Ah, that explains why the auto-suggested title didn't work here when it did work in [email protected]. My damn mouse has a habit of double-clicking when I use the button I have set to paste.

Anyway, link should work now.

And here's the Half As Interesting video referenced in the bit about sirens.

30:10 "One of my followers on Mastodon lives on this street" What!?

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I second his recommendation of Life Where I'm From's video about Japanese zoning.

I'd also recommend a book I checked out from the library recently, Emergent Tokyo, which goes into a lot of the same subjects and has some great insights.

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How is it that "floating stops" designed like the ones shown below (which are great IMO) are considered to be different?

The only difference I see is instead of crossing a highspeed car lane, one would cross a slow speed cycling lane designed with the intent to protect individuals on bicycles.

But somehow instead something like this is considered "safer" where transits riders step out into a cycle lane to board a bus or tram.

Or something like such where pedestrians step out onto a roadway.

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But here's a timestamped link to the bit of Chris's video where he starts his experiment.

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Note: this is copy/pasted from my comment on the Nebula version. Time codes might be slightly off.

The stock clip used at 3:20 involving a driver unabashedly on their phone is brilliant.

The 5:45 clip of a dude in a bigfoot costume cycling through Tokyo was unexpected.

6:00 the self-shout-out had me laugh out loud.

The idea of lowering local street speed limits not actually making your trip take much longer is so true. Brisbane-based cycling safety advocate Chris Cox has a video where he gives a demonstration. He drives the same route twice, once sticking to 30 km/h on the local streets, and once trying his best to get up to the speed limit of 50 km/h on those streets. (Driving to the predominantly 60 km/h speed limit on arterial roads.) The video on the whole is actually incredibly similar to this one, down to the safety/speed curve, the FOV comparisons, and the dismissal of the ridiculous arguments against 30 km/h. Because yeah, Jason's words in the conclusion to this video are so right: the data is really, really, really clear here; at some point we have to realise that anybody fighting against lower speed limits within cities is either wilfully ignorant or they're a selfish arsehole who values their convenience more than other people's safety. But here's a timestamped link to the bit of Chris's video where he starts his experiment. It took a whopping 9 extra seconds. 9 seconds, on a 10 minute journey.

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But here's a timestamped link to the bit of Chris's video where he starts his experiment.

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I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

The stock clip used at 3:20 involving a driver unabashedly on their phone is brilliant.

The 5:45 clip of a dude in a bigfoot costume cycling through Tokyo was unexpected.

6:00 the self-shout-out had me laugh out loud.

The idea of lowering local street speed limits not actually making your trip take much longer is so true. Brisbane-based cycling safety advocate Chris Cox has a video where he gives a demonstration. He drives the same route twice, once sticking to 30 km/h on the local streets, and once trying his best to get up to the speed limit of 50 km/h on those streets. (Driving to the predominantly 60 km/h speed limit on arterial roads.) The video on the whole is actually incredibly similar to this one, down to the safety/speed curve, the FOV comparisons, and the dismissal of the ridiculous arguments against 30 km/h. Because yeah, Jason's words in the conclusion to this video are so right: the data is really, really, really clear here; at some point we have to realise that anybody fighting against lower speed limits within cities is either wilfully ignorant or they're a selfish arsehole who values their convenience more than other people's safety. But here's a timestamped link to the bit of Chris's video where he starts his experiment. It took a whopping 9 extra seconds. 9 seconds, on a 10 minute journey.

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https://piped.video/watch?v=DX_-UcC14xw

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I dropped four random pins on streets in Köln or surrounding areas. In the fourth I landed on a street with separate houses, so I moved one street over to the apartments there.

Looks alright. Walkable, bike parking is good. Buildings look okay, not fancy, but pleasant enough. I don't love that cars are allowed to park on the sidewalks, though, that's foolish.

More separated, basically sets of row houses. Nice enough. The trash bins should be in the street and not on the sidewalk, but this is okay.

Obviously still pretty car-focused, but a pleasant enough street with the tree canopy. The apartments are not flashy or new, but seem to be solid.

Again, not a flashy set of buildings, but the materials seem solid, the courtyards in between the neighboring buildings are nice. The patios on the top floor are nice features.

In general, these units appear better than the thrown-together rental units they spew out in my city to be flipped and sold in 2-3 years before the worst of the leaks or deferred maintenance are revealed.

I used to live on the upper floor of a two-story "garden apartment" (which is a uniquely North American style of building that was popular around the '50s-'70s, as far as I can tell) that was designed basically like groups of adjacent quad-plexes. I had a front door from my living room to an interior staircase that opened out onto the complex's courtyard, as well as a back door from my kitchen to an exterior metal staircases that went directly to the parking lot. There were no common hallways and each unit had windows on two sides (the front and back).

In terms of the staircases, at least, the design was very efficient.

The only limiting factor stopping them from building more stories on top with the same design (other than that tenants would start wanting an elevator) is the fact that the site basically maxed out the area available for a surface parking lot. Building more stories would've required also building a parking deck in order to meet zoning requirements, even though the parking it already had was never more than half-full.

Why would we not expect someone to share a video from a payed platform ? Maybe the problem is the expectation; nowhere in any rule of any kind is it written that Lemmy is to share Free content only.

Do you suggest to add some kind of "[Paywall]" to the title of the post as community often do with news articles requiring subscription for example ?

Hey asshole. Here's a link to the video on YouTube so you can quit your belly aching and continue a normal discussion like a decent human being.

You’re pissed at me for linking to a video by Not Just Bikes on the platform the creator of Not Just Bikes partially owns and which is the only source available for that video, on the Not Just Bikes community? Dude pull your fucking head in. If you don’t want to watch it, then just don’t watch it. There’s absolutely no call for the arseholish behaviour you’ve been exhibiting in this thread.

If you’re brand new to NJB, then sincerely, welcome. Don’t watch this video, it’s not aimed at you. There’s a reason he only put it up on Nebula. I’d highly recommend checking out more of the videos available on his public YouTube channel. I might recommend starting with his video on "stroads" or why suburbia is a bad place for kids to grow up.

There are also great videos on similar topics from the channels "CityNerd", "City Beautiful", and “RM Transit", all of which are also on Nebula in addition to YouTube. And “Oh the Urbanity” has a bit more of a liberal (as opposed to progressive) streak, but are largely good for urbanism as well, on YouTube only.

As far as Nebula goes, you should absolutely not sign up for it unless you’re already a fan of at least some of the creators on the platform. It’s basically like a super-patreon where you pay to support a larger number of creators under one payment, in exchange for exclusive videos, videos earlier, and no ads. Aside from the excellent suite of urbanist creators, there are also news channels (TLDR News), videos about people’s professions (lawyer Legal Eagle, doctor Medlife Crisis, therapist Georgia Dow), media analysis (Lindsay Ellis—exclusively, since the harassment campaign got severe enough to drive her off YouTube—Sarah Z, Patrick H Willems), games shows (travel show Jet Lag, Yugioh gameshow Chaos Corp, game theory experiment Tom Scott’s Money), among many other subjects and channels. Nebula is good deal if only two or three of the channels on it interest you, and you want to financially support them, avoid ads, and/or get early/exclusive content. If there aren’t, you shouldn’t feel bad about not subscribing, but there’s still no call for that sort of attitude towards it.

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