Why Nobody Rides a Bicycle in the USA (Vehicular Cycling)

Made by humans for humans. No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video. All quotes were read by humans. Support this channel and the production of real human content by signing up to Nebula for only $36/year with this link: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Buy a Nebula gift card (now with iDEAL): https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Mastodon: @[email protected] NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): https://youtube.com/@njblive --- Relevant Videos I am not a "Cyclist" (and most Dutch people aren't either) https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-i-am-not-a-cyclist-and-most-dutch-people-aren-t-either These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-stupid-trucks-are-literally-killing-us Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one) https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-why-dutch-bikes-are-better-and-why-you-should-want-one Toronto's Newest Painted Bicycle Gutters [NJB Live] https://youtu.be/umbiR1sbap8 Intersection design, the Dutch - cycle friendly - way - Bicycle Dutch https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA Protected Intersections For Bicyclists http://www.protectedintersection.com/ https://vimeo.com/86721046 Well There's Your Problem Podcast - Vehicular Cycling https://youtu.be/zm29fd-s7tQ CycleYYZ @cycleyyz --- References & Further Reading Effective Cycling, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262516945 Bicycle Transportation, John Forester, ISBN 978-0262560795 ‘Bike Boom’: Lessons from the ’70s cycling craze that swept the U.S https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/28/15886810/bike-transportation-cycling-urban-design-bike-boom https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2023/09/a-half-century-after-the-big-bike-boom-a-retrospective/ America Could Have Been Building Protected Bike Lanes for the Last 40 Years https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/06/30/america-could-have-been-building-protected-bike-lanes-for-the-last-40-years Vehicular Cycling - How Cyclists—Not Just Cars—Blocked Safer Bike Infrastructure https://thehappyurbanist.substack.com/p/vehicular-cycling Bikeway Planning Criteria and Guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022317/http://drusilla.hsrc.unc.edu/cms/downloads/BikewayPlanningGuidelines1972.pdf 1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar - BBC Archive https://youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM 2007.05.17 John Forester - Google Tech Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmT4x6eWDjA USA 1977: Chevrolet Impala/Caprice takes the lead https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/1978/01/usa-1977-ford-f-series-takes-the-lead-of-trucks-ranking/ The Marginalization of Bicyclists https://iamtraffic.org/equality/the-marginalization-of-bicyclists/ Ontario Highway Traffic Act https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08#BK245 Road safety and perceived risk of cycle facilities in Copenhagen https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235358599_Road_safety_and_perceived_risk_of_cycle_facilities_in_Copenhagen https://bikefriendlyoc.org/2009/07/08/ask-the-experts-s%C3%B8ren-underlien-jensen-and-dr-lon-d-roberts-phd/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214140518301488 https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/ https://www.thetrace.org/2024/04/road-rage-shooting-gun-highway-deaths/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/road-rage-shootings-per-day/ Bicycle Today - Automobile Tomorrow https://archive.org/details/BicycleToday The Racing Cyclist https://archive.org/details/TheRacingCyclist Oslo Street Design Manual - English translation https://www.cyclescape.org/library/documents/124 Map of buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction https://code.waag.org/buildings/ Velo-city 2025 in Gdańsk | Bicycle Dutch https://youtu.be/9ZNKQAqQacM Comments by John Forester under a Bicycle Dutch blog in 2016: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/crowded-cycleways-lead-to-new-urban-design-approach/#comment-17985 The footage in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, with some images licensed from Getty Images and other sources. Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 3:54 California tried to marginalise cycling 6:25 The birth of Vehicular Cycling 9:38 The MAMIL's Manifesto 20:15 Just ride like a car, bro! 28:05 Bicycle lanes are ... unsafe? 46:09 The second book is even worse?! 58:16 The actual problems with bike lanes 1:06:14 But what about the Netherlands? 1:13:30 Forester at Google 1:21:18 The Cult of the Vehicular Cyclist 1:26:16 Bicycles are not cars!? 1:31:29 Concluding thoughts 1:32:28 Acknowledgements & Nebula Corrections 1:18:49 It makes no material change to this video, but apparently John Forester was invited to a bicycle safety conference in the Netherlands in 2013. He was openly ridiculed by the experts there.