The concept of “I need an unprotected bike lane to double as my building’s temp driveway” breaks my brain as both a cyclist and a driver. If it’s that urgent, just double park ffs. You’ll have to park your car somewhere long term after unloading it anyway, it’s sad to laziness lead to unnecessary deaths.
It's all too easy to do when you have NO consequence for it. We got a new bike lane on my street that technically took away parking spots, but you wouldnt know it since all my neighbors just continue to park on the green paint...Even my own family just prefers to park in the bike lane because it saves them from having to walk to the back of your building to lug in groceries. No reason other than pure laziness.
I have beef in my city with folks who park at bus stops - and there’s no consequences for them unless they get really unlucky and a cop is driving by and decides to tow them before they get a chance to get back from their “5 min” stop
@@jmlinden7 my point was the same driver who doesn’t fear reprisal temp parking in a bike lane would definitely fear reprisal temp double parking and blocking traffic. That incongruity shouldn’t be.
@@GirtonOramsay Same thing with handicapped parking. I see people without credentials park in these spaces and it makes my blood boil. It is supposed to be a 500.00 fine, but I have never seen any of them ticketed.
I was reading about a study saying 55% of drivers see bicyclists as "sub-human," and 10% admit to either swerving towards one or throwing objects at them. That's just the ones willing to admit to committing a crime.
@@NonsenseFabricator I remember a story where some car lover shot a cyclist and then justified it by saying "it's muh road and muh taxpayer dollars pay for it so cyclists should gtfo off of it"
It's really gut-wrenching to read about Dr. Friedes. She was only 30. She was still in residence training at the hospital. I would ask the rhetorical question of how many people need to die before politicians take pedestrian/cyclist road safety seriously, but it's clear that they would rather fill up a morgue than put down a bit of new concrete and paint.
@@devlindonnelly9729 Yeah it's sad how we need to bring up her accomplishments just to counteract the cyclist hate and prove that her life was valuable.
Here in Toronto, the fifth cyclist of the year was killed this week. It appears that she was forced into the motor traffic lane due to a dumpster illegally blocking the bike lane. 😢😢😢
They get incredibly defensive because they already know they're in the wrong, but they have made decisions in their lives that make driving a core part of their lives and they can't imagine how they would live without it. The reason drivers hate on cyclists so much is that cyclists remind drivers of just how selfishly dangerous they're being. Driving is such a stressful experience for people that they have trauma about it. Being late and being trapped in traffic is a common trauma for drivers and that's what you trigger then you talk about removing space for cars. Driving somewhere, being late and driving around for 20mins (longer than the drive there) and being unable to find somewhere to park is a pretty stressful experience. This is the emotional experience that you trigger when you talk about removing parking spaces.
@@jessta314 Most people that cycle also drive. It is not bicycle vs car. Fewer cars on the road is also good for car drivers. If you want more parking, perhaps live in the suburbs.
@@barryrobbins7694 accept they are at best amateur drivers that can barely drive in a straight line , they do not understand how long it will take to stop their car in an emergency and they do not understand the reasoning behind speed limits . But they all think they are gods gift to driving , making the complacent accidents waiting to happen .
This is the ultimate r/Philadelphia video. Bike infrastructure, RCO's, and Politician hate. Especially Kenyatta Johnson. All my friends (and any moral and just person) hate KJ.
If Russia is the third largest country to visit r/Canada it’s not impossible that bad faith state actors have infiltrated a lot of American city subreddits to give you a skewed picture to paint progressives as louts and deadbeats.
KJ is to Philadelphia what Cara Mendelsohn is to my city (Dallas). Both are insane pro-car NIMBYs who screw over cyclists and pedestrians. Mendelsohn and her hatred for pedestrians recently got 4(!) people killed in her city council district by a drunk driver thanks to her love of stroads.
I have zero understanding how drivers themselves are not frustrated with the lack of bike lanes. On busy roads that don't have dedicated bike lanes, drivers have to contend with more variables and just adds more stress to city driving. If you know that cyclists are in their own protected lane, then you focus more on other traffic instead. Imagine if no sidewalks existed and drivers had to deal with people walking on the street as well. It would be utter madness. Road design benefits all parties, especially the vulnerable ones who aren't covered in a cocoon of metal, airbags and seatbelts.
Yeah having separate bike paths makes driving easier. Im learning to drive and just yestaday had alot of bikes around town due to the weather (and pedestrians crossing wherever they please because britain) and a couple of times this year had seen cars overtake bikes on street with parked vehicles which make the road narrow quite a bit where just enough room for 2 cars to pass, naturally lack of space means oncoming traffic has to slow down which doesn't help traffic flow so cutting out on overtaking bikes entirely is a huge help.
@@Sam-Cain I am disabled, bike riders are trying to take my mode of transportation and livelihood from me by slowly increasing bike infrastructure until cars are closed out. I’m so tired of able people just throwing those of us who are disabled under the bus. We get it, you’d prefer if we didn’t exist
@@12time12 I'm disabled and can't afford a car. my partner, who cares for me when i can't, bikes for her job in Philly and her life is always in danger. You don't speak for all of us. Public transport in this city needs to be more accessible, so that disabled people don't have to buy a car just to get where we need. I'm already looking into what I can do to help changes get made there- if you care about disabled people besides yourself, that's what I'd recommend for you to look into, too.
@@12time12 it's not a zero-sum game. In fact, your position means you benefit more than other drivers from increased pedestrian infrastructure. Wouldn't you rather people only use the roads if they truly needed to? That way access would be prioritized to people with greater need - not those who desire convenience.
@@letitiajeavons6333 I completely agree, if voter turnout were good we'd have a much better society. I always vote, unfortunately most people don't so most regular people trying to get elected don't win.
True but at least mayor parker is a smart Democrat who still wants to keep police and respect them. Yes she may be responsible for this but not where near as much as the others mentioned. For God sakes we need police to keep people safe and keep crime low. If you have politicians that defund police you'll get a situation like San Francisco and or Baltimore. Liberals need to stop hating on police and stop defending crime.
One of my favourite things on TH-cam is seeing Alan Fisher, Not Just Bikes and Adam Something righteously scathingly angry about the idiocy of town planners and the selfishness of car drivers.
I wish there was more focus on how North America got this way and why it is so resistant to change. The political, money and cultural dimension to this discussion. We Dutch people aren't some magically different people, it's changes in the system that cause different outcomes.
@@rogerwilco2Robert Moses. Ford. Strong capitalism and a culture that puts the individual first. I think that about sums up how we got here. Now we need to undo it.
If anyone could actually prevent them from doing so, they should also prevent them from blocking the sidewalk and bike-path for several minutes while exiting a parking-lot and waiting for an opening to enter traffic. They should also prevent them from blowing through a stop-sign and barreling through the sidewalk and bike-path and pulling right up to the edge of the road as if all of the ground outdoors is their turf. 😠
@@I.____.....__...__ Well they definitely should put Traffic calming, eliminate parking, protect people from cycling/ pedestrians and even block of car traffic like modal filters or entirely! 😤
This is super important, thank you for making it. Had a mutual friend get killed while biking by a hit and run driver. It’s a really big problem here and tbh, the poor bike infrastructure has deterred me from biking around. It’s just too risky for someone who would be relatively new to cycling.
I LOOOOOVE biking, big time. That said, I DON'T ENJOY it because every time I bike, I have to white-knuckle it until I manage to make it home alive. Biking for fun instead of transportation is a paradox in North America, it's completely ruined unless you stick to the small scraps of dedicated pathways through the park. 🤦
One thing I see missing from a lot of this recent discourse is that infrastructure is so much worse in poorer areas of the city. The same day that Dr. Friedes was killed on Spruce, Christopher Cabrera was killed in Kensington. A few days later, a one-year-old was killed and two women injured by a driver in Feltonville. We need to make sure we have safe streets everywhere, not just in center city.
I'm a car commuter to and from an exurban/rural place to get to work. Cyclists and cars should not mix, and it's the government's fault that they do. If you're a car commuter yourself, don't be a carbrain and recognize that if a cyclist is making your driving experience worse, it goes both ways and the cyclist probably feels similarly. Advocate for them to get their own infrastructure and paths. Not only will that solve the problem of mixing, it may take cars off the road too, by creating a viable alternative for car commuting.
@@rogerwilco2 Nice; did you just begin your civics class in high school? The government is elected by the people-the very same people who elect the people who uphold the traffic status quo. This is an argument for the case of having said people to elect (and petition) to do differently.
The people of Philadelphia deserve so much more. It's honestly so embarrassing how far behind we are in public transit and pedestrian / bike infrastructure. We need protected bike lanes NOW. Paint on the road obviously isn't working. I see cops and amazon trucks parked in the bike lane all the time🙄
It's actually remarkable how well the existing transit has held up given so many politicians actively trying to make the city their own personal parking space.
I'll never understand why so many Americans think it's impossible to make deliveries wherever bike lanes are present without parking in the bike lanes. Oh the Urbanity! debunked the myth.
I bet that if a cyclist threw a cup of water at the driver, the cop would abandon the law-breaker to chase down the cyclist. 😒 That's one of the harms that doesn't get talked about enough, that the auto-industry's propaganda making cars out to be the most important thing and bribing legislators has also made life dangerous for everybody because cops abuse laws about cars to hurt everybody. 😠
One of my friends knows a guy in Atlanta who installed a solenoid and some paint cans on his bike to tactically add lanes where there weren't any. Apparently the city has given up and made some of them official. If he can somehow do just as well or better than the entire city of Philly, you know our country's got a serious problem. It's just insane that officials are so disconnected from any means of transportation other than driving!
Some of the groups here in philly have also considered doing some tactical urbanism (i.e. installing concrete blocks and posts), I'm inclined to sponsor or help in some efforts too.
