I Took Not Just Bikes Cycling in London
Evan Edinger
0:00 This blows my mind.
0:01 I never could have imagined this.
0:02 It's so much nicer than when I lived here.
0:04 It's so crazy.
0:06 This green light is just to get into this box.
0:09 Why do I need permission to get in the box?
0:10 They have a red light up there.
0:11 So, why do I need permission to go in the box?
0:13 Just let me go in the box.
0:15 Put me in the box.
0:18 It's bizarre.
0:22 [music]
0:24 This bizarre double traffic light has caught
0:26 out more than a few cyclists in London.
0:27 And weirdly, it's trying to solve a problem
0:30 that the Dutch don't really have to worry so much about.
0:32 But, it's far from the only compromise on London streets.
0:35 I've cycled over 5,000 km over the last 2 years in London,
0:39 and I genuinely think it's becoming such an incredible place to cycle.
0:42 But, maybe I need a reality check.
0:46 This is what you remember from your youth?
0:49 My name is Evan Edinger,
0:50 and today I've taken a Dutch cyclist all around London to show
0:54 him the best and the worst streets that London has to offer.
0:58 But, this isn't just any cyclist.
1:00 This is Not Just Bikes,
1:01 [music] the YouTuber who's well-known for making videos
1:03 on urbanism and what makes great cities great.
1:06 He's also kind of harsh, but fair.
1:08 So, if there's anyone that's going to give
1:09 London the brutal reality it needs, it'd be him.
1:12 And since he used to live here over a decade ago,
1:14 there was only one place that we could start out our journey.
1:20 Keystone Crescent.
1:21 Oh, yeah.
1:21 Why are we here?
1:22 We're here because I used to live here, right here.
1:26 Wow.
1:26 When did you live in London, out of curiosity?
1:27 I lived here from 2006 to 2012, with a brief stint in Taiwan in between.
1:32 I mean, as soon as I arrived, you were like, "I'm out." Yeah, exactly.
1:34 I was like, "Fuck this.
1:35 I'm done here.
1:36 I'm done with this." [laughter] The city has changed quite a lot since then.
1:39 Maybe it's improved, hopefully to meet Jason's standards.
1:42 I know London really well.
1:44 I know how to get around.
1:44 So, I got our Oyster cards here.
1:46 We're you know, one for you, too.
1:48 Thank you.
1:49 And we're set.
1:51 I think we'll be fine.
1:52 So, I think we're going to be getting Jason a Boris bike,
1:54 also called a hashtag branded cycle.
1:56 And so, we'll be cycling around London,
1:58 we'll be showing Jason some of the best and worst that we have to offer.
2:01 Uh we'll see if we can impress him.
2:02 Certainly can't be worse than it was before.
2:05 We shall see.
2:07 [laughter]
2:07 All right, let's go.
2:07 Let's go.
2:10 Yeah, let's let's go up there.
2:11 Okay.
2:12 We're going to go over the canal and then
2:14 there should be some electrical ones on the right.
2:16 Okay, so how do we do this?
2:17 I haven't done this before, but I've done it in other places.
2:19 You got to scan your Oyster.
2:23 [laughter] Hire now.
2:23 Country Netherlands.
2:26 Netherlands?
2:26 I don't understand why it's this difficult.
2:27 Enter the release code using the keypad left of the handlebars.
2:31 Well, it's not necessarily worse than before,
2:33 but our journey started with problem after problem.
2:36 That one's flashing red.
2:37 That one's flashing red.
2:39 That one's flashing yellow.
2:40 Right, it's the same.
2:41 So, whatever.
2:41 Okay.
2:41 Oh, your bike's dead, mate.
2:43 I think we might have to find the other one.
2:45 You know what?
2:45 I'm just going to take out the bike and we'll
2:47 use it for a bit and we'll go get something else.
2:52 Wrong.
2:53 Jason is having some issues.
2:56 [laughter] 331 Uh Now, good start.
3:02 The first Boris bike docks e-bikes were all dead.
3:04 And on the walk to the next one, my camera adapter broke, too.
3:08 All right.
3:10 [laughter]
3:09 So, after a quick detour for some emergency super glue, we're finally starting.
3:13 We had [laughter] to go to a hardware store.
3:16 Okay, confirm hire and green.
3:18 We're good to go.
3:19 We finally got moving along one of my favorite parts of cycling in London.
3:22 You lead the way.
3:23 All right.
3:24 Oh, yeah, [laughter] sorry.
3:25 Okay.
3:25 Okay.
3:26 I have walked down here before.
3:27 Regent's Canal Yes, Regent's Canal.
3:29 This is actually kind of nice.
3:32 Sorry, mate.
3:33 Excuse me, sorry.
3:35 Cheers.
3:35 For about 30 seconds.
3:37 First stop on our cycle Oh.
3:39 That was the first stop.
3:41 Thank you, sir.
3:41 Oh, shoot.
3:43 Already?
3:43 Was it the super glue?
3:45 It was the super glue.
3:46 And I have some bad news.
3:48 Unfortunately, it smashed the lens.
3:51 Oh.
3:51 Well, that was the lens protector, actually.
3:52 Yeah, the lens is actually fine.
3:54 Ready to begin our adventure part five?
3:58 Even with the day slightly cursed,
3:59 I was hoping cycling along London's beautiful Regent's Canal would be
4:02 sure to earn the city its first few points from Jason.
4:08 It's a shared path.
4:09 A little bit narrow to be a shared path, but it it works.
4:12 It is It is narrow.
4:13 You choose this because it's safest,
4:14 but it's not ideal for commuting to be on the canals.
4:17 Bit of an obstacle course there.
4:19 How does this compare to the canals back home?
4:23 [laughter]
4:24 What?
4:24 No?
4:26 Come on.
4:28 Come on, guys.
4:28 Come on.
4:29 I bet you don't have a bookstore on the water.
4:31 We probably do, actually.
4:32 Okay, that's probably
4:33 So, I do know that canal because I used to go for walks along here.
4:37 Okay.
4:37 It is nice.
4:37 A little bit narrow to be biking down, and there's all these people there.
4:40 Yeah, it gets dicey, especially when there's a lot of pedestrians.
4:42 For for leisure riding, that that could work.
4:44 I wouldn't want to take that to get to work.
4:46 Okay.
4:46 So, yes, the canals are lovely to cycle down,
4:49 but the next stop is where Jason got his first real surprise.
