NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.
What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?
When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.
the context does make this slightly better. Having realistic expectations is good, and I do think it's realistic to say that the US isn't going to get to where the netherlands is in one generation, or even two, but "you should be giving up" is a bad way to term it. I don't blame anyone for moving to somewhere a bit more hospitable like amsterdam, but no matter who he claims his channel is "for", I guarantee most of his viewers don't have the option to "just move", so he should address them too, not just well off people like himself. He wants to be the urbanism channel for richy rich but he's not
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He also did an entire series partnering with Strong Towns, which was arguably what really solidified his channel as a strong urban-planning type channel. Seems a bit counter to "my channel is only geared to those who can leave amerikkka"
he kinda frames it as "I tried to send people who haven't/won't/can't give up on america to those other channels so I can have my circlejerk about how much better amsterdam is in peace" tbh