@@alanthefisher DC also seems to be slow-rolling any future improvements. The 5-year plan ends in 2024 and there's still no discussion of what the next one will look like. It's only a matter of time until someone dies exactly where the mayor cancelled a new lane because business owners and lawyers from Maryland complained!
@@alanthefisher I agree. I think people need to take matters into their own hands. Make them all waste precious time and money removing heavy rocks and planters repeatedly until they're sick of it. Eventually people will adapt and get used to it and opposition to real infrastructure will crumble.
@@Madwonk I live in Bethesda. After 3 teenagers died on Old Georgetown Road (stroad), those damn plastic wickets were installed to create bike lanes. These have already been destroyed in many places by careless, privileged drivers. Even worse, complaints on my neighborhood forum are about how no one uses the lanes! Solid curbs must be a minimum. The only thing drivers care about is damaging their Teslas, Porsches, etc. People…dying. Not their concern.
My sister is a doctor in Philly and personally knew and worked with the woman who was killed. My sister uses this bikelane very frequently and is very shaken. It's surreal. That could've my sister. Rest in peace Dr Friedes
The mayor was interviewed on NPR’s local station here in Philadelphia yesterday she would not give a straight answer on just about anything. They asked her if she would give dedicated bike lines and she said there is money in the budget and budget includes bike lane infrastructure she’s just the worst. Terrorize homeless people forces people to work on location after three years working remote it’s not necessary. She hires all these cops and then doesn’t make them do anything Like I can’t tell you how many times you’ll see cop sitting in or cutting people off the lines or something. It’s just appalling and ridiculous.
@@benfelps no, he's not similar. He's so much worse so mischievous so sinister and just fucking stupid that the similarity starts to fade away. lol But I absolutely get and agree with you. I was just trying to be funny.
Normally they only drive from district to a point where they hide until shift ends. Watch television shows on cellular phone or talk. I did see many times cars with lights on speeding to clock out at end of shift. They normally hide in a parking lot together or go inside a big store to keep tracking software confusion to max. I never see cars driving around to prevent crime. A quick check of the speedometer millage on cars across the entire city would show low miles driven & gas usage to maximum ( air conditioning needs to run & electronics need to be on. That's how we have cars stolen or broken into at 3 am. All the shootings at 3 am with no witnesses..
One of the failures of our representative democracy is that often the only accountability method that residents have is the overly broad threat of voting representatives out, every 2-6 years. This has proven to be completely ineffective when someone gets power that abuses anyone they are supposed to represent.
Well that's because we have a shit for brains voting system that encourages a two party system, and unlike in the beginning of the twentieth century where there were progressives in both parties, we now have right wing party and a moderate centrist party that has a Christian Democrat wing and a Social Democrat wing. So, in a place like Philly, where Republicans don't do well and are likely to be right-wingers, you have to get people to turn out at the primary, and that requires them to register as a Democrat. However, that's really all it does. Registering with a party gets you the right to vote in that party's primary in some states, and that's all if you don't want to get involved with party conventions. Also, you need to then get them to know the primary is by far the more important election which requires they research the candidates because there's no shorthand like looking to see who has the right letter next to their name.
or just a path with a curb atleast... Having 2 paths on the side with step up curbs is easy and keeps driveways easy access Can also slap a grass verge with trees if you want as well.
Really infuriating and scary. Thank you for reporting on this. This was a more serious video but I watch all your vids and I like how you bring humor to what is very often a very frustrating topic.
I live directly in front of where the accident happened and I came home last Wednesday to the fire department washing blood off the concrete. Last Sunday during the vigil and combined anti parking protest there were several cars parking on 17th in no standing zones with church provided parking stickers while there WAS AN EMPTY PARKING LOT NOT FIFTY FEET AWAY.
Great video man. It sucks that as walkable as the city is, I’m terrified or riding my bike. Anywhere. Everyone is in a rush to get to the next red light. It’s so sad.
I got hit by a left turning car while crossing Broad in front of old Hahnemann hospital years ago. I jumped onto the hood, so didn’t get really hurt. The lady driver didn’t even acknowledge me and just drove off
In other countries, they can go to prison for a hit and run like that. What's wrong with the system there that these idiot drivers can constantly get away with it?
@@ianhomerpura8937it is illegal, but I wasn’t visibly hurt (though my arm ached for a good while), I was rushing to get to work on time, and I was young.
@@ianhomerpura8937 They could have in this country, too, had there been a law enforcement officer or traffic cameras present to record the event for later prosecution.
Thank you for this. I know its in a different part of the city, but as someone who drives down Fairmount Ave. for work everyday, the unprotected bike lanes terrify me. I try to stay fully aware of those in the bike lane, especially when they're behind me in the mirror, but it can be very easy to tune out because the stupid paint is just that: paint. As you say, it's not a physical barrier. When I see a biker go past my car, that should not be my only reminder that oh! there are bikers next to me. A physical barrier of any kind would instantly solve this problem. I have a lot of respect for those who bike in the city and I don't want anyone to get hurt on the road. This is like the simplest goddamn thing in transit and its amazing how a few stubborn decision makers make this city more dangerous for both cars and bikes simply because they lack the ability to place themselves in another person's shoes. Sending my deepest condolences to Dr. Friedes' family.
I bike down Fairmount Ave regularly. It can be really frustrating and scary to bike around parked cars. Unfortunately, it's a door zone bike lane, which means that even when we're in the bike lane we have to watch out for people who open their doors without looking. In order to make that bike lane actually safe, the city would probably have to remove both lanes of parking and make it protected. It is a commercial corridor, so that might make deliveries hard, unless they make the protection retractable bollards and made the deliveries during non peak hours.
It's such an insult that they view the bike lanes as an afterthought at best and a nuisance at worst. Anywhere outside of cities though it's even worse because they just don't have anything but grass if you're lucky.
Not a single week goes by without the local paper in my schitty having at least one whiny self-entitled pile of garbage writing a letter-to-the-editor to nag about ANY attempt the city makes to improve things for anyone not in a car. 😒 I am firmly convinced that my city is one of the WORST of all. I've seen other "bad" cities and mine is definitely worse, I WISH I only had to deal with those other cities' problems. You know how AI can "learn" and "evolve" extremely fast with a feedback loop because it's computers and not biology, the drivers in my city are like that, they're getting worse and worse and worse at a very rapid clip, constantly driving worse to compensate for other bad drivers, causing others to have to compensate for them and so on. I don't know how much longer this city will survive before there's a car-accident and people run over at every corner of every block every hour of every day. It really does feel like a ticking-timebomb. I'm afraid to even leave the house anymore, and every time I do, I have to white-knuckle it, whether I'm walking, biking, driving, or riding the bus, until I make it home alive. Fortunately, I don't live too close to the road, so I don't have to worry about a car coming crashing through the wall like they do terrifyingly often. 😒
@@I.____.....__...__ Which city? Every car driver should THANK cyclists and public transit riders for their SERVICE and SACRIFICE reducing CO2 emissions, taking up less space, less taxes, giving up THEIR personal comfort & privacy to make the car driver's experience easier.
It’s amazing how poorly are cities are designed and how we prioritize cars over people. So many times as a biker, all over the city, bike lanes are used as parking spots. Well if there are even bike lanes. For a city as old as Philadelphia, there is no excuse for it to be as pedestrian unfriendly as it is.
As if America Jr. is any better, all tucked away down there. Only Montréal is Montréal, the rest of Canada is Toronto. 😒 (And even Montréal is overrated; the REV is faaaaar from being Oulu.) ALL of North America is a car-centric hellhole. 🤦
When CheRizzo Parker was running for mayor she said We already have enough bike lanes. Apparently she thinks everyone should drive around drunk like her
If you can't or won't do your job, you should be removed from it - yep, even politicians. Also, driving is a privilege, not a right; part of why you need a license. You DO NOT own the f-ing road because you have a car. You DO have a responsibility to operate a ton of metal that moves with curtousy and consideration of other people both inside and outside of your vehicle. The politicians didn't indirectly cause death, they were equally involved. People, if you're running late, call or text before you start your car. Better still, pretend you are a grown up and get yourself out the damn door 10 minutes sooner in case of traffic or whatever. And pee before you leave. So many people drive like they need to pee and their back teeth are floating - really, they're just narcissist who, like the man said, think they need to be ahead of everyone else.
A one lane one way street is not supposed to have heavy traffic so modal filters to turn it into a local street is the correct solution here but still frustrating nobody in power wants to do anything to do about it
They'll complain about that too. So many people without a sense of direction have to drive in the U.S. that when they end up at a cul-de-sac or equivalent barrier, they freeze. They'd probably say, "Philadelphia is so rude for making it so I can't drive down anything but a road. I always get lost and turned around. They don't even clearly mark it." Even if there were tones of signs in pavement and next to the street saying "Dead End" and pointing towards the nearest through road. Mainly because there are probably some who can't even read the signs, much less understand directions from their phone. Not that we shouldn't put modal filters in, but if you think drivers are being ridiculous about bicycle lanes, wait until you see how they respond to more extensive pedestrianzation and modal filters.
I've had several philadelphia boomers erupt in hateful rants about bike lanes when I was painting a local building, that if it's eating away at them that much we have very little hope of anything changing. We literally have a geriatric generation of people who just grew old and hateful instead of mature or wise.
Absolute banger of a video Alan, KJ and Mayor Parker along with the selfish RCO’s and the churches have blood on their hands and we should never let them forget it
Jersey barriers are the best solution. Bad and impatient drivers will stop driving because they broke their own cars. Make driving MORE expensive. Force politicians to ride in unprotected bike lanes for a few weeks. ~~~IF~~~ they survive, maybe they'll change their attitudes.
