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Very inspiring podcast. Good work Jessica. Hope more cities/towns follow your example.

Happy to answer any questions people might have!

“We will see the city in transformation.” So much was done so far. They are still talking about transforming the city as if they had just begun. I will be watching traffic fatality numbers in Utrecht and in the Netherlands, to see if they manage to reach zero for a given year.

Can’t wait 🎉

...Cycle Path....

Nice watch, thank you! On cycling infrastructure and safety I can recommend the channel Not just bikes. And for the 'fietsstraat', consider a fietstraat more a way to improve flow on a main cycling route than a way to slow down cars or improve safety, likes it is used in for instance Germany and Belgium. The YT channel Build the lanes has a special on this topic. And do see more of the Netherlands, the cycling infrastructure gets way better outside of the old city centres!

Excellent episode! Shifter is the reason I started bike commuting!

Good podcast with Tom. Interesting information and topic.

I appreciated Tom's comment about small gaps in connectivity and the adverse effect it has on the vast majority of potential riders. It is the city saying "you don't belong here." I my city, the gaps are numerous and it feels like the city is saying, "you can go where ever you like in our city as long as you drive, so please drive your car." "We as a city would never dream of creating a gap in your ability to drive your car."

Nice tour John

Seems that the Toronto experience points to the importance of winning mode shift in suburbia, at least for short trips. Agree fully that listening is critical, too.

Completely agree with Tom that the Ford action in Ontario is driven by political motives and him assuming that the majority are gullible and car brained.

Thanks for getting Tom on. I follow his channel and it's always to see representation from Canada.

Loving the Canadian content recently, especially now, in the winter. Tom's Shifter channel is a favourite, so it was great to get to know him. Wonderful interview. Thanks!

Love Shifter and Tom! Thank you for the interview.

The number one focus regarding cycling worldwide to my mind should be bike infrastructure, although I fully recognise various other focus points.

I don’t know the exact numbers, but it is quite imaginable that each year more bikes are stolen in The Netherlands than are present in most countries in the world!

Excellent

great chat

It's been so long since I've been to Luxembourg City, hardly recognize it. They seem to be making good progress over the last years. Hope they'll be able to keep improving. Thank you John and of course Jennifer for showing us around.

Thanks for another great feature! We've added Luxembourg to our list of cities to visit the next time we cross the pond!

1:14:00 Cincinnati Futures Commission, 32 of the 34 members Mayor Pureval selected don't live in Cincinnati. My understanding was juat bringing in money and not looking at how money is being spent. They included selling off our parks, selling off our golf courses, increasing taxes, hiring on more full time parking enforcement and really drilling down, charging fees on top of our taxes paid to garbage collection, and so on. We have a D or D- credit rating now because bonds are being issued that the current administration knows we won't be able to pay. Federal granta and city money are going to VERY poorly retro-engineering and traffic calming as part of Connected Communities, but that infrastructure is already breaking down and and we don't have the monwy to fix that. The requirement for engineers to include bike and pedestrian stuff heas created whole messes and an increase in deaths if you look at the raw data- there are places that ot doesn't make sense financially or logically. $3.9 million was spent on a .75 mile stretch of road where there were no issues, and now there are severe backups, accidents, and road rage incidents, and recently a gun was pulled on someone I know. This is happening around the city at large. Countdown on walk signals? Those are wonderful! But for example, the only road a massive chunk of our population depends on and the only real way to get out of two heavily neighborhoods being turned into a clogged artery with multiple speed cusions and a random cutout taking away a lane for a quick second and lights timed so people cannot get on the highway with no pedestrian demand in the area..... and yet another location I watched an ambulance with lights and sirens and no easy way to get to the hospital because of these measures.... There is a way for everyone to get where they need to go safely. The focus has been so heavily placed on slowing cars that with a decent amount of my drives being interstate, my average speed is 15mph. I CANNOT take the bus anymore because they are now SO delayed that I have received disciplinary action at work. Jaywalking needs to be enforced because multiple times daily when walking downtown and over the rhine I watch people dead on look at someone driving and step right in front of their car, no exaggeration, the mentality is they'llhave to stop for me. Yes, they put in midblock crossings, 25 paces from the intersection. No, these people don'tuse either. Yes, pedestrians deserve to be safe, but part of that responsibility falls on the pedestrian- I have yet to hear that be mentioned. There are plenty of spaces to have entirely separate bike paths, but the option is to not do that. The biggest change I notice is people make riskier moves. I don't even fault them- I left over an hour and a half early for a funeral on the other side of town, maybe 8 miles away, and not only could I not make it to the viewing, I was embarassingly late to the funeral. The lights are timed so yours turns green as the next turns immediately yellow, and you can be stuck behind someone for miles. On that morning, a parade being led by someone who couldn'tdl decide if they wantedto go 15 or 20 in a 35. As soon as people saw an opportunity, they went for it. It's manufacture frustration, confusion, and road rage here. There does hit a point where people need to get where they need to be. The big example that sticks out was a man got off his bus, despite signa and common sense walked in front of the bus, and directly into a police car responding to a shooting with lights and sirens going and not an irresponsible speed. The man passed away. The talk turned to what traffic calming should be done there. Ar some point, if a person steps in front of a huge vehicle he knows is going to start moving and into a car with blaring sirens and a light show, that's on him, not on unsafe streets.

