I'm so Sick of this Lazy Excuse (for bad cities)

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Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code BIKES10 will get the first month for free at: https://planetwild.com/r/notjustbikes/join If you want to get to know them better first, check out their project using chainsaw detectors to protect one of Europe’s last ancient forests: https://planetwild.com/r/notjustbikes/m31 Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-laziest-excuse-for-bad-cities Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Mastodon: @[email protected] NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): https://youtube.com/@njblive --- Relevant Videos The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-dumbest-excuse-for-bad-cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-why-canadians-can-t-bike-in-the-winter-but-finnish-people-can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU Are Taiwan's Roads Still a "Living Hell"? https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-are-taiwans-roads-still-a-living-hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDYVjDwgwA They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better) https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-they-tore-down-a-highway-and-made-it-a-river https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGxqxePihE --- References & Further Reading Fresno: A City Reborn - rare 1968 documentary by Victor Gruen Associates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTS_LLJvcw Fulton Mall https://www.flickr.com/photos/81918828@N00/albums/72157603574663279/ https://www.pediment.com/blogs/news/the-original-fresno-county-courthouse https://www.kvpr.org/community/2014-09-02/fulton-mall-at-50-when-things-dont-go-according-to-plan https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2014-02-11/is-it-terrible-or-a-treasure-fresnos-fulton-mall-debate-heats-up By Bryan Harley - Own work {Bryan Harley,own work}, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91790930 By Michelle Baxter - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21664245 By David Prasad - https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6191573398/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124016206 By David Prasad - https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6189802045/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123750104 https://esotericsurvey.blogspot.com/2024/01/fulton-mall-update-2024.html Beaufort scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale NK Tegenwindfietsen https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_Tegenwindfietsen The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing (Tom Scott) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMinwf-kRlA Cycling to work in 90 large American cities: new evidence on the role of bike paths and lanes https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Lib_of_Res/SS_ST_Rutgers_impactbikepaths_bikecommutingbehavior_042012%20-%20Copy.pdf Weather is not significantly correlated with destination-specific transport-related physical activity among adults: A large-scale temporally matched analysis https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5551438/ Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A crosscomparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2%3A1343725/FULLTEXT01.pdf Modelling the impact of weather conditions on active transportation travel behaviour https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920911001143 Promotional Umbrella SENZ wind tunnel test https://youtu.be/EZyfUq4lt-k Some clips of winter cycling provided by CycleYYZ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHinhHYjd7k_K7d2lEmC73w As usual, the YouTube Description is not nearly long enough for all of the references. You can find the full list on Nebula or at this link: https://notjustbikes.com/references/badweather.txt The vast majority of the content in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, with some images licensed from Getty Images and other sources. No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video. --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:19 Copenhagen (Strøget) 2:41 Fresno (Fulton) 3:53 The weather didn't make the difference 5:09 The wind in the Netherlands 6:08 Sunnyvale, California 7:13 The weather isn't a predictor of cycling 8:12 It sucks to film in bad weather 9:54 Fewer people cycle when it's raining (surprised pikachu) 11:05 You're not made of sugar (so quit your bitching) 12:25 It's not all the same everywhere 13:15 Infrastructure matters even more in bad weather 15:00 It builds character (suck it up) 15:58 Winter cycling 17:51 Ughh ... another requisite rant about ignorant Canadians 😫 19:59 You get used to it 21:41 Good urbanism in hot weather 24:31 The worst way to design for the heat 26:19 Concluding thoughts 27:41 Outro and Planet Wild