Can you imagine how car drivers would freak out if cyclists were to block the road every couple of blocks because "they're only dropping something off, jesus just be patient"? A one time protest would have people dead because of road rage in a large enough city, imagine if it were that way every day. You cannot heal car brain in 300 million people over the soan of a lifetime. Cyclists are seen as second class to car drivers. The lifes of cyclists are valued less than the convenience of car drivers, not only in the minds of 300 million drivers, but also evident in the infrastructure. That is why building seperated! bike lanes is the only way to keep cyclists safe. Seperated bike lanes make sense in so so many ways, just have a look at the Netherlands, but everyone should know that they save lifes. Seperated bike lanes and adequate biking infrastructure save lifes. Save a life today and advocate for better infrastructure. Alan, you are so on the right track and thank you so much for this video. You noy only talk about the issue, but you also talk about the democratic processes amd institutions that can change that and that we must advocate for it. Bitch and moan like I did, then let's demand change from the responsible institutions!
Motorists don't treat cyclists as second-class citizens. They're equally rude and entitled towards other motorists. You can get that cyclist experience in a Prius just by driving under the speed limit.
I've been a NYC cyclist for decades and recently moved to Philadelphia a year ago. This death was obviously insanely tragic. The only way to change this dynamic is to actually hold the individual operating the murder vehicle accountable. I definitely won't be holding my breath. Beyond Philadelphia, across the country, car drivers are what our systems protect. Very proud of the bicyclists protest that just happened. Philly is a tiny town (compared to NYC) but the drivers here are insanely inept on how to navigate metropolitan streets with cyclists. When I'm cycling and hugged along the right side of a street (without a bike lane) I make a point to make sure there's plenty of room (even on a 1-way) for the driver to pass me with ease (even in the ridiculously oversized American SUV's and trucks that dominate the streets here in 215land) but they have no sense or familiarity of dealing with someone pedaling and I feel are resentful of us cyclists. Often times I'll just pull over and let the drivers behind me pass me (even though I've allowed more than enough room). Philadelphia in general is definitely more of a car town compared to NYC. Rest in peace Dr. Barbara Friedes.
Alan, First I'm sorry for your city's loss. Hopefully public pressure can cause some change. Second, do you have any videos coming up celebrating public transit victories? The South Shore near me just finished their double track project, and next year, they should have their extension completed, too. It would be nice to hear of some good things happening around the country.
I regularly use the Spruce and Pine bike lanes, and it is sad knowing those are some of the BEST bike infrastructure options in the entire city. It really is as bad as you described. I also work with a lot of cyclists, and we've all been saddened by Barbara's death. Thank you for making this video.
I just came across your video on my stream. This is all very eye opening and you make a lot of solid points. It’s refreshing to see a discussion around poor engineering of roadways. With that being said. I have young kids. My wife and I discussed Philly being on our short list to visit. I’m definitely reconsidering that thought, not until they fix these issues. You may have saved a life, or a few. Thank you
In the USA, car culture is rampant and must change. Very little attention or funds go towards pedestrian or biking infrastructure and almost all of available attention and funds go towards car-based infrastructure. Cities would be a lot nicer to live in for everyone if there were good pedestrian and biking infrastructure along with good public transit. You shouldn't "need" a car in a city. I'm on an extreme side and say cities should ban cars completely. Cars should not be allowed within city limits of any city with a population greater than 20K.
Someone almost hit my mom when she was riding her bike doing that. It infuriates me that our politicians don't give a shit about the people they claim to be representing.
Sir good content here. Good job out of you calling out the knuckleheads and providing there contact information. I hope the local radio stations your get on with talking about the local issues and debate the city councial on the stations with these facts.
Thank you for this video--we need more videos that name and shame the people who make selfish decisions that endanger everyone else in society. In criminal law, there's a type of mens rea (i e. culpable state of mind) called "recklessness," defined as a defendant acting with conscious disregard of a known risk. That's enough to support a conviction for negligent homicide--we shouldn't tolerate that level of sociopathy in our local policy decision-making.
Your jury of your peers would inevitably be 12 people who drive motor vehicles. But the first step is to get police and district attorneys to even recognize that negligence is criminal and not "just an accident".
I am visiting philly right now and staying right next to that intersection in city center, wow, what a great video - thanks for the information. that church... wow.
If by poles, you mean big, thick, wide, metal bollards, then yes. But not as a visual barrier, as a deterrent to drivers to make them worry about destroying their precious expensive metal boxes since they clearly couldn't care less about others' lives. 😒
05:30 I had this argument with family and coworkers about the bike infrastructure in Barcelona and what you said is similar to the argument they made. For some reason, people want to park illegally to save time and sometimes money since Barcelona doesn't have enough parking, and if somebody ends up dying, like in Philadelphia, it's the driver's fault because he was crazy or drunk. Some people even blame the bikers for merging. People don't want to give up things that they feel entitled to, even if it hurts other people, and a lot of drivers feel entitled to owning all the roads. For some people, bikes are an asset that should be taken off the roads, imo quite a few problems in society could be solved if a lot of people didn't have a stick up their ass.
Part of that is due to automotive industry propaganda that made it seem like the road should just be for cars that has become so entrenched that they don't even have to regularly repeat the propaganda anymore.
I'm from Boston - The sad truth is that unless it inconveniences them directly, elected officials don't do anything until something tragic happens. I bike, and drive. My instructor told me "Signs are visual pollution, people don't like them in their neighborhood. However, everywhere you see a sign posted is because something terrible happened so they finally decided to do something." On average the US spends about $9k / mile on motor vehicle infrastructure, on bicycle infrastructure they spend approx $60 per mile. 😞
Someone got killed in Waikiki recently in a similar manner. Honolulu suffers from the same problems Philly does, apparently. Thanks for making this video, Alan. We're struggling pretty hard to change the car-obsessed mindset here, even though the weather is literally perfection for active transit. Would love to host you out here if you'd be interested.
I don't get why people in Hawaii want to replicate suburban sprawl in the mainland so bad. Especially all the bad press the Skyline got from local carbrains.
@@ianhomerpura8937 the interstate highways act of 1956 and it's consequences have been a disaster for American society, Hawai'i included. But make no mistake. The Rail is the poster child for government mismanagement. With the amount of money spent, we would have been better off taking a fraction of it and building a world-class cycling network. Cycling infrastructure is both the cheapest option and the one the government can screw up the least.
Thank you for making this video ! My partner has to bike through the city for her job, and every day she goes to work, I'm practically paralyzed with fear for her life. I've seen a cyclist pass away right before my very eyes after being hit by a car not far from where I live- it was extremely traumatizing. I'm definitely going to be using the links in the video description to fight for a change. I can't believe how badly Cherelle and her staff are doing for the most poor and vulnerable in Philadelphia- there's just no excuse.
Where I live, bike lanes don't even exist. You have to use the sidewalks with huge cracks because the roads have heavy, high speed traffic all across town.
Just an idea, a suggestion: just by inverting bike lane directions, so that bikes would ride in the opposite direction of cars, would this help? In Tbilisi, Georgia, they did the same with bus lanes, so that no car driver would ever come to the idea of driving on those.
In San Diego, it took a couple of deaths in 2021 on the dangerous and hilly Pershing Dr to kick the city into completing the 2 mile two-way, protected bike path that safely connects downtown and residential neighborhoods. Mind you this road runs through the massive Balboa Park (that should be car-free...). But it will kick off its opening ceremony tomorrow actually.
@@kennethschlegel870 definitely! they are slowing working to improve bike route connections, like they have nice protected bike lanes to Hillcrest now. Park Blvd is better too. They are almost done actually connecting the Bayshore Bikeway to the Embarcadero, but only got to Barrio Logan
@@th5841 I might be mistaken, but as an American having grown up among Americans, jackvegas21's comment reads to me like a racist dog-whistle. Judging by the vague but suggestive tone of the comment, I'm going to hazard a guess that the "things" they referred to Philly having a lot of that Norway mostly lacks is black people, which I presume the commenter intends for you to infer are somehow personally responsible for Philadelphia's lack of infrastructure and pedestrian fatalities. It is a commonly-held trope among American right-wingers and white supremacists that we can't have nice things like good infrastructure or Scandinavian-style cradle-to-grave social welfare systems because we have a diverse population with relatively little social cohesion, rather than because our economic system is dominated by a sociopathic elite who enrich themselves and entrench their oligarchy by funneling public money into private contractors of the military-industrial complex instead of the public good while blaming powerless poor and brown-skinned people for every problem their own greed perpetuates.
@@bartolomeothesatyrCouldn’t agree more with this. And as a European (from Ireland), it also shows those individuals’ total lack of understanding of OUR societies, when they assume that they’re ethnically homogeneous. Just look up the numbers of foreign-born people in somewhere like Oslo, or for example the number of Germans of Turkish origin, or French Muslims, and you’ll soon realise that European societies are very diverse. Over 10% of the Irish population is foreign born. We’re far from perfect of course but there’s no reason at all that the US can’t copy the things we do well (and vice versa).
I would take up the whole lane when i needed to go straight at this one intersection. Cars would go around into a blind turn to save 5 seconds and pass me. Drivers are the dumbest people.
Thank you for this making video. I’m not in PA, but I grew up in a college city with bike lanes everywhere. The amount of douche canoes are growing daily and it’s alarming.
Not to say that we’re perfect, but in Netherlands when a driver hits a bike rider or pedestrian, he is always at fault. Resulting potentially in years of prison sentence
I'm curious, how is it handled when an accident was clearly caused by the actions of the bike rider / pedestrian? Would they still hold a driver legally liable if someone ran out into high-speed traffic in front of them on a busy highway?
If drivers were offered the death penalty for running over pedestrians (as getting run over is effectively a death sentence), do you think drivers would drive with more caution; like their life depends on it?
