in 😭😭😭
Excellent and thought-provoking presentation. Thank you. Looking forward to more. 09:50 - "We shouldn't be shaping our cities to fit the vehicles we want, we should be shaping our vehicles to fit the cities we want."
Very well made video. I'm all for bike lanes, slower traffic and more bike infrastructure. I do hope that America one day accepts this and lets people freely choose their method of commuting
This video hits all of the major issues. Well done! Very instructive for us here in tiny Trinidad & Tobago with absolutely no bike infrastructure for transport.
Bought my first e-bike about two months ago. I’ve already but about 700 miles on it. I use it to deliver DoorDash which is why I’ve put so many miles on it already. But even without DoorDash, I use it for almost everything. About 95% of my car use is now just getting me to work and back, that’s it. I’m still contemplating if I want to attempt to take it to work. Most of my Route to work consists of either peaceful country roads, or busy roads that have large shoulders. There’s only a small segment that is busy and has no shoulder, which is why I’m a little hesitant
From Amsterdam here- nice video. I fully agree haha. And thankfully as great as Amsterdam is, new cycling streets and walking promenades are still being made (at least 6 major ones under construction atm) Love this :) Pls come to the Netherlands, I'll show you around! It's awesome here for people that love people-oriented design!
@anubizz3 Huh?? Explain. 8 million cars for over 17 million people is not "a car problem. In Amsterdam only 19% trips are made by car. With 0,27 cars per citizen.
@@letheas6175 haha where the missing 2million car.. Goes? 8/17.9 not equal to 502 car per 1000 people. No Matter how you want to spin the narrative even 0.27 still more than Hong Kong 0.124 and Singapore 0.172... No 40 in the world as most car per capita, but act like the country that solve car dependancy... At least please be the best in Europe first before bragging and tell other to follow your country. When a mountain country like Switzerland only have slightly more car than your country, I count you country a failure consider Netherlands is perfect for cycling. FLAT AND TINY.
@@anubizz3 Jesus fuck, even if I didn't study mobility, I would know you sound like a seppo. Are.. you okay? You're probably going to say like ''oh I'm not a seppo'' but you sure do have seppo energy. If my country is a failure, then all countries ranked worst in positive rankings (which are A LOT OF COUNTRIES seeing as the Netherlands consistantly ranks in the top 10 like the nordic countries) is worse. Including.. yours. What an epic self burn, you absolute treurwilg. You know car ownership or usage is different than.. car dependancy right? Have you tried getting around in singapore, compared to in Amsterdam. Yeah sure buddy, try to do all of the walking and non-car stuff you want, without being bothered by barries in whatever way, within 10 minutes of walking. Sir/madam, have you ever even been outside of you country. Have you been to the Netherlands, or Singapore? Seeing the freedom index, we are doing better than both singapore and obviously, Hong Kong. We have the freedom to drive, and the ability not to have to drive. Be better, you propaganda sad piece of person.
Amazing video on a topic so highly politicized right now. I was also pleasantly surprised to see my winter cycling video included! Thanks for your work on this.
thank you for your great informatio and the wonderful video - here in Germany we have known all your arguments for decades - but nobody wants to change anything - because it is not about life and health - the priorities are just distributed different - that is the real problem and we should work on that
The factors getting me into my car instead of on my bike, in order: No secure place to park my bike while I'm there. Arriving sweaty. No safe route to where I'm going. I don't feel particularly threatened by cars because I've learned how to mix with them. Of course, a car driver could kill me in an instant, but I can take steps to mitigate that. Most effectively, whether I'm on a bike or in a car, I assume every person driving a car is blind, drunk, or stupid, and I treat them accordingly. That works.
While I agree with safety being a huge concern, to me density seems important too. If everything is twice as far(due to low density - regardless of reason) I could totally see people being more hesitant to take the bike. Especially since the longer the distance the more appealing taking an easier route is. Not just construction and parking would matter here, but also parks (which admittedly aren't a big issue) Edit: Should have waited with that comment for at least 2 minutes xD. I do think my assumption is at least the second largest factor.
Great point about freedom of travel. In a car-dependent location, only people with money to keep a car on the road are free to plan rides at their convenience. When that car is out of service for more than a day, people scramble to get another one. Try being poor and unable to buy or keep a car. How do you get to work, school, childcare, shopping, appointments, etc in one piece when transit is infrequent and sparse and bike routes don't go near your destinations? Some of us who couldn't rely on slow, crowded transit and couldn't bike when or where we needed safely or punctually...we bought a car asap, right? And like you said, flurf, most of us have never lived in a city with frequent transit that goes where you wanna go, let alone bike lanes that go where you're going and won't endanger your life. So we opt for cars because we have no idea how to get that walkable city. And when we find out we can organize so our leaders give us a better world that doesn't rely on cars, so few of us have the energy or confidence to build those organizations that we stick to cars. BTW: I bet we'lll STILL hear "just one more lane" when everyone's driving EVs.
don't get me started on the uh wacial aspect of this. many poor poc will drive janky veheciles with damages considered road illegal, or "sneak" their car around if things like car notes n sutff and unpaid for, or mileage is too high, they can't risk their car being towed away either cus its all they have otherwise they can't go anywhere. then they get arrested. and of course the old pro-car laws that punish pedestrians, majority affecting marginalized groups in the eadly days of the car the more you look into it the more wascist cars and car infrastructure actually is
That's why I've never really cared much for electric cars. I used to teach and most of my students couldn't afford a car. They would complain about how a 20 minute drive would take them almost an hour by public transportation. What good are electric cars for people who can't afford them anyways? Plus it doesn't solve congestion.
@@AB-wf8ek people conflating emissions-reduction measures with traffic-reduction measures always bug me. Especially the ones who claim self-driving cars are the Real answer. The idea was always supposed to be reducing cars, and electrifying those which can't be reduced. But certain people (namely Elon Musk) decided to push electrification as the first step in the chain, rather than the last.
