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.
IIRC he gave up on Canada and moved to the Netherlands because he wanted to raise a family and Fake London was hostile to human life. That’s very understandable, and I’ll probably end up doing something similar. However, he creates urbanist propaganda so it’s pretty weird to tell his audience to give up. I thought the point of his videos was to change things? I think he’s just having a heated urbanist moment, it’s OK.
Anyway it’s pretty ironic that his kids will have to move out of the Netherlands to raise a family. Cause, you know, the Netherlands won’t exist in a couple generations.