You hit on the important point at the end that Johnson and Parker conveniently ignore because they don't want to get it... Bikes have the potential to lift people out of poverty because they are personal transportation that is super cheap and save soooo much money compared to cars. Of course, Johnson claims that bikes cause gentrification, which of course is such a missed opportunity and Johnson failing the people who elected him. We need free adult riding classes and getting more people on bikes so that they can become at least single car households and save a lot of money
I come from a rural area where it's common for drivers to go halfway into the oncoming lane when they're passing a cyclist, and not being able to do that in cities makes me unbelievably paranoid
this is one of several reasons why Philly will never be a class-A location that attracts investment and jobs. very sad to see such a continual decline but it does reinforce my decision to move out of the city to a small old town with competitive and convenient shopping, restaurants and pharmacies easily and safely accessible by walking, biking or car.
I've never been to Philadelphia, so I look at the footage of these particular streets and think about what they remind me of. Ironically, the first association my brain makes is to a part of Amsterdam I wandered through a couple of years ago. The obvious difference being that the bike infrastructure, and the lack of bikes parked out the front of every single building.
As someone who just moved to Philly (like, literally been here less than a week) the drivers are insane. I always thought the drivers in my hometown (a Midwestern college town) were bad, but Jesus christ the lack of patience, awareness, and also just general infrastructure issues already make me appreciate the in-retrospect extremely tame drivers of my home town. Deadass seeing people go straight in dedicated turn lanes, literally use the bike lane as though it were another standard car lane even with no other major traffic impediments, people parking right at the edge of a stop sign (which, maybe that's allowed in Philly idk, I just know where I'm from the end of streets at stop signs was illegal to park at for at least 1 - 2 car lengths or else you'd get ticketed or even towed). Anyways, hopefully the city implements better forward-thinking infrastructure initiatives; my experiences otherwise so far have been fine but man it seems like a lot of Philly is just in decay or stagnation compared to where it ought to be given its historic prominence.
I live in Center City and contacted my RCO, the Center City Residents Association. Here's what they had to say: Hi, Devlin. Thank you for the email that you recently sent to CCRA. My name is Bill West, and I am chair of the CCRA streets committee. Your email was forwarded to me. The streets committee's vision is that we want to help make our streets safe, useful and pleasant for everybody. In recent years we have had considerable success in that regard, but I think it's fair to say we are simply not anywhere close to where we should be. The primary impediment to a successful reimagining of our streets is, and has been for many years, Philadelphia's City Council, led for a long time by Darrell Clarke and now led by Kenyatta Johnson. I attended the vigil for Dr. Barbara Friedes. I also attended the vigil for Emily Fredericks in 2017. At one of the demonstrations in the days following Emily's vigil, I chanted "Darrell Clarke, shame." It was good theater, and the people attending the demonstration seemed pleased, and I felt happy. But it didn't change anything. CCRA is in contact with the Bike Coalition, 5th Square, and Philly Bike Action, as well as the appropriate people at the City, in an attempt to get some kind of positive action out of the current travesty. How things will turn out, I do not know. I do know that I do not wish to attend yet another vigil for yet another murdered bicyclist. Sincerely, Bill West
Thank you for calling these people out by name. These people are responsible for millions of deaths and injuries every year. They need to be held accountable
Alan, this was truly a meaningful video. Incisive, clear, honest -- you cut through the bullshit to get to the heart of the matter. Thank you for your voice.
You're all talking about infrastructure, but the real problem is older drivers and intoxication. Make drivers license renewal contingent on physical testing after afe 50.
Cars are an addiction. When you start to reduce them, the addicts go into irrational withdrawal (even though, eventually, they would be better off with the reduction).
I lived in Philadelphia from 1980 to 1989 and as a pedestrian or a bike rider I never expected any car to yield to me. One of the neighborhood kids had been hit by a car six different times. To this day, I will never walk or ride a bike with my back to oncoming traffic and do not understand why anybody would I can’t believe they want you to because I will never.
Out on Lancaster Ave in west Philly where i am the bike lane is literally just treated as a passing Lane or parking. Its not in yhe slightest bit protected. And due to the fact that the route 10 trolley runs along Lancaster, if you need to swerve out of the bike lane to avoid a car parked there, you have to jump trolley tracks, which is always a fun experience on a bicycle. Philly needs to do better. It's really hard to advocate to my friends that they should be cycling in this city when stuff like this keeps happening.
I used to ride my bike around Charlotte NC. The bike lanes along north tryon street from UNCC and Old Concord Road is very sketchy. The several amount of driveways and the stroad like characteristic of tryon street…you better be a fast rider. Luckily there’s a sidewalk.
I live directly in front of where the accident happened and I came home last Wednesday to the fire department washing blood off the concrete. Last Sunday during the vigil and combined anti parking protest there were several cars parking on 17th in no standing zones with church provided parking stickers while there WAS AN EMPTY PARKING LOT NOT FIFTY FEET AWAY.
You mentioned four churches at 9:10 but two of them are synagogues? they have star of David’s to symbolize them instead of crosses. That just stuck out to me
@@toericabaker no, but my point isn’t about the message of the video but how weird it is to call a synagogue a church when it isn’t. Also they wouldn’t need the parking in Sundays but on Fridays and Saturdays, which if he mentioned that would make his point even better. Bc now that’s three whole days where the bike lane is blocked instead of just Sunday.
This is genuinely depressing what happened to Dr Friedes, her family and friends, and the community. May she and, other fellow cyclists who suffered a similar fate rest in peace. Shame on you Johnson, Parker, and everyone else that had a hand in setting her up to die. SHAME ON YOU!!!!😡😡
My fellow Filipinos need to learn about this, our country needs to listen to urbanists including yourself and others like you. I've heard similar stories where I'm from, about cyclists getting killed by inpatient, irresponsible motorists. I was very disappointed that the bike lanes I started seeing around lately are either just Sharrows, or narrow protected lanes with barely a gutter for separation. (Although I don't remember seeing any flex posts, I can't tell if that's worse or if that's something good at least.)
Minsan ang sarap na lang mag-apply ng gun license sa Crame. It's always the case that car drivers can pull out a gun, point it to cyclists, and not get punished all because ka brod nila e taga Crame. How about we turn it around lol
@@ianhomerpura8937 baka makulong ka naman pag ginawa mo 'yan. lol Pero grabeh naman, entitled talaga sila minsan. Hindi ba iligal ang mangtutok ng baril?
I did indigo for a couple months and stopped bc it was too dangerous, Philly has the perfect bones to be a great biking city but the city government doesn’t seem to have any interest in living up to that potential
The concept of “I need an unprotected bike lane to double as my building’s temp driveway” breaks my brain as both a cyclist and a driver. If it’s that urgent, just double park ffs. You’ll have to park your car somewhere long term after unloading it anyway, it’s sad to laziness lead to unnecessary deaths.
It's all too easy to do when you have NO consequence for it. We got a new bike lane on my street that technically took away parking spots, but you wouldnt know it since all my neighbors just continue to park on the green paint...Even my own family just prefers to park in the bike lane because it saves them from having to walk to the back of your building to lug in groceries. No reason other than pure laziness.
I have beef in my city with folks who park at bus stops - and there’s no consequences for them unless they get really unlucky and a cop is driving by and decides to tow them before they get a chance to get back from their “5 min” stop
Double parking also blocks a traffic lane, one that bicyclists also often use. It's not a better option.
@@jmlinden7 my point was the same driver who doesn’t fear reprisal temp parking in a bike lane would definitely fear reprisal temp double parking and blocking traffic. That incongruity shouldn’t be.
@@GirtonOramsay Same thing with handicapped parking. I see people without credentials park in these spaces and it makes my blood boil. It is supposed to be a 500.00 fine, but I have never seen any of them ticketed.
Live in KJ's district. Called and called and called again. Hope he gets voted out next cycle.
he keeps failing upwards idk how he does it, he gets investigated by the feds and then gets to be council pres lol
I do too. The problem is, no one ever runs against him.
@@tardissixteen8178idk about you but that does not sound very democratic to me ._.
@@owly6204 Yes it's not democratic but Democratic, with a capital D.
trust me, he won't
I am a semi driver in Philly. It aggravates me watching people GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to near-miss so many pedestrians/cyclists.
I was reading about a study saying 55% of drivers see bicyclists as "sub-human," and 10% admit to either swerving towards one or throwing objects at them. That's just the ones willing to admit to committing a crime.
@@NonsenseFabricatorDear God. Unfortunately, it adds up. The same can be seen done to other drivers.
No wonder violent crimes are so popularly advertised in the US: everyone hates each other there.
@@NonsenseFabricator I remember a story where some car lover shot a cyclist and then justified it by saying "it's muh road and muh taxpayer dollars pay for it so cyclists should gtfo off of it"
@@NonsenseFabricatorJesus, one would think it would be the opposite.
It's really gut-wrenching to read about Dr. Friedes. She was only 30. She was still in residence training at the hospital. I would ask the rhetorical question of how many people need to die before politicians take pedestrian/cyclist road safety seriously, but it's clear that they would rather fill up a morgue than put down a bit of new concrete and paint.
It's the number of alive people that would vote them out.
She was a pediatric oncologist. You shouldn't have to be a kids cancer doctor for your death to be mourned, but god it breaks my heart over again.
when these politicians see their children get killed by idiot drunk drivers, probably
If they fixed the problem, how could they raise election funds campaigning on pretending to fix the problem?
@@devlindonnelly9729 Yeah it's sad how we need to bring up her accomplishments just to counteract the cyclist hate and prove that her life was valuable.
Here in Toronto, the fifth cyclist of the year was killed this week. It appears that she was forced into the motor traffic lane due to a dumpster illegally blocking the bike lane. 😢😢😢
It is hard to even educate drivers because they become incredibly defensive.
And as a professional I can confidently say that what the average driver knows about safe driving would not fill a post it note .
