I Took Not Just Bikes Cycling in London

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.

0:24 This bizarre double traffic light has caught

0:26 out more than a few cyclists in London.

0:28 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's streets.

0:36 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 and today I've taken a Dutch cyclist all around

0:53 London to show 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 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

1:10 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.

1:19 Keystone Crescent.

1:21 Oh, yeah.

1:21 Why are we here?

1:22 We're here because I used to live here.

1:24 Right here.

1:25 Wow.

1:26 When did you live in London on curiosity?

1:27 I lived here from 2006 to 2012 with a brief stint in Taiwan in between there.

1:32 And then as soon as I arrived, you were like, I'm out.

1:34 Yeah, exactly.

1:34 I was like, I'm done with this.

1:38 The city has changed quite a lot since then.

1:40 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 I got our Oyster cards here.

1:46 We're uh you know, one for you too of uh 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.

1:57 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, right?

2:05 We shall see.

2:07 All right, let's go.

2:08 Let's go.

2:10 Yeah, let's go up there.

2:11 Okay, we're going to go over the canal and then

2:14 there should be some electric 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 higher now.

2:23 Country Netherland.

2:26 Netherland.

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 Red.

2:40 It's the same.

2:41 So, whatever.

2:41 Okay.

2:42 Oh, your bat'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.

2:52 Jason is having some issues.

2:57 33 1 Good start.

3:02 The first Boris Bike Docs ebikes were all dead.

3:04 And on the walk to the next one, my camera adapter broke, too.

3:09 All right.

3:09 So, after a quick detour for some emergency superglue,

3:12 finally starting to go to the hardware store.

3:16 Okay, confirm higher 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.

3:24 Oh, yeah.

3:24 Sorry.

3:25 Okay.

3:25 Okay.

3:26 I have walked down here before.

3:28 Regent's Canal.

3:28 Yes.

3:29 Region's Canal.

3:29 This is actually kind of nice.

3:32 Sorry, mate.

3:33 Excuse me.

3:33 Sorry.

3:34 Cheers.

3:35 For about 30 seconds.

3:37 First stop on our cycle.

3:39 That was the first stop.

3:41 Thank you, sir.

3:42 Oh, shoot.

3:43 Already.

3:44 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 Oh, that was the lens protector, actually.

3:53 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 Region'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.

4:12 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 uh canals back home?

4:24 What?

4:24 No.

4:26 Come on.

4:28 It's kind of nice.

4:29 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 fine.

4:33 So, I do know that canal because I used to go for walks along there.

4:36 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

4:43 for for leisure riding.

4:44 That that could work.

4:44 I wouldn't want to take that to get to work.

4:46 Okay, 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.

5:02 This was all just This is all new.

5:04 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,

5:10 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.

5:22 That's the big change.

5:23 This is amazing.

5:24 It's quite swank.

5:26 Yeah.

5:25 When I moved here, King's Cross was not a nice place to be.

5:27 When I moved here, King's Cross was even worse.

5:30 So satisfying.

5:31 King's Cross.

5:32 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.

5:48 The road is more narrow.

5:50 Petrol station gone.

5:50 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

6:00 triggered by the Euro Star moving to St.

6:02 Pancress.

6:03 Fix the environment and the people will follow.

6:05 Which makes what comes next even more frustrating because

6:07 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, 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.

6:22 A car parked in the cycling.

6:25 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 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 Crust.

6:47 I was setting this up on hard mode.

6:49 Oh, wa.

6:49 I'm so confused.

6:50 Can we go this way?

6:51 Oh, yes.

6:51 This way.

6:52 All right.

6:52 Yeah.

6:52 Yeah.

6:52 Okay.

6:53 Well, Look at this.

6:54 It's not too bad.

6:55 Apparently, CS6.

6:59 Yes.

6:59 Welcome to Cycleway 6.

7:00 We're on a separate path.

7:01 This is respectable.

7:02 A little bit funny.

7:03 There's taxis here to our left, but as long as they stay there.

7:05 This a queue.

7:06 That'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, I'm like, what the St.

7:14 Pancress and it doesn't look like

7:17 Yeah.

7:17 Yeah.

7:18 Yeah.

7:18 Cuz this would have just been what, four or five lanes?

7:21 Mostly taxis.

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 Euro Star had just opened.

7:28 I'd have to look it up.

7:29 It was either right before we moved or just after

7:32 we moved 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." Yeah.

