@notjustbikes What a massive amount of great info! With good flow from one concept to the next. I appreciate your attention to detail - in the script and the visuals. Looking forward to your progress report & how Amsterdam is reconfiguring streets to match the speed. 😎
Local politicians here in Germany have cited the longer response times that the volunteer fire dept. would have, as their crew has to drive slower to get to the fire station.
So I asked the head of the fire dept. and he said "well yeah", and then explaind that parked cars and traffic jams are a much much bigger problem.
@jonathanirons yes, famously fire trucks need to drive exactly the posted speed limit and can never drive faster.
What a load of horseshit.
This is what bugs me about this topic: there are no good reasons not to lower speed limits, but people know they sound like an asshole if the just say they wanna drive fast (even if it kills people), so they make up lies about it.
As I said in the video, "Fuck those people! Seriously!"
@jonathanirons dude, I spend thousands of hours filming my own content. Standing on the street for hours trying to get the right shot. I use less stock footage than literally any other urbanist channel by a very very very wide margin.
I can't dedicate every waking hour of my life to this, so I need to use stock footage for many clips (like car crashes).
If you don't like that much stock footage then you try doing this.
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Do you have tips/suggestions on how to promote such changes for small cities in North America? I'd love to see my local downtown be safer
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This subject was discussed recently by a few people, including @nerd4cities
The bottom line is pretty much every place is different, so there is no single way. You just have to start asking around. What you might want to do is if find other like-minded people locally. See if there is a Srong Towns movement or Safe Streets group in your city.
Advocacy is local, which is why I get so annoyed when people demand that I make "step by step videos" telling them how to fix their city (and get mad when I don't).
That's why I refer people to Strong Towns. They're a great first step to figure out what you need to do in your neighbourhood.
Otherwise, join your local safe streets or cycling advocacy group.
But either way, stop asking YouTubers and start talking to people locally.
@notjustbikes@MrLee@Aurimas@nerd4cities I agree, however! If you are a sufficiently large creator wanting to save America’s cities and believe it is possible, you must get involved with local politics in your home city. You can mobilize hundreds of people to canvass for policies/politicians to get people to vote locally (no one votes locally). It’s not enough to be like oh, support this group, no you HAVE to be involved on the ground.
@notjustbikes be glad that in Netherlands cities can do that, in Germany towns can't just do that because some streets are not even belong to the town or they are designated as "ortsdurchfahrt"
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Ooooh… I can’t wait to link the YT video to that guy in my neighbourhood FB group who claims he can’t possibly stick to the 30km/h speed limit in the school zone on Greenwood because it’s bad for his car.
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It's so damn frustrating that this can't just be universally implemented.. I hate walking near cars going 60 (because everyone drives 10 over) and not even talking about crossing the street.