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I finally moved out to Lakewood. What do now?

What is a heat map?

aren't those numbers for just the municipality? if so, the one in zurich covers most of the urban area - paris does not

In Buffalo the scajaquada has a freeway built on town of it and it’s been devastating for the local ecosystem. Such a shame

So are bike readers going to design roads

Cambridge UK seems to be going down a similar route for cycling infrastructure - but there are no mountains (or even hills)!

Many European cities have this, and it works great. But we still need more of them.

... But the protected wolanes and the protected childanes too. They're like animals!

Bikes don’t belong on streets. Keep them in parks and driveways where the goofy little ym toys belong.

One problem with underpasses is they can get flooded really easily. We have one near where I live and with it getting increasingly wet more often it gets flooded a lot because it’s right next to a river. Have to wait a few days for it to subside and get forced back onto roads.

I've never understood the prevalence of overpasses for cyclists and pedestrians. Road vehicles are _substantially_ taller than bikes/people, which means the overpass must be raised many times higher above the roadway to provide clearance versus how far a road must be raised (or pathway lowered) to provide clearance for pedestrians passing underneath instead of above. This is putting aside the unfair energy economics of expecting the human-powered forms of locomotion to dramatically change their altitude up/down to go over the excessively tall overpass (often a substantial amount of effort), compared to asking the road vehicles with powerful engines and plenty of fuel/range to go over a slight bump while basically not changing speed at all.

Protected bike lanes are a good way to get squashed by people taking right turns. It's safer riding on the roads, as long as the lanes are wide enough.

Shouldn't this be seen as early-game? Do you have protips for me PCSing down to Sloan?

Car lobbyists wouldnt have it any other way. dont protest with your useless vote, protest in the streets.

Subscribed thank you for dedicating this channel to represent your hometown; i admit I'm a bit envious I'm finally able to call a place a Hometown - Cheyenne, Wy - I'll only do so once I move out. ....will edit soon brb

Love the editing and presentation of graphix!

It's curious how the political class will unironically scream "socialism" if we talk about nationalizing the rail system, yet when you point out that roads are publicly owned, the excuses and qualifiers are unending.

The "choice" between cars and rail has never been a choice. The ruling class force us into cars at every point in society. If cars really were objectively better, why did the automotive industry have to spend so much money ripping up tram tracks and railways? When a scam is too big to avoid, they call it "economics".

Let's nationalize rail!!!

Multi-use paths are great for recreation and for a more comfortable and sometimes faster commute, but A) how are you going to make multi-use paths in a grid city that doesn't have streams or old rail lines? B) To reach a specific destination you'll still need cycle paths on car roads

There should also ideally be public transit to the national/state parks for many people living in the city to have a weekend getaway or something.

Suburbia (and rural) obsessed people often flatly consider cities to be concrete hellholes, and the former somehow to be greenspace paradise. Not only can cities instead easily be filled with vibrant forests and parks, but suburbia is to the contrary very likely to be entirely paved over with asphalt and astroturf with zero greenspace to be found. There is a growing amount of people who believe that every single human being and family on earth should be removed from healthy urban spaces and placed on their own libertarian paradise of a homestead. These people are either immature, deeply traumatized, or detrimentally antisocial.

Wow you guys have bike lanes? Jealous

it's almost pathetic that we call those : 'bike infrastructure' in america

Never thought I'd actually wanna visit the US so much, cool. Also, my entire city 79 sqkm city has about 3-4km of bike lanes. It's horrid!

If you're an American city/town and able to have a larger amount of bike commuters over Portland of all cities, then you're definitely doing something right

Of course, it costs a million dollars a year to live in Boulder. So there's that.

Excellent video. If you wouldn't feel safe biking with your kid, it isn't a safe route. Bike paths create just this kind of safe route.

2:24 Wow, that is a really nice protected intersection! Could the city inform Switzerland about this? Because we haven't figured them out yet, we're still stuck in the bike lane stage. Even the rare protected bike lanes end right before dangerous intersections, with left turn boxes in the best case scenario (and usually nothing)

Don't overlook vehicle air pollution. Breathing exhaust is unhealthy for pedestrians or cyclists.

I love this but underpasses aren't an option for my city because they will very quickly become mugging hotspots or worse "rape alleys" and will become the go to spot for public urination. But I totally agree that mixed use network of paths that are not next to roads is a fantastic plan. It's great that the paths and stormwater systems work together - Ive always wondered if in my city if we couldn't develop electrical servitudes into greenways with paths like this. There might be some restrictions but I'm planning to write to ask about it anyway

I would be happy with a bike lane on the main street here. (Admittly the road is low traffic but high speed)

2:15 Underpasses under intersections do not save lives, but what do are: safety islands; inability to do a right turn while going straight traffic light is red; automated bicycle/pedestrian detection and giving them a priority in crossing the street. All underpasses are, a super expensive infrastructure project that cost a lot to maintain, plus it’s a potential “housing for the homeless”…great for them, not so much for the local residents. Author of this video should travel to Nordic countries to get a right prospective on urbanism/city planning instead of planning a guess game. =)

(Unfortunately) Drive past people taking some of these paths frequently omw to work . Always jealous of how relaxing it looks.