There is a road, 4 lanes wide, going through an industrial area. Work started to change the layout. When people found the plan was to include a bike lane in each direction, the howls of protest were deafening. Before the work, in rush hour, traffic was appalling. The problem was with 2 lanes in each direction, but numerous access points for the businesses along the street, drivers would switch lanes constantly to pursue perceived momentary advantages. Chaos. When the road was reopened with the bike lanes, and the centre lane of 3 made into a turn only lane, everything calmed down and rush hour became a fairly smooth experience and traffic flow improved by a *HUGE* amount. Incidentally, bike riders could now use the road to get to and fro from work.
i like that you talked about various topics about biking in one not so long video, it could help bring more people out of their car-only thinking. also, off topic but i like the way you are dressed
In Toronto it’s not even the planners, it’s the crybaby premier who doesn’t like them so he’s deciding to ban em because he doesn’t like it. Toronto city council has a really nice cycling plan, too bad it’s going to be illegal now.
Even in switzerland where we have great public transport, we are struggling with providing good cycling infrastructure and cyclists are often concieved as bad, evil, using up precious space. But im sure we are getting there.
@@dorni6780 you should watch this urbanist messiah go to Switzerland and have orgasm and he have the same orgasm when he actually go to Japan.. Wait until he go to Hong Kong and Singapore.. He said he been all across the world before and yet so surprised when he go to the place with great public transport....... And still he make a video about train station in the middle of nowhere as the greatest train station in the world because it have huge bike storage...
The only time those side street bike lanes are typically used are for people who live on those streets or if your destination is not along the major commercial road. Nice video!
Great video! Here in Australia there is still a massive stigma around any bike or public transport use still often seen as lower class than drivers. Infrastructure is improving in major cities but suburbs are a joke leading to most cyclist riding on the half footpaths only present in suburbs more than 10 years old
These are two Dutch concepts missed in this video: 1) Even if there were just cars, multiple lanes in each direction is mostly pointless in non-rural contexts. I recommend watching 'Shutup About Road Capacity' for this. 2) As far as I understand, it is standard now to build new collector and arterial roads without destinations on it for any mode. Building cycleways there then becomes a question of 'Is this a very useful ROUTE in the network'. Sometimes there is already a dense network of quiet main routes nearby, and the noise pollution might outweigh any benifit. I think this is called 'fully disentangling' or something like that. Also, I'm not 100% sure about using cycleways for width-reduction of residential streets in most cases. Would make sense, tho, if you wanted better wayfinding and had a main cycling route down it (tho different sections might look different. A cycling street design would work better when it becomes narrow). Or if the street was a busway too. There are other things that can be done like rain gardens, raising the parking so it narrows the road visually, etc. This second one is another common thing in NL.
Great video, flurfdesign. Much needed right now as Ontario Govt looks to rip out bike lanes. So much negativre emotion about bike lanes, and so little factual basis for the resistance to them. If you build a safe cycling network they will come (and reduce car congestion), proven in many cities around the world including snow-bound Montreal. The Ont Govt action is delaying the inevitable, and will make car congestion worse.
I'm basically a mamil, but not always in the mood to ride outside the city. Whenever I ride in the city, I always get at least 2 drivers who almost run me over, every single time
Honestly if GO Transit had at least one dedicated bike car on every single train, I’d probably aim more and more towards biking to work. Right now, GO Transit doesn’t permit regular bikes on their trains during rush hour, when I would be using the train. Allegedly they make exceptions for folding bikes, but given how packed many afternoon trains can be, I have yet to see anyone do that (I’m not saying no one does, just that I’ve never seen it). Worst part is I live maybe a 15 minute bike ride from my closest GO station.
I saw a video about how most of the time streets are too big so they can accommodate the big do it all fire trucks that we have in North America once we change over to smaller ones, if we ever do, then road infrastructure would have an easier time changing too.
While I'm always happy to see more videos promoting alternative modes of transportation, your videos in particular seem to rehash a lot of information from other UA-camrs
Goood summary. Agree with you biking is for health and breathing less oxic gases. As a canadian thi is why i moved to Spain to cycle 365 days per year with ~300 dayys of sun. So my Vitamin D3 biomakers is now close to 100, my Vo2 max is >50. Move to Spain and you will see the respect of people towards the cyclist.
My parents town where I grew up put in bike lanes a few years ago. It now takes twice as long to get anywhere because they reduced from 2 lanes to 1 and they changed all the intersections to no turn in red after someone on a bike got hit. You bikers want lanes start following the rules of the road like everyone else. Headlights and turn signals on the bike and a license after a road test.
Hey!! I agree that many cyclists don't follow the rules, but I also think that it applies to car drivers honestly... I honestly think that we should not put the fault only on specific demographics but on the road structure, building and therefore policies!! For example, I don't think that all people driving a car that go over a speed limit are necessarily bad drivers, often when I drive I feel like I have to go over the limit because otherwise I'd be the only one going slow and therefore people would get mad at me! I think that the road is at fault there for having either a bad speed limit (too low) or being build too wide in an area where it isn't safe to drive that fast. I think the same applies to cyclists, for example if every cyclist doesn't stop at a particular red light or something, I think most of the times there is a reason behind it (maybe it takes multiple cycles for it to turn green, maybe it's in a place where stopping on a bike would make it much harder to regain speed, which is way more annoying than on a car). There are multiple things why urbanism is hard but I think that attributing the fault to one side is never a good solution. Hope you agree on this :)
18:19, this looks very good but we Dutch only use the Shark teeth for drivers to give way to, not for pedestrians. The zebra here already gives the pedestrians the right of way.
They ripped up all of Culver City's bike lanes this year because of claims of worse traffic. Culver City, CA in LA. Sad. They ripped them all out. Traffic was only affected by two minutes or something. Nothing dramatic.
Montreal( since 2009 ) ranks among the top 10 best biking city in the world with 1,100 km of protected bike lanes on the island and the best biking city in north america . The most walkable city in Canada , the most sustainable , the greenest( largest urban parks ), the canadian capital of culture , architecture , 400 years of history , best world class chefs and restaurants in north america , best night life . Toronto does not define the identity of Canada but USA culture of cars , USA arts , food with a population from India and China .
