Notices by Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)

@Mab_813 @vfrmedia @hittitezombie
SUVs and pickup trucks became so popular in my hometown that the city was forced to update their parking regulations to require larger parking spaces. The same will happen in Europe if we don't stop them first.

And here's an American Ford F-350 next to the most popular car in Europe (Dacia Sandero).

There's a reason why we need to do everything we can to prevent people from driving these stupid American trucks in Europe.

So many Europeans are telling me that they've been seeing a lot of the "huge" Ford Ranger trucks appearing in their cities.

Wait until they find out that the Ford Ranger is the small Ford pickup truck, and all of the rest of them are significantly larger. 😬

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-ranger-2022-4-door-pickup-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

This wasn't supposed to be an hour and a half long, but as the insane shit piled up, I just couldn't bring myself to cut any of it, because the insanity IS the message here.

I always knew that vehicular cycling as a design philosophy was questionable and based on shaky research. I had NO idea that it was founded on lies and misleading data from the start.

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https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america

@mausmalone oh wow that's insane.

30 mph (~50 km/h) is really really fast. I get that people on racing bikes CAN achieve that (especially down hill), but designing ALL infrastructure for that speed is just stupid.

Congratulations New York!

You've got a lot of work to do in order to catch up to the great urbanism improvements we've seen in Paris and London recently, but this is a big step in the right direction.

Amsterdam has built a few of these, but I don't think any city is doing school streets as comprehensively as Paris.

Every city needs to be doing this:

https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-passe-le-cap-des-300-rues-pietonnes-pres-des-ecoles-pour-etre-plus-accueillante-aux-enfants-28-09-2025-6QFZ7NHQFJDIFAI7RSNZJD4K7I.php

The Intercolonial Railway of Canada really did have the best logo of any railway, ever.

I've been following this "mutual safety standards recognition" stuff out of the US/EU talks. This could be really, really bad.

It would mean that US vehicles, like those giant dangerous SUVs and pickup trucks, could be freely imported into the EU in volume without having to pass EU vehicle safety standards (like pedestrian safety).

I haven't seen any organised resistance to this. Does anybody know any other organisations that are fighting this?

https://etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-recognition-deal-with-u-s-will-cost-lives-on-europes-roads/

It's bad enough that small volumes of these stupid pickup trucks have been (illegally) imported into the EU under the IVA (Individual Vehicle Approval) lately. The mutual safety standards recognition would totally open the floodgates.

Just a reminder that this is the most popular-selling car in Europe next to the most popular-selling car in the US.

We don't want these dangerous trucks in EU cities.

@Techaltar in my first job in the semiconductor industry I worked with wafers pretty often, and one time I accidentally dropped one on the floor.

It made the most incredible sound.

The wafers are nearly perfect crystals, so when it hit the ground it sounded like glass breaking, except at only one frequency. Absolutely bizarre sound. I'll never forget it.

My point is, if you've got a spare, you should try dropping it on a hard floor. But also understand it's a real pain to clean up. 😁

@goetz you missed the point. ⅔ of my audience is at the end of this graphic.

@goetz the problem is that I've made those videos already but the way the YouTube algorithm works, nobody sees those videos. They only see the new ones.

So to on-board new Americans, I would need to dumb-down every single video with a bunch of concept that would be absurd to Europeans.

For example, many American suburbs and towns have no public transit. I don't mean "bad" transit, I mean literally none.

I cannot bridge that gap in every video without turning away the other ⅔ of my audience.

This graphic illustrates a major problem I have making videos:

The last street is still absolute garbage. There isn't even public transit.

The US (⅓ of my audience) is so far behind in city design that this is all they can reasonably hope for.

Meanwhile the rest of my audience is starting from the last street and trying to build something better.

It's like if I had a maths channel and wanted to talk about calculus, but ⅓ of my audience was still debating if multiplication actually works.

I am trying to research the operating policy for intersections for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto.

Google gives a giant "AI Summary" which is completely wrong, as usual.

It confidently claims that there will be speed restrictions of 10 km/h through intersections.

The "source" of that? A *forum post* of somebody saying they *hope* there isn't a 10 km/h speed limit like there is on the Spadina streetcar.

This AI slop makes doing actual research SO much harder. 😩

I'm so glad this shit is not legal in the EU.

Car manufactures should not be able to release unsafe cars to the public and hide behind "it's just a beta, bro" excuses.

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/tesla-blows-past-stopped-school-bus-and-hits-kid-sized-dummies-in-full-self-driving-tests-183756251.html

My dad sent me this article the other day and I literally laughed out loud when I read the title.

Only an American would write a title like that.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/munich-germany-most-walkable-city-in-world-11721214

You should know that these "city rankings" are always a load of nonsense and should never be taken seriously.

They're usually put together in an afternoon by a marketing department, in this case, it's a marketing piece for a home loans website.

The goal is to get clicks, not to be accurate. In fact, the less accurate you are, the more likely you are to get clicks, so getting the intern to put it together in Excel based off of an arbitrary "scoring system" is a benefit.

@LovesTha it was meant for "expats" and targeted entirely at HR departments so that they can evaluate compensation and hardship pay.

Every one of these ranking systems is nonsense. I should probably make a video about it some day, if I can bring myself to care enough about it. 😂

@soviut they are very common in the Netherlands, usually outside of shops when they don't want people to parks their bikes out front.