Jason (Not Just Bikes) and Ray (CityNerd) discuss how traffic engineers use complicated models and guidebooks but still manage to build terrible streets that don't actually work.

Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers. Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.

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When a bike lane was installed on Valencia Street in San Francisco, one business owner hated it so much he went on a hunger strike. Bike lanes are almost universally positive for business, so why do some business owners hate them so much?

Some Business Owners REALLY Hate Bike Lanes (with Bike Curious)

As housing and transportation prices are skyrocketing around the developed world, Japan has somehow remained (relatively) affordable.

How Japan has Remained (relatively) Affordable (with Life Where I'm From)

For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not.

Living with Self-Driving Cars (with Bike Curious)

Yup. Cars are REALLY expensive, and they're getting more expensive. And yet, most car owners seem completely oblivious to it.

Cars are (REALLY) Expensive! (with RMTransit)

Europe is known for its train networks, and the EU has been promoting trains as the preferred mode of travel. But the train networks are not functioning well, and it's not a coincidence that many EU countries are spending twice as much on roads than they do on rails.

Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

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