I can't imagine this ever passing in Toronto. This city has insanity NIMBY opposition to everything except cars.

No way man. This hearing has got to be from a Parks and Rec video 😂

The amount of ignorance showed by these people is insane. North America is fucked.

Being that Oulu, Finland set the standard for winter cycling years ago, why wasn't that city addressed in this video? Yeah, I know NJB mentioned the place some time ago. Perhaps, Montreal and many other Canadian cities could learn some things from that city on how to better facilitate winter cycling?

Still can't believe we all accept Lavel is "north" of Montréal 😛. It's west!!! 🥲🥲🥲

Childrens voices and their rights to be equal citizens are SO often overlooked when we design our infrastructure. They can't vote or start procedures, so it's up to us to make sure our society provides spaces for them. We can learn a bit from kids too, as in that some places just have to be 'fun' instead of 'optimized'. And these kind of play areas work wonders for the community.

Love this

I'm in the US and enjoy your videos. I started making a video on walkability but wanted comments and fact-checking before spending money on shutterstock. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJzWdH9-pt6SmMk

Rise of the regressives and they want a sterile monolithic community that stifles life.

You are really bad with evidence. This is the second video. Couldn't even watch all of this one. U cannot confirm parking use using daytime street view on Google. Street view isn't updated 24/7 and if u wanted to make that argument you would have to do it at the time most people would be parked. At a residential that's at night not during the day like you showed. Nothing worse than working late and coming home to no parking spot because my city sees it's half empty during the day so they stopped giving tickets out at night so now everyone parks in my neighborhood to go to the bar on the corner that has its own parking further away.

Good move! 👋

The lack of more dense building in the US have a lot of consequences, like the fact that most of their public transport are trash. I mean most of the US public transport aren't owned by the states but by private company who only seek profit, which mean each bus/métro/train stop must earn profit. And if you lack of more dense area, it's difficult for these private company to put profitable station. Even city like los angeles have trash system sadly. PS: also if the US rely more on public transport, they could reduce the wast number of parking lot they have. In some place it's more than 50% of their cites, no wonder why they aren't more dense. But it seem to be a vicious circle

The not so funny thing is that the thing that gets the biggest laugh is probably the one that will have the most long term impact.

Why can't we just have both???

It's Great the kids have somewhere to play during the day even if it looks like a fly tip, But what happens at night? I did not see any improved lighting to stop undesirables populating the area after dark. But in Todays climate, when parents fear to let their kids play in their own garden, Is Creating a Predator's Paradise such a good idea?

Shrug. My city put in a bunch of protected bike lanes within the last couple of years. They are little used in the best of weather and hardly used at all now in December (oddly enough, bike lane usage here declines during summer because it's a college town and most of the students are gone then). But advocates don't really seem to care how small the percentage of traffic carried by bike is, or whether usage is increasing (it isn't. To their credit, they did put in bike counters with the lanes and year-over-year measures show no increase so far). But how much bike lanes are used seems to be beside the point for advocates -- having the bike lanes is the important thing, while how many people are actually using them doesn't concern anybody very much. Removing lanes and parking is also seen as a benefit on its own because of the potential to reduce traffic by making driving more congested and frustrating. We'll see how this shakes out over the years. Some of the bike-lane adjacent businesses believe that losing their street parking has hurt their sales. But what do they know. Probably, just a bunch of whiners.

What are the typical size of flats in NY or other high rises cities? I left Paris because living with a roommate in less than 20m² (~215ft² for the imperial folks) for 1000€ a month was a nightmare. People saying that Paris' urbanism is an example to follow must not know what they are talking about.

Whenever I hear bs like what these people are spewing, I wonder what moneyed interests are behind it. It’s just unthinking opposition to something good and never are cars seen as way more of a problem in every way than every criticism they mention about bikes. In the US bike lanes are only put in to get federal funding to build more roads for cars. They are death traps and I never see bikes riding on most of them because bikers know they aren’t safe. Bike lanes are useless unless they are completely separated from cars in some way.

have to point out that this kinds of infrastructure isn't profitable only to kids. Any parent is happy to have that for their kids. Any person living around can enjoy this as much as a kid. Anyone walking/biking through those neighborhoods is thrilled to have something other than fast-riding cars and piles of trashbags on beyond-horizon concrete slabs. Concerns about utility access and whatnot are just that, concerns.

Why build super skinny houses when you can build a duplex or multiplex with insulated and fire rated party wall. That kind of construction is actually more secure in more ways than one against noise, wall breaches and noise. Town houses are the best way to go. Would love to see some fancy Montreal style town houses

Based on these metrics a lot of relatively small or mid size European cities together with towns on their outskirts, will be high on this list. Because basically every part of the city, including all of the surroundings, will check these two metrics. Nyc will probably still be nr1 due to its sheer size. The 4000 inhabitants per km2 is too low in my opinion. In my experience anything under that cutoff feels more or less village like or even 'rural'. An area to feel somewhat 'urban' should have a minimum of around 8.000 inhabitants per km2 (or 20.000 per sq mi)

I take the bridge almost everyday, the change they made is awesome, makes the commute much smoother.