Schoonschip means clean ship but 'schoonschip maken' is an expression that means starting anew.

Nice tour of Luxembourg. Thanks John and Jennifer.

WOW! That little town has really changed since the 80s (1980s) when I was there. Lots more "stuff" but basically in the same pattern that was there in the 80s with cycle lanes and paths, and tame parking. I was blown away back then! But as you are aware, Mericans don't deserve any of this.

Is anyone going to mention the cool pattern on Cortney's dress?

Let's say there is some room for improvement in the richest state and city of the EU. Jennifer seems to be quit happy with the current state of things, but compared to Paris, Freiburg, Copenhagen and almost any city in the Netherlands it is maybe not stone age, but there is still a long way to go.

Pretty hard to listen to such videos with useless "Right", "OK", etc after each phrase. Let people speak, they don't need your confirmations which may be needed only if there are doubts that you understood something correctly.

This is a nice video, but Luxemburg city was not the innitiator of most in the video shown bike lines. It's the state of Luxemburg who was planing and realising them with the building of the tram. ProVelo. the cycle organisation made a big protest on the new bridge and only then the hanging cycle bridge was build, some of the informations are wrong, like a 2m distance to keep outside on the streets, also the park was before open for cyclist everywhere and the city restricted the use in the parc. The law doesn't also allow to cross the pedestrian zebra by cycling

I look forward to this episode.

Nice ride as always. Just one question. Is my observation correct that Luxemburg much noisier than the other cities you visited last summer?

You should invite Maarten van Rossem for this. He is a Dutch American history professor and also does have an extensive knowledge in infrastructure of the Netherlands. I think he could give a insight on how the Dutch made their towns so active compared to the usa. And maybe his vision how to get there.

Had to chuckle seeing Jenny's daughter try to sneek a nap around the 23:00 mark.

Luxembourg is so beautiful, what a nice ride! Still quite car centric it seems, but it's nice they made a start being more bicycle friendly... Riding through the parcs is such a nice experience compared to sharing the roads with cars.

Those bricked syclepaths are good as well, a litlle more rough but were not made of sugar.. and very important it will drain much more water in case of rainfall.

Nice to see that connection and support can get some places get more options to get for bike , train or car.

Inspiring story on the baseball field. History and mobility go hand in hand.

Going into the deep with Ronnie, let grow that community he’s talking about !

@54:24 That shot, the (colour of the) houses reminds me of Willemstad Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island. Willemstad got to be an inspiration for that part of town.

@35:10 Totally of topic, sorry. The train crossing on top of a bicycle lane. You can't script that. Great shot! Typical Dutch scene "in een notendop". Dutch for: "In a nutshell".

@28:30 "Lovely jubbly". Lovely neighbourhood. The reason why the "older" gentleman, carrying his bag of groceries, passing you on his (non-electric) bike at Mach 1 speed was because his bag contained meat/beef/chicken...that's one of the reasons carnivores in The Netherlands are fitter than vegetarians,. They have to cycle faster to get home to get the meat in the freezer as quick as possible...(I'll get me coat). 😅🚲🚲😅

Ronnie is truly inspiring!

Cities were always intended for people to live and work. Not as carpark or racetrack.

Good podcast on an interesting subject. More traffic engineers and city planners need to realize that people need safer streets for biking, walking, and other types of mobility. I would never want to walk or bike on heavily traffic high speed streets. It just isn't safe for anyone. Even secondary streets through neighborhoods need slower speeds, not 4 lanes of traffic at 40 MPH.

I was on a school trip when the wall came down.(Dutchman) I had no idea what a significant moment in history I was witnessing at that moment. Just felt the euphoria and excitement around me. And enjoyed demolishing a part of the wall. I still have a little part that i took home. With some graffiti on it. I also had my 13th birthday in "Free Berlin." Two days after that. Looking back, it really was my moment in history. I cherish that moment.

I like American interviews, since they invariably bring up new subjects to me. Or, more precisely, new situations, which are mainly inconceivable to my Dutch eyes.

1 pedestrians, 2 bicycles 3, public transport, 5 motorvehicles. Natural order of priority.

Good podcast, thanks John and Ronnie.

Wow, what a great discussion! As a former bike messenger, my mindset 30 years ago wasn't that different from a racer's. Then again, there weren't many utility cyclists on the road back then. Becoming a cycle commuter has certainly changed my perspective. Seeing a bike network spread across our city has been wonderful. Of course recent events here in Toronto are tarnishing that more than a bit. ☹️