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GoldenDeLorean, w Not Just Bikes — What it's REALLY Like to Cycle in Montréal

You gotta be out of your God damn mind if you think I’m gonna pay to watch some dork ride their bike around.

Zagorath,
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First of all, if you don’t wanna watch it, you could just…not watch it? No need to vice signal by announcing it to the whole world.

But second, you don’t pay for Nebula to watch this one video. You pay for Nebula as a way to support the dozens of creators on the platform, including many of the best urbanist channels including the one whose community you are currently visiting. And to get this and all the other Nebula-exclusive videos on the platform, most of which are merely addendums to public YouTube videos, but some of which are full exclusives. And to get all the videos ad-free.

Zagorath, w Not Just Bikes — What it's REALLY Like to Cycle in Montréal
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At one point Jason talks about how tragic it is that it takes a death for the council to do something about making a road safer.

Which is definitely true, but gods even that makes me wish I had a council as good as the ones in Montreal. Brisbane City Council doesn’t even give a fuck when there is a death. There can be a cyclist die on a road where safety advocates have been saying for years there’s a dire need for safety upgrades, and they still won’t even countenance improving the safety. They’d rather spend council resources repeatedly removing the ghost bikes set up at the location memorialising the killed cyclist.

johan, w I Visited the Best* City in North America
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What’s with the down votes? I liked the video, it was very extensive and I think showed a more fair representation of Montreal than apparently many other videos.

Jumuta,

I think it’s from anti-njb people because he is admittedly very pro-dutch and seems a bit simpy sometimes. His comment on NA being unrepairable and how people should just move to the EU was also controversial I think.

I think this video is really good, but he is also one of the most entry-level urbanism YTers, so I think some people judge him for that.

Zagorath,
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but he is also one of the most entry-level urbanism YTers

Is he? He’s certainly very common entry-point into urbanism, but I don’t think that’s the same as being entry-level. I actually think he’s the best of the big urbanists.

Oh the Urbanity often seems to excuse some poor urbanism, and even when they aren’t doing that I find them far too neoliberal for my tastes.

CityNerd is brilliant, and he has a bunch of excellent videos. I particularly like the ones where he shows his gravity model for high speed rail. But he also does a hell of a lot of listicles which I can’t say are the greatest of high-quality content.

RMTransit does some good videos on fundamental topics, but his scope is very narrow—almost exclusively public transport, rather than other urbanist topics like cycling, walkability, different kinds of density & zoning, etc. I find them to be frequently very dry and not really focused as much on urbanism as it is on technical considerations. Interesting, but often more for the same reason I watch Wendover, rather than the same reason I watch NJB.

City Beautiful is probably my second-favourite of the urbanists. He covers a great diversity of topics in great quality. There’s just something that for me at least means I less often feel the calling to rewatch his videos to double-check a point then I do with Jason Slaughter’s videos.

frostbiker, w xkcd: Urban Planning Opinion Progression

I’m just tired of traffic noise, pollution and having close calls with 4 ton vehicles while having the right of way. It is not too much to ask for.

prof, w xkcd: Urban Planning Opinion Progression
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brb, going to scatter some caltrops in the roads

ThrowawayPermanente, w xkcd: Urban Planning Opinion Progression

Today they call us terrorists, but one day they’ll call us visionaries.

geosoco, w xkcd: Urban Planning Opinion Progression

Tire spikes are the only option.

thesylveranti, w Milan will build 750 kilometers of bike lanes to create the largest cycling network in Europe

Doubts in Dutch…

But still amazing news

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

Videos idea: disabled transport in netherlands, how do people move around when they cannot cycle.

Since one of the major copium people have about car dependency is disabled people/elderly have a hard time riding bike. Yet, in reality, it is much more expensive/dangerous to put a disabled/elderly in a car than public transport or a electric wheel chair than in a car.

On the other hand, I am also curious whether a electric wheelchair will congest the bike lane, given the bike lane is kind of narrow.

ruk_n_rul,

NJB already featured the tiny four-wheeled car thingy that people use for exactly this. Idk which video exactly, but it’s there for anyone to comb through.

Being orange-pilled is painful in situations like this; you know the exact thing the Dutch already figured out but unless you have the exact video ID and timestamp on the ready you’d have a hard time pushing back the cope-ists. Even the ones that insists there’s no way these people are mobilizing outside of public transport.

Nouveau_Burnswick,

One of the shots in this very video has one of those.

ruk_n_rul,

It’s bound to be in any video, but there’s one where he talks about it.

Rocketpoweredgorilla,
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I am also curious whether a electric wheelchair will congest the bike lane

I think it may, but not by much really… Cargobikes and the style of bike commonly used in the netherlands has handlebars that are pretty wide already.

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