4:52 Welcome to King's Cross isn't that bad anymore.
4:56 This is wild to me.
4:58 This is crazy.
4:59 None of this was here when I lived in King's Cross.
5:01 This was all just This is all new.
5:03 And this is really nice.
5:05 I never rode a bike in London, at least not to the best of my knowledge.
5:08 Maybe I blocked out those memories,
5:09 but my wife did sometimes ride from here into Soho.
5:13 She would take the side streets and eventually portage to avoid the worst of it.
5:18 Well, a lot of the main roads now are main roads for bikes.
5:20 I am looking forward to seeing that.
5:21 That's the big change.
5:23 It's amazing.
5:24 It's quite swank.
5:25 Yeah.
5:25 When I moved here, King's Cross was not nice place to be.
5:27 When I moved here, King's Cross is even worse.
5:30 So satisfying.
5:31 King's Cross, can you believe it?
5:35 He wasn't kidding.
5:36 Back in 2008, when Jason was in London,
5:38 this is what this very road looked like on Google Maps.
5:41 A dingy industrial area with a petrol station on the corner.
5:45 But, here's what it looks like now.
5:47 The cycle paths are clearer, the road is more narrow,
5:49 petrol station gone, and hey, there's a lot more people out and about.
5:53 This is such an improvement for all road users,
5:56 and it didn't just happen out of the blue.
5:58 It was a decade of deliberate investment triggered by the Eurostar moving to St.
6:02 Pancras.
6:03 Fix the environment and the people will follow,
6:05 which makes what comes next even more frustrating.
6:07 Because just when the city was finally making a good impression,
6:10 it finds a new way to get awkward again.
6:15 This is our lovely cycleway.
6:16 Look, tulips.
6:18 Well,
6:17 We put them out for you, for the Dutch.
6:19 That's so considerate of you.
6:20 Thank you.
6:21 And it's your favorite, a car parked in the cycleway.
6:25 [laughter] He's not supposed to be there.
6:26 Looks like a tulip is missing.
6:29 Oh, now our tulips are gone.
6:31 This is what you remember from your youth.
6:35 I'm so glad this is where we started.
6:37 Yeah, I want to get through, but that's a bit scary.
6:39 Yeah, I'm not squeezing in between the taxi and the bus.
6:42 He's telling me to go on the pavement.
6:43 Pavement it is.
6:44 For what it's worth, I did have you meet me at King's Cross.
6:47 I was setting this up on hard mode.
6:49 I'm so confused.
6:50 Can we go this way?
6:51 Oh, yes, this way.
6:51 All right.
6:52 okay.
6:53 Well, Look at this.
6:54 It's not too bad.
6:56 Apparently.
6:57 [laughter]
6:59 CS6.
6:59 Yes, welcome to cycleway six.
7:00 We're on a separate path.
7:02 A little bit funny there's taxis here to our left,
7:04 but as long as they stay there, it's the queue, it's all right.
7:06 They're not going to be merging in and out of there, so that's fine.
7:09 Not bad.
7:09 Oh, yeah.
7:10 Okay.
7:10 It's so much nicer than when I lived here.
7:12 It's so crazy.
7:13 I look at it like, what the
7:14 That's St.
7:15 Pancras, and it doesn't look like Yeah, yeah.
7:18 [laughter]
7:18 Yeah, cuz this would have just been what, four or five lanes?
7:20 Mostly taxis, I assume.
7:22 absolutely.
7:22 I don't think I would ever want to come out here voluntarily.
7:25 When I moved, I think the Eurostar had just opened.
7:28 I'd have to look it up.
7:29 It was either right before we moved or just after we moved,
7:32 and that's when things started cleaning up around here.
7:35 That's fascinating as well.
7:36 That must have been just at this peak
7:37 time where enough of people went, this isn't right.
7:40 Yeah.
7:40 Now, it might not be a separate cycleway,
7:42 but the next road I take Jason down features London's next best thing.
7:46 Welcome to Houston Road.
7:48 Oh, Houston Road.
7:49 I was not informed of this.
7:50 We're going to take a right here.
7:51 On Houston Road and on purpose?
7:53 Oh, so this is one of those shared bus and bike lanes.
7:56 Yes, it's not the best form of infrastructure.
7:59 All right.
7:59 All right.
8:00 All right.
8:00 This is a very important light to stop at.
8:02 You have to stop.
8:02 As you can see
8:03 The The one thing I love about the Netherlands is they have the smart traffic
8:06 lights that change the signal timing based
8:09 on like what's detected including pedestrians in some cases.
8:12 I'm excited to get you off this terrifying road cuz this isn't very nice.
8:15 Normally, I would weave, but I do not want to do that right now.
8:17 Oh, here we go.
8:18 Ready?
8:19 Yeah.
8:19 Yeah.
8:19 Yeah.
8:21 Ready?
8:21 Thank you.
8:22 Oh my.
8:23 We're surviving.
8:23 The next light we take a left.
8:25 All right.
8:25 I find it strange that such an important part of London, King's Cross,
8:29 with a big train station doesn't have a cycleway or protected cycleway.
8:32 will say though, there are fewer cars here than there used to be.
8:36 Okay.
8:36 Uh there used to be way more cars on Houston Road.
8:38 And also, they are actually driving slower than they used to.
8:41 So, that is nice.
8:43 There are a lot more
8:43 Where is our light?
8:44 Is it that one there?
8:45 It is.
8:45 When the oil crisis happened in the 1970s Yeah.
8:48 Uh the Netherlands was forced to have car-free days to save oil.
8:52 And then people liked it.
8:53 And it was actually a big reason why the Netherlands became bike-friendly.
8:57 Same with Copenhagen.
8:58 It was because of because of the oil crisis.
9:00 When the oil crisis happened in uh the US and Canada,
9:03 one of the things they did to save gasoline was to bring in right turn on red.
9:08 Oh.
9:07 Yeah.
9:07 The oil crisis gave us Copenhagen and Amsterdam as cycling
9:10 cities and right turn on red in the US.
9:13 Well, that's depressing.
9:16 [laughter]
9:16 We've gone through some spicy places,
9:17 but next we're taking you to Bloomsbury Street.
9:20 I believe your wife would have been cycling down this street.
9:22 I am very familiar with Bloomsbury Street.
9:24 Yes.
9:24 I consider it a middle bit.
9:26 As in it's not fully great for cyclists, but it's at least a little bit better.
9:30 All right.
