Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 2

Dutchies: the moped (blue-plate snortfiets) at 3:44 should NOT be in the fietspad. I am correct about this! Snorfietsen have been banned from the fietspaden in the centre of Amsterdam for over two years now: www.amsterdam.nl/snorfiets-rijbaan/kaart-snorfiets… Please stop emailing me about this! 😂 The rules are different in Amsterdam than where you're from

The ride in Calgary went from pretty good, to manageable, to terrifying real fast

"a developed country is not where poor people have cars, but rich people take transit" - some person in YouTube comments

Quite frankly, the "you hear birds instead of cars" should be a +10. 😄

The fact that Calgary is at least trying to have some bike infrastructure makes it better than a lot of NA cities.

I live in Wichita, Kansas, and finding your channel a week and a half ago (and mainlining all of your videos) inspired me to email my city's director of pedestrian infrastructure about some of our issues. His response was sobering, but it makes sense - people working in American cities in those positions are even more enthusiastic about these kinds of designs than we are, but it just comes down to the money that's being made available to them. In Kansas, public infrastructure is voted for on a state level and the vast majority of constituents in the rural parts of Kansas aren't going to vote for their money to go to bike paths and raised intersections. He gave me his office number to call about becoming an advocate for change on that front in this city, and I took him up on that yesterday - I hope I can help make changes.

The other cool thing about the Netherlands is that there were definitely at least 4 hardware stores closer to you than the one you went to.

If someone played this game anywhere in the US, they’d have to dock two point at the end because by the time they did their shopping and left the hardware store their bike would have been stolen.

I love how most dutch deductions are mild inconveniences and things no one would notice. And calgary ones get deduced once and continue to plague everyone.

As a Canadian, I'm actually impressed the stroad has a sidewalk - the bar truly is that low.

Thanks Jason! What a fun collaboration with @NotJustBikes

What really impressed me with the Dutch bikes paths is how well connected and continuous they are. In Toronto we have some good bike paths but they aren't well linked to each other. Trying to get somewhere while also staying on a bike path usually involves taking a convoluted route.

Hello from a South Korean cyclist. I live in Seoul and we have much much better infrastructure than most of U.S. but not even close to Holland. This video provided me concept and idea how I could better explain the odd feeling I’ve been having cycling around my city to people here in much clearer way. Thanks a lot, and will continue subscribing.

Attention to the devs; I tried playing the game but my scoreboard maxed out in the negatives before I even got out of the neighborhood. Please fix

I'm like 8 minutes in, and compared to what we consider "bikeable cities" here I'm wondering why the score isn't like 5000+ at this point... this is beautiful and so well designed

As a Calgarian, I am not remotely surprised that the cycling went from not great but workable to terrible the moment you left the city center. Calgary has put some effort into bike infrastructure, particularly under the previous mayor's time in office, but it's all been focused on downtown.

having lived in Nowheresville, Arizona my entire life, where we don't even have paved sidewalks or bike lanes in half my town, and where the best it gets in the other half is narrow painted lanes right next to cars, yet we're touted as one of the most bike-friendly communities in the state, watching the amsterdam ride was unreal. it felt uniquely utopian.

I would've added a point for the long uninterrupted parts of the ride, no intersections, no traffic lights, just 5-10 minutes of safe cycling. It's amazing how spoiled we are in the Netherlands. I also got to say that I appreciate your in-depth analyses for your scoring. It isn't a competition, but you seemed to know a lot more about balanced road design than Shifter showed in his video.

I'll send you a video of me riding to the hardware store in Houston if you'd like. I'll probably have to live stream it in case I don't survive to upload it.

Imagine a novice biker watching Tom's ride. He spends 90% of his time avoiding obstacles and dodging curbs when the sidewalk crosses a road. It's no wonder so few people pick up cycling in NA when it's this risky even for an experienced rider like Tom. I also would have marked off 2 points for every time he had to ride through a parking lot, there are few areas in cities more hostile to bikers than those.