Does Boulder do any dedicated snow removal on the pathways and bike lanes? Seems like that would be a huge benefit and really promote four-season biking. My greater Denver neighborhood has unprotected bike lanes, but after a big snow, it can be two weeks before the compacted ice gets cleared from the bike lane parts of the street. The painted bike lanes are outside of the parking, and it's a wide street so even I catch myself breaking 30mph, because that's how the street is really designed, so wiping out because you hit an ice ridge would be super dangerous on that street. I'm not hard-core enough to bike in 10F weather, but three days after most snowstorms it gets up to 50 or even 60F with that blazing 5280' sun, and with minimal layering casual biking to a store or to work would be fine, if snow and ice are mitigated properly. But down here, it isn't.

Great video! Though personally I've come to hate the multi use paths around Melbourne as I've become a more confident (and faster) rider, our multi use paths in parks tend to be absolutely full of dogs, kids and prams which personally stresses me out far more than the average unprotected quiet side street or parking separated bike lane, even in places with 4m wide paths it's just irresponsible to ride anything above about 10kph which sucks for getting places fast. I suppose it comes down to drawing a distinction between a path for recreation and a path for transit, the few multi use paths I do enjoy using tend to be the ones that are used for connecting destinations rather than enjoying the greenery. Keep up the great work! I'm interested to see more about how Boulder has built such a strong cycling population and see how those lessons could be exported abroad.

It's overpriced.. boring.. snooty.. and so what if you're next to a mountain? There's no water anywhere nearby except when it snows and that's a whole lot of fun for biking. Yay. Sunshine? Overrated. It's a cold place and did i mention boring? Better love bikes cause that's what you'll be able to afford. Lol

Exactly, good bike infrastructure, the kind which actually creates more cyclists, should be purpose built just life it is for cars. Bike gutters are shit!

yeah but emergency services?

Make sure to increase your voice volume next video my man

I lived in New York where there is a good network of on street bike lanes and I used my bike for commuting to work daily from Brooklyn into Midtown Manhattan and for trips to the museum, parks, grocery stores (the bigger ones further from home, not just the local bodegas). I moved to Austin, TX where there is a relatively decent-ish network of on street bike lanes and I used my bike a decent amount of time to bike across town to work and for leisure activities, like getting to bars, etc. I moved to Dallas which pretty much has zero dedicated bike ways on the street but a surprisingly extensive network of bike paths off the roadways, much like Boulder, through parks, and alleys, and along creeks and rivers, and I never used my 2 bikes for commuting or for leisure activity. It was purely for early morning and weekend time trial workouts. I say all that to say, having on-street bike infrastructure and a city where drivers recognize cyclist with high visibility is much more effective in building better cities for everyone.

Great video showing off the city I've been living in and biking around for the past 33 years! I love the multi-use path network, and have witnessed many improvements over the decades. Paths following waterways are a great use of flood plains. The biggest limitation is that our streams all flow from west to east, so we have fewer multi-use paths in the north-south direction. That's a big reason why we need protected bike lanes along north-south arterials, such as 30th Street, and Folsom Street. Boulder is making plans now to start improvements of its Core Arterial Network, starting with Baseline, 30th, and Iris. I really hope they convert all of these 4-lane stroads to 3 lanes with a center left-turn lane, and protected bike paths on either side. There was vocal resistance when they tried this on Folsom a few years ago, but it's a much safer design for cars, bikes, and pedestrians and has been shown to be just as efficient for car traffic. Boulder certainly has a long way to go compared to Amsterdam, for example. The city is still full of many dangerous stroads and expansive free parking lots. Boulder still has mandatory parking minimums. City council should remove these immediately. They raise the price of everything except driving.

Incredible video

Boulder blows

South of Boulder you have 93 which is mostly a high speed two lane highway that goes to Golden. On a good sunny, warm day, it is constantly congested with bikes and it is nerve-wracking trying to avoid a collision with oncoming traffic and idiot bikers who like to travel side by side in the car lane gabbing with their buddies. I can understand why they don’t need to upgrade that stretch of road (more traffic equals property values go up and residential/ businesses will start popping up)….and don’t need another path due to costs of building it (would be nice though)…also, it would ruin the natural beauty of the area. But this issue needs to be resolved. There will be a day with multiple fatalities from bikers and traffic because of this. That bike lane is hardly wide enough for two while cars and commercial trucks are speeding at 55mph at arms length.

Busses aren't necessarily a worse version of cars, but if there's not enough of them and everyone still takes their cars so the busses get stuck as well, then they are (also helps to give buses their own lane, like any other mode of transit for that matter)

Terrific video

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I grew up i seattle before it became a great biking city and now I live in a small town that has very little bike infrastructure but has a beautiful 30 mile bike path, and while i do miss the infrastructure a bit, I get an incredible amount of mileage and use out of the greenway and I'm amazed at how much TIME I SAVE not having to wait at stoplights for traffic, as well as how much healthier i am breathing in fresh air from trees as opposed to biking next to cars.

At least this video gives me a small amount of hope that things could change in the US. Where as NJB makes me want to say fuck the US I'm moving.

I really enjoyed the video. I can't say I have encountered UP's before but I like them.