@@kwhopper1100 A lot of people on the road act like they think they are professional race car drivers.
They get incredibly defensive because they already know they're in the wrong, but they have made decisions in their lives that make driving a core part of their lives and they can't imagine how they would live without it.
The reason drivers hate on cyclists so much is that cyclists remind drivers of just how selfishly dangerous they're being.
Driving is such a stressful experience for people that they have trauma about it. Being late and being trapped in traffic is a common trauma for drivers and that's what you trigger then you talk about removing space for cars.
Driving somewhere, being late and driving around for 20mins (longer than the drive there) and being unable to find somewhere to park is a pretty stressful experience. This is the emotional experience that you trigger when you talk about removing parking spaces.
@@jessta314 Most people that cycle also drive. It is not bicycle vs car. Fewer cars on the road is also good for car drivers. If you want more parking, perhaps live in the suburbs.
@@barryrobbins7694 accept they are at best amateur drivers that can barely drive in a straight line , they do not understand how long it will take to stop their car in an emergency and they do not understand the reasoning behind speed limits . But they all think they are gods gift to driving , making the complacent accidents waiting to happen .
This is the ultimate r/Philadelphia video. Bike infrastructure, RCO's, and Politician hate. Especially Kenyatta Johnson. All my friends (and any moral and just person) hate KJ.
And yet I didn't see it posted!
If Russia is the third largest country to visit r/Canada it’s not impossible that bad faith state actors have infiltrated a lot of American city subreddits to give you a skewed picture to paint progressives as louts and deadbeats.
KJ is to Philadelphia what Cara Mendelsohn is to my city (Dallas). Both are insane pro-car NIMBYs who screw over cyclists and pedestrians. Mendelsohn and her hatred for pedestrians recently got 4(!) people killed in her city council district by a drunk driver thanks to her love of stroads.
I have zero understanding how drivers themselves are not frustrated with the lack of bike lanes. On busy roads that don't have dedicated bike lanes, drivers have to contend with more variables and just adds more stress to city driving. If you know that cyclists are in their own protected lane, then you focus more on other traffic instead.
Imagine if no sidewalks existed and drivers had to deal with people walking on the street as well. It would be utter madness. Road design benefits all parties, especially the vulnerable ones who aren't covered in a cocoon of metal, airbags and seatbelts.
Because they don't want cyclists to simply be separated from them, they want them to stop existing entirely.
Yeah having separate bike paths makes driving easier.
Im learning to drive and just yestaday had alot of bikes around town due to the weather (and pedestrians crossing wherever they please because britain) and a couple of times this year had seen cars overtake bikes on street with parked vehicles which make the road narrow quite a bit where just enough room for 2 cars to pass, naturally lack of space means oncoming traffic has to slow down which doesn't help traffic flow so cutting out on overtaking bikes entirely is a huge help.
@@Sam-Cain I am disabled, bike riders are trying to take my mode of transportation and livelihood from me by slowly increasing bike infrastructure until cars are closed out.
I’m so tired of able people just throwing those of us who are disabled under the bus. We get it, you’d prefer if we didn’t exist
@@12time12 I'm disabled and can't afford a car. my partner, who cares for me when i can't, bikes for her job in Philly and her life is always in danger. You don't speak for all of us. Public transport in this city needs to be more accessible, so that disabled people don't have to buy a car just to get where we need. I'm already looking into what I can do to help changes get made there- if you care about disabled people besides yourself, that's what I'd recommend for you to look into, too.
@@12time12 it's not a zero-sum game. In fact, your position means you benefit more than other drivers from increased pedestrian infrastructure. Wouldn't you rather people only use the roads if they truly needed to? That way access would be prioritized to people with greater need - not those who desire convenience.
They need to be replaced, not asked to do their job.
That's why you vote in local elections.
@@letitiajeavons6333 I completely agree, if voter turnout were good we'd have a much better society. I always vote, unfortunately most people don't so most regular people trying to get elected don't win.
True but at least mayor parker is a smart Democrat who still wants to keep police and respect them. Yes she may be responsible for this but not where near as much as the others mentioned. For God sakes we need police to keep people safe and keep crime low. If you have politicians that defund police you'll get a situation like San Francisco and or Baltimore. Liberals need to stop hating on police and stop defending crime.
That's what local elections are for, but people simply choose not to vote.
Philadelphia is blue. It’ll never change
not me looking at the strip of white paint "protecting" the bike lane and thinking "damn I wish my city had that"
Meanwhile, I'm here looking at the concrete k-rails and thinking, "pft, that won't stop the morons in my city". 😒
yeah paint is objectively infrastructure because otherwise you'd see cars queue up in it like normal
Many places don't even have functioning sidewalks. :(
Just in case Mr Johnson forgot about Washington Ave...
Blame the victim
One of my favourite things on TH-cam is seeing Alan Fisher, Not Just Bikes and Adam Something righteously scathingly angry about the idiocy of town planners and the selfishness of car drivers.
I wish there was more focus on how North America got this way and why it is so resistant to change.
The political, money and cultural dimension to this discussion.
We Dutch people aren't some magically different people, it's changes in the system that cause different outcomes.
@@rogerwilco2Robert Moses. Ford. Strong capitalism and a culture that puts the individual first. I think that about sums up how we got here. Now we need to undo it.
As a Younger Generation, I can definitely agree that Cars definitely NOT allowed to park in bike lane!
If anyone could actually prevent them from doing so, they should also prevent them from blocking the sidewalk and bike-path for several minutes while exiting a parking-lot and waiting for an opening to enter traffic. They should also prevent them from blowing through a stop-sign and barreling through the sidewalk and bike-path and pulling right up to the edge of the road as if all of the ground outdoors is their turf. 😠
@@I.____.....__...__ Well they definitely should put Traffic calming, eliminate parking, protect people from cycling/ pedestrians and even block of car traffic like modal filters or entirely! 😤
Yet whenever I politely ask a driver parked in a bike lane to move, they flip out and even sometimes get violent.
1. Drivers park their cars. Always assign bad behavior to a person.
2. Drivers do a lot of things they're not allowed to do. They just don't care.
@@keithmcmanus2406 Yeah I’m down for deleting side parking/ also wanted for car free streets
This is super important, thank you for making it. Had a mutual friend get killed while biking by a hit and run driver. It’s a really big problem here and tbh, the poor bike infrastructure has deterred me from biking around. It’s just too risky for someone who would be relatively new to cycling.
I LOOOOOVE biking, big time. That said, I DON'T ENJOY it because every time I bike, I have to white-knuckle it until I manage to make it home alive. Biking for fun instead of transportation is a paradox in North America, it's completely ruined unless you stick to the small scraps of dedicated pathways through the park. 🤦
One thing I see missing from a lot of this recent discourse is that infrastructure is so much worse in poorer areas of the city. The same day that Dr. Friedes was killed on Spruce, Christopher Cabrera was killed in Kensington. A few days later, a one-year-old was killed and two women injured by a driver in Feltonville. We need to make sure we have safe streets everywhere, not just in center city.
absolutely. it's not a zero-sum game. more, diversifying investments in the city's communities would elevate the city as a whole.
01:16 car runs red nearly hitting a dad and two kids
And the call it an accident!
@@technomad9071double talk created by the car industry.
I lost a friend 5 years ago to poor infrastructure and a careless driver. Thank you for putting attention on stories like this
Murdered by lazy cars
I'm a car commuter to and from an exurban/rural place to get to work. Cyclists and cars should not mix, and it's the government's fault that they do. If you're a car commuter yourself, don't be a carbrain and recognize that if a cyclist is making your driving experience worse, it goes both ways and the cyclist probably feels similarly. Advocate for them to get their own infrastructure and paths. Not only will that solve the problem of mixing, it may take cars off the road too, by creating a viable alternative for car commuting.
The government you are blaming is elected by the people.
Elect a different government.
@@rogerwilco2 Nice; did you just begin your civics class in high school?
The government is elected by the people-the very same people who elect the people who uphold the traffic status quo. This is an argument for the case of having said people to elect (and petition) to do differently.
The people of Philadelphia deserve so much more. It's honestly so embarrassing how far behind we are in public transit and pedestrian / bike infrastructure. We need protected bike lanes NOW. Paint on the road obviously isn't working. I see cops and amazon trucks parked in the bike lane all the time🙄
It's actually remarkable how well the existing transit has held up given so many politicians actively trying to make the city their own personal parking space.
I'll never understand why so many Americans think it's impossible to make deliveries wherever bike lanes are present without parking in the bike lanes. Oh the Urbanity! debunked the myth.
Just passed an suv driver parked halfway in the bike lane trying to argue his way out of a ticket.
I bet that if a cyclist threw a cup of water at the driver, the cop would abandon the law-breaker to chase down the cyclist. 😒 That's one of the harms that doesn't get talked about enough, that the auto-industry's propaganda making cars out to be the most important thing and bribing legislators has also made life dangerous for everybody because cops abuse laws about cars to hurt everybody. 😠
Wtf! The cop was letting that?
@@technomad9071 Freedom of speech permits the argument. It's only corruption is if's successful.
One of my friends knows a guy in Atlanta who installed a solenoid and some paint cans on his bike to tactically add lanes where there weren't any. Apparently the city has given up and made some of them official.
If he can somehow do just as well or better than the entire city of Philly, you know our country's got a serious problem. It's just insane that officials are so disconnected from any means of transportation other than driving!
Some of the groups here in philly have also considered doing some tactical urbanism (i.e. installing concrete blocks and posts), I'm inclined to sponsor or help in some efforts too.
@@alanthefisher DC also seems to be slow-rolling any future improvements. The 5-year plan ends in 2024 and there's still no discussion of what the next one will look like. It's only a matter of time until someone dies exactly where the mayor cancelled a new lane because business owners and lawyers from Maryland complained!
