The rising cost of car ownership in America is going to help push in a new era of public transportation. Once ppl start to realize that car ownership is a massive scam they’ll start switching sides
@@qjtvaddict while China is pretty car-brained compared to Europe and Japan, it's nowhere near as car-brained as North America is (nor has a strong car culture as North America does) Edit: North America in this context means US and Canada, thought a more accurate term would be Anglo America
Meanwhile in Denmark we're sadly moving the opposite direction. Transit is in decline and more and more people are driving, and instead complaining about car taxes being too high and about transit receiving subsidy at all, since they think it all means they as drivers are paying other people's rides on transit.
The Florence initiative represents a lot of money. This money could be used to build bike lanes, and when they are bike lanes, people bike… so I don’t really understand
France implemented a renewable transportation yearly bonus for people who go to work by carpooling, cycling or using e-scooters. It's a facultative bonus for companies to give to their employees, and the employee just has to declare that they use eco-friendlier solutions, but it's still a nice incentive of up to 800€/year. I think it's pretty good but I'd prefer the money to be invested in making the bike infrastructure better in cities.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that paying people to cycle thing. I would imagine that taking that money and using it to add new bike lanes would probably a more effective way to use the budget to get people to cycle.
8:38 the stolen cable was replaced, and the first test run of a tram across the bridge has been done now :) The new bridge is two tracks, and decent sized bike path and pedestrian path. It replaces a bridge that was single tracked, and had a much narrower bike/pedestrian path.
@@cityforall usually every country gives it the name of the service of it's national operator xd So, in Spain everyone says AVE, in France it's TGV, etc. If I've heard a general term stand out lately it'd be HSR, but bullet train sounds more like how you'd refer to Japan's Shinkansen :)
I wonder in florence if it wouldnt be smarter instead of spending the 60.000€/month to 2000 people (~0.5% of Florence City population), to use this Money for upgrades to the bike infrastructure and maybe also long distance cycle paths.
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A bit of financial incentive is fine, but not nearly enough for people to actually change habits. What cities truly need is proper bike infrastructure - bike lanes and bike parking. If you have that, then sooner or later more and more people will start choosing the bike.
I hope Brazil does well. I've only spent a little time in South America, but it seems like there's a desperate need and a lot of opportunity for good transit, especially intercity rail. Toulouse looks more and more appealing every day. I'm curious about the bike scheme in Florence. I've only been there once, maybe eight years ago, and while it was a pretty walkable city, at no point did I think, "hmm, I'd like to bike here." But I felt the same way about Lisbon, and I've seen that they've put in a lot of new infrastructure since I was there. So, who knows? Maybe it'll work.
0:14 Based smiling Vienna bus 7:54 Italy is... something when it comes to urbanism. Florence isn't the south, but I've heard Southern cities are absolutely choked with cars with no viable alternative. Who knows, maybe the NIMBYism and chronic poverty kind of prevents them from building new bike routes I guess? Not a good excuse, but we tend to be irrational when struck with chronic poverty.
@@cityforall Some people say it might be the rail workers, protesting: lack maintenance budget, bad working conditions, and the way the Catalonian regional rail (Rodalies) has been transferred to the local government. But it is hard to say.
It’s funny that I know a RUclips channel on urban planning with a name very similar to yours and its author also promotes the same general ideas as you Your stand in urban planning is very similar at all
the Florence cycling idea is not the best, since the extra 100€ will not go to bikers, and definitely not people who used to drive cars, but rather itll be cyclists, the people who cycle for fun/for sport
Before commenting you better do your homework and do some research. It IS a wonderful idea. You have to upload max two paths (home to work or home to university) and use your bike daily. The use will be monitored by a device installed on your bike. Who owns a car and now start using a bike for daily commuting, will receive 30€ / months. It's an amazing idea.
@@Alby_Torino im talking about the wxtra 100€ for most active users, the 30€ part is… we’ve had free public transport not work and either way cycling is way cheaper than driving cause of fuel costs… but the 100€ is giving money to hobby cyclists and not people who commute by bike. unless there is a way to prevent that
@@actualdog2265 Nope. The 100€ award is for the best 200 commuter bikers that have quit cars and besides the daily commuting are using bikes for other paths
It will be interesting to see how they replace the Francis Scott Key bridge, and if they add rail to it. It will be interesting to see if they keep the name or change it (since Key, who wrote the lyrics to the United States anthem, was a slaveowner.)
@@qjtvaddict IF they built a rail link , it could give an alternative to the Howard St. Tunnel, connect the port rail lines on either side of the and potentially be part of a transit system. That all would depend on how it would hypothetically be built, but there is potential demand and adding tracks to a bridge that is being built anyway would be cheaper than building two separate bridges.
Yeah I doubt anyone is leaving their car for 30 euros a month. I think making car ownership somehow more expensive is a better solution.
The rising cost of car ownership in America is going to help push in a new era of public transportation. Once ppl start to realize that car ownership is a massive scam they’ll start switching sides
True but you must build proper transit streetcars are not it. China has an even more insane car culture so it’s more urgent.
@@qjtvaddict while China is pretty car-brained compared to Europe and Japan, it's nowhere near as car-brained as North America is (nor has a strong car culture as North America does)
Edit: North America in this context means US and Canada, thought a more accurate term would be Anglo America
Meanwhile in Denmark we're sadly moving the opposite direction. Transit is in decline and more and more people are driving, and instead complaining about car taxes being too high and about transit receiving subsidy at all, since they think it all means they as drivers are paying other people's rides on transit.