@jeanbolduc58. Je suis d’accord avec l’ensemble de ce que tu dis. Mais, je ne vois pas l’intérêt de mentionner qu’à Toronto beaucoup d’immigrants proviennent des Indes ou de la Chine… ça n’a pas de rapport.
People try to compromise by saying I have nothing against bike lanes so just put them on secondary streets. But not once do I see the people who say that back up their claims by suggesting which side streets would work. It’s all about making more room for cars and has nothing to do about bikes. Bike lanes are not needed on side streets, they do the most good for cyclists on the busiest and fastest arterials.
The argument in Toronto is a huge tell that people do not live in the neighbourhoods affected. The side streets aren't continuous, even slightly. Any attempt to build a wiggling route would only create tons of crossings over main road that would require heavy signalisation, slowing cars further. It makes no sense.
Agree with everything here but sadly you are preaching to the choir. The way I always try to explain it to my friends (who only drive everywhere because they grew up in suburbs) is that every single person taking train, bus, or bike means less people in a car so less traffic. I think it would take a generational shift for people in suburbs to warm up to cycling for work and chores.
good, well thought out bike lanes are great... Never seen one :'D most bike lanes (here in the UK ) are terribly planned to a point of wondering if anybody in the planning has any brains at all.....
It's not just bike lanes. All these traffic lights cost tons of money, cause congestion and pollution. Roundabouts are faster, safer, cheaper and prettier.
I have two bike and car. Car ~20k of value. Bike 3k, e-bike 5k. Guess what I drive safe to supermarket? One I can drive back home? Of course I want to go by bike, but I want two way trip, not one way.
Ahah I feel you!! I resorted to have a cheap bike and a good one I only drive recreationally... I think that (expecially in cities) when bikes will become more common also more safe parkings will increase :)
I sold my bike never ever ride again because all the roads in my quarter of city have seen a massive increase in car on bike fatalities. The main reason is road rage against bikers. They have become primary targets. I lost one of my neighbors to such an assault. Biking is one of the most unhealthy, high risk activities you can Engauge in because Edmonton, is a war zone for bikers
That's really sad to hear. In my city drivers used to be more antagonistic, but planners have been taking bike infrastructure more seriously the past 8 years. With protected bike lanes there's much more people riding now. I feel like drivers have started to get that everyone on a bike means one less car in traffic and one more parking spot on the street. It really makes me upset to hear stories like yours. It feels like some people are really brainwashed and would rather shoot themselves in the foot than allow people like us to have safe alternatives. It's a win-win situation, but they can only see a zero-sum game.
Do you want to go into town with your car: pay, they do in London (UK), or park in Amsterdam for example where it costs 7 euros per hour to discourage parking. And the rest, look at our little Netherlands and Copenhagen (DK), many WANT to take over that infrastructure, but there is something stuck there in the USA and Canada......the lobbying of the car manufacturer and the driving quality of the residents. Lobbying destroys public transport and there are too many advantages for the car in the laws. The pedestrian and cyclist can HARDLY cross the streets because the ''highway'' through the city is more important. But compared to North America, cyclists and pedestrians ARE protected and other traffic has to watch out, the opposite. And think of the accidents, emissions, wear and tear on roads, noise pollution etc.... Cars here are diverted while cyclists and pedestrians can go through and you are faster with a bike than with a car. Narrowing the streets, one-way traffic, wider sidewalks, streets closed to traffic, WELL constructed bike paths and not just a red layer of asphalt on the street where you can still hit a cyclist, more respect for cyclists. And in any case better driving lessons in cars because for less than 100 dollars you can already drive plus a lap around the church which is so bad. That is no longer giving driving lessons but ''collecting money and see how you do the rest of your life''. Here you spend around 3000 euros and half a year under the supervision of a certified instructor to learn everything. No, your parents or whoever are not allowed to give you driving lessons. This way you learn to pay more attention to other traffic such as cyclists and pedestrians, your place on the road and anticipate better. That is why we have a very low score for accidents with cyclists because the driver looks better at what is happening around him and learn the rules better, of which there are quite a few.
"It´s not about get rid of cars. It´s about getting rid of car dependency." That´s on point
I love the "cyclists are dangerous people so they should not have bike lanes" argument. Because giving dangerous people cars is going to make it better. Giving reckless riders an elevated feeling of safety and a many times more dangerous vehicle is just what a city needs to do.
One of the problems is that at this point in North American history, many people have never lived in a walkable city. They have no first hand experience living in a walkable town with non car options for travel so whatever picture we present sound like sci-fi or fairytale to them. You don’t know what you’re missing out on if you’ve never experienced it. You can’t want what you’ve never had. They’re comfortable in their discomfort because they know no other options.
add to that the US propaganda of it being the best in everything and people don't just lack any experience with other options, they believe that those options are outright bad.
because the US is the best, has the best and does everything the best. so whatever the rest of the world does cannot be better than what the US does.
Anytime I hear someone say they wouldn't want to live in a city I just laugh. I've lived in a big city, a small city, a suburb of a big city, and in a rural area. Living in a big city is by far the best lifestyle.
The fact that the default way to build cities throughout all of human history (okay, at least since we invented cities) is such an outlandish concept to Americans that it gets its own term ("15 minute cities") and even has conspiracy theories made about it is just _wild_ to me.
The vast majority of North Americans have been to theme parks and shopping malls. The experience would be totally different, if there were no pedestrian friendliness.
Exactly. I've been living in Marseille in the South of France for a year and a half now. Marseille is lacking a lot in terms of cycling infrastructure and cycling in general. We do see more and more cyclists, but I've noticed that most people cycling here are people who grew up elsewhere and only moved to Marseille in the last ten years. A sort of cycling insemination phenomenon.
I lived in Holland for 15 years. The Dutch did not end up with bike lanes because they wanted bike lanes, they ended up with bike lanes because they wanted safer streets.
And also the oil crisis
Netherlands Street safe?
