notjustbikes

notjustbikes , vor 5 Stunden

@houtig yes! Whenever our kids go on field trips near Amsterdam it's the exact same. So much better than a bus!

notjustbikes , vor 6 Tagen

@jonathan 🤦‍♂️

notjustbikes , vor 6 Tagen

@ArjanBos @jonathan I assume they meant the last 900 metres of a longer trip, but yes, there's a reason we don't live in Toronto anymore.

notjustbikes OP , vor 7 Tagen

@burne yep! It hasn't been finalized yet, but that is the current plan based on the results of the "knip" (that I made a video about last year).

Also, Weesperstraat is a road, not a stroad, but it still sucks. 😉

notjustbikes OP , vor 7 Tagen

@Aknorals it's not pretentious, it's perfectly normal British English. 🙄

notjustbikes OP , vor 7 Tagen

@Anneke that's great!!

notjustbikes OP , vor 5 Tagen

@burne most buildings do not have a driveway to it, there are no surface parking lots, and there are very few side streets. It's more of a road.

notjustbikes , vor 8 Tagen

@american.fietser omg yes! There's so much empty space and yet I hit the spoke way more often than I should.

I talked about this in my "Dutch bicycles" video, and then followed it up with a joke that almost none of my audience got:

"I should've gone into neutrino research."

notjustbikes , vor 7 Tagen

@american.fietser fun fact, this scene was filmed by starting with the lock hitting the spoke, and then playing the clip backwards.

I rotated the wheel the other way too, because it it felt more correct when watching it backwards:

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8uthN1c2fV0H7O0idCODi-ayfrFR7HgH?si=0E1b4IXm4JFfadfF

notjustbikes , vor 9 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 9 Tagen)

@gabboman @yassie_j @chrisod @sidereal that's this timeline:

https://youtu.be/8nZh7A7qTPo

notjustbikes , vor 10 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 10 Tagen)

@mmcm @citybeautiful just check the exchange rate to the yen and it'll be obvious as to why everyone is visiting right now!

Hoog and Life Where I'm From also released videos about Japan on Nebula at the same time.

notjustbikes OP , vor 12 Tagen

It's apparently zoned "company" ("bedrijf") and not industrial, but it's definitely not just an office park, as there are truck loading facilities as well.

It's more like what Canada would call "light industrial".

And I forgot to mention that the parking lots are downright miniscule compared to any area zoned like this in Canada.

I don't understand why this can't be the norm in cities everywhere.

notjustbikes OP , vor 12 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 11 Tagen)

@bogdanoviste yes, this is EXACTLY what this kind of area would look like in Canada

And if you suggested adding bicycle lanes or extra sidewalks, they would burst out into laughter, and then condescendingly explain to you how that's impossible: there's no room for that because there's too much car traffic and besides, trucks need to go through!

notjustbikes OP , vor 14 Tagen

@garretpolk yes, though it is slightly unfortunate timing that Hoog's video is right next mine in the list.

For the record, the secret to Japan's great cities is not their death penalty. 😬

notjustbikes OP , vor 14 Tagen

@WaterSword No. He probably just changed it manually.

Maybe the other one performed better on YouTube so he changed it on Nebula, too.

notjustbikes OP , vor 14 Tagen

@mmcm I would never do that. Nebula is better in every way than any private site I could run myself, Peertube included.

Creators are stronger when we work together. Nebula has more value to me, and more value to everyone who watches it, than anything I could do on my own.

notjustbikes OP , vor 14 Tagen

@mmb Thanks! I'm always happy when people watch on Nebula!

notjustbikes , vor 15 Tagen

@notjustbikes damn. The Nebula bot was faster than me this time.

notjustbikes , vor 15 Tagen

@HalfHeartedFanatic Rutte's thinking, "damned tourists walking in the bike lane 😡".

notjustbikes , vor 15 Tagen

@quentinsf I'm happy I had a chance to see the real webcam before it went offline.

It was very important to me to know how much coffee was in a coffee pot on the other side of the Atlantic.

Also, I drink tea. 🍵

notjustbikes , vor 18 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 18 Tagen)

@TheWarOnCars I don't know whether to listen, because I know it will be interesting, or avoid it altogether because anything about John Forester gives me cycling PTSD. 😬

notjustbikes , vor 18 Tagen

@theod clearly not, because they made me complete a car-related captcha when trying to read the article. 😂

notjustbikes , vor 19 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 19 Tagen)

@american.fietser this image is wrong.

