notjustbikes

cameronmochrie , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

@notjustbikes A bit old and I'm guessing you've already seen it. But they're going crazy for you in the comments on this Avondshow segment :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stn0cGWH9go.

rrustema020 , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

@notjustbikes For your entertainment. Motorist in Amsterdam admits: “Those bicyclists, they damage your car and disappear”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bizarro_Jerry When interviewed about the new small experiment to allow fast bicyclists (read: e-bike) to use the car lane, because the narrow bike lane reached its capacity. https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/226216/snelle-fietsers-voor-het-eerst-de-rijbaan-op-in-west-we-denken-dat-het-veilig-kan

notjustbikes , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Strong Towns has a new book coming out!

Chuck and Daniel Herriges' are about to release their book, "Escaping The Housing Trap". It's a great delve into the housing crisis in North America, and what's causing it, including the part that's almost never mentioned in the media: car dependency.

You can pre-order a copy now via the links on their website:

https://www.housingtrap.org/

notjustbikes , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I was cleaning out some old video files and I came across this gem from Associate Professor Brian Doucet at the UofW School of Planning (bmdoucet on the bad site).

This was taken in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada the city where I went to University.

It boggles my mind that Canadian traffic engineering can be so broken that something like this gets built.

How did nobody along the path to getting this created say, "why are we building it like this when you'd have to be fucking insane to cycle here?"

Painted bicycle lane between two traffic lanes and an entrance to a highway with large amounts of motor vehicle traffic.

rrustema020 , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

@notjustbikes on my way to a DHL servicepoint in the harbour I was just thinking of your praise for bikelanes in industrial zones, instead of only downtown, when I saw this sign. A dedicated spot where truckers can adjust their mirrors so they won’t miss bicyclists!

notjustbikes , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Waiting with the rest of the crowd for the spits (rush hour) to end at Utrecht Centraal, so that my train ride to Amsterdam is 40% cheaper. 😉

#becomingdutch

notjustbikes , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I'm going to Japan soon, so I wanted to talk to one of the experts, Life Where I'm From, about what I should look for when I'm there, and we ended up having a great conversation about why Japan has stayed (relatively) affordable while other developed nations have not!

Hear our conversation in the latest episode of the Urbanist Agenda podcast (currently early-access for Nebula supporters, public release next week).

https://nebula.tv/agenda/how-japan-has-remained-relatively-affordable-with-life-where-im-from

notjustbikes , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Greece may have great weather but I'm so glad to be back to the land of trains and bicycles. 😅

Bicycle parking garage at Amsterdam Zuid

notjustbikes , vor 4 Monaten an Random Englisch

I made the mistake of going on Twitter today to find a tweet. 😬

I'm glad Urbanist Twitter is not representative of actual urbanists, because it's basically just this. 😆

I will never understand the mentality of people who dislike a YouTuber and then rant about it for months on social media, instead of doing something sane like, say, watching something else, making the content they want to see, or maybe touching grass.

I genuinely think that too much social media rots people's brains.