@@alanthefisher I agree. I think people need to take matters into their own hands. Make them all waste precious time and money removing heavy rocks and planters repeatedly until they're sick of it. Eventually people will adapt and get used to it and opposition to real infrastructure will crumble.
@@Madwonk I live in Bethesda. After 3 teenagers died on Old Georgetown Road (stroad), those damn plastic wickets were installed to create bike lanes. These have already been destroyed in many places by careless, privileged drivers. Even worse, complaints on my neighborhood forum are about how no one uses the lanes! Solid curbs must be a minimum. The only thing drivers care about is damaging their Teslas, Porsches, etc. People…dying. Not their concern.
@@alanthefisher I wonder how easy it would be to unofficially install something like the "Armadillos" in London
My sister is a doctor in Philly and personally knew and worked with the woman who was killed. My sister uses this bikelane very frequently and is very shaken. It's surreal. That could've my sister. Rest in peace Dr Friedes
Weirdly small world . I meet her once at her cousins, my friend's, wedding.
The mayor was interviewed on NPR’s local station here in Philadelphia yesterday she would not give a straight answer on just about anything. They asked her if she would give dedicated bike lines and she said there is money in the budget and budget includes bike lane infrastructure she’s just the worst.
Terrorize homeless people forces people to work on location after three years working remote it’s not necessary. She hires all these cops and then doesn’t make them do anything
Like I can’t tell you how many times you’ll see cop sitting in or cutting people off the lines or something. It’s just appalling and ridiculous.
Hey, that's the City of Brotherly Love for ya. 🤷
eric adam’s is similar in new york.
@@benfelps no, he's not similar. He's so much worse so mischievous so sinister and just fucking stupid that the similarity starts to fade away. lol
But I absolutely get and agree with you. I was just trying to be funny.
Normally they only drive from district to a point where they hide until shift ends.
Watch television shows on cellular phone or talk. I did see many times cars with lights on speeding to clock out at end of shift. They normally hide in a parking lot together or go inside a big store to keep tracking software confusion to max.
I never see cars driving around to prevent crime.
A quick check of the speedometer millage on cars across the entire city would show low miles driven & gas usage to maximum ( air conditioning needs to run & electronics need to be on.
That's how we have cars stolen or broken into at 3 am.
All the shootings at 3 am with no witnesses..
One of the failures of our representative democracy is that often the only accountability method that residents have is the overly broad threat of voting representatives out, every 2-6 years. This has proven to be completely ineffective when someone gets power that abuses anyone they are supposed to represent.
Well that's because we have a shit for brains voting system that encourages a two party system, and unlike in the beginning of the twentieth century where there were progressives in both parties, we now have right wing party and a moderate centrist party that has a Christian Democrat wing and a Social Democrat wing. So, in a place like Philly, where Republicans don't do well and are likely to be right-wingers, you have to get people to turn out at the primary, and that requires them to register as a Democrat. However, that's really all it does. Registering with a party gets you the right to vote in that party's primary in some states, and that's all if you don't want to get involved with party conventions. Also, you need to then get them to know the primary is by far the more important election which requires they research the candidates because there's no shorthand like looking to see who has the right letter next to their name.
@@timothystamm3200Not voting in the primary and then bemoaning the quality of the resulting candidates is truly the American left's favorite pastime.
No cyclists on main roads! No liberals! No democrats! No godless heathens! No leftists!
@@sinisterdesign Why would they vote in the primary of a party that doesn't represent them and makes it vocally clear that they don't represent them?
Exactly why I cringe when I see "VOTE!" stickers and signs.
Excellent video, these deaths are 100% preventable and purely political. Thanks for bringing light to this.
May Dr. Friedes rest in peace 🕊️
How many people must die before we can get something as simple as bollards?
or just a path with a curb atleast...
Having 2 paths on the side with step up curbs is easy and keeps driveways easy access
Can also slap a grass verge with trees if you want as well.
Yes.
Really infuriating and scary. Thank you for reporting on this. This was a more serious video but I watch all your vids and I like how you bring humor to what is very often a very frustrating topic.
Excellent job illustrating the forces of incompetence that endanger Philadelphians everyday
I live directly in front of where the accident happened and I came home last Wednesday to the fire department washing blood off the concrete. Last Sunday during the vigil and combined anti parking protest there were several cars parking on 17th in no standing zones with church provided parking stickers while there WAS AN EMPTY PARKING LOT NOT FIFTY FEET AWAY.
Great video man. It sucks that as walkable as the city is, I’m terrified or riding my bike. Anywhere. Everyone is in a rush to get to the next red light. It’s so sad.
I got hit by a left turning car while crossing Broad in front of old Hahnemann hospital years ago. I jumped onto the hood, so didn’t get really hurt. The lady driver didn’t even acknowledge me and just drove off
In other countries, they can go to prison for a hit and run like that. What's wrong with the system there that these idiot drivers can constantly get away with it?
@@ianhomerpura8937it is illegal, but I wasn’t visibly hurt (though my arm ached for a good while), I was rushing to get to work on time, and I was young.
@@ianhomerpura8937 They could have in this country, too, had there been a law enforcement officer or traffic cameras present to record the event for later prosecution.
Thank you for this. I know its in a different part of the city, but as someone who drives down Fairmount Ave. for work everyday, the unprotected bike lanes terrify me. I try to stay fully aware of those in the bike lane, especially when they're behind me in the mirror, but it can be very easy to tune out because the stupid paint is just that: paint. As you say, it's not a physical barrier. When I see a biker go past my car, that should not be my only reminder that oh! there are bikers next to me. A physical barrier of any kind would instantly solve this problem. I have a lot of respect for those who bike in the city and I don't want anyone to get hurt on the road. This is like the simplest goddamn thing in transit and its amazing how a few stubborn decision makers make this city more dangerous for both cars and bikes simply because they lack the ability to place themselves in another person's shoes. Sending my deepest condolences to Dr. Friedes' family.
I bike down Fairmount Ave regularly. It can be really frustrating and scary to bike around parked cars. Unfortunately, it's a door zone bike lane, which means that even when we're in the bike lane we have to watch out for people who open their doors without looking. In order to make that bike lane actually safe, the city would probably have to remove both lanes of parking and make it protected. It is a commercial corridor, so that might make deliveries hard, unless they make the protection retractable bollards and made the deliveries during non peak hours.
It's such an insult that they view the bike lanes as an afterthought at best and a nuisance at worst. Anywhere outside of cities though it's even worse because they just don't have anything but grass if you're lucky.
Not a single week goes by without the local paper in my schitty having at least one whiny self-entitled pile of garbage writing a letter-to-the-editor to nag about ANY attempt the city makes to improve things for anyone not in a car. 😒
I am firmly convinced that my city is one of the WORST of all. I've seen other "bad" cities and mine is definitely worse, I WISH I only had to deal with those other cities' problems. You know how AI can "learn" and "evolve" extremely fast with a feedback loop because it's computers and not biology, the drivers in my city are like that, they're getting worse and worse and worse at a very rapid clip, constantly driving worse to compensate for other bad drivers, causing others to have to compensate for them and so on.
I don't know how much longer this city will survive before there's a car-accident and people run over at every corner of every block every hour of every day. It really does feel like a ticking-timebomb. I'm afraid to even leave the house anymore, and every time I do, I have to white-knuckle it, whether I'm walking, biking, driving, or riding the bus, until I make it home alive. Fortunately, I don't live too close to the road, so I don't have to worry about a car coming crashing through the wall like they do terrifyingly often. 😒
@@I.____.....__...__ Which city?
Every car driver should THANK cyclists and public transit riders for their SERVICE and SACRIFICE reducing CO2 emissions, taking up less space, less taxes, giving up THEIR personal comfort & privacy to make the car driver's experience easier.
It’s amazing how poorly are cities are designed and how we prioritize cars over people. So many times as a biker, all over the city, bike lanes are used as parking spots. Well if there are even bike lanes. For a city as old as Philadelphia, there is no excuse for it to be as pedestrian unfriendly as it is.
I've never heard the phrase "room temperature IQ" before,but now I'm totally going to use that all the time
"Lard barge" is a new one for me as well. Good shit
Disgusting. It’s so disappointing how many people in advocacy will resort to ableist language anytime they disagree with someone.
@RoyalRoseo you do know IQ is a made up metric? It is nothing relating to mental capability. It's just a more wordy way of calling someone dumb
It doesnt work outside of America beauce nobody can have an IQ of 20.
@@DoubleRBlaxicandisgusting. Calling someone dumb!?! Can't they speak?? /s
From Ontario, i hope those at fault are put to court and that you get your protected lanes! 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
As a American I haft to hate on Canada lol
As if America Jr. is any better, all tucked away down there. Only Montréal is Montréal, the rest of Canada is Toronto. 😒 (And even Montréal is overrated; the REV is faaaaar from being Oulu.) ALL of North America is a car-centric hellhole. 🤦
@@I.____.....__...__ I never said Canada had it better....only that I hope things get better for this situation in Philly
When CheRizzo Parker was running for mayor she said We already have enough bike lanes. Apparently she thinks everyone should drive around drunk like her
If you can't or won't do your job, you should be removed from it - yep, even politicians.
Also, driving is a privilege, not a right; part of why you need a license. You DO NOT own the f-ing road because you have a car. You DO have a responsibility to operate a ton of metal that moves with curtousy and consideration of other people both inside and outside of your vehicle.
The politicians didn't indirectly cause death, they were equally involved.
People, if you're running late, call or text before you start your car.
Better still, pretend you are a grown up and get yourself out the damn door 10 minutes sooner in case of traffic or whatever.
And pee before you leave. So many people drive like they need to pee and their back teeth are floating - really, they're just narcissist who, like the man said, think they need to be ahead of everyone else.