9:32 Woohoo!
9:33 Okay.
9:33 Okay.
9:34 Not too bad.
9:34 A little bumpy.
9:35 So, we want to go straight, but there's a van.
9:37 Curious to see how this camera footage going to come out.
9:39 Editors, put in some of the really bumpy stuff.
9:42 So, we've had to share the road a lot with cars so far, but this next street,
9:45 Jason compares London and its quiet ways to one city I really wasn't expecting.
9:49 Hey, we're taking a left here?
9:50 After you, monsieur.
9:51 Thank you.
9:52 So, this is our incredibly safe painted line.
9:56 C10.
9:56 But now, look, we've got this tiny Look, we're racing.
9:58 Oh, no, no, yeah, we're racing now.
10:00 side as well has a nice Woo!
10:01 Racing.
10:02 Okay, this is kind of Actually, this is very Copenhagen.
10:05 Yeah, I coded here.
10:07 Really?
10:06 Yeah, they're very Copenhagen coded.
10:08 In 2016, this road was just four lanes
10:12 Right.
10:11 of cars.
10:12 And now, at least we've got these two half lanes for bikes.
10:14 Oh, wait a second.
10:15 Now, I'm just seeing bike lanes all over the place now.
10:17 Look at Look at this.
10:18 Oh, I want to visit the street that you said they removed the bike,
10:20 and that should be around here.
10:21 Yeah, it's at the It's near the British Museum,
10:23 and that should be nearby, right?
10:25 Checks out.
10:27 Jeez, the guy parked in the bike lane.
10:28 On the phone, no less.
10:29 Yeah, well.
10:30 This is Montague Place, right here.
10:31 This is This is where it was, right?
10:34 so Oh, we should turn left on this next
10:35 Yes, I remember walking here with my wife,
10:38 and she would point out the good bike infrastructure, right?
10:41 And I remember there was one on her commute.
10:43 There was this one protected this little protected bicycle [music] lane.
10:47 I believe it's here on Montague Place.
10:49 Oh, it actually says no left turn except cycles.
10:51 Except bikes, that's right.
10:52 Yeah, this is it.
10:53 So, this used to have a protected bicycle lane here, but they removed it.
10:56 I think it was in 2012 or 2013.
10:58 And [music] I think that's the thing.
10:59 I don't think that you need to have protected bicycle lanes everywhere.
11:02 If there are few cars, then it's not really necessary.
11:05 15 years ago, you'd come here,
11:07 and there would just be a ton
11:08 of like tourist buses and taxis and cars everywhere,
11:11 but there was a little protected contraflow bike lane.
11:14 Just one direction.
11:14 Just one, yeah.
11:15 I think I still prefer this.
11:17 You see that one as well.
11:19 Yeah.
11:20 Q1.
11:19 Q1, a quiet way, right?
11:20 Yes, yes.
11:21 So, we have our quiet ways, which is like the side streets.
11:23 So, most of my way is basically C's and Q's.
11:26 Yeah, this is one of those things I've talked about
11:27 lots of times that like bicycle lanes are not bike infrastructure.
11:30 They're car infrastructure, because if you didn't have the cars,
11:33 you wouldn't need bike lanes.
11:34 So, I always say like if you just get rid
11:36 of the cars or reduce them to like this level,
11:39 why do you need the bike lane at all?
11:41 We're kind of weaving in and out of some C's, some Q's,
11:44 some to get you to piece de resistance,
11:46 some Cycleway 3, a really nice one on the river.
11:49 I don't like this.
11:50 I usually would avoid this type of road
11:51 cuz it's like this is uncomfortable to me.
11:54 And we got the bus lane with a lorry unloading.
11:58 [laughter]
11:57 Sorry, sorry.
11:58 I'm really sorry about this.
11:59 I mean, I think that this is the thing with London.
12:01 If you're on one of those cycle superhighway routes, then it's not bad.
12:06 But in between, not really sure.
12:08 You know, it was funny.
12:09 I did a video in Paris years ago and a similar thing
12:12 in Montreal with someone who had worked in the government building some
12:15 of the bike lanes and I went out with him on some
12:17 of the nice bike lanes and I was like, "Oh, this is great.
12:19 Yeah, fantastic." And then I went out on my own not
12:22 knowing like which ways to go and holy in both cases.
12:25 So, what do you think of this?
12:26 We've got a green light here.
12:29 Yeah.
12:28 But it just lets you into
12:30 That makes no sense.
12:31 No, not thank you.
12:33 [laughter] You'll have one of those where you see a green light,
12:34 so you go, "Oh, it's green."
12:36 Yes.
12:36 You cycle through, but then don't notice the second
12:38 red and you almost get hit by a car.
12:39 Yeah, that is that is bizarre.
12:41 I don't know why I need permission to go into the little box.
12:43 So, this is one of the streets that has not yet changed.
12:46 We have not improved Holborn yet for cycling.
12:49 We do have a little safety box, but it's just not nice yet.
12:54 Oh, sorry, mate.
12:54 That's all right.
12:56 I'm really glad London hasn't pressed Jason so far,
12:58 but I still have to take him through some really
13:00 rough patches till he can finally get to our crown jewel,
13:02 Cycleway 3 along the Thames.
13:05 They're trying to implement some cycling infrastructure here at some point soon,
13:08 but it's such an important junction, they can't just shut it down yet, they say.
13:11 So, you never would have cycled in this area.
13:13 Never.
13:13 Absolutely not.
13:14 No.
13:14 No.
13:14 Taking a left.
13:20 But at this point, you might be wondering why any of this even matters.
13:22 Quiet ways, slower speed limits.
13:25 Well, this is why.
13:28 Where I've taken Jason now is the notorious Holborn gyratory,
13:31 which I'll be mispronouncing for the rest of this video.
13:34 A gyratory is a massive high-speed one-way traffic system or roundabout.
13:38 London has quite a few gyratories like the one at Hammersmith,
13:41 Elephant& Castle, and Old Street roundabout.
13:44 Well, they used to be gyratories.
13:46 London has been slowly but surely updating
13:48 its infrastructure to convert gyratories into safer junctions.
13:52 I show how great the changes were to the Old Street
13:54 roundabout in my previous video on cycling in London, linked above.
14:00 Since 2008, at least eight cyclists and four
14:03 pedestrians have been killed on or around this junction,
14:06 making it one of the most dangerous junctions in all of Britain.