I hate that common sense, reasonable solutions, and empathy have become politicized
Agreed, but unfortunately the opposition complain about spending their taxes on good needs.
We can just respond back to them how they are hypocritical because their way is more costly in taxes and for individuals.
I dislike how they advertise themselves like they don't spend taxes or much of it. It matters because that lie attracted many people to their side.
Watch Not Just Bikes and CityNerd on the higher cost of roads, parking lots, cars, and suburbs.
they're always gonna complain about "ITS THE DEMOCRATS!! THE LIBERALS ARE RUINING THE WORLD!! THE LEFT!"
@@user-gu9yq5sj7cLike the original poster said, common sense, reasonable solutions, and empathy have become politicized …as seen in your post.
I don’t bike anywhere, only walk or drive. But even I support more bike infrastructure. Well built and well maintained. I cannot put enough emphasis on that last part.
I don't commute by bike at all and drive a van 6 hours a day, and I absolutely support bike infrastructure. Who wouldn't, more people biking would seriously decrease traffic congestion.
@@independentthought3390 I'd gladly stay off the road if it meant people who had to drive for work or emergency vehicles could get where they're going faster. I stay off the road as much as I can anyways.
@@independentthought3390 exactly guys it works for everyone. Removing it hurts us all but that’s just how government is for now. Hopefully we see change in the years ahead.
When talking to ‘drive-or-die’ types the only argument which seemed to cut-through was … if there was a bike lane it could take away a load of those cars ahead of you in the traffic … but reducing road casualties didn’t shake them one bit.
They don't care about anything but traffic
Yep, it's not currently an argument that works. People have normalised death on the roads. Focus on traffic and business vibrancy when making arguments.
I live in Britain and to be honest I was a die hard car driver and motorcycle rider until I had my second stroke at 50 years old, 18 months ago. Due to the loss of vision in the right hand side of both eyes I lost my driving licence. Today my vision has returned to a point that I could technically get my licence back but I've come to love just riding my bicycle and walking everywhere. I still hate the buses and will happily ride 10-15 miles each way rather than catching a bus.
The dedicated cycle lanes are beautiful and I am appreciative of the extra freedoms that bicycle riders are experiencing around our cities and towns. I can ride from my town to another local city and hardly ride on the road, that's a win as far as I'm concerned. Build it and they will come.
The bus service needs to be better
You dont like bus services because they lack in quality at this time in your area, unfortunately. :/
Bikes are also WAY less expensive than cars. A $600 e-bike can be run and maintained for significantly less than $10 a month. That money can be spent on local businesses.
More bike-lanes, more trains, more busses, fewer cars.
Good luck getting home that sheet of drywall on your e-bike.
@user-hm5zb1qn6g Do you carry drywall everyday? And do you think those don't exist in countries with good cycling infrastructure? You're so stupid
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g You can't move a sheet of drywall in most cars. And bringing home drywall is not a common errand.
With the money saved by using a bike, have large items delivered or rent the appropriate vehicle.
I'm likely replying to a silly bot (given the user name).
that sheet of drywall don't even fit in many modern pickup beds, way things have been going.
A small bit of the money saved by not using to maintain a vehicle full time could be used to pay for professional delivery or renting a vehicle for the transport. And don't underestimate how much can be carried by cargo e-Bikes. An $8000 brand new cargo eBike will still cost less for you to maintain than the cheapest used car, even if you buy a new cargo eBike each year.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g I bought a bicycle-trailer years ago. I have literally hauled 75 lbs of concrete, a table, planks of wood for a porch, and drywall. You don't need a car for that stuff.
we need to adopt biking and public transit now more than ever
No, we need to build more housing near other stuff so that people aren't stuck with stupid commutes. Walking is vastly superior to everything else. Cars are next best unless parking is constrained. Biking is the worst way to travel.
@@jyutzlerHave you ever ridden a bike?
@jyutzler no sweaty
@@thequietstag4366 Plenty and it sucks unless conditions are perfect, which is rare around here. Weather, terrain, safety, forced stops, parking, they can all be a nuisance or worse when biking but are usually irrelevant when walking, driving, or taking transit. It's fine if you want to do it anyway, but it still sucks.
@@jyutzler you do realise that proper infrastructure improves every complaint you have about biking? Safety, forced stops, parking are all easily improved. Terrain is a lot more manageable with proper paved paths. Its literally only weather, and honestly if the rest is great weather barely matters, ignoring extremes of course
Another reason drivers think nobody uses protected bike lanes is bikes don’t jam up in them like cars do in theirs - they’re always moving, unlike the jammed-up cars. Unless they’re constantly watching the bike lanes, they miss the passing bikes.
The only place I see bikes bunched up is at intersections when they’re waiting for their turn.
A 3m bike lane has the same passenger capacity as 6 car lanes, assuming 1.5people/car.
I specifically bought the house I'm in because Aldi, Target, Walmart, Lowes, and local small businesses in downtown are within 10 minutes by bike. Our city has a dedicated intercity trail system for pedestrians and cyclist. It almost doesn't feel like the US.
Where is this marvelous place? I'm packing my bags (and bike) now. Good-bye Los Angeles!
Here in Canada we had people arguing that bike lanes were ableist and ageist...neglecting that 1) the overwhelming majority of people who are disabled in a manner which impact their freedom of movemeng can walk but can't drive, not the other way around, and 2) bike lanes decrease car traffic, freeing space for the people who absolutely must drive, benefiting even them.
The ageist argument is especially stupid considering that driving is the only mode of transportation that has an age requirement.
Here in Canada its below zero for half the year. Nobody is cycling - anywhere - for at least half the year. OK, weirdos in Vancouver and Victoria. What's that? Less than 1 percent of Canada's liveable geography?
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g "Here in Canada its below zero for half the year." You liar. It was 20 degrees in Toronto on Nov 1.
Ableist argument is dogwater too. Plenty of bicycle infrastructure can be used by mobility scooters.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6gfun fact the most popular mode of transportation in Alaska is walking
We definitely need more bike lanes. Roads are used for cars and sidewalks are used for people walking, there is no in between.
