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Conclusion
Introduction
Intro
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
A Brief History
The walk in Houston (Willowbrook)
Insane amounts of travel
What is a road?
Urban planning and history
What is a street?
Forgetting those who don't drive
Introduction to Stroads
Stroads are hostile
A fateful trip to Houston
What Houston is doing right
There's still a long ways to go
Stroads are inefficient
Stroads are unsafe
Stroads are expensive
Upright riding
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
Frame locks
Omafiets & Practical Bicycles
Dutch street and road examples
Streets in the Netherlands
Stroomweg
Turn a stroad into a road
Upright bikes in Canada
Fenders, kickstands, & racks
Smarter traffic lights
Coaster brakes
The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities
Amsterdam Just Got Awesomer
We Have No Garbage Day in Amsterdam!
Summary & Conclusion
Why Grocery Shopping is Better in Amsterdam
Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe
It's not the cold
Introduction to Oulu
Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one)
The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America
Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights
Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands
Would You Fall for It?
You can't cycle in the winter
Why City Design is Important (and Why I Hate Houston)
Copenhagen is Great ... but it's not Amsterdam
Smaller cities aren't too small
We're too small for transit
The pedestrian experience
Land use matters!
Kerleem & Waze agree
Traffic is light
Building for cars vs. transit
Viable alternatives to driving
Where the 85th Percentile doesn't make sense (streets)
Oh no it's the business park again
My business park credentials
Context & history
My experiences with winter cycling
It's not as cold as you think
The Netherlands does it properly (as usual)
Introduction to the 85th Percentile Speed
Good transit needs good land use
More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
The before times
Stroads require traffic lights
The Suburban Experiment
The Gym of Life
Introduction to Traditional Development
Construction
Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road
This Tiny Island has Insane Traffic
Taco John's Case Study
There are a lot of kids in the Netherlands
Designing for transit
Lessons from Oulu
Does Anyone Actually Cycle in Switzerland!?
Fewer jerks & road rage
When there's not enough D in your TOD
Designed for cars vs. people
Fragility vs. Flexibility
Streets vs. Roads
Station design elements
Progress in Canada
Signs are not enough (driving is subconscious)
Mmmm ... buttery smooth asphalt
The empty sidewalks and crazy parents of suburbia
The Miniature Microcars of Amsterdam
Bad speed limits (rural streets)
The transportation hub
Average speed vs. maximum speed
Momentum kills
Bicycle parking
Safety & convience for pedestrians
Bad speed limits (city streets)
Good slow street design
Stop signs suck
Walking and cycling to school and activities
Changing culture norms and legal action
Bus station
Not an urbanists paradise
Canadian excuses
What can the US & Canada do?
Can we build transit first?
IJburg and its trams
Car dependency
Eyes on the street
It's the whole experience
Road safety
Designing Urban Places that Don't Suck
Stop Signs Suck and We Should Get Rid of Them
Most travel is local
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
Business Parks Suck (but they don't have to)
Easier to avoid cyclists
People don't know this stuff
The Introduction
The excuses begin
It's about moving cars
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and moved to the Netherlands instead)
Even intercity travel is regional
America was built for trains
Right turn on red
Beg buttons
Begin rant
Life is more than commuting
America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)
De auto's
The Context
Pretty streets & roads
Why do we all go at the same time?
The REM
Conducteurs sans frontieres
Power tools & conclusion
My complaints
Introduction to Strong Towns & Financially Insolvent American Cities
Bicycle Infrastructure
Traffic engineers don't care about you
A proper cycling underpass
I GOT A NEW TRUCK!! (AND A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!)
The Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle
The Metro
Suburbs that don't Suck - Streetcar Suburbs (Riverdale, Toronto)
CROSS PLATFORM TRANSFER, BABY!
Park 'n' Ride
It's all land use
Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
Walkability can exist anywhere
The Cycling
Why Great Cities Let You (Easily!) Cycle to IKEA
Gotta get rid of those streetcars
The finances of street parking
How do they do it?
The Missing Middle
The Japanese example
Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)
Raised crossings and speed bumps
The exceptions
The Ugly, Dangerous, and Inefficient Stroads found all over the US & Canada [ST05]
What Do Fire Departments Do?
What's the downside?
The early history of Toronto
Wrapping up
Getting rid of parking is contentious
The Incredible Underground Bicycle Parking Garages of the Netherlands
City design is important for climate change
Why we love the Netherlands
Slip lanes suuuuuuck
Can't you just walk to buy groceries?
People who know about Climate Change
The Trains that Killed an Airline - Italian HSR
Freeways everywhere
How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
What if I stayed in Fake London?
Life without Stop Signs in the Netherlands
The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
The Politics of Bike Lanes
Crumbling canal walls
The problem with street parking
VCs and dumb money
The REV
Bike Lanes Slow Down Fire Trucks (right?)
The Objections
Japanese Zoning
On commutes and car driving
Transportation is a problem
Who uses it?
The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]
Train lines (but no Shinkansen)
Why Many Cities Suck (but Dutch Cities Don't)
What makes a Japanese Street?
Density doesn't have to feel dense
Worker exploitation & tech
The Best Country in the World for Drivers
The Political Structure
The MEGACITY
Why are we talking about Stroopwafels?
Navigating the station
Custom vs Standardised Chassis
The worst mayor Toronto ever had
The Pedestrianized Streets
City Beautiful & Portland
Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]
Underwater cars
Giant Trucks are Fundamentally Unsafe
Bad land use is bad. Like, really bad.
You need to vote. DO IT.
The Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)
Smarter, independent traffic signals
Amsterdam's car problem
Stupidly Wide Roads
Exits and gates
This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good
Lent (Nijmegen)
Why are these people driving!?
Ladders
How do we fix it?
Haarlem
How did they do it?
Roundabouts
How the Dutch Cross the Street (Safely) #shorts
Japanese transit myths
Platforms are boring but great
Countdown timers
Rotterdam: the City Rebuilt for Cars
Driving
Solving Traffic Congestion
I am not a "Cyclist" (and most Dutch people aren't either)
Terrible Streets
The Faster Way to Move House in Amsterdam
Example construction projects
The Only* Car-Free Neighbourhood in Canada (and why you can't live there)
Saturday
The Green Alleys & Parks
The Expert Recommendations
Highways
Traffic Calming is Everywhere in the Netherlands
I Don't Exercise (my city does that for me)
Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 2
Roads designed for safety, not speed
Stop signs and minor junctions
The great streets around Shinjuku
How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars
A wide road in Amsterdam
Ermelo
Jaywalking is bullshit
Continuous sidewalks (yay!)
Just do it
The Hauptbahnhof test
Missing Streetcars
No Walking Accelerators
Why Amsterdam is Removing 10,000 Parking Spaces
There's Something Wrong With Suburbia (The Orange Pill)
Financially Sustainable Cities
Amenities
The subway to nowhere
The Netherlands wasn't always like this
WTF (pedestrian crossing flags)
Interior
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