14:09 And if you'd like a hint as to why,
14:11 watch as even with 5,000 km of cycling experience under my belt,
14:15 while following Google Maps,
14:16 I accidentally take Jason the wrong way down a massive one-way road.
14:27 Oh, uh well, uh All right.
14:31 Whoops.
14:31 What have you done?
14:33 Uh [laughter] All right, so Try that again.
14:36 I don't think the signaling was great on the roads there.
14:39 This is the issue as well with following some
14:40 map systems cuz it was like take a left Is that on bike directions, too?
14:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:44 The app recently updated and I don't know what they did,
14:47 but I know I saw your video on the Google Maps stuff.
14:49 It's like it just switched to being just car stuff.
14:52 And it'll show you do this giant roundabout, but I'm like, but
14:55 I can just go straight through.
14:56 Yeah.
14:57 So now we're back on the bikes for this.
15:00 Okay.
15:00 We're taking a nice route to get to Cycle Superhighway 3.
15:04 portage?
15:04 Little portage, yes.
15:05 I am a former Canadian.
15:06 I'm familiar with that.
15:08 Yeah, so we've had a a nice mix, actually.
15:11 Nice.
15:11 Nice mix.
15:14 [laughter] Okay.
15:19 The biggest difference, as you noticed, is probably just
15:23 At this point, I can't hear a damn thing he's saying,
15:25 so we're just going to have to catch up.
15:29 I mean, as great as London is, and I think it's a phenomenal place to cycle.
15:32 Obviously, it can use a lot of work.
15:34 Yeah, of course.
15:34 I mean, it's going to be a work in progress.
15:36 Like, I cycle in Toronto.
15:38 I will still say there are so fewer cars here than there used to be.
15:42 So, it's not just about bike lanes, right?
15:45 It's also about lowering speed limits and putting in modal
15:49 filters and one-way streets to reduce the number of cars.
15:52 It kind of sucks cycling out here,
15:53 but also at the same time there's not that many cars.
15:55 And I know that at other times of the day there can be more,
15:58 but I've been to London a lot,
16:00 and there are fewer cars now than there used to be.
16:02 I assume you've noticed we also have so many more people cycling.
16:06 Especially if you come during like peak time,
16:08 it's so lovely seeing so many people
16:10 in all different types of dress cycling to work.
16:12 Yeah.
16:12 And I mean, ultimately, that's the it's giving people options, right?
16:15 Sometimes car people are like,
16:16 "You're restricting my freedom by restricting cars." I'm like, "No, no.
16:19 This isn't about freedom."
16:20 We're giving you more freedom to choose.
16:22 choose.
16:22 It's the freedom to not have to drive.
16:24 That's the point.
16:25 Giving people options, safe options that make sense is just better for everyone.
16:29 I'm so excited to take you off of this main road.
16:33 [laughter]
16:33 It feels like when you recommend a YouTube video to a friend
16:36 and it's really awkward at first and you have to be like,
16:38 No, I know, no, no.
16:39 Just keep going.
16:39 No, no, no.
16:40 It gets better.
16:40 It gets better.
16:41 Just after this little No, no.
16:42 I don't remember the sponsorship.
16:44 Just It's fine.
16:46 [laughter]
16:47 Speaking of sponsors,
16:49 Oh, wow.
16:49 Is that the O2 and the cable car in the same shot?
16:53 How did I find this place?
16:54 Well, I just used my maps.
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17:57 Without further ado,
17:58 let's check up on Jason and see how his trip to London is doing.
18:02 We may have started off with London's rougher side,
18:04 but now it's time Jason saw some of its best recent changes.
18:08 Very important red light.
18:09 Yeah, I know, right?
18:09 I mean, I guess yeah, it's for the pedestrians.
18:12 But, oh man, when you have lived around smart traffic lights,
18:15 yeah, you can never go back.
18:17 They drive you nuts cuz you're like, why is this red for everybody?
18:23 I mean, at least it is 20 mph here.
18:25 Yeah, wee.
18:28 Oh, that's some really bad asphalt.
18:30 I think I am feeling the bumps in the asphalt
18:32 on this bike more than you are on yours.
18:34 Oh, yeah, I've got a little smoother ride.
18:35 I suspect the Boris bike is not the best for shocks.
18:39 All right, left here.
18:41 Yeah.
18:41 Oh, yeah, when you were here, you didn't have the lovely Elizabeth line.
18:44 That is true.
18:44 I still have yet to be on the Elizabeth line.
18:46 So, I have to do that.
18:47 Yeah, I really have to do that.
18:49 What was it called?
18:49 Crossrail or something?
18:50 under construction probably 10 years before you moved and 10 years after.
18:54 Yeah, something like that.
18:55 Ooh, welcome to the Barbican.
18:56 I used to go to university here,
18:57 so I'd have to walk through this disgusting tunnel every day,
19:00 not realizing it's a beautiful birdless area right above.
19:03 All right.
19:04 Uh, I I mean, I'd like to take a right.
19:07 Oh, this is a nice narrow road, huh?
19:09 Oh, cut through here for bikes.
19:10 It's all right.
19:12 Look, we have two bikes, you and me.
19:13 All right, we got two arrows here.
19:16 Oh, this is left.
19:17 I'm going in the middle.
19:19 That's Well, I'm not really loving that, but okay.
19:22 That way.
19:25 I made a boo-boo.
19:26 Isn't that how we were supposed to go?
19:29 No.
19:29 I made a bit of a mistake.
19:34 Oh, we're so close to bank.
19:36 Almost there.
19:36 Is there another one?
19:37 Yeah, except cycles coming out.
19:38 Except cycles, yeah.
19:39 And that's a Yeah, it's a right turn as well.
19:40 That's interesting.
19:42 Yep.
19:42 It just feels like a nice mixed-use area.
19:44 Kind of sneak in here around the garbage truck.
19:47 So, it says except buses
19:49 And
19:50 access.
19:50 But I'm a bike.
19:50 So, we can go straight and then right.
19:52 Okay.
19:52 I'm going to need a pint after this.
19:56 Well, this looks new.
19:58 Just for us.
19:59 Huh.
19:59 This is new.
20:00 It is.
20:02 [laughter]
20:04 We're currently in the square mile City of London,
20:06 which has the lowest percent of car ownership in the entire UK.
20:09 Second is Tower Hamlets,
20:11 the borough I live in, uh where 77% of people do not own a car.
20:20 It's so much quieter.