Bike is true freedom
Yeah! Leave when you want! No traffic! Often park right outside or in your destination! That's freedom.
Walking even better ;). No parking at all ;).
10:17- The Community Note feature is one of the best features ever added to Twitter (X).
If a politician or a civil servant that represents them lies, their BS is exposed to the public for all to see. It made my blood boil how they used data that PRE-dated the implementation of bike lanes to lie through their teeth that a small percentage of people cycle and that traffic is worse when the opposite is true.
These people should be grilled for trying to lie like that in order to undo all the hard work that was put into implementing infrastructure that would actually make things better.
City planning does indeed seem to increasingly be a science-driven push for better conditions for people outside of cars, versus a populist, 'alternative facts'-based car-centric narrative with griping, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
Road should be built to benefit all four (4) users. Walking (pedestrian ) riding ( cyclists) driving (motorists) and public transit users. True freedom is having the option to select any mean of commuting at any moment.
Bikes and cars transport the same number of people - thereby making short distance cycling use so much more space efficient. Here in Edinburgh, we've got so much more cycle infrastructure, making it so much easier for me to travel around vs. walking or even slow buses that I'm now regularly showing up for things earlier by accident because I underestimate how quickly cycling gets me places by weaving through traffic easier and using alleyways and non-car paths which speed up journey times for me so much.
In my city you can spend most of the time looking for parking. Drivers used to be more antagonistic towards bikes when I first moved here, but now it seems like most people recognize that if I'm on a bike, that's one less car stuffing the intersections and taking up parking on the street.
I can spend more money on businesses because my bike consumes zero gas and I dont have to pay car insurance
I've never owned a car and with the money I saved I literally bought a house.
@@AB-wf8ek Awesome! I can live on a lower wage in central Toronto because I don't need a car. By doing this, I take one more car entirely off the road.
We definitely need more walkable/bikeable towns
So build one. Leave the existing cities to the normies.
Good idea! Give me funding@@user-hm5zb1qn6g
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g my existing city was one not made for cars and originally had a train system, it was so important and cool it inspired a superhero. the only thing not normal in my city is the car, historically speaking.
the infeastructure for other mdoes of transportation and bikes are there in my city's DNA its being paved over by a bandaid solution that is a car. instead of building their city, the car lovers invaded instead!
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@@user-hm5zb1qn6gname one city that was built from the ground up for cars
I've been saying this for so long. I'm not asking people to not drive, I'm asking to make it safer for people like me who want to ride so that drivers can enjoy less traffic and more parking.
Luckily, the city I live in seems to understand and has gradually been increasing protected bike lanes, and it's really paying off.
With the amount of people choosing to ride in my area, it's easy to imagine how much more congested it would be if we were all in cars instead.
I remember when I first started riding 20 years ago, cars were much more antagonistic, honking, yelling, and zooming by, but now it seems like people get it. At this point, cars will often yield for me at intersections and recognize when it's not worth trying to run me over just to stop at the next intersection. And I'm sure my neighbors appreciate that I'm one less person taking up parking on the block.
The big diffrence is when they color the bike lanes and raise them. If it doesn't look like a car would go it most likely wont. And billards needs to be put in a lot more areas to prevent cars from using path.
And to keep out-of-control cars driven by drunken idiots or overworked drones falling asleep at the wheel from running off the road and killing someone.
I would want to use them, but there are none and the closest idea to one is the "painted gutter" with no separation from the cars. I will get hit eventually, since I may not be biking fast enough for people especially in the beginning of getting into shape with all of the exercise I would be doing.
Among the best videos I have seen for long!
Cars sucks and trucks even more, Thank you for sharing !
Hot damn, you put this so elegantly. I'll be sure to send this video to my city council, and hopefully bring it up at a city meeting.
Not Just Bikes has better videos on this, and it's explained by a non-foreigner.
You can’t estimate the potential for a bridge by counting how many people swim across the river.
But of you already have the bridge but only few using it. Then we have a problem..
@@anubizz3 It's not even about 'a bridge' anyway.
You'll need loads of connected bridges going everywhere cars can go for people to use them. And they will.
@@mourlyvold64 Well the bridge already built but no one use it..... Instead try to find out why it not being used you want to build another bridges.. Maybe just maybe... Because there is a subway and the parking in the other side so expensive..
@@anubizz3 Read again: A bridge versus bridges (I repeat *bridges* , plural).
Anyway, I suspect the metaphor may have escaped you.
"... how many people swim across the river." Or a Dutch canal. 🙂
I'm writing a letter to Doug Ford for a school project about the bike lanes (and other issues) lmao
If only this came out before I had to turn it in 😭😭😭
Hey, fellow Torontonian kid, thanks for doing that. I'm sure it was great.
Excellent and thought-provoking presentation. Thank you. Looking forward to more.
09:50 - "We shouldn't be shaping our cities to fit the vehicles we want, we should be shaping our vehicles to fit the cities we want."
Very well made video. I'm all for bike lanes, slower traffic and more bike infrastructure. I do hope that America one day accepts this and lets people freely choose their method of commuting
This video hits all of the major issues. Well done! Very instructive for us here in tiny Trinidad & Tobago with absolutely no bike infrastructure for transport.
Seeing the large amount of people biking in protest in Toronto was nice to see.
TS 11:16 That shot shows how one too little lane accommodates a lot more rider at that moment than the car lanes.
Bought my first e-bike about two months ago. I’ve already but about 700 miles on it.
I use it to deliver DoorDash which is why I’ve put so many miles on it already. But even without DoorDash, I use it for almost everything. About 95% of my car use is now just getting me to work and back, that’s it.
I’m still contemplating if I want to attempt to take it to work. Most of my Route to work consists of either peaceful country roads, or busy roads that have large shoulders. There’s only a small segment that is busy and has no shoulder, which is why I’m a little hesitant
From Amsterdam here- nice video. I fully agree haha. And thankfully as great as Amsterdam is, new cycling streets and walking promenades are still being made (at least 6 major ones under construction atm)
Love this :)
Pls come to the Netherlands, I'll show you around! It's awesome here for people that love people-oriented design!
