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A joyful mass ride & conference ! Thanks for working through the night to create a great film, Clarence. Anyone who was not able to join in - Go see Ghent. Its a wonderful & friendly city.
Wow, this is a lot of empty condos. Wonder if they’re before their time because I don’t see jobs or an office park nearby
We enjoyed meeting you...well done on the video!!
We are planning to cycle through Paris on our vacations in the next days, how difficult is it to rent a bicycle in Paris?
I went to Stockholm last summer with my friend and it was amazing. It was quite affordable and the hotel was super cheap and fancy! We also used the high speed rail to airport, metro, tram, bus and scooter. Just lovely 🥰
It is not a cycle superhighway, stop calling it that. 😂 Just call it bike path. That is what the whole Euroasian continent calls it, well except for Britain, and they are really car centric.
I went to Stockholm in 2001 and thought it was great back then. Looks like they've been doing a LOT in recent years. I shall have to go back and check it out!
it's a pretty phenomenal walking city. One of the best. You feel like you never have to be too aware of cars.
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Is it just me or is NYC missing a REAL game plan for improving lower Manhattan when the congestion pricing gets implemented? Maybe part of the problem is that improving the common space isn’t a priority and won’t direct any funds to it, instead directing all the funds to transit? American cities demonstrate time after time that doing inauthentic changes to overcome political weakness results in failure!
I am not giving up hope on NYC this would literally transform the city. All of the car lite areas of the city including in the outerboros are so nice we can do better.
Did you guys hit any other Swedish cities while you were over there? Like, say, Gothenburg (Göteborg) or Malmö?
Bicycles, ebikes, electric cargo bicycles, robo taxis and escooters are great options for last mile, short distance travel. Reduced transportation costs and fossil fuels free transportation. Cities need to do more to encourage people to ride bicycles by providing SAFE, PROTECTED BIKE LANES and trails. Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly. Bicycles are healthy exercise and fossil fuels free transportation. Electric bicycles are bringing many older adults back to cycling. Ride to work, ride to school, ride for health or ride for fun. Children should be able to ride a bicycle to school without having to dodge cars and trucks. Separated and protected bike lanes are required. It will also make the roads safer for automobile drivers. Transportation planners and elected officials need to encourage people to walk, bike and take public transportation. Healthy exercise and fossil fuels free transportation. In the future cities will be redesigned for people not cars. Crazy big parking lots will be transformed with solar canopies generating free energy from the sun.
Was the protest at the beginning sarcastic, or do those people actually think riding a bike is somehow bad?
It was an inside prank pulled by a group of the organizers. Astonishingly even though I figured out right away it was faux, many people thought it was real and another group had no idea how to react.
It was an amazing fake protest ! Hilarious :D
This is so amazing! Keep working to be more like the Netherlands and your citizens will be happier <3
Thank you for the enjoyable, informative, and well-executed film!
I hope that American politicians and city planners are taking heed. The Danish and the Dutch have it right!
I had the privilege to be one of a few North American delegates to VeloCity 2003 in Paris. Paris was able to announce that they had gone from 1% to 2% of their population that year. How far they have come! Ghent looks like another great European cycling community.
Super impressive to make this video less than 12 hours after the event wrapped!! It was like a Portland Pedalpalooza or Cyclovia ride with great infrastructure along the whole route!
this is great!
Oh, god..... I hope 🇺🇲 does not become this. 🤢
You can always move to Belgium and join their anti-bike movement! ❤
Frankly, what we see in Ghent excites me. Cycling (and walking) is positive. Ghent teems with energy and joy because it is no longer overrun by automobiles. Imagine Americans abandoning their cars for bicycles. Such a development would be healthy and splendid.
Why not Joe?
I hope it does :)
@@HansVerburg Joe is great! Why not the Orange Idiot?
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I am not sure what is happening. We get this comment from time to time but I also have people who download is just fine and are able to watch it. Sorry.
Wonderful!
Hmmmm I feel like NYC would really benefit from this, they should consider implementing it!
nyc population:9 million, stockholm less than a million.
@@Minar-rd1pnyep NYC would benefit 9 times more !
@@xouxoful only beneficiaries are MTA's pocket
Hey, I'm unsubscribing. Not because I dislike your videos. Because I live in the Southern United States and know that I will never get to live in a walkable, livable city & seeing your videos makes me sad. Good luck everyone I hope you get to live in a nice place. I currently step over trash & homeless & almost get hit by cars everyday when I walk across the street.
Don't give up, change can happen!
As said above. Please don't give up. Even doing the smallest of advacacy like telling your friends and family the benefits of a walkable city will make people realise what their city deserves and demand change for the better.
Oh PLEASE DON'T! We will give you I hope I promise!