20:21 Yeah, but I mean, this is the thing I've noticed about London
20:23 more than anything else on this trip is how much quieter it is.
20:26 I know there's like way more electric uh taxis as well.
20:28 It is a quieter city.
20:29 Like this is
20:31 people.
20:31 Yeah.
20:31 And every once in a while we get a bus, but that Is that an electric bus?
20:34 Yeah, that's not loud.
20:35 No, it's not particularly loud, is it?
20:37 Not like it used to be.
20:45 The folks at Modacity often say that the best bike plan is a good car plan.
20:51 Yeah.
20:51 Like it really is more about controlling cars than
20:53 it is about installing a bunch of expensive infrastructure.
20:57 Yeah.
20:57 Oh, Lisa.
20:57 Hi.
20:59 [laughter] What are you doing?
21:00 Going to the Bank of England to exchange some old ass notes I found in my bag.
21:05 We're filming a little video about cycling in London.
21:07 This is Jason.
21:08 All right, see you later.
21:09 See you.
21:13 This is one of these things I talk about just
21:16 in walkable cities you're more likely to run into somebody,
21:18 you know, it's nice to just meet people.
21:21 It is.
21:22 [music]
21:25 I mean again, is this bike infrastructure?
21:27 This costs nothing.
21:29 Exactly.
21:28 All they did was remove the cars.
21:30 Here's one of these e-bike delivery things here.
21:35 So I never really knew how to feel about these things that are technically
21:39 e-bikes because they're just within the parameters
21:42 of what's allowed to be called an e-bike.
21:44 I would rather that they just had lots
21:45 of micro trucks and just said yes, they are trucks.
21:48 They are little electric trucks.
21:51 But then the streets in general are just slower and safer and wider.
21:56 Yeah.
22:00 Hey, Tower Bridge.
22:02 This is wild to me like genuinely wild to me
22:04 that London Bridge has no cars on it at this moment.
22:08 Look at this.
22:09 There are literally
22:12 [music]
22:11 no cars on London Bridge right now.
22:12 This blows my mind.
22:14 I never could have imagined this.
22:15 Yeah, it's insane, isn't it?
22:17 Yeah.
22:22 [music]
22:28 That was nice.
22:30 The more I cycle here,
22:31 the more it feels like an experience that you'd get on holiday as an American.
22:35 But I can do this every day.
22:36 Right.
22:37 It's so nice.
22:38 When I've lived anywhere where I mostly take the metro,
22:40 my mental map of the city is really messed up because I know how
22:43 to get to the places that I would go to when I exit the tube station.
22:46 But sometimes I'd be walking and I'd be like, "Whoa, wait wait a second.
22:49 What?
22:49 This is right next to that?" I had no idea.
22:53 This is part of the cycleway.
22:56 Right.
22:55 It's a shared use path.
22:56 See?
22:57 A little bit weird.
22:58 Yeah, it's a bit weird.
22:59 You just have have kind of know.
23:01 I ran into
23:02 [music] those in Paris as well where sometimes they just pointed
23:04 into the sidewalk and you're just like figure it out.
23:07 It is amazing though to see people like that dressed in normal clothes.
23:11 What I've been seeing more and more,
23:12 especially in the borough of Islington and Camden,
23:15 Hackney, is parents with their kids.
23:17 Yeah, I mean that is like an indicator species, man.
23:20 To me, that's what's the signal that's
23:22 saying this is really becoming a cycling city.
23:25 That's all right, don't worry.
23:26 It's like if you want to know how safe a neighborhood is,
23:29 you go out there in the evening and see
23:30 if there are women walking around by themselves.
23:32 It's like that kind of thing.
23:33 Go around this guy.
23:34 Look at our blue paint.
23:36 Ah, there you go.
23:37 Thank you, Barclays.
23:38 Given everything you've seen so far,
23:40 if you had lived in London during this time as opposed to before,
23:43 do you think you might have chosen to cycle?
23:45 Yeah, I think I still probably would have taken transit more often than cycling,
23:49 but I could definitely see it.
23:51 You know, at the end of the day it's
23:52 going to depend where I'm going and what it's like.
23:54 I could imagine though that if I had some
23:57 of those better cycle highways between home and work,
24:00 I would have done it for sure.
24:05 There's still some trucks here, but we're totally separated.
24:07 And really separated.
24:09 I mean, yeah.
24:09 They're serious about this.
24:11 Nobody's jumping that curb.
24:14 My camera.
24:17 This is the part of content creation they never show you.
24:19 You got to go back and get your camera, pack up the tripod again.
24:24 These are the lengths that Evan has to go to to bring you this quality content.
24:28 So please, share, like, and subscribe.
24:32 Uh, what's he up to?
24:34 You having a good time there?
24:37 [laughter] So here we are.
24:37 We have a green light.
24:38 Yeah.
24:39 Yeah, so what is up with this?
24:40 Why?
24:41 Why do I need permission to go into here?
24:44 That's what I don't get.
24:45 This is actually the intersection I nearly got in an accident in.
24:48 I crossed this bridge, I see a green light,
24:50 I come on through it not realizing that traffic
24:53 had just opened up and there's a red light here.
24:54 There's no indication here that this green light is just to get into this box.
24:59 also, like you said, why do I need permission to get in the box?
25:01 I get that the car is not allowed in the box,
25:03 but they have a red light up there.
25:04 So, why do I need permission to go in the box?
25:06 Just Just let me go in the box.
25:09 Put me in the box.
25:10 Is there a situation where this is red, but now it's green for them,
25:14 they go into the box, and there's some reason for that?
25:17 Is that like why they do this?
25:18 we're not allowed to go, but it's green up ahead,
25:20 and it's not like this is a pedestrian pathway, so why is this here?
25:25 Nice cowboy.
25:26 Now the green light is there, green for cyclists, but now it's red for us.
25:30 It's bizarre.
25:31 So, I guess we go now.
25:32 I guess we're green.
25:33 It reminds me of those highway entrances in California where they have
25:36 the red light to like keep the cars going in at a reasonable rate,
25:40 but that's to like keep traffic flowing so
25:42 the cars don't bunch up on the entrances.
25:44 You don't need that for controlling the bicycles that come in here.
25:48 This is bizarre.
25:48 I could totally see seeing that green light and just going
25:51 right through and missing this I could totally see doing that.
25:54 I hate it.
25:54 It is weird.