Then why Netherlands still have car ownership problem?
@anubizz3 Huh?? Explain. 8 million cars for over 17 million people is not "a car problem. In Amsterdam only 19% trips are made by car. With 0,27 cars per citizen.
@@letheas6175 haha where the missing 2million car.. Goes? 8/17.9 not equal to 502 car per 1000 people.
No Matter how you want to spin the narrative even 0.27 still more than Hong Kong 0.124 and Singapore 0.172...
No 40 in the world as most car per capita, but act like the country that solve car dependancy... At least please be the best in Europe first before bragging and tell other to follow your country. When a mountain country like Switzerland only have slightly more car than your country, I count you country a failure consider Netherlands is perfect for cycling. FLAT AND TINY.
@@anubizz3 Jesus fuck, even if I didn't study mobility, I would know you sound like a seppo. Are.. you okay? You're probably going to say like ''oh I'm not a seppo'' but you sure do have seppo energy.
If my country is a failure, then all countries ranked worst in positive rankings (which are A LOT OF COUNTRIES seeing as the Netherlands consistantly ranks in the top 10 like the nordic countries) is worse. Including.. yours. What an epic self burn, you absolute treurwilg.
You know car ownership or usage is different than.. car dependancy right? Have you tried getting around in singapore, compared to in Amsterdam. Yeah sure buddy, try to do all of the walking and non-car stuff you want, without being bothered by barries in whatever way, within 10 minutes of walking. Sir/madam, have you ever even been outside of you country. Have you been to the Netherlands, or Singapore?
Seeing the freedom index, we are doing better than both singapore and obviously, Hong Kong. We have the freedom to drive, and the ability not to have to drive. Be better, you propaganda sad piece of person.
Good thing is good, actually. Got it.
Amazing video! perfect pacing, perfect editing and perfect research
I cycle commute and take a ferry in Vancouver and it is quicker than driving and I don’t need a car now
It sounds awful. Like most places, Vancouver's housing is way too expensive, forcing people into stupid commuting patterns.
@ I said that more as a testament to the bike and transit infrastructure but interesting spin
couldn't agree more. maybe some day i can avoid biking through 50mph highway ramps with Share the road signs but not even a sidewalk lol
Have you ever looked at farmland before they build a highway through it?
WHY??? There is not a single car, why are they buidling a highway?
Amazing video on a topic so highly politicized right now. I was also pleasantly surprised to see my winter cycling video included! Thanks for your work on this.
thank you for your great informatio and the wonderful video - here in Germany we have known all your arguments for decades - but nobody wants to change anything - because it is not about life and health - the priorities are just distributed different - that is the real problem and we should work on that
we should have more lanes for anything honestly
Canada should look at Victoria bc for inspiration
The factors getting me into my car instead of on my bike, in order: No secure place to park my bike while I'm there. Arriving sweaty. No safe route to where I'm going. I don't feel particularly threatened by cars because I've learned how to mix with them. Of course, a car driver could kill me in an instant, but I can take steps to mitigate that. Most effectively, whether I'm on a bike or in a car, I assume every person driving a car is blind, drunk, or stupid, and I treat them accordingly. That works.
While I agree with safety being a huge concern, to me density seems important too. If everything is twice as far(due to low density - regardless of reason) I could totally see people being more hesitant to take the bike. Especially since the longer the distance the more appealing taking an easier route is. Not just construction and parking would matter here, but also parks (which admittedly aren't a big issue)
Edit: Should have waited with that comment for at least 2 minutes xD. I do think my assumption is at least the second largest factor.
Great point about freedom of travel. In a car-dependent location, only people with money to keep a car on the road are free to plan rides at their convenience. When that car is out of service for more than a day, people scramble to get another one.
Try being poor and unable to buy or keep a car. How do you get to work, school, childcare, shopping, appointments, etc in one piece when transit is infrequent and sparse and bike routes don't go near your destinations?
Some of us who couldn't rely on slow, crowded transit and couldn't bike when or where we needed safely or punctually...we bought a car asap, right? And like you said, flurf, most of us have never lived in a city with frequent transit that goes where you wanna go, let alone bike lanes that go where you're going and won't endanger your life.
So we opt for cars because we have no idea how to get that walkable city. And when we find out we can organize so our leaders give us a better world that doesn't rely on cars, so few of us have the energy or confidence to build those organizations that we stick to cars.
BTW: I bet we'lll STILL hear "just one more lane" when everyone's driving EVs.
don't get me started on the uh wacial aspect of this. many poor poc will drive janky veheciles with damages considered road illegal, or "sneak" their car around if things like car notes n sutff and unpaid for, or mileage is too high, they can't risk their car being towed away either cus its all they have otherwise they can't go anywhere. then they get arrested. and of course the old pro-car laws that punish pedestrians, majority affecting marginalized groups in the eadly days of the car
the more you look into it the more wascist cars and car infrastructure actually is
That's why I've never really cared much for electric cars.
I used to teach and most of my students couldn't afford a car. They would complain about how a 20 minute drive would take them almost an hour by public transportation.
What good are electric cars for people who can't afford them anyways? Plus it doesn't solve congestion.
@@AB-wf8ek people conflating emissions-reduction measures with traffic-reduction measures always bug me. Especially the ones who claim self-driving cars are the Real answer. The idea was always supposed to be reducing cars, and electrifying those which can't be reduced. But certain people (namely Elon Musk) decided to push electrification as the first step in the chain, rather than the last.
Great video, very well done :)
There is a road, 4 lanes wide, going through an industrial area. Work started to change the layout. When people found the plan was to include a bike lane in each direction, the howls of protest were deafening. Before the work, in rush hour, traffic was appalling. The problem was with 2 lanes in each direction, but numerous access points for the businesses along the street, drivers would switch lanes constantly to pursue perceived momentary advantages. Chaos. When the road was reopened with the bike lanes, and the centre lane of 3 made into a turn only lane, everything calmed down and rush hour became a fairly smooth experience and traffic flow improved by a *HUGE* amount. Incidentally, bike riders could now use the road to get to and fro from work.
