A short-term contract in Amsterdam Noord provided me a great opportunity to explore the variety of commuting options in Amsterdam. In the end, a bicycle + metro commute was the best (and fastest) option for me. This video explores the commuting options available in Amsterdam, and provides some more detail about my commute to Amsterdam Noord. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UxCbmT9elk

In the 1960s, it seemed clear that the future was the car. Amsterdam had its own plans about how to make the city more car-friendly. Some of these plans failed, others only partially. Discover how radically different Amsterdam might have been had these plans succeeded. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5pbDFDZyI

I love taking the train, but taking the train in Canada is difficult. This video explains what it's like to take the train in Ontario, Canada, and some of the history behind why it's so painful. Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Image & Video Credits (in order of appearance): Spoorwegen | Afl.17 | Koplopers Spoorwegen TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP2nCN6U_OU Episode 10: Roads for Rails - the Newfoundland Railway Well There's Your Problem Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcriPJKPdI VIA rail passenger train #76, Komoka ON, VIA 916 [drone] (13-May-2017) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5ckzen69A VIA Rail passenger train #73 & #76 meet, Glencoe ON [drone,4k] (2017-Oct-18) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRGINPR3pQM VIA Rail Timelapse 4K: Toronto to Parry Sound InfiNorth (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVcbX6lioLw Map of the Quebec-Windsor Corridor Awmcphee (Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%E2%80%93Windsor_Corridor#/media/File:Quebec-Windsor_Corridor_2017.svg VIA rail passenger train #73, London ON [drone,4k] (2017-Oct-16) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEnt4uP0eF8 Canada blank map Wikipedia (Public Domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_blank_map.svg VIA Rail train #84 arriving London ON (2019-Aug-24) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5_r-530CJ4 VIA Rail Review (Part One) Nigel Hay (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-xINXsCjY VIA Rail train #72 (Windsor-Toronto) arrives at London ON (2020-May-31) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QAsefOUowY Rail Fanning at Brandon N. - VIA Rail Canadian at 75 MPH! ManitobaTransitVids (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdp3S2Ufx9Y VIA Rail train #85 at Stratford ON, from Toronto to London (2019-Aug-20) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKG3b2MBjA VIA Rail RDCs in Windsor, ON. for the First Time in 30 Years Plus VIA 72 CPWindsorsub (YouTube/CC BY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX4_7MRTY5Y Map of the Great Western Railway of Canada City of Hamilton Archives (Public Domain) http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CNR/gwr/map_GWR_1879_1880.jpg Maps of the 401 Ministry of Transportation (Ontario) Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Passenger Train. Ingenium digital archives https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/MAT-07778 VIA Rail Canada Inc., Diesel locomotive, passenger train Ingenium digital archives https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/MAT-01100 Map of VIA Rail Routes VIA Rail (website) CP mixed freight train & VIA train 73 (2017-Oct-19) Train Spotted (YouTube/CC B ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G0Lyh3uik

This is the 3rd video in the Strong Towns series, and is probably the most important core topic: the fact that American car-dependant cities are financially insolvent, and function like a Ponzi scheme. This is the reason most American cities are bankrupt. If you learned something from this video, consider donating to Strong Towns: https://strongtowns.org/membership This video is a summary of the "Growth Ponzi Scheme" articles, published by Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-a-crash-course https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020 https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/13/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-part-1.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-part-2.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/15/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-part-3.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/16/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-part-4.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/16/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-part-5-finale.html Strong Towns publishes a lot of cases studies of American municipal insolvency. Here are a few of them: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/1/11/the-cost-of-development-local-roads-edition.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2009/3/30/the-cost-of-development-one-example.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/3/17/the-cost-of-development-walker-industrial-park.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/5/5/the-mailbox-tower-historic-harbor-renaissance.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/1/2/the-cost-of-auto-orientation.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/22/the-cost-of-auto-orientation-update.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/29/the-taco-johns-of-buffalo.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/11/13/kansas-city-ebook-md2020 There is a lot more to read, too! Strong Towns has a library of articles about building strong and resilient towns and cities that goes back over 15 years: https://www.strongtowns.org/stmedia --- Other References & Video Sources: Give Yourself the Green Light (1954) (Public Domain) Henry Jamison Handy https://archive.org/details/GiveYour1954 According to Plan: The Story of Modern Sidewalls for the Homes of America Henry Jamison Handy https://archive.org/details/Accordin1952 Settlement Pattern and Form with Service Cost Analaysis Halifax Regional Municipality - Regional Planning https://usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/03/Halifax-data.pdf Traditional Development - #6 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series Strong Towns (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxni1c-klM Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:05 The History of Sprawl 1:03 What is a Ponzi Scheme? 1:51 The Prob ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0