25:55 It's one of those things where I made the mistake and then went,
25:57 "This is not my fault." Yeah, I [laughter] know, right?
25:59 This is infrastructure porn.
26:00 confusing because the thing is, when you mentioned that to me,
26:02 I thought at the very least back there there'd be a sign
26:05 that says for entry into the waiting area or something, in the waiting box.
26:09 But like it doesn't say anything.
26:10 It's just a green light and then a red light.
26:12 It's useless.
26:13 Bizarre.
26:14 Absolutely bizarre.
26:16 The main purpose of bike gates like this one at Queen's Place is to eliminate
26:19 the risk of the left hook collision between
26:21 left turning motor traffic and cyclists proceeding ahead.
26:24 But the main issue with bike gates is that they only
26:26 exist because the junction is still
26:27 fundamentally designed around motor traffic first.
26:30 It is a very London solution, a clever workaround for a conflict that better
26:34 designed streets wouldn't cause in the first place.
26:37 But at this point, I think I'd shown Jason enough of London's weird quirks.
26:40 I'd been saving the best for last.
26:43 At long last, we've made it to Cycleway 3.
26:46 We are entering the promised land.
26:47 The promised land.
26:48 Sort of.
26:49 What am I doing?
26:50 Oh, okay.
26:51 It's a two-way
26:51 two-way cycling path.
26:52 Hopefully this reminds you of your homeland.
26:54 I mean it's pretty wide.
26:57 Yeah.
26:56 This is a good width for a two-way cycling path.
26:59 I think the minimum in the Netherlands these days is 4 m for two-way.
27:03 Oh, wow.
27:04 4 m wide.
27:04 about 4 m.
27:05 This is a little more than 4 m now.
27:07 And what's nice was they didn't have to build this as much as just take it over.
27:10 Again, I mean this is just part of the road
27:12 that they just don't let the cars in except for loading only,
27:16 I guess, which is fine, right?
27:17 My first cycle for my video where I wanted
27:19 to go east to west getting to this dingy tunnel,
27:21 we were all so excited because we had a private tunnel just for bikes.
27:25 Yeah.
27:25 You know.
27:26 I do want to ride sometime with a really accurate heart rate monitor and go
27:30 around the city and compare my heart
27:31 rate to like how dangerous the infrastructure is.
27:34 Can I get like live cortisol levels?
27:37 I mean, it's a little bit narrow for one-way, but it's fine.
27:40 Like this is this is pretty good.
27:41 So this is an annoying light mostly because it doesn't really need to be
27:46 a red light for bikes ever unless they're turning left, which is rare.
27:50 Yeah, that is a little bit silly.
27:51 This is again like once you get used to smart traffic lights,
27:54 you can't handle dumb traffic lights.
27:55 I look at this and I'm like,
27:56 why would the traffic lights ever be designed this way?
27:59 Yeah, for instance, we're not protecting a pedestrian here.
28:00 We're not really
28:01 Yeah, right.
28:01 There's no reason for this to be red for bikes right now.
28:05 Especially cuz this is not a popular road to turn down really.
28:09 Right.
28:11 Well, that was a bit spicy.
28:12 They're really pushing it there.
28:13 He's like, "Hey, this is 4 m.
28:14 I know we can go four of us at a time." Yeah.
28:17 [laughter] So we've got 3 minutes on this level A cycleway
28:21 Right.
28:20 to get to King's College where we'll stop for a drink at a nearby
28:24 I could use a pint after that.
28:26 Oh, yeah.
28:26 Although I can feel my blood pressure,
28:28 my cortisol levels, everything's coming down a little bit.
28:32 I'm doing all right.
28:39 So we had the London tube strikes in the summer.
28:43 Right.
28:42 were the most brutal tube strikes we've ever had.
28:44 However, loads of people got on Lime bikes.
28:47 Right.
28:47 And there were so many that this road was clogged with them.
28:50 It was insane as a person who cycles all
28:51 the time to see so many people on the bikes.
28:54 Oh, sorry.
28:54 Go for it, sir.
28:55 Thank you.
28:56 It was just mind-blowing.
28:57 The numbers haven't quite come back from then,
28:59 but a lot of people took that one day and went,
29:02 "Oh, it's actually not that bad."
29:03 People get stuck in their routines and need
29:05 a shock sometimes just to nudge them,
29:07 just to give them a kick in the ass to try it.
29:09 This is by far Boris Johnson's best work.
29:11 The one good thing he did.
29:12 It's really nice.
29:13 Yeah, this is perfectly pleasant.
29:15 And there aren't a lot of cross streets here, either.
29:17 This is one thing that the Netherlands tries to do quite often.
29:20 They don't often do two-way cycling paths unless
29:23 it's in a place where there's very few
29:24 cross streets cuz that's the one place two-way
29:26 can get you in a little bit of trouble.
29:27 But this works very well.
29:29 You're right cuz there's nowhere to the left to go, so it makes sense.
29:31 Most of our best cycle ways are two-way like this.
29:33 So I get confused when I go to like Paris and they
29:35 have a lot of the style where it's on one on either side.
29:38 Right.
29:38 It's too narrow for me, though.
29:39 Yeah, the logic there is that it's better to be on the side
29:42 that people expect you to be driving on because then cuz you do run
29:46 into situations with two-way cycling paths where a driver will look one way
29:50 but not the other because they're not
29:51 expecting bikes to be coming from that direction.
29:52 I have found compared to when I first tried
29:54 cycling was too scared of it 10 years ago,
29:56 drivers are so much more cognizant of cyclists on the road in London these days.
30:00 Yeah, that makes a difference, too, for sure.
30:02 I see road rage videos online a lot,
30:03 but my experience in London in real life is people do not cross the cycle path.
30:07 They wait for you if you're cycling, which is the law.
30:09 So I mostly find drivers are quite nice, but that won't go viral, so
30:13 [laughter] This is one of the things with the Netherlands
30:15 that even when you are driving around cars,
30:17 you're driving around cars driven by people who ride bicycles themselves.
30:22 it.
30:21 So they know exactly what it's like, and it just makes everything more chill.
30:24 And I do find that even they'll even be like a luxury car coming along,
30:28 and they'll slow down and wave me through on a bicycle.
30:30 And I'm like, "Wow, look at that."
30:33 You know, when you get waved through by a Lamborghini driver, you're like,
30:36 "We're doing something right here." Yeah, I mean, this This quite pleasant.
30:40 We should have started here.
30:42 No, it's good to end here.