This was a really comprehensive video. Thank you for sharing!
Yessss youre back
Preach sir
i like that you talked about various topics about biking in one not so long video, it could help bring more people out of their car-only thinking.
also, off topic but i like the way you are dressed
Videos like this are actually starting to make me angry because it is so f'ing obvious, but planners are still working against it! 😕
In Toronto it’s not even the planners, it’s the crybaby premier who doesn’t like them so he’s deciding to ban em because he doesn’t like it. Toronto city council has a really nice cycling plan, too bad it’s going to be illegal now.
planners aren't working against it, in almost every case it is politicians
@@TheTroyc1982 it’s both actually
I'm doing my part by not owning a car, and choosing to walk or use a PEV to get around. By the way, nice Super Mario World sound effects.
Even in switzerland where we have great public transport, we are struggling with providing good cycling infrastructure and cyclists are often concieved as bad, evil, using up precious space. But im sure we are getting there.
@@dorni6780 you should watch this urbanist messiah go to Switzerland and have orgasm and he have the same orgasm when he actually go to Japan.. Wait until he go to Hong Kong and Singapore.. He said he been all across the world before and yet so surprised when he go to the place with great public transport....... And still he make a video about train station in the middle of nowhere as the greatest train station in the world because it have huge bike storage...
You see the world one way when you're viewing it from the window of a car. You see it quite another from the window of the F train
People can't even stay in their own lanes walking through the grocery store let alone behind the wheel of a tank.
The only time those side street bike lanes are typically used are for people who live on those streets or if your destination is not along the major commercial road. Nice video!
Nice work on this video. Thanks!
mamal : middle age men in lycra. Thank You ! LOL
I've been called out.
Great video! Here in Australia there is still a massive stigma around any bike or public transport use still often seen as lower class than drivers. Infrastructure is improving in major cities but suburbs are a joke leading to most cyclist riding on the half footpaths only present in suburbs more than 10 years old
These are two Dutch concepts missed in this video:
1) Even if there were just cars, multiple lanes in each direction is mostly pointless in non-rural contexts. I recommend watching 'Shutup About Road Capacity' for this.
2) As far as I understand, it is standard now to build new collector and arterial roads without destinations on it for any mode. Building cycleways there then becomes a question of 'Is this a very useful ROUTE in the network'. Sometimes there is already a dense network of quiet main routes nearby, and the noise pollution might outweigh any benifit. I think this is called 'fully disentangling' or something like that.
Also, I'm not 100% sure about using cycleways for width-reduction of residential streets in most cases. Would make sense, tho, if you wanted better wayfinding and had a main cycling route down it (tho different sections might look different. A cycling street design would work better when it becomes narrow). Or if the street was a busway too.
There are other things that can be done like rain gardens, raising the parking so it narrows the road visually, etc. This second one is another common thing in NL.
We should get rid of sidewalks and buildings because they get in the way of traffic
Great video, flurfdesign. Much needed right now as Ontario Govt looks to rip out bike lanes. So much negativre emotion about bike lanes, and so little factual basis for the resistance to them. If you build a safe cycling network they will come (and reduce car congestion), proven in many cities around the world including snow-bound Montreal. The Ont Govt action is delaying the inevitable, and will make car congestion worse.
Thanks not just bikes and oh the urbanity 😂. I am really hopeful for the future because of these videos
I’m an ebike enthusiast and I fully support the bike lane movement
Liked and subbed. Great vid!
I'm basically a mamil, but not always in the mood to ride outside the city. Whenever I ride in the city, I always get at least 2 drivers who almost run me over, every single time
Honestly if GO Transit had at least one dedicated bike car on every single train, I’d probably aim more and more towards biking to work. Right now, GO Transit doesn’t permit regular bikes on their trains during rush hour, when I would be using the train. Allegedly they make exceptions for folding bikes, but given how packed many afternoon trains can be, I have yet to see anyone do that (I’m not saying no one does, just that I’ve never seen it). Worst part is I live maybe a 15 minute bike ride from my closest GO station.
I saw a video about how most of the time streets are too big so they can accommodate the big do it all fire trucks that we have in North America once we change over to smaller ones, if we ever do, then road infrastructure would have an easier time changing too.
While I'm always happy to see more videos promoting alternative modes of transportation, your videos in particular seem to rehash a lot of information from other UA-camrs
Bikes >>>
in the city i live in, they dont even have sharrows, they have small signs saying SHARE THE ROADS
Yes. Safe protected bike lanes. That's one of the reason why people don't want to cycle
My father has said many times he'd love to bike to work but bike lanes on a 45 mph highway are not real infrastructure
Great video!
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY MENTION LETS GO 7:33
Merci/Thanks!
It would be great if you included the neighbourhoods for each clip.
Goood summary. Agree with you biking is for health and breathing less oxic gases. As a canadian thi is why i moved to Spain to cycle 365 days per year with ~300 dayys of sun. So my Vitamin D3 biomakers is now close to 100, my Vo2 max is >50. Move to Spain and you will see the respect of people towards the cyclist.
My parents town where I grew up put in bike lanes a few years ago. It now takes twice as long to get anywhere because they reduced from 2 lanes to 1 and they changed all the intersections to no turn in red after someone on a bike got hit. You bikers want lanes start following the rules of the road like everyone else. Headlights and turn signals on the bike and a license after a road test.
