Hey everybody!
My latest video is almost ready for public release, and is the much-anticipated follow-up video to "Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada - Part 1".
This video is about GO Transit, the commuter rail system in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). It talks about how GO compares to VIA Rail, what it's like to take it, what...
2021-09-24 09:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreon Supporters!
I'm releasing a new video ... right now! Sorry about the last-minute drop, but the video was ready and I thought I would release it, rather than wait. This video will premiere at 9PM CET (about 20 minutes from now) so come and join the live chat if you'd like.
As you might have seen, I was looking for an edit...
2021-09-06 18:39:19 +0000 UTC View Post
As part of the recent collab with Shifter, Tom also made a video rating both rides, and I didn't watch it before I watched mine. So I decided to watch it this evening, and decided to record my reaction to it!
There's lots of new thoughts on these rides in this video that you might find interesting.
Unfortunately my screen recording d...
2021-08-24 02:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Shifter's video is now live: https://youtu.be/iFMhiwtBfAU
Hey everyone! I hope you've had a good summer so far. I'm back from my vacation in Canada, and my newest video is here: a collab with the urban cycling channel "Shifter".
2021-08-22 09:38:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
So my Houston video has done much better than I thought. It's currently at 170K views, which is insane, because after 2 days, my videos are usually at less than 100K views.
This is, by far, my most popular video to date.
I wanted to tell the story of this walk in Houston for a long time, but I could never ge...
2021-07-21 15:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello lovely Patrons!
My latest video is finished (it will go public on Monday)! This is the backstory to how I got involved in this urban planning stuff, and my terrifying walk in Houston that happened about ten years ago.
For this video I paid a bunch of people on Craigslist Houston to film for me, so hopefully it was worth it in...
Hey everyone!
There will be no video today (Monday, July 12th) as I'm travelling. I'm in Fake London for the next few weeks though, so hopefully I'll be able to get lots of good footage for future videos.
The next video, about Houston, will hopefully be coming out on the 19th. See you then!
Thanks,
Jason
2021-07-12 15:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody keeps asking me when trains part 2 is coming out.
2021-06-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Saturday Patrons!
I just finished my newest video about urban noise pollution.
I based this video off of the chapter entitled "The Hearing City" from the new book "Curbing Traffic" by Chris and Melissa Bruntlett. They're the authors of the book "Building the Cycling City" that you may have seen before. Their new book comes o...
Hey everyone,
I wasn't going to release a video this week, but then my "Garbage Day" video hit 1 million views this week, and I thought it deserved a quick meta-video.
The YouTube algorithm seems to like my original garbage video, but this last round through the algorithm was really crazy, with over 400K views in just a couple week...
For about the last twenty years, my wife and I have had a pretty simple rule: if we don't need to drive to work, we don't need to own a car. We applied this even in car-centric places by taking advantage of carshare services.
People don't seem to understand just how easy modern carshare services have become, which is too bad, as they...
2021-05-30 23:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters! I had a chance today to put together this bonus video that I had planned in my head for a few weeks.
The other week I was in Oud West, in Amsterdam, and I came across this wide street (Hoofdweg). It got me thinking about how space is allocated on such a large street, and about how this would be done in my home tow...
2021-05-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
My latest video is finally complete! After getting your feedback I decided to go with "Suburbs that don't Suck", but the video turned out differently than I originally intended. Instead of focusing on the Netherlands, I decided to talk primarily about Riverdale, the streetcar suburb we used to live in when we liv...
Hello lovely Patreon supporters!
So I've just finished my stroads video and it's doing ridiculous well, with over 100K views in 24 hours. That might just be a new record for the channel!
I'm now looking at what videos to work on next, and I thought I'd ask for your feedback.
Logic would dictate that I con...
2021-04-28 00:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! My latest video is finally here. It's another Strong Towns video, but hopefully one that will be of more interest to my entire audience (not just the Americans). This video is about the Strong Towns concept of "stroads": streets that are designed like roads.
I introduce the concept of the stroad, and compare them to streets &...
2021-04-22 12:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello NJB Patrons!
Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to release my next video on schedule tomorrow (Monday).
The video is close to finished but it needs some work to polish it. It's the next Strong Towns video about stroads, with lots of great (good) examples from the Netherlands, as well as footage I paid for someone to take...