A one lane one way street is not supposed to have heavy traffic so modal filters to turn it into a local street is the correct solution here but still frustrating nobody in power wants to do anything to do about it
They'll complain about that too. So many people without a sense of direction have to drive in the U.S. that when they end up at a cul-de-sac or equivalent barrier, they freeze. They'd probably say, "Philadelphia is so rude for making it so I can't drive down anything but a road. I always get lost and turned around. They don't even clearly mark it." Even if there were tones of signs in pavement and next to the street saying "Dead End" and pointing towards the nearest through road. Mainly because there are probably some who can't even read the signs, much less understand directions from their phone. Not that we shouldn't put modal filters in, but if you think drivers are being ridiculous about bicycle lanes, wait until you see how they respond to more extensive pedestrianzation and modal filters.
I've had several philadelphia boomers erupt in hateful rants about bike lanes when I was painting a local building, that if it's eating away at them that much we have very little hope of anything changing. We literally have a geriatric generation of people who just grew old and hateful instead of mature or wise.
Absolute banger of a video Alan, KJ and Mayor Parker along with the selfish RCO’s and the churches have blood on their hands and we should never let them forget it
Jersey barriers are the best solution. Bad and impatient drivers will stop driving because they broke their own cars. Make driving MORE expensive. Force politicians to ride in unprotected bike lanes for a few weeks. ~~~IF~~~ they survive, maybe they'll change their attitudes.
Can you imagine how car drivers would freak out if cyclists were to block the road every couple of blocks because "they're only dropping something off, jesus just be patient"?
A one time protest would have people dead because of road rage in a large enough city, imagine if it were that way every day.
You cannot heal car brain in 300 million people over the soan of a lifetime. Cyclists are seen as second class to car drivers. The lifes of cyclists are valued less than the convenience of car drivers, not only in the minds of 300 million drivers, but also evident in the infrastructure.
That is why building seperated! bike lanes is the only way to keep cyclists safe. Seperated bike lanes make sense in so so many ways, just have a look at the Netherlands, but everyone should know that they save lifes. Seperated bike lanes and adequate biking infrastructure save lifes. Save a life today and advocate for better infrastructure.
Alan, you are so on the right track and thank you so much for this video. You noy only talk about the issue, but you also talk about the democratic processes amd institutions that can change that and that we must advocate for it. Bitch and moan like I did, then let's demand change from the responsible institutions!
Motorists don't treat cyclists as second-class citizens. They're equally rude and entitled towards other motorists. You can get that cyclist experience in a Prius just by driving under the speed limit.
I've been a NYC cyclist for decades and recently moved to Philadelphia a year ago. This death was obviously insanely tragic. The only way to change this dynamic is to actually hold the individual operating the murder vehicle accountable. I definitely won't be holding my breath. Beyond Philadelphia, across the country, car drivers are what our systems protect. Very proud of the bicyclists protest that just happened. Philly is a tiny town (compared to NYC) but the drivers here are insanely inept on how to navigate metropolitan streets with cyclists. When I'm cycling and hugged along the right side of a street (without a bike lane) I make a point to make sure there's plenty of room (even on a 1-way) for the driver to pass me with ease (even in the ridiculously oversized American SUV's and trucks that dominate the streets here in 215land) but they have no sense or familiarity of dealing with someone pedaling and I feel are resentful of us cyclists. Often times I'll just pull over and let the drivers behind me pass me (even though I've allowed more than enough room). Philadelphia in general is definitely more of a car town compared to NYC. Rest in peace Dr. Barbara Friedes.
Alan, First I'm sorry for your city's loss. Hopefully public pressure can cause some change.
Second, do you have any videos coming up celebrating public transit victories? The South Shore near me just finished their double track project, and next year, they should have their extension completed, too. It would be nice to hear of some good things happening around the country.
I regularly use the Spruce and Pine bike lanes, and it is sad knowing those are some of the BEST bike infrastructure options in the entire city. It really is as bad as you described. I also work with a lot of cyclists, and we've all been saddened by Barbara's death. Thank you for making this video.
I just came across your video on my stream. This is all very eye opening and you make a lot of solid points. It’s refreshing to see a discussion around poor engineering of roadways. With that being said. I have young kids. My wife and I discussed Philly being on our short list to visit. I’m definitely reconsidering that thought, not until they fix these issues. You may have saved a life, or a few. Thank you
In the USA, car culture is rampant and must change. Very little attention or funds go towards pedestrian or biking infrastructure and almost all of available attention and funds go towards car-based infrastructure. Cities would be a lot nicer to live in for everyone if there were good pedestrian and biking infrastructure along with good public transit. You shouldn't "need" a car in a city. I'm on an extreme side and say cities should ban cars completely. Cars should not be allowed within city limits of any city with a population greater than 20K.
Someone almost hit my mom when she was riding her bike doing that. It infuriates me that our politicians don't give a shit about the people they claim to be representing.
One of your best videos Armchair Urbanist, thank you for your great work supporting active transit.
Sir good content here. Good job out of you calling out the knuckleheads and providing there contact information. I hope the local radio stations your get on with talking about the local issues and debate the city councial on the stations with these facts.
Thank you for this video--we need more videos that name and shame the people who make selfish decisions that endanger everyone else in society.
In criminal law, there's a type of mens rea (i e. culpable state of mind) called "recklessness," defined as a defendant acting with conscious disregard of a known risk. That's enough to support a conviction for negligent homicide--we shouldn't tolerate that level of sociopathy in our local policy decision-making.
Your jury of your peers would inevitably be 12 people who drive motor vehicles. But the first step is to get police and district attorneys to even recognize that negligence is criminal and not "just an accident".
I am visiting philly right now and staying right next to that intersection in city center, wow, what a great video - thanks for the information. that church... wow.
They absolutely need to add at least some poles to create a visual barrier between the bikes and the cars.
If by poles, you mean big, thick, wide, metal bollards, then yes. But not as a visual barrier, as a deterrent to drivers to make them worry about destroying their precious expensive metal boxes since they clearly couldn't care less about others' lives. 😒
I'm glad you give out actionable steps for change to happen on these streets as regular common folk.
If they won't install curbs, we need to get the World Bollard Association involved. Would result in so many wonderful videos (and many lives saved).
05:30 I had this argument with family and coworkers about the bike infrastructure in Barcelona and what you said is similar to the argument they made. For some reason, people want to park illegally to save time and sometimes money since Barcelona doesn't have enough parking, and if somebody ends up dying, like in Philadelphia, it's the driver's fault because he was crazy or drunk. Some people even blame the bikers for merging. People don't want to give up things that they feel entitled to, even if it hurts other people, and a lot of drivers feel entitled to owning all the roads. For some people, bikes are an asset that should be taken off the roads, imo quite a few problems in society could be solved if a lot of people didn't have a stick up their ass.
Part of that is due to automotive industry propaganda that made it seem like the road should just be for cars that has become so entrenched that they don't even have to regularly repeat the propaganda anymore.
I'm from Boston - The sad truth is that unless it inconveniences them directly, elected officials don't do anything until something tragic happens. I bike, and drive. My instructor told me "Signs are visual pollution, people don't like them in their neighborhood. However, everywhere you see a sign posted is because something terrible happened so they finally decided to do something." On average the US spends about $9k / mile on motor vehicle infrastructure, on bicycle infrastructure they spend approx $60 per mile. 😞
Someone got killed in Waikiki recently in a similar manner. Honolulu suffers from the same problems Philly does, apparently. Thanks for making this video, Alan. We're struggling pretty hard to change the car-obsessed mindset here, even though the weather is literally perfection for active transit. Would love to host you out here if you'd be interested.
I don't get why people in Hawaii want to replicate suburban sprawl in the mainland so bad. Especially all the bad press the Skyline got from local carbrains.
@@ianhomerpura8937 the interstate highways act of 1956 and it's consequences have been a disaster for American society, Hawai'i included.
But make no mistake. The Rail is the poster child for government mismanagement. With the amount of money spent, we would have been better off taking a fraction of it and building a world-class cycling network.
Cycling infrastructure is both the cheapest option and the one the government can screw up the least.
God, kids today! That young, aggressive drive--oh, did you say they were 68?
Thank you for making this video ! My partner has to bike through the city for her job, and every day she goes to work, I'm practically paralyzed with fear for her life. I've seen a cyclist pass away right before my very eyes after being hit by a car not far from where I live- it was extremely traumatizing. I'm definitely going to be using the links in the video description to fight for a change. I can't believe how badly Cherelle and her staff are doing for the most poor and vulnerable in Philadelphia- there's just no excuse.
Where I live, bike lanes don't even exist. You have to use the sidewalks with huge cracks because the roads have heavy, high speed traffic all across town.
Just an idea, a suggestion: just by inverting bike lane directions, so that bikes would ride in the opposite direction of cars, would this help?
In Tbilisi, Georgia, they did the same with bus lanes, so that no car driver would ever come to the idea of driving on those.
In San Diego, it took a couple of deaths in 2021 on the dangerous and hilly Pershing Dr to kick the city into completing the 2 mile two-way, protected bike path that safely connects downtown and residential neighborhoods. Mind you this road runs through the massive Balboa Park (that should be car-free...). But it will kick off its opening ceremony tomorrow actually.
That's awesome to hear, I used to bike from Downton to hillcrest and Balboa Park when I was stationed in San Diego for the Navy.
Keep in mind this was around 2008-2012, I was just Google mapping San Diego's bike infrastructure and there is so much more than when I lived there.
@@kennethschlegel870 definitely! they are slowing working to improve bike route connections, like they have nice protected bike lanes to Hillcrest now. Park Blvd is better too. They are almost done actually connecting the Bayshore Bikeway to the Embarcadero, but only got to Barrio Logan
Just for comparison, Oslo in Norway, with a population of half of Philly, had zero pedestrian fatalities in 2019. Most years there are less than 5.