30:43 I know that it's a bit mixed.
30:44 I know you laughed at my mixed.
30:46 There's a lot of rough patches.
30:47 And I did start us on hard mode by starting at King's Cross.
30:50 You did.
30:50 It was really hard for me to [laughter] save it from there.
30:52 But, you're going east-west, this is completely unbeatable.
30:55 And then there's a couple north-south ones that are just so nice and safe.
30:58 Big Benny.
30:59 Big Ben.
30:59 We made it.
31:00 This is the longest you'll wait at a light.
31:03 During the strike, I sat here with my camera
31:06 and counted four different stops that had
31:08 to wait before they could actually cross cuz
31:10 this is so It's not long enough for cyclists.
31:12 Right.
31:12 Yeah, yeah.
31:13 But, it's still the best we have.
31:14 This is such a difference, I'll tell you.
31:16 Yeah, right?
31:17 And now that I've taken you to lovely Big Ben,
31:19 we just turn around to go to King's College and get a pint.
31:21 I just wanted to see Big Ben.
31:23 Hi, Big Ben.
31:23 Hi, Big Ben.
31:28 Yeah, I don't know.
31:28 Not much to say here, really.
31:29 This is just quite pleasant.
31:31 I think it's when you have a good meal and nobody's talking.
31:33 You know it's a good meal.
31:35 Right.
31:35 Yeah, I think that's exactly it.
31:36 This is the thing.
31:37 This is going to be the case with most cities.
31:39 They're going to be in a transition period for a long time.
31:42 But, look, London is obviously moving in the right direction here.
31:45 Whoop.
31:46 Even just bicycle traffic lights are not something
31:48 you would have seen when I lived in London.
31:50 It just wasn't a thing.
31:51 Like, there were probably a few around.
31:53 I'm sure I'm going to get somebody in the comments say,
31:55 "Actually, the first bicycle traffic light was installed in London
31:58 The argument I hate is when you have a part of England
32:00 that installs like a strip of cycleway and nobody used it.
32:03 And I'm like, "Yes, because that's not a network."
32:05 Yeah.
32:06 If it's not connecting to the destinations people want,
32:07 then it's kind of irrelevant.
32:09 The former chief planner of Vancouver used to always say that you don't judge
32:13 the need for building a bridge by counting
32:15 the number of people swimming across the river.
32:17 And it's exactly that.
32:18 Like, you don't They don't look and say, "Well,
32:19 nobody's biking, so we don't need bike infrastructure." It's like,
32:22 "No, actually, nobody's biking because you don't have
32:24 a bike infrastructure or your bike infrastructure is shit."
32:28 And finally, one little stop before a celebratory pint at the pub is
32:31 a bit of road that until a few years ago was completely congested with cars.
32:38 So, I wanted to take you here because this used to be an incredibly,
32:41 incredibly busy road from east to west in the city,
32:43 but now they put up these filters.
32:44 This is a university, King's College.
32:45 A lot of people obviously go to university here,
32:47 but it used to be just a busy, busy, busy road.
32:49 So, there wasn't anywhere to hang out.
32:50 But now, I mean, we have a full bike parking spots,
32:52 people all over the place in the greenery.
32:54 Very often, this is what makes a city better,
32:57 actually, is just blocking off a street like this.
32:59 Doing something like this, this kind of modal filter,
33:01 obviously, it just cuts through the through traffic.
33:03 It's so much quieter.
33:04 Now, you've got places for people to sit, and [music] just that alone can be
33:09 what improves the city more than anything else.
33:11 Look how many bikes are in the parking spots.
33:14 It's to me inspiring because it shows that the kids are going to King's College,
33:17 are actually choosing to cycle.
33:18 And people are sitting there in the park and on the benches and
33:21 a park, by the way.
33:22 You know, like I mean, yeah, that was that was a road.
33:25 Yeah.
33:25 And without further ado,
33:26 I guess we'll cycle this way and then head to the the old Cheshire Cheese.
33:33 These are automatic bollards.
33:35 They are, yeah.
33:36 Those are rising bollards.
33:37 about an automatic bollard.
33:39 Obviously, this is so much better than it used to be.
33:41 It is frustrating to me that it happens every time in every city.
33:45 Everyone gets up in arms, they're all angry about it, they're all like,
33:48 and then they you do it, and then there's almost nobody that wants it.
33:52 Nobody wants to turn it back, no.
33:54 And unless you're the mayor of Tower Hamlets.
33:56 Right.
33:56 Sometimes they do turn it back, you know,
33:59 you get some politician that runs in a war on cars platform.
34:03 I'm from Toronto.
34:04 I'm by now.
34:05 lived in Toronto, anyway.
34:06 I'm from London.
34:08 London, fake London, yeah.
34:09 Fake London.
34:09 But ultimately, this is why I believe that cities will get
34:12 better because people see this, and they want more of this.
34:15 Business owners are all upset that they're going
34:18 to lose all their business when the cars are removed,
34:20 and then the businesses do better,
34:21 and then business owners a few streets over are like, "Well,
34:24 I want that." Yeah, that's where you get the tipping point.
34:26 People say that these decrease foot traffic,
34:28 but the amount of feet I I right now It's a stupid thing to say.
34:32 It is.
34:32 Yeah, and that's one of those tipping points you get with cities.
34:34 Uh Um, and the other one being when
34:36 cities start thinking about biking infrastructure is like,
34:38 "Where is the best place to put this?" Versus "Where
34:41 will this inconvenience drivers the least if we build it?" Yeah.
34:44 Yeah.
34:44 Yeah.
34:45 This is still one of the annoying parts of London car-wise,
34:48 but it's okay cuz we have other options nearby.
34:50 Don't love riding a bike around buses, but uh yeah.
34:54 The big big red ones?
34:55 I'm seeing red.
34:58 [laughter] Stupid.
35:01 I'm so sorry.
35:01 [laughter] You'll be a dad someday.
35:03 I know.
35:04 I know.
35:05 See, this is a very important red light for us to stop at.
35:07 Red lights for bicycles on T junctions, stupid.
35:10 Should not exist ever.
35:11 That is something the Netherlands does well.
35:13 They'll put the They'll make a bike lane.
35:15 Even if there isn't a bike lane, they put one on this other side.
35:19 Yeah.
35:19 So, we need to find a way of turning right.
35:22 We've been cycling for ages.
35:24 Yeah.
35:24 Worked up a thirst.
