PickVidsBest Transit, cities & urban planning Videos
The 174 Transit, cities & urban planning videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 1 intermediate, 168 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Not Just Bikes, BicycleDutch, Wendover Productions.
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
NYT Opinion video essay arguing that Democrat-controlled states like California, New York and Illinois often fall short of their egalitarian values.
New York Subway Signs
A short social experiment video in which people mimic the New York subway practice of workers pointing at signs and signals.
This Tiny Island has Insane Traffic
Not Just Bikes looks at traffic in the Bahamas to show that a small country can be just as car-centric as a big one.
Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands)
A sped-up two-minute view of morning rush hour at a busy Utrecht junction, where thousands of bicycles and buses pass each day.
This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
Reason TV profiles Elvis Summers, a Los Angeles musician who crowdfunded dozens of tiny homes for homeless people.
All Tube Stations Have Fifteen Floors
Geoff Marshall explains a running gag about London Underground stair signs claiming that the climb equals 15 floors, regardless of how many steps there actually are.
The city of golf carts
Tom Scott visits Peachtree City, Georgia, which has about a hundred miles of dedicated golf cart paths that serve as an alternative to driving.
The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)
Not Just Bikes tours Houten, a Dutch town designed around cycling, explaining how its layout makes most trips by bike safe and easy.
How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
Not Just Bikes visits Paris to see how Mayor Anne Hidalgo's policies are turning it into a '100% cyclable' city.
Walt Disney's E.P.C.O.T film (1966)
The 1966 film Walt Disney recorded weeks before his death, laying out his plans for the Florida Project and especially EPCOT, a planned city of the future.
Why is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore
A TEDxBangalore talk by The Ugly Indian, an anonymous collective, asking why Indians tolerate filthy public spaces.
The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
Not Just Bikes examines Toronto's GO Transit commuter rail, arguing it is a costly system with park-and-ride stations and rush-hour-only service that subsidizes car-dependent suburbs.
Feynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
A short clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the track.
Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
Practical Engineering explains how continuous welded rail copes with thermal expansion by restraining it, using the relationship between temperature, stress and strain.
Even Small Towns are Great Here (5 Years in the Netherlands)
Not Just Bikes reflects on five years in the Netherlands and tours small towns and cities, from Haarlem to Veenendaal.
Elon Musk's "Loop" - It's bad, folks
A long, sarcastic critique of Elon Musk's Loop tunnel transit idea and related Boring Company and Hyperloop claims.
Autonomous Intersection Management: Traffic Control for the Future
A short research demo of Autonomous Intersection Management, a protocol in which self-driving cars reserve slots through an intersection instead of obeying signals or stop signs.
Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists
A short BicycleDutch episode showing how Dutch junctions with protected cycle paths are laid out.
Railroad thermite welding
A short video of railroad workers in Storfors, Sweden, using thermite to weld rail sections together.
Blasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway (Maumee and Western)
Footage of a doubleheader of locomotives crawling over badly maintained track on a former Wabash Railroad line, now the ND&W Railway.
The high cost of free parking
A Vox explainer on how mandatory parking minimums and free parking impose hidden costs on cities.
What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors
Oh The Urbanity!
The HYPERLOOP Will Never Work, Here's Why
Adam Something argues that the Hyperloop is impractical, covering the costs and engineering