Motorists think that they also subsidize all public transit and bike lanes, too.

notjustbikes OP , vor 20 Tagen

Now some might then go on to say that older people shouldn't be cycling, then they'd be "safe".

But these people are still dying (often at even higher rates) in other countries; they just don't show up in "cycling" statistics because they're not cycling.

Instead they die of heart disease, or other diseases related to inactivity. Or they die in car crashes.

This is why comparing road safety statistics between countries is extremely difficult, especially for cycling.

notjustbikes OP , vor 20 Tagen

It's also complicated by the fact that the Netherlands has very very high quality data about cycling (like modeshare), while other countries do not.

So you're comparing good data to guaranteed incomplete and/or inaccurate data.

And if somebody tries to "debunk" Dutch cycling infrastructure design by looking only at "cycling deaths per capita" I just immediately block them.

That's just moronic when over 80% of people cycle here, while less than 1% of people cycle in many other countries.

notjustbikes OP , vor 20 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 20 Tagen)

@portaloffreedom correct.

And of course this is completely ignored by anti-urbanists, because to them, "cyclists" are men between the ages of 20 and 35 who irrationally like bicycles. They cannot comprehend utility cycling done by people of all ages, because of their wilful ignorance.

notjustbikes OP , vor 20 Tagen

@meena yes. There was a recent uptick in cycling deaths in the Netherlands and all sorts of media outlets around the world interpreted it incorrectly, coming to all kinds of ridiculous conclusions and stupid "solutions."

After looking at the actual data, nearly 100% of the increase came from elderly people using ebikes.

Once you know that, then you can work on actual solutions.

notjustbikes OP , vor 20 Tagen

@lanodan drivers in their 20s are novice drivers and are therefore more likely to get in a crash, but they are also more likely to drive dangerously, especially men.

notjustbikes , vor 21 Tagen

@american.fietser I like that I can see your Threads posts on Mastodon now!

Also, Alice Cappelle is quickly becoming one of my favourite YouTubers. She's great!

notjustbikes , vor 21 Tagen

@jk it's been a while, but wasn't that awful book he wrote in the 90s, "The Road Ahead", full of how software will become a subscription, while almost completely ignoring the world wide web?

notjustbikes , vor 21 Tagen

@The_Tim yup, as you might expect I've been sent it a few dozen times. But I can't get ahold of the developer to get an advance copy. 😭

notjustbikes , vor 24 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 24 Tagen)

@Incensus I doubt you can directly compare modeshare like that because the methodology for calculating it between countries will be different.

But I suspect the difference is related to the demographics of people who cycle.

A large segment of cycling deaths in the Netherlands are from elderly people. In other countries, the only people who cycle are young and fit and are much more likely to survive a crash.

Elderly people in most other countries will be too scared to cycle in the first place.

notjustbikes , vor 24 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 24 Tagen)

@Incensus this is actually why I almost never talk about "statistics" between countries.

Other countries' methods of calculating anything related to cycling often uses extremely poor methodology.

Even deaths are calculated differently.

If an old woman on a bike is hit by a car and breaks their hip, then three weeks later dies in hospital due to an infection in the broken hip, is that counted as a "cycling death"? Different counties have different answers to that.

notjustbikes , vor 23 Tagen

@Incensus Germany also has almost 3 times the rate of coronary heart disease as the Netherlands.

Does cycling play a part in that vs a more sedentary lifestyle in Germany?

I have no idea, but it's plausible.

And regardless, elderly people maintaining more independent mobility through cycling is incredibly important for their quality of life.

There are so many factors to consider, which is why I hate focusing just on "cycling" statistics in a vacuum.

notjustbikes , vor 24 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 24 Tagen)

@mia lol this is why I don't watch urbanist content made by Americans.

They have no idea what they're talking about and their total lack of knowledge of anything outside of America means they don't even know how wrong they are. 😂

notjustbikes , vor 25 Tagen

@Techaltar the same trend has been happening in the Netherlands. And I've noticed since we moved here that the meat-free section of the grocery store is over twice as big and is also more prominently displayed.

I barely eat meat anymore because I genuinely prefer the alternatives. Like Beyond Meat burgers are way less greasy and they're even available at fast food joints.

I have to assume the worldwide trend is from people being lifted out of poverty who can finally eat meat more often.

notjustbikes , vor 20 Tagen

@admins

FYI I have just unblocked urbanists.social.

I blocked the server last year because I was getting inundated with trolling and tone policing from people on your server. I was getting sick of blocking individuals so I blocked the whole server.

It's unblocked for now and we'll see how it goes.