Hey Patrons! I hope you're doing well. I wanted you to know that I've added a new €1 Patreon tier: Pedestrian!
There are no benefits on this tier, but I've had several people ask how to support the channel with a value lower than €3/month. It has always been possible to enter any amount to support the channel, but the ...
2021-04-13 20:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone!
I'm pretty late on the fortnightly video due to the Easter holidays, so you're not getting much advanced access to this. Sorry! It goes live at 9PM tonight, and I'll be live chatting from 8:30PM (Amsterdam time).
This is the 4th "Strong Towns" video, and his one is about municipal bankruptcy and debt. It's the follow-on ...
2021-04-05 12:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello NJB Patrons! I've finally completed my "100K subscribers" video, just in time for me to hit 122K subscribers. 😲
For this video, I talk briefly about my channel (thanking my Patreon supporters, of course), and then recommend several other channels that I enjoy.
I really hope I didn't forget any important channels. I kno...
2021-03-20 23:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A few weeks ago we visited a local "tuinpark", literally "garden park", here in Amsterdam Zuid. I was familiar with the idea of "community gardens" from the US and Canada, but these tuinparks are much more interesting; almost a small cottage within cycling distance of home.
I'm currently working on my 100K subscribers video, where I'll be ...
2021-03-14 20:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
After a few bicycle videos, it's time to get back to Not Just Bikes. This video is an important "core topic" of urban planning that I wanted to cover: the fact that just about any housing except for a single family home or apartment/condo is illegal to build all over the US and Canada.
This is crazy, especially when compared to Europ...
2021-03-06 13:39:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
This week I have something a little bit different: a guest video!
This video was produced by Adam Tranter, the Bicycle Mayor for Coventry, in the UK. Coventry holds an important place in the history of the bicycle. It is the city where both the penny-farthing, as well as the safety bicycle - the templa...
2021-03-01 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The other week it snowed quite a bit when storm Darcy hit the Netherlands. I went out every day during and after the storm, and it was interesting to see what was done well, and what wasn't, with respect to snow clearing.
In geneal, cycling infrastructure was prioritized, but there were several problems with the train system. And in the e...
Hello everyone! After a Dutch bicycles video, I wanted to delve deeper into one of our bicycles: a Swapfiets!
Swapfiets is a lease bike company. Instead of buying a bike, you lease it from Swapfiets and they are responsible for any maintenance. The costs quickly add up, to where many people argue it's not worth it, and they're probably rig...
2021-02-10 11:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
After a couple of "epic" videos that were unexpectedly popular, I wanted to bring things back down to Earth a bit and talk about a more "mundane" subject: Dutch bicycles.
It has really fascinated me how different bicycles in the Netherlands are to those in the US and Canada. Bikes that are built for utility, and not for sport.
It was...
2021-02-07 12:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo, it looks like Not Just Bikes will hit 100K subscribers tomorrow. I really wasn't expecting that, but the channel has really picked up recently.
Thank you so much to all of you for your support in getting there.
I guess I'm supposed to "do" something when the channel hits this milestone, so I figured I should ask you, my patrons. ...
2021-02-06 19:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
For the past few weeks I've been working with an urban planner in Finland on a video about winter cycling, featuring the winter cycling capital of the world, Oulu, Finland. This is a city with really cold and snowy winters, yet where 22% of all trips are done by bicycle, and 77% of the population rides a bike!
This video was a tough one to...
2021-01-24 15:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the 3rd video from my "Strong Towns" series, and perhaps the most important - the Growth Ponzi scheme. I spent way too much time on this video.
This video is a bit tough - I hope you like municipal finances! - but it's so important as a foundation to all of the other videos I want to make in the future. There are a lot of future to...
2021-01-07 19:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I didn't get a regular video out this fortnight due to being busy over the holidays, but I did find time to make a quick bonus video using some video I took last summer and this summer. I guess my Giethoorn video got me thinking about boats, because this video is about boats as well!
Until just last year, I ...
2020-12-30 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I went out to the city centre on a Friday night in November (between 10PM and 1AM), and it was completely empty. It was really strange to see. I had my good (4K) camera with me, so I was able to take some good-quality night shots (as long as the camera was steady).
I haven't put out a "Blue" (no commentary) video in a long time, but I thou...
2020-12-20 23:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post