The Florence initiative represents a lot of money. This money could be used to build bike lanes, and when they are bike lanes, people bike… so I don’t really understand
France implemented a renewable transportation yearly bonus for people who go to work by carpooling, cycling or using e-scooters. It's a facultative bonus for companies to give to their employees, and the employee just has to declare that they use eco-friendlier solutions, but it's still a nice incentive of up to 800€/year.
I think it's pretty good but I'd prefer the money to be invested in making the bike infrastructure better in cities.
Happy to see your voice is back !
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Yeah, I'm not sure about that paying people to cycle thing. I would imagine that taking that money and using it to add new bike lanes would probably a more effective way to use the budget to get people to cycle.
8:38 the stolen cable was replaced, and the first test run of a tram across the bridge has been done now :)
The new bridge is two tracks, and decent sized bike path and pedestrian path. It replaces a bridge that was single tracked, and had a much narrower bike/pedestrian path.
We don't say bullet train in Europe!
And how do you say?
@@cityforall usually every country gives it the name of the service of it's national operator xd
So, in Spain everyone says AVE, in France it's TGV, etc. If I've heard a general term stand out lately it'd be HSR, but bullet train sounds more like how you'd refer to Japan's Shinkansen :)
@@cityforall high speed train
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I wonder in florence if it wouldnt be smarter instead of spending the 60.000€/month to 2000 people (~0.5% of Florence City population), to use this Money for upgrades to the bike infrastructure and maybe also long distance cycle paths.
I really appreciate your work. In this world which can often be very depressing, these good news do help to stay positive !
Thank you so much
Thank you very much! Would you like to become a patron of the channel? It's very motivating, and I post exclusive content on my channel that is not available on RUclips.
A bit of financial incentive is fine, but not nearly enough for people to actually change habits. What cities truly need is proper bike infrastructure - bike lanes and bike parking. If you have that, then sooner or later more and more people will start choosing the bike.
Imagine using these bike extra incentive in combination with delivery apps 😅😅😅
I guess most participants will be delivery guys :D
I hope Brazil does well. I've only spent a little time in South America, but it seems like there's a desperate need and a lot of opportunity for good transit, especially intercity rail.
Toulouse looks more and more appealing every day.
I'm curious about the bike scheme in Florence. I've only been there once, maybe eight years ago, and while it was a pretty walkable city, at no point did I think, "hmm, I'd like to bike here." But I felt the same way about Lisbon, and I've seen that they've put in a lot of new infrastructure since I was there. So, who knows? Maybe it'll work.
Money could be spent so much more efficiently on building bike infrastructure instead of a weak incentive for cycling
Battery subway cars!!!! Awesome!!!!
0:14 Based smiling Vienna bus
7:54 Italy is... something when it comes to urbanism. Florence isn't the south, but I've heard Southern cities are absolutely choked with cars with no viable alternative. Who knows, maybe the NIMBYism and chronic poverty kind of prevents them from building new bike routes I guess? Not a good excuse, but we tend to be irrational when struck with chronic poverty.
The incident in Barcelona seems like sabotage. It was on election day and a very strategic place of the network.
Yep, it really looks like that. But who could do that? Competing politics?
@@cityforall Some people say it might be the rail workers, protesting: lack maintenance budget, bad working conditions, and the way the Catalonian regional rail (Rodalies) has been transferred to the local government. But it is hard to say.
It’s funny that I know a RUclips channel on urban planning with a name very similar to yours and its author also promotes the same general ideas as you
Your stand in urban planning is very similar at all
Interesting! What channel do you mean?
@@cityforall this
youtube.com/@arkadiygershman?si=vvZ2qg_F_Mkyt1_U
Second chanel name is "City for People"
@@cityforall this
youtube.com/@arkadiygershman
City Beautiful?
@@crowmob-yo6ry nope
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what is your opinion on Electric Bus vs Trolley Bus?
I have a separate video exactly about this topic
ruclips.net/video/5P9S_ZTXseM/видео.html
@@cityforall thanks 👍
Of course Italy is paying it's citizens to cycle. They always go for the laziest solution.
the Florence cycling idea is not the best, since the extra 100€ will not go to bikers, and definitely not people who used to drive cars, but rather itll be cyclists, the people who cycle for fun/for sport
Before commenting you better do your homework and do some research. It IS a wonderful idea. You have to upload max two paths (home to work or home to university) and use your bike daily. The use will be monitored by a device installed on your bike. Who owns a car and now start using a bike for daily commuting, will receive 30€ / months. It's an amazing idea.
@@Alby_Torino im talking about the wxtra 100€ for most active users, the 30€ part is… we’ve had free public transport not work and either way cycling is way cheaper than driving cause of fuel costs… but the 100€ is giving money to hobby cyclists and not people who commute by bike. unless there is a way to prevent that
Yup 😅😅😅 cash in
@@actualdog2265 Nope. The 100€ award is for the best 200 commuter bikers that have quit cars and besides the daily commuting are using bikes for other paths
It will be interesting to see how they replace the Francis Scott Key bridge, and if they add rail to it. It will be interesting to see if they keep the name or change it (since Key, who wrote the lyrics to the United States anthem, was a slaveowner.)
Linking where?
@@qjtvaddict IF they built a rail link , it could give an alternative to the Howard St. Tunnel, connect the port rail lines on either side of the and potentially be part of a transit system. That all would depend on how it would hypothetically be built, but there is potential demand and adding tracks to a bridge that is being built anyway would be cheaper than building two separate bridges.
I pro choice pro choice of owning a car and the pro freedom to drive win I want to
So be free to own it, it's not forbidden. It just should not harm others.