New NJB: The Bahamas
Added 2023-03-25 16:23:42 +0000 UTCHello Patreon supporters!
My latest video is now available, and it's a collab with Foreign Man in a Foreign Land from the Bahamas!
YouTube: https://youtu.be/aMoZ4KohmY4
The Bahamas is the third-richest country in North America (by GDP per capita) and most of the population live on one small island. And yet, the urban planning is pretty much as bad as anywhere else in the US or Canada. Foreign always got around by driving, so I made him take public transit with me, and this video was the result!
Foreign is making a companion video to this one, but it's not ready yet, so this release is only to Patreon supporters (it's not even up on Nebula yet!). It will release on YouTube as soon as Foreign finishes his video (probably within the next few days).
Enjoy!
Jason
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In other news, I had the pleasure of taking a walk through the world's longest pedestrian and bike tunnel, here in Bergen, Norway. It's a 3km long tunnel that runs parallel with a new light rail tunnel and connects two districts so that travel time between them is reduced to only three minutes by light rail, where previously you had to go around a mountain (the tunnels are only for pedestrians, bikes, and the light rail -- cars still need to go all the way around the mountain). It had a rubber "pavement" for pedestrians and joggers, a two lane bike road, and it was decorated throughout, and each section was "colour coded" so you knew where in the tunnel you were. Quite the experience.
Øyvind Wallentinsen
2023-04-16 17:29:02 +0000 UTCThis was an excellent partnership with Foreign Man in a Foreign Land. Next do a collab partnership video with 'Crime Pay but Botany Doesn't'. Native vegetation and tree planting is very intertwined with higher quality of life with well planned cities. Native plantings also provides an aid to stormwater management and slope stability in addition to carbon capture as new plantings grow. It's extremely important to push only NATIVE plantings as they also provide habitat to native species of insects and animals. It's dumb to plant non-native species. I hope you consider talking about native tree and vegetation plantings in your future videos. Community parks also need to be re-forested rather than being giant grass fields (North America is especially bad for this). Anyways you have such a far reach with your content, and this is another significantly important topic that is strongly intertwined with good planning. As we can now see - racial issues, pedestrian issues, and ecological issues (due to car dependency and sprawl) are directly involved with good urban and conservation based planning.
Brett K
2023-04-04 14:33:46 +0000 UTCWow this video was so real. I reluctantly had a family cruise to the Caribbean a few months ago and visited six islands (probably all a tad bigger than the Bahamas if I had to estimate) and they're literally all the same anti-urbanist nightmares as depicted here (except that Nassau's downtown seems above average). I was absolutely astounded and perplexed by the car culture that was so deep that even motorcycles and mopeds, let alone bicycles, were a rare sight. The smaller sized cars and buses were nice but in such small places with so little wealth I honestly could not figure out why economical and efficient micromobility - even gas-powered! - was not a thing in the slightest. Not even in the Dutch colony of Sint Maarten! I'm numb to garbage American planning but this was genuinely so sad to see places that could be so great be so car-centric.
Chris D'Antonio
2023-03-30 00:38:07 +0000 UTC