8:40 I'd call it Norrström and call the sluice at the other end of the Old Town "Slussen" ;) Right now there's a few very very annoying streets works going on that makes biking to work a hassle for me. One is Slussen (which isn't planned to be all that great for bikes), another is the urban redevelopment at Årstaberg (commuter rail - LRT interchange just outside the inner city, old light industrial area turning into dense residential neighbourhood), and the last being that they have to block of a vital bike infra link at the other end of the bridge you can see at 6:55 in roder to widen the shared used path from like 2.5 meters to 4.5 iirc.)
It's very cute to watch. Many of the things shown in this video have been part of dutch culture for decades. Those sensors that track cyclists across intersections can be found across the entirety of the Netherlands. Traffic flows where you physically separate cyclists from cars have been around for generations too. Introduction of parks and pedestrianized area's where streets used to be have been in effect so long that you often can't tell anymore that it wasn't always this way. It's all about hating cars, and getting people out of them. Congestion pricing however is a nice new development. It be even better if emission pricing was part of that too, to encourage electric traffic.
We here in Stockholm do look towards the Netherlands and Copenhagen for inspiration and to show the local politicians and bureaucrats how to do things right. There are standards already developed over decades of real world experience, so no we do not have to investigate and explore a thousand design options to understand how this all works: just get the Dutch manual and all will be revealed.
lol, the loud New York energy of the host feels so out of place in Stockolm
Meanwhile in the USA, politicians would rather die than risk losing votes from car-addicted suburbanites.
lol... I thought this was sarcasm...
And Bogotá? Where is Bogotá? That city has the largest bike lanes of whole American continent
It's a great idea to start with areas around schools and mass transit hubs and then spread out and connect from there. I like it. My kids are all grown up now, but when they were in school, there was no way I would let them ride to school by themselves.
Very nice. I will have to come up there and try them myself sometime soon. It's too bad Viva Streets won't be coming back this year, but I'll be there in 2025, baby!
Wish all cities where like that.....
This is definitely a response to Kathy Hochul's decision
We filmed this and many other items we have put our BEFORE she even announced her decision!
@@StreetfilmsCommunity then the best audience would probably be New Yorkers so that they can advocate for it here
@@collectivelyimprovingtrans2460 Thousands and thousands of us in Chicago want this too.
Note that congestion pricing in Stockholm has been around since 2007.
The world would be better if car roads didn't get in the way of people walking
I wish the rest of the boroughs could transition this way
I really love bike people and bike culture. Bikes bring people from all walks of life together. They are a positive force for good.
This is not just about reducing injuries and deaths but.... of reducing our emotional stress and trauma. Habitual drivers have ZERO understanding of what it's like for vulnerable pedestrians and cyclists.... to be physically threatened Every Single Day by 2-Ton MACHINES, multiple times per day. Many drivers think NOTHING of inching up to us....THREATENING us to 'hurry the fuck up', while we are IN the crosswalk. Car-brain is real. EVEN in a dense, public transit-rich city such as NYC. There is something very wrong with the American mentality surrounding cars and the act of driving. Cars are not FUN. Not COOL. They are 2-TON MACHINES operating at speeds of 15-50 MPH on our various city streets, and often within mere INCHES of pedestrians and cyclists.
The opening quotes in white, on the black background, are very powerful. And then to see those hellscape images of all kinds of vehicles clogging intersections, and INCHING UP to pedestrians as they are trying to cross the street? Where is the ANGER by a wider swathe of NYC pedestrians?? NYC cyclists seem to be far better organized, and more vocal. NYC pedestrians, on the other hand, and who comprise the MAJORITY, are fell less vocal as a whole. What can we do to get more of our pedestrians (and bus riders) fired up? It is extremely rare for me to see any pedestrians or bus passengers (as they standing waiting for a bus, at a BLOCKED BUS STOP)....I rarely see any of them speaking up to scofflaw drivers. Why do we allow this? Why have we normalized this? It is criminal!
Bay area showing rest of the US how it should be done Is not a war on cars is just a fair chance to other means of transportation
Man, I'm jealous ealous. Lol. I'll never get to experience living like this. I wish I did. I live in a car hell.
If they want funding so bad raise the fare to 5 dollars .
Raising the subway fare won’t change anything if the people don’t pay it anyway. Enforce the laws on the books and watch how the millions start rolling back in.
she's insane to bike there. Extremely dangerous.
you have to admit that the street design in the boroughs is insane in the first place. it is no wonder pedestrians get killed and that there are car accidents.
DOBRI LJUDI ,ČUVAJU OKOLIŠ I PAZE JEDNI NA DRUGE
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Not sure why this comment comes up from time to time. I just downloaded it, so did my wife. Check your setttings.
All these disrespectful people with their hands out trying to rob us citizens of our hard earned money, I have lived in this city my whole life, congestion pricing is a crime.
I'm French so I can't do much, but totally supporting you guys ! Congestion pricing now ! Cities are for people, not cars !
Why would the French support this?
Why MUST it start June 30th? This can’t wait until after the summer is over at least? Traffic is always down during the summer months anyway with school out and lots of commuters taking vacation or WFH days.