7:40 Now, it might not be a separate cycle way,

7:42 but the next road I take Jason down features London's next best thing.

7:46 Welcome to Houston Road.

7:48 Houston Road.

7:50 We're going to take a right here on Houston Road in on purpose.

7:54 Oh, so this is one of those shared bus and bike lanes.

7:56 Yes.

7:56 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, the the one thing I love about the Netherlands is they have

8:06 the smart traffic lights that change

8:08 the signal timing based on like what's detected,

8:10 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.

8:22 Ready?

8:21 Thank you.

8:22 Oh my.

8:23 We're surviving the next light.

8:24 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 cycle way or protected cycle way.

8:32 I will say though, there are fewer cars here than there used to be.

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.

8:43 Where is our light?

8:44 Is it that one?

8:45 There it is.

8:45 When the oil crisis happened in the 1970s,

8:49 Yeah.

8:48 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

9:11 cities and Right Turn on Red in the US.

9:13 Well, that's depressing.

9:15 Uh 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.

9:25 Yes.

9:25 I'd consider it a middle bit as in it's not fully great for cyclists,

9:28 but it's at least a little bit better.

9:30 All right.

9:32 Woohoo.

9:33 Okay.

9:34 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 is 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, Monio.

9:51 Thank you.

9:52 So, this is our incredibly safe painted line C10.

9:56 But now look, we've got this tiny Look, we're raised.

9:58 Oh, yeah.

9:58 Oh, no.

9:59 No.

10:00 And that side as well has a nice razor.

10:02 Okay.

10:02 This is kind of actually this is very Copenhaged here.

10:07 Really?

10:06 Yeah.

10:07 Very Copenhagen coded.

10:08 In 2016, this road was just four lanes, right, 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 Like, look at this.

10:18 Oh, I want to visit the street that you said

10:19 they removed the bike and that should be around you.

10:21 Yeah, is that it's near the British Museum.

10:23 That should be nearby, right?

10:25 Checks out.

10:27 Yeah.

10:27 The guy parked in the bike lane on the phone, no less.

10:30 Yeah.

10:30 Well, this is Montikue Place right here.

10:32 This is This is where it was, right?

10:34 Yeah.

10:34 Oh, we should turn left on this.

10:35 Yes.

10:35 I remember walking here with my wife and she

10:39 would point out the good bike infrastructure, right?

10:41 And I remember there was one on her commute.

10:44 There was this one protected this little protected bicycle lane.

10:47 I believe it's here on Montiku Place.

10:49 Oh, it actually says no left turn except cycles except bikes.

10:52 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.

10:59 And I think that's the thing.

11:00 I don't think that you need to have protected bicycle lanes everywhere.

11:03 If there are few cars, then it's not really necessary.

11:05 15 years ago, you'd come here and there would just be

11:08 a ton of like tourist buses and taxis and cars everywhere,

11:12 but there was a little protected contraflow bike lane.

11:14 Just one direction.

11:15 Just one.

11:15 Yeah.

11:15 I think I still prefer this.

11:17 Let me see that one as well.

11:19 Yeah.

11:20 Q1.

11:20 Q1 quiet way, right?

11:21 Yes.

11:21 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.

11:26 This is one of those things I talked about lots

11:27 of times that like bicycle lanes are not bike infrastructure.

11:31 They're carf 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,

11:44 some Q's to get you to piece the resistance.

11:47 Some cycle way three, a really nice one on the river.

11:49 I don't like this.

11:50 I usually would avoid this type of road

11:52 cuz it's like this is uncomfortable to me.

11:54 We got the bus lane with a glory unloading.

11:57 Sorry.

11:58 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 superighway 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, but it just lets you into That makes no sense.

12:31 No, no, thank you.

12:33 You'll have one of those where you see a green light, so you go,

12:35 "Oh, it's green." You cycle through, but then don't notice the second red.

12:38 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 Hoben yet for cycling.

12:49 We do have a little safety box, but it's just not nice yet.

12:54 Oh, sorry, mate.

12:55 That's all right.

12:55 I'm really glad London has impressed 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,

13:03 cycleway 3 along the temps.

13:05 They're trying to implement some cycling infrastructure here at some point soon,

13:08 but it's such an important junction.

13:09 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

13:15 taking a left.

13:20 But at this point, you might be wondering why any of this even matters.

13:23 Quiet ways, slower speed limits.

13:25 Well, this is why.