Hey!! I agree that many cyclists don't follow the rules, but I also think that it applies to car drivers honestly... I honestly think that we should not put the fault only on specific demographics but on the road structure, building and therefore policies!! For example, I don't think that all people driving a car that go over a speed limit are necessarily bad drivers, often when I drive I feel like I have to go over the limit because otherwise I'd be the only one going slow and therefore people would get mad at me! I think that the road is at fault there for having either a bad speed limit (too low) or being build too wide in an area where it isn't safe to drive that fast. I think the same applies to cyclists, for example if every cyclist doesn't stop at a particular red light or something, I think most of the times there is a reason behind it (maybe it takes multiple cycles for it to turn green, maybe it's in a place where stopping on a bike would make it much harder to regain speed, which is way more annoying than on a car). There are multiple things why urbanism is hard but I think that attributing the fault to one side is never a good solution. Hope you agree on this :)
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18:19, this looks very good but we Dutch only use the Shark teeth for drivers to give way to, not for pedestrians. The zebra here already gives the pedestrians the right of way.
That "Barcelona, España" might get you in trouble ; )
...once you hit one million subs, maybe? (which you totally deserve to reach, to be clear ^^ )
Great Video
At 16:00 you see how we Dutch solve the issue at 16:42.
Thanks!
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Oh the urbanity has covered much of those issue already.
Continuous sidewalks/bike paths should be in every neighborhood...
Look the actual space one human per car take up...
They ripped up all of Culver City's bike lanes this year because of claims of worse traffic. Culver City, CA in LA. Sad. They ripped them all out. Traffic was only affected by two minutes or something. Nothing dramatic.
In community notes we trust ✌️
Montreal( since 2009 ) ranks among the top 10 best biking city in the world with 1,100 km of protected bike lanes on the island and the best biking city in north america . The most walkable city in Canada , the most sustainable , the greenest( largest urban parks ), the canadian capital of culture , architecture , 400 years of history , best world class chefs and restaurants in north america , best night life . Toronto does not define the identity of Canada but USA culture of cars , USA arts , food with a population from India and China .
@jeanbolduc58. Je suis d’accord avec l’ensemble de ce que tu dis. Mais, je ne vois pas l’intérêt de mentionner qu’à Toronto beaucoup d’immigrants proviennent des Indes ou de la Chine… ça n’a pas de rapport.
People try to compromise by saying I have nothing against bike lanes so just put them on secondary streets. But not once do I see the people who say that back up their claims by suggesting which side streets would work. It’s all about making more room for cars and has nothing to do about bikes.
Bike lanes are not needed on side streets, they do the most good for cyclists on the busiest and fastest arterials.
The argument in Toronto is a huge tell that people do not live in the neighbourhoods affected. The side streets aren't continuous, even slightly. Any attempt to build a wiggling route would only create tons of crossings over main road that would require heavy signalisation, slowing cars further. It makes no sense.
Agree with everything here but sadly you are preaching to the choir. The way I always try to explain it to my friends (who only drive everywhere because they grew up in suburbs) is that every single person taking train, bus, or bike means less people in a car so less traffic. I think it would take a generational shift for people in suburbs to warm up to cycling for work and chores.
Can someone run the numbers on cycling including health benefits, fewer accidents from cars and less pollution from cars please. Thanks John
good, well thought out bike lanes are great... Never seen one :'D most bike lanes (here in the UK ) are terribly planned to a point of wondering if anybody in the planning has any brains at all.....
It's not just bike lanes. All these traffic lights cost tons of money, cause congestion and pollution. Roundabouts are faster, safer, cheaper and prettier.
I have two bike and car. Car ~20k of value. Bike 3k, e-bike 5k. Guess what I drive safe to supermarket? One I can drive back home? Of course I want to go by bike, but I want two way trip, not one way.
Ahah I feel you!! I resorted to have a cheap bike and a good one I only drive recreationally... I think that (expecially in cities) when bikes will become more common also more safe parkings will increase :)
Might wanna take a look at cargo bikes.
I sold my bike never ever ride again because all the roads in my quarter of city have seen a massive increase in car on bike fatalities. The main reason is road rage against bikers. They have become primary targets. I lost one of my neighbors to such an assault. Biking is one of the most unhealthy, high risk activities you can Engauge in because Edmonton, is a war zone for bikers
no sympathy. You're hogging up road space that people need to get places.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g and youre clogging up clean air with ur hot breath
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That's really sad to hear. In my city drivers used to be more antagonistic, but planners have been taking bike infrastructure more seriously the past 8 years. With protected bike lanes there's much more people riding now.
I feel like drivers have started to get that everyone on a bike means one less car in traffic and one more parking spot on the street.
It really makes me upset to hear stories like yours. It feels like some people are really brainwashed and would rather shoot themselves in the foot than allow people like us to have safe alternatives. It's a win-win situation, but they can only see a zero-sum game.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6gwhat takes up more space? A lifted f-250 hauling one 250 lbs person to work and back or one 120lbs person on a bike?
Do you want to go into town with your car: pay, they do in London (UK), or park in Amsterdam for example where it costs 7 euros per hour to discourage parking.
And the rest, look at our little Netherlands and Copenhagen (DK), many WANT to take over that infrastructure, but there is something stuck there in the USA and Canada......the lobbying of the car manufacturer and the driving quality of the residents. Lobbying destroys public transport and there are too many advantages for the car in the laws. The pedestrian and cyclist can HARDLY cross the streets because the ''highway'' through the city is more important. But compared to North America, cyclists and pedestrians ARE protected and other traffic has to watch out, the opposite. And think of the accidents, emissions, wear and tear on roads, noise pollution etc....
Cars here are diverted while cyclists and pedestrians can go through and you are faster with a bike than with a car. Narrowing the streets, one-way traffic, wider sidewalks, streets closed to traffic, WELL constructed bike paths and not just a red layer of asphalt on the street where you can still hit a cyclist, more respect for cyclists.
And in any case better driving lessons in cars because for less than 100 dollars you can already drive plus a lap around the church which is so bad. That is no longer giving driving lessons but ''collecting money and see how you do the rest of your life''. Here you spend around 3000 euros and half a year under the supervision of a certified instructor to learn everything. No, your parents or whoever are not allowed to give you driving lessons. This way you learn to pay more attention to other traffic such as cyclists and pedestrians, your place on the road and anticipate better. That is why we have a very low score for accidents with cyclists because the driver looks better at what is happening around him and learn the rules better, of which there are quite a few.