35:25 I could definitely use a pint.
35:27 First I could use a pint because uh of the stress.
35:30 Now I could just use a pint.
35:33 Nice.
35:32 That's positive.
35:33 You can't appreciate the positives unless you have some negatives.
35:36 It's true.
35:37 So, in the Netherlands you just what you're stressed about.
35:39 I think I've seen you complain about certain things in videos where I'm like,
35:41 "Mate, that's like the nicest infrastructure I've ever seen." funny.
35:44 I have There are things I complain about where like the Dutch people are like,
35:47 "Oh yeah, that is the worst.
35:48 It's so dangerous." And people are like, "Are you kidding me?" Oh yeah.
35:53 [laughter] Yeah.
35:52 Wow.
35:55 Oh nice.
35:56 Such a nice view to ascend to as well.
35:58 It is nice.
36:00 Cities used to be designed with what they called terminating vistas.
36:03 So, that you were walking down a street
36:05 and you there was an important building ahead of you.
36:07 And the idea was that you were walking towards this important,
36:11 culturally important, or governmental building.
36:14 And that was the purpose.
36:15 People would have been walking here.
36:17 All right.
36:24 A little A long.
36:26 Honestly, wasn't expecting to wait this long.
36:28 Here we go.
36:32 There's the Chester tees.
36:34 We have to cross to the right.
36:36 Yeah, I need to park this.
36:38 Okay, there.
36:40 And there's no free spots.
36:43 Not one?
36:44 Yeah, zero spaces in the app.
36:46 I should have checked that first.
36:48 Sorry.
36:47 We got down the street here, seven spaces, so Hi Paul.
36:51 I said sorry.
36:52 That's me.
36:53 Have a nice cycle.
36:55 Next street, turn left, we can return the bike.
36:58 Uh-oh.
36:58 Christ.
36:59 What are we supposed to do?
37:01 Are you pulling out a bike?
37:02 Oh, that's so convenient.
37:04 We would like to support you.
37:08 Cheers.
37:08 We're professionals.
37:10 I can't believe [laughter] it.
37:12 Yeah, look at this Oh my god.
37:15 Oh Oh my god, that was so loose.
37:21 Cheers, my dears.
37:24 Cheers.
37:25 Mhm.
37:25 Ah, I needed that.
37:28 Mate.
37:27 That is excellent.
37:28 That's good, eh?
37:29 So, compared to when you had cycled here originally though,
37:32 I know it was a very different place.
37:34 But, do you feel like with all
37:37 the changes that have happened since you lived here,
37:39 that it's been substantial enough for you to like class
37:43 London as a place that you might choose to cycle in?
37:46 I think if I lived here today and I worked in London,
37:49 there is a chance that I would cycle to work.
37:51 It would really have to depend because the thing
37:52 is there's there's some really really good infrastructure out there.
37:56 And I know the the cycle highways are meant
37:58 for like long distance commuting more than anything else.
38:01 If I was along one of those, for sure, absolutely.
38:04 Um I think though like for everyday trips,
38:07 I think I would still take the tube most of the time.
38:10 I think I I think it would be like a maybe 25 75 split or something.
38:15 But, you'd have that as an option.
38:16 Of course.
38:17 I know that's what you want.
38:18 And a question I'm curious about is,
38:20 would you feel comfortable cycling with your kids in London?
38:24 I'm going to say probably not.
38:26 Interesting, yeah.
38:26 Yeah, probably not.
38:27 In most of the stuff that we did, certainly, you know,
38:30 the paths along the water and things like that, obviously, that would be fine.
38:33 But, I would also depend on how difficult it is to get from where
38:37 we would live in this hypothetical situation to where we'd want to go.
38:43 Yeah.
38:42 Um yeah.
38:43 So, I think that's a a very big asterisk.
38:45 It It depends.
38:47 Mostly no.
38:48 Yeah, if you lived in uh Hackney or anywhere in Islington,
38:51 I see parents all the time in there.
38:53 I don't really see them as much when you're in like the Southeast even in like
38:57 And I think that's the thing.
38:58 Like, a lot of it would depend on the neighborhood that we were in.
39:01 Like, cycling to school and things like that is
39:03 often doesn't even need to be on cycling infrastructure.
39:05 It just needs to be on streets that don't have a lot of cars on them.
39:08 And that was the one thing I've noticed since I've been back in London,
39:11 there are just so fewer cars.
39:13 It is like it is actually really noticeable.
39:16 The city is quieter.
39:18 The cars are driving slower, and there are fewer of them, uh which is nice.
39:22 So, we didn't get an F grade.
39:24 We did not get an F grade.
39:26 I think it's a solid C, honestly.
39:28 Like Yeah.
39:31 [laughter] Adequate is is Britishness in its core.
39:33 Yeah.
39:34 It's like that me I'm so happy to have a C.
39:37 Compared to Amsterdam,
39:38 I'm so happy London is a C cuz I feel like it used to be an F.
39:42 And so, I'm hoping that maybe next 2 3 [music] years,
39:44 London gets gets up to that B plus.
39:46 I mean, it's on the right track.
39:47 All right.
39:48 Very Cheers to that.
39:51 Cheers.
39:55 [music] Do I think Jason's assessment of London is fair?
39:58 Yeah.
39:59 In many ways, London is still in that weird in-between state where
40:02 it's not quite incredible for cycling and not quite so [music] bad.
40:06 But, the thing is, London still has quite a lot of growing pains.
40:10 [music] But, at the end of the day,
40:10 I'm happy that we actually have growing pains, cuz that's a sign we're growing.
40:14 We're changing.
40:15 We're [music] trying to be better.
40:17 And hopefully, by this time in the next 5 years,
40:19 maybe the next time Jason comes back,
40:21 London will have solved a lot of these problems.
40:23 A lot of the dangerous junctions will be gone.
40:24 [music] There'll be a lot more safe paths,
40:26 and people that live in London can live happier, healthier lives.
40:29 And hey, [music] maybe next time I take Jason to London,
40:32 maybe just maybe I won't take him down the wrong way on a one-way street.
40:36 But hopefully by then, one of us would have figured that out by now.
40:39 Me or the city of London.
40:42 Thanks for watching.
40:42 I'll see you next Sunday.
40:55 Uh they're called GVs, actually.
40:56 There we are.
40:57 Just a bit of that.
40:58 Can you just like pick that up and just grab it.
41:01 Just take it with you.
41:02 Oh.