13:28 Where I've taken Jason now is the notorious Hullburn gyatory,

13:31 which I will be mispronouncing for the rest of this video.

13:34 A gyator is a massive high-speed one-way traffic system or roundabout.

13:38 London has quite a few gyries,

13:40 like the one at Hammersmith, Helphant Castle, and Old Street Roundabout.

13:44 Well, they used to be gyre.

13:46 London has been slowly but surely updating

13:48 its infrastructure to convert gyrees 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

14:14 experience under my belt while following Google Maps,

14:16 I accidentally take Jason the wrong way down a massive one-way road.

14:27 Oh.

14:27 Uh, well, uh,

14:29 all right.

14:31 Whoops.

14:31 What have you done?

14:34 Uh, all right.

14:35 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.

14:42 Is that on bike directions, too?

14:44 Yeah.

14:44 Yeah.

14:44 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 Map stuff.

14:49 It's like it just switched to being just car stuff, right?

14:52 And it'll show you dude this giant roundabout and I'm like,

14:54 but I can just go straight through.

14:56 Go straight through.

14:58 Yeah.

14:57 So, now we're back on the bikes for this.

15:01 Okay.

15:00 We're taking a nice route to get to a super highway 3.

15:03 Little portage.

15:04 Little portage.

15:05 Yes.

15:05 I am a former Canadian.

15:06 I familiar with that.

15:08 Yeah.

15:08 So, we've had a a nice mix actually.

15:11 Nice.

15:11 Nice mix.

15:14 Okay.

15:15 Okay.

15:17 I think

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

15:31 a phenomenal place to cycle obviously it can use a lot of

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 and there

16:00 are fewer cars now than there used to be.

16:02 I assume you've noticed we also have so many more people cycling.

16:05 Yeah, for sure.

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 giving people options, right?

16:16 Sometimes car people are like,

16:16 "You're restricting my freedom by restricting cars." I'm like, "No, no.

16:19 This is about freedom.

16:20 We're giving you more freedom to choose to choose.

16:22 It's the freedom to not have to drive.

16:24 That's the point.

16:25 Giving people options,

16:26 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 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, "No,

16:38 no, no, no, no.

16:39 Just keep going." No, no, no.

16:40 It gets better.

16:40 It gets better.

16:41 Just after this little No, no, I don't remember the sponsorship.

16:44 Just It's fine.

16:45 Yeah, after the sponsorship.

16:47 Speaking of sponsors.

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16:49 Is that the O2 and the cable car in the same shop?

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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 was time Jason saw some of its best recent changes.

18:08 Very important red light.

18:09 Yeah, I know, right?

18:10 I mean, I guess yeah, it's for the pedestrians, but but Oh, man.

18:13 When you have lived around smart traffic lights,

18:16 Yeah.

18:16 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.

18:26 Yeah.

18:28 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.

18:34 I've got a little smoother ride.

18:35 I suspect the Boris bike is not the best for shocks.

18:40 All right, left here.

18:41 Yeah.

18:41 Oh, yeah.

18:41 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 Cross rail or something.

18:50 Both under construction probably the 10 years

18:52 before you moved and something like that.

18:55 Oh, welcome to the Barbakin.

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 brutalist area right above.

19:03 All right.

19:04 Uh, I I mean, I'd like to take a right.

19:07 Well, this is a nice narrow road, huh?

19:09 Little 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 Maybe not loving that, but okay.

19:22 That way.

19:25 I made a boo boo.

19:26 Is that how we were supposed to go?

19:30 No.

19:29 I made a bit of mistake.

19:34 Oh, we're so close to bank.

19:36 Almost there.

19:36 It's another one.

19:37 Except cycles.

19:38 Cycles.

19:39 Yeah.

19:39 And that's a that's a right turn as well.

19:41 That's interesting.

19:41 Yep.

19:42 It just feels like a nice mixeduse area.

19:44 Kind of sneak in here around the garbage truck.

19:47 So, it says accept buses and for a bike, so we can go straight and then right.

19:52 Okay.

19:52 I'm going to need a pint after this.

19:57 Well, this looks new just for us.

19:59 Huh.

19:59 This is new.

20:00 It is.

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.

20:10 Second is Tower Hamlets, the burough I live in, uh,

20:12 where 77% of people do not own a car.

20:20 It's so much quieter.

20:21 Yeah.

20:22 I mean, this is the thing I've noticed about London more

20:24 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 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.

20:34 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.