Norway is missing a few things that philly has alot of
@@jackvegas21 Like?
@@th5841 I might be mistaken, but as an American having grown up among Americans, jackvegas21's comment reads to me like a racist dog-whistle. Judging by the vague but suggestive tone of the comment, I'm going to hazard a guess that the "things" they referred to Philly having a lot of that Norway mostly lacks is black people, which I presume the commenter intends for you to infer are somehow personally responsible for Philadelphia's lack of infrastructure and pedestrian fatalities. It is a commonly-held trope among American right-wingers and white supremacists that we can't have nice things like good infrastructure or Scandinavian-style cradle-to-grave social welfare systems because we have a diverse population with relatively little social cohesion, rather than because our economic system is dominated by a sociopathic elite who enrich themselves and entrench their oligarchy by funneling public money into private contractors of the military-industrial complex instead of the public good while blaming powerless poor and brown-skinned people for every problem their own greed perpetuates.
@@bartolomeothesatyrCouldn’t agree more with this. And as a European (from Ireland), it also shows those individuals’ total lack of understanding of OUR societies, when they assume that they’re ethnically homogeneous. Just look up the numbers of foreign-born people in somewhere like Oslo, or for example the number of Germans of Turkish origin, or French Muslims, and you’ll soon realise that European societies are very diverse. Over 10% of the Irish population is foreign born. We’re far from perfect of course but there’s no reason at all that the US can’t copy the things we do well (and vice versa).
I would take up the whole lane when i needed to go straight at this one intersection. Cars would go around into a blind turn to save 5 seconds and pass me. Drivers are the dumbest people.
Thank you for this making video. I’m not in PA, but I grew up in a college city with bike lanes everywhere. The amount of douche canoes are growing daily and it’s alarming.
Not to say that we’re perfect, but in Netherlands when a driver hits a bike rider or pedestrian, he is always at fault. Resulting potentially in years of prison sentence
I'm curious, how is it handled when an accident was clearly caused by the actions of the bike rider / pedestrian? Would they still hold a driver legally liable if someone ran out into high-speed traffic in front of them on a busy highway?
Thank you!
If drivers were offered the death penalty for running over pedestrians (as getting run over is effectively a death sentence), do you think drivers would drive with more caution; like their life depends on it?
You hit on the important point at the end that Johnson and Parker conveniently ignore because they don't want to get it... Bikes have the potential to lift people out of poverty because they are personal transportation that is super cheap and save soooo much money compared to cars. Of course, Johnson claims that bikes cause gentrification, which of course is such a missed opportunity and Johnson failing the people who elected him. We need free adult riding classes and getting more people on bikes so that they can become at least single car households and save a lot of money
Coming from CT and conparing Philly to Boston and NYC, Philly is a hell hole.
I come from a rural area where it's common for drivers to go halfway into the oncoming lane when they're passing a cyclist, and not being able to do that in cities makes me unbelievably paranoid
Thank you for covering this Alan!
this is one of several reasons why Philly will never be a class-A location that attracts investment and jobs. very sad to see such a continual decline but it does reinforce my decision to move out of the city to a small old town with competitive and convenient shopping, restaurants and pharmacies easily and safely accessible by walking, biking or car.
I've never been to Philadelphia, so I look at the footage of these particular streets and think about what they remind me of. Ironically, the first association my brain makes is to a part of Amsterdam I wandered through a couple of years ago. The obvious difference being that the bike infrastructure, and the lack of bikes parked out the front of every single building.
I always feel unsafe driving into the car lane because there is a car in the bike lane
As someone who just moved to Philly (like, literally been here less than a week) the drivers are insane. I always thought the drivers in my hometown (a Midwestern college town) were bad, but Jesus christ the lack of patience, awareness, and also just general infrastructure issues already make me appreciate the in-retrospect extremely tame drivers of my home town. Deadass seeing people go straight in dedicated turn lanes, literally use the bike lane as though it were another standard car lane even with no other major traffic impediments, people parking right at the edge of a stop sign (which, maybe that's allowed in Philly idk, I just know where I'm from the end of streets at stop signs was illegal to park at for at least 1 - 2 car lengths or else you'd get ticketed or even towed).
Anyways, hopefully the city implements better forward-thinking infrastructure initiatives; my experiences otherwise so far have been fine but man it seems like a lot of Philly is just in decay or stagnation compared to where it ought to be given its historic prominence.
TH-cam prolly didn't recommend this to too many people cuz of the title; good for you for posting this man
Lived in Philly about 12 years. It has so much potential, but man lots of stupid drivers who don't care about anything or anyone.
I live in Center City and contacted my RCO, the Center City Residents Association. Here's what they had to say:
Hi, Devlin. Thank you for the email that you recently sent to CCRA. My name is Bill West, and I am chair of the CCRA streets committee. Your email was forwarded to me.
The streets committee's vision is that we want to help make our streets safe, useful and pleasant for everybody. In recent years we have had considerable success in that regard, but I think it's fair to say we are simply not anywhere close to where we should be. The primary impediment to a successful reimagining of our streets is, and has been for many years, Philadelphia's City Council, led for a long time by Darrell Clarke and now led by Kenyatta Johnson.
I attended the vigil for Dr. Barbara Friedes. I also attended the vigil for Emily Fredericks in 2017. At one of the demonstrations in the days following Emily's vigil, I chanted "Darrell Clarke, shame." It was good theater, and the people attending the demonstration seemed pleased, and I felt happy. But it didn't change anything.
CCRA is in contact with the Bike Coalition, 5th Square, and Philly Bike Action, as well as the appropriate people at the City, in an attempt to get some kind of positive action out of the current travesty. How things will turn out, I do not know. I do know that I do not wish to attend yet another vigil for yet another murdered bicyclist.
Sincerely, Bill West
Thank you for calling these people out by name. These people are responsible for millions of deaths and injuries every year. They need to be held accountable
People need to stop being so rushed
Alan, this was truly a meaningful video. Incisive, clear, honest -- you cut through the bullshit to get to the heart of the matter. Thank you for your voice.
Thank you for the video. Philly needs to do better
You're all talking about infrastructure, but the real problem is older drivers and intoxication.
Make drivers license renewal contingent on physical testing after afe 50.
Thank you for calling it murder!! I'm fing tired of people calling that an accident
Cars are an addiction. When you start to reduce them, the addicts go into irrational withdrawal (even though, eventually, they would be better off with the reduction).
Bostonian checking in here: Progress is slowly being made but without push back from nimbys. Double parking is also out of control!!!
I lived in Philadelphia from 1980 to 1989 and as a pedestrian or a bike rider I never expected any car to yield to me. One of the neighborhood kids had been hit by a car six different times. To this day, I will never walk or ride a bike with my back to oncoming traffic and do not understand why anybody would I can’t believe they want you to because I will never.
Out on Lancaster Ave in west Philly where i am the bike lane is literally just treated as a passing Lane or parking. Its not in yhe slightest bit protected. And due to the fact that the route 10 trolley runs along Lancaster, if you need to swerve out of the bike lane to avoid a car parked there, you have to jump trolley tracks, which is always a fun experience on a bicycle. Philly needs to do better. It's really hard to advocate to my friends that they should be cycling in this city when stuff like this keeps happening.
I used to ride my bike around Charlotte NC. The bike lanes along north tryon street from UNCC and Old Concord Road is very sketchy. The several amount of driveways and the stroad like characteristic of tryon street…you better be a fast rider. Luckily there’s a sidewalk.
I live directly in front of where the accident happened and I came home last Wednesday to the fire department washing blood off the concrete. Last Sunday during the vigil and combined anti parking protest there were several cars parking on 17th in no standing zones with church provided parking stickers while there WAS AN EMPTY PARKING LOT NOT FIFTY FEET AWAY.
You mentioned four churches at 9:10 but two of them are synagogues? they have star of David’s to symbolize them instead of crosses. That just stuck out to me
i dont think the videos message changes at all if he called synagogues "churches" for a quick side point
@@toericabaker no, but my point isn’t about the message of the video but how weird it is to call a synagogue a church when it isn’t. Also they wouldn’t need the parking in Sundays but on Fridays and Saturdays, which if he mentioned that would make his point even better. Bc now that’s three whole days where the bike lane is blocked instead of just Sunday.
@@Angel-vv9xo Alan's probably a heeb.
This is genuinely depressing what happened to Dr Friedes, her family and friends, and the community. May she and, other fellow cyclists who suffered a similar fate rest in peace. Shame on you Johnson, Parker, and everyone else that had a hand in setting her up to die. SHAME ON YOU!!!!😡😡
My fellow Filipinos need to learn about this, our country needs to listen to urbanists including yourself and others like you.
I've heard similar stories where I'm from, about cyclists getting killed by inpatient, irresponsible motorists. I was very disappointed that the bike lanes I started seeing around lately are either just Sharrows, or narrow protected lanes with barely a gutter for separation. (Although I don't remember seeing any flex posts, I can't tell if that's worse or if that's something good at least.)
Minsan ang sarap na lang mag-apply ng gun license sa Crame. It's always the case that car drivers can pull out a gun, point it to cyclists, and not get punished all because ka brod nila e taga Crame. How about we turn it around lol
@@ianhomerpura8937 baka makulong ka naman pag ginawa mo 'yan. lol
Pero grabeh naman, entitled talaga sila minsan. Hindi ba iligal ang mangtutok ng baril?
Great video Mr. Fisher. Keep saying it until they cant hear anything else or theyre out of office
Whenever a driver angrily defends their decision to be an arsehole to cyclists, show them this video.
I did indigo for a couple months and stopped bc it was too dangerous, Philly has the perfect bones to be a great biking city but the city government doesn’t seem to have any interest in living up to that potential