Toronto also it’s a 10 min walk from union station to where the Toronto blue jays play also close to bmo field and close to Scotia bank arena basically u could hop on a train and get off the train and walk to sports games

Toronto is cool cuz ur walking through a forest and 10 min later u see a skyscraper

Good thing Doug Ford can't kill these bike lanes.

Very nice video about obvious reasons. Sometimes it’s just hard to believe people can’t understand that

Wow ! Bravo merci!

At least I'm glad to see that the US isn't the only place with a selfish, whiny Karen problem.

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I'm an "urbanite" and I loathe cul-du-sacs with a burning hatred.

What’s the difference between the government, organized crime and ordinary citizens? One word-ORGANIZED!

7:15 Canadian cities have "stronger downtowns". Why? Try to answer without using a word that starts with an N.

It great but I think they did too much. The wooden steps are unnecessary. Kids would have imaginary play on a simple hill with a few pieces of dead wood and a couple of small boulders

What I'm (strangely) getting from it: we just use too much space for parking spots and buildings can be very small if there are no parking space 😀

The suburbs are generally purgatory, so everything there has to halfway suck.

TYPICAL distortion US amarican view…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Normal cities, before the car was invented were like that. So are they still. The USA is NOT the world, but a perverted, planet destroying way of life🤮🤮🤮🤮

Who is imposing a 15 minute travel time on you guys? Isn’t this supposed to add to convenience and you can also travel more for your specialised needs.

at 6,09 on this video...who is Anne Marie Lapointe ?

INCREDIBLE interview! Thanks for highlighting this! I've biked through some of those traffic-calming designs in Montreal and they really are so comfortable as a cyclist.

Toronto is probably more expensive to live? Higher taxes, because we are talking about Canada? Chicago is probably more affordable in many under appreciated neighborhoods. But they are not safe to live for anyone including black people. So it is a choice of affordability and dealing with Harsh winters vs dealing with crime under affordability. I rather take Chicago. Because being homeleds in Toronto cold would surely kill you faster than Chicago crime. Im saying this as a person from Harlem NYC. Of course Chicago is both more dangerous cold and crime than NYC. But as a New Yorker, we are use to adjusting to different situations. We are chameleon.

Toronto would win with the lack of crime. As a matter of fact, the entire country of Canada. Racism and Segregation is pretty bad in the U.S. Especially the midwest region. Chicago and the Midwest is like the south 60 years ago. It make sense that it loosing it black population in greater numbers than any other region in the United States. But Toronto isn't perfect! Canada just knows how to be under covered with it racism. Particularly with it native Americans population, which it called first world peoples.

Problem is that bicycles SELDOM follow the rules of the road. That's why drivers want them OFF the road. Bicycles without fail run stop signs and ride through red lights of do not have lights or reflectors.. Follow the traffic rules or get OFF OF THE ROADWAY. Simple.

Chicago probably doesn't stay as cold and receive as much snow. It has very hot summers, which gives it a beach designation. But Toronto is more important to Canada than Chicago is to the United States.

Chicago rail wins. It coverage is better. It has express dedicated services. It commuter rail is more intensive. It is up there with Septa and NJ transit with coverage. It is the Freight hub of the United States of America. 😊

Chicago is the main city in the Midwest. It is the biggest region in the U.S.A. Even over the South and West.

Very nice. Well done, love your vids

That Julien guy is pretty cute. I bet he has firm legs <3 ... (Before anyone gets creeped out, he's my brother. lol)

Boomer whingers

We had a post WWII growth that saw the increase of the number of cars, with complementing infrastructures... But, since were already a bicycling nation - for reference we had the highest number of bicycles per capita in 1911, there were still a lof of bicycles around ; not everyone could afford a car, let alone one for the man and one for the wife So, even though there was an increase in cars, there were a lot of bicyclists sharing the roads with them. And with that, a lot bicyclists losing their lives in automobile-bicycle collisions. I don't have exact numbers, but think of around 500 *children* a year. Give or take. *Children*, that's not the total number. resultesd in road-safety protests and campaign initiatives (stop child-murder), which in turn led to the government changing their ideas on how to implement infrastucture. How to ensure every new made infrasturcture is safe for bicyclists and pedestrians by design. We even started to redesign existing infrastructure if it was deemed unsafe. And we are still learning and changing accordingly. So it was an actual "won't anyone think of the children" argument, that led to our country being what it it is,in respect to road safety, today