20:50 Yeah.

20:51 Like it really is more about controlling cars than

20:53 it is about installing a bunch of expensive infrastructure.

20:58 Yeah.

20:57 Oh, Lisa.

20:58 Hi.

20:59 What are you doing?

21:00 Going to the Bank of England to exchange some old ass notes I found of

21:05 We're filming a little video about cycling in London.

21:07 This is Jason.

21:08 All right.

21:09 Talk to you later.

21:09 See you.

21:11 Cheers.

21:13 This is one of these things I talk about u just in walkable cities.

21:17 You're more likely to run into somebody.

21:18 You know, it's nice to just meet people.

21:21 It is.

21:25 I mean, again, is this bike infrastructure?

21:27 This costs nothing.

21:28 Exactly.

21:28 All they did was remove the cars.

21:30 Here's one of these uh ebike delivery things here.

21:35 So, I never really knew how to feel about uh these things that are technically

21:39 ebikes because they're just within the uh parameters

21:42 of what's allowed to be called an ebike.

21:44 I would rather that they just had lots

21:46 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.

22:03 Like genuinely wild to me that London Bridge has no cars on it at this moment.

22:08 Look at this.

22:09 There are literally no cars on London Bridge right now.

22:13 This blows my mind.

22:14 I never could have imagined this.

22:15 Yeah.

22:15 It's insane, isn't it?

22:18 Yeah.

22:28 That was nice.

22:31 The more I cycle here,

22:32 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.

22:37 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, "Wo, wait, wait a second.

22:49 What?

22:49 This is right next to that.

22:50 I HAD NO IDEA." OH, HELLO.

22:53 This is part of the cycleway,

22:55 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 to kind of know.

23:01 I ran into um those in Paris as well where

23:03 sometimes they just pointed into the sidewalk and you're just like,

23:06 "Figure it out." It is amazing though

23:08 to see people like that dressed in normal clothes.

23:11 What I've been seeing more and more especially in the burough

23:14 of Islington in Camden Hackne is parents with their kids.

23:18 Yeah.

23:18 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.

23:25 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.

23:37 There you go.

23:37 Thank you, Barkclays.

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

23:46 have taken uh transit more often than cycling.

23:49 But

23:50 I could definitely see it.

23:51 You know, at the end of the day,

23:52 it's 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, 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 Oh, what's he up to?

24:34 You having a good time there?

24:36 So, here we are.

24:37 We have a green light.

24:38 Yeah.

24:39 Yeah.

24:39 So, what is up with this?

24:40 Why 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 an accident in.

24:48 I cross this bridge.

24:49 I see a green light.

24:50 I come on through it,

24:51 not realizing that traffic had just opened up and there's a red light here.

24:55 There's no indication here that this green light is just to get into this box.

24:59 And 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?

25:07 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.

25:16 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 uh it's not like this is a pedestrian pathway.

25:22 So, why is this here?

25:25 Nice cowboy.

25:26 Now, the green light is there.

25:27 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

25:37 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.

25:48 This is bizarre.

25:48 I could totally see seeing that green light

25:51 and just going right through and missing this one.

25:53 I could totally see doing that.

25:54 I hate it.

25:54 That 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." I know,

25:59 right?

25:59 This is infrastructure.

26:00 That is 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 or 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.

26:14 Bizarre.

26:14 Absolutely bizarre.

26:16 The main purpose of bike gates like this one at Queens Place is to eliminate

26:19 the risk of the left hook collision between

26:21 left turning motor traffic and cyclist proceeding ahead.

26:24 But the main issue with bike gates is that they only

26:26 exist because the junction is still

26:28 fundamentally designed around motor traffic first.

26:30 It is a very London solution.

26:32 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 cycle way three.

26:46 We are entering the promised land.

26:48 The promised land

26:49 sort of.

26:49 What am I doing?

26:50 Okay.

26:51 After you, sir.

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, 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 This feels 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 to go east to west.

27:20 Getting to this dingy tunnel,

27:21 we were all so excited because we had a private tunnel just for bikes.

27:25 Yeah, you know, I do want to ride

27:26 sometime with a really accurate heart rate monitor

27:30 and go 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

27:45 really need to be a red light for bikes ever,

27:48 unless they're turning left, which is rarely.

27:50 Yeah, that is a little bit silly.

27:51 And 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.

27:59 For instance, we're not protecting a pedestrian here.

28:00 We're not really Yeah.

28:01 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.

28:10 Right.

28:10 Well, that was a bit spicy.

28:12 You're really pushing it there.

28:13 It's like, hey, this is four meters.

28:14 I know we can go four of us at a time.

28:17 Yeah.

28:17 So, we've got 3 minutes on this lovely a cycle way

28:20 to get to King's College where we'll stop for a drink at a nearby pub.

28:24 I could use a pint after that.

28:26 Although, I could 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

28:42 and they were the most brutal tube strikes we've ever had.

28:44 However, loads of people got on line bikes, 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

28:52 the time to see so many people on the bikes.

28:54 Oh, sorry.

28:54 Go for it, sir.

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, "Oh,

29:02 it's actually not that bad." People get stuck

29:04 in their routines and need a shock sometimes

29:06 just to nudge them 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 um two-way cycling pass

29:22 unless 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.

29:28 But this works very well.

29:29 But you're right, it's because there's nowhere to left to go.

29:30 So, it makes sense.

29:32 Most of our best cycle ways are two-way like this.

29:34 So, I get confused when I go to like Paris and they have

29:36 a lot of the style where it's on one on either side, right?

29:38 It's too narrow for me though.

29:39 Yeah.

29:39 The logic there is that uh 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.

29:53 I have found compared to when I first tried

29:54 cycling and 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 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 I mostly find drivers are quite nice, but that will go viral.

30:12 So this is one of the things with the Netherlands

30:15 is that even when you are driving around cars,

30:17 you're driving around cars driven by people who ride bicycles themselves.

30:21 So they know exactly what it's like.

30:22 And it just makes everything more chill.

30:24 And I do find that even there'll even be like a luxury car coming

30:27 along and they'll slow down and wave me through on a bicycle and I'm like,

30:31 "Wow, look at that."

30:32 The standards,

30:33 you know, when you get waved through by a Lamborghini driver,

30:35 you're like, "We're doing something right here." Yeah.

30:39 Yeah.

30:39 I mean, this is quite pleasant.

30:40 We should have uh 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.

30:51 It was really hard for me to save it from there.

30:52 But you're going east west.

30:54 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.

31:00 We made it.

31:01 This is the longest you'll wait at a light.

31:03 During the strike, I sat here with my camera and counted four different stops.

31:08 They had to wait so they could actually cross

31:10 cuz this is so It's not long enough for cyclist.

31:12 Yeah.

31:13 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.

31:16 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 point.

31:21 I just wanted to see Big Ben.

31:23 Hi, Big Ben.

31:23 Hi, Big Ben.

31:28 Yeah.

31:28 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 exactly 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.

31:46 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.

31:52 Like there were probably a few around.

31:54 I'm sure I'm going to get somebody in the comments saying,

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 uses it.

32:03 I'm like, "Yes, because that's not a network.

32:05 Shit." Yeah.

32:05 No.

32:06 If it's not connecting to the destinations people want,

32:08 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 you don't look and say, "Well,

32:20 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 a bike

32:24 infrastructure or your bike infrastructure is shit." And finally,

32:29 one little stop before a celebratory pint at the pub is a bit

32:32 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

32:40 an incredibly incredibly busy road from east to west in the city,

32:43 but now they've put up these filters.

32:44 This is a university, King College.

32:46 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.

33:05 Now you've got places for people to sit and just

33:07 that alone can be what improves the city more than anything else.

33:11 Yeah.

33:11 Look how many bikes are in the parking spots.

33:14 It's to me inspiring because it shows that the kids

33:16 are going to King's College are actually choosing to cycle

33:19 and people are sitting there in the park and on the beach

33:21 which was not a park by the way, you know.

33:23 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 old Cheser Cheese.

33:34 These are automatic ballards.

33:35 They are.

33:36 Yeah, those are rising ballers.

33:37 I'm excited about an automatic ballard.

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.

33:46 They're all angry about it.

33:48 They're all like and then that you do

33:50 it and then there's almost nobody that wants it.

33:53 Nobody wants to turn it back.

33:54 No.

33:54 And unless you're the mayor of Tower Hamlet, right?

33:57 Sometimes they do turn it back.

33:58 You know, you get some politician that runs in a Warren Cars platform.

34:03 I'm from Toronto.

34:04 I'm You're by now or lived in Toronto.

34:06 Anyway, I'm from London.

34:08 London.

34:08 Fake London.

34:09 Yes, fake London.

34:10 Ultimately, this is why I believe that cities will get

34:12 better because people see this and they want more of this.

34:16 Business owners are all upset that they're going to lose all

34:18 their business when the car is removed and then the businesses do better.

34:21 And then business owners a few streets over like, "Well,

34:24 I want that." That's where you get the tipping point.

34:26 People say that these decrease foot traffic,

34:29 but the amount of feet I see right now, it's a stupid thing to say.

34:32 Yeah.

34:32 And that's one of those tipping points you get with cities.

34:34 Um, and the other one being when cities start thinking about biking instructor,

34:38 it's like where is the best place to put this versus

34:41 where will this inconvenience drivers the least if we build it.

34:44 Yeah.

34:44 Yeah.

34:45 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.

34:51 Don't love riding a bike around buses, but uh the big big red ones.

34:57 Yeah, I'm seeing red.

35:01 Stupid.

35:01 So sorry.

35:02 You'll be a dad someday.

35:04 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 junction.

35:10 Stupid.

35:10 Should not exist ever.

35:12 That is something the Netherlands does.

35:13 Well, they'll put the they'll make a bike lane.

35:15 Even if there isn't a bike lane, they'll 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.

35:32 Nice.

35:32 Okay, 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 are you 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." It is funny.

35:44 I have There are things I complain about where like the Dutch people 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.

35:52 Yeah.

35:53 Wow.

35:55 How 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 call 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

36:12 culturally important or governmental building and that was the purpose.

36:15 People would have been walking here little bit

36:25 long honestly wasn't expecting to wait this long.

36:28 Here we go.

36:32 There's the Cheshure Cheese.

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.

36:49 Seven spaces.

36:49 So, I apolog I said sorry.

36:52 That's me.

36:52 Nice to meet you.

36:53 Have a nice cycle.

36:55 Next street.

36:55 Turn left.

36:56 We can return the bike.

36:58 Uhoh.

36:59 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.

37:06 There you go.

37:08 Cheers.

37:09 We're professionals.

37:10 I can't believe it.

37:12 Yeah.

37:12 Look at this Oh my god.

37:15 Oh.

37:15 Oh my god.

37:16 That was so loose.

37:21 Cheers, my dears.

37:24 Cheers.

37:26 Oh, I needed that, 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, but do you feel like with all the changes

37:37 that have happened since you lived here that it's

37:40 been substantial enough for you to like class London

37:43 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

37:53 is there's there's some really really good infrastructure out

37:55 there and I know the the cycle highways are

37:58 meant 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 2575 split or something.

38:15 But you'd have that as an option of course and that's what you want.

38:18 And a question I'm curious about is would

38:20 you feel comfortable cycling with your kids in London?

38:24 I would have to say probably not.

38:26 Interesting.

38:26 Yeah.

38:27 Yeah.

38:27 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,

38:34 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 very big asterisk.

38:46 It it depends.

38:47 Yeah.

38:47 mostly.

38:47 No.

38:48 Yeah.

38:48 If you lived in uh Hackne 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

38:55 you're in like the southeast or even in like

38:57 And I think that's the thing like a lot of it would depend

38:59 on the neighborhood that we were in like cycling to school and things like

39:02 that is often doesn't even need to be on cycling infrastructure and just

39:06 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, the cars are driving slower,

39:19 and there are fewer of them, which is nice.

39:22 So, we didn't get an Fgrade.

39:24 We did not get an Fgrade.

39:26 I think it's a solid C, honestly.

39:28 Like, yeah, adequate is is Britishness in its core.

39:34 Yeah, it's like that me.

39:35 I'm so happy to have a C compared to Amsterdam.

39:38 I'm so happy London gets a C because I feel like it

39:41 used to be an F and so I'm hoping that maybe next two,

39:44 three years London gets gets up to that B+.

39:46 I mean, it's on the right track.

39:47 All right, so cheers to that.

39:51 Cheers.

39:55 Do I think Jason's assessment of London is fair?

39:58 Yeah, in many ways, London is still in that weird in between

40:02 state where it's not quite incredible for cycling and not quite so bad.

40:06 But the thing is, London still has quite a lot of growing pains.

40:09 But at the end of the day, I'm happy that we actually have growing

40:12 pains because that's a sign we're growing.

40:14 We're changing.

40:15 We're 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.

40:25 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, maybe next time I take uh Jason to London, maybe,

40:33 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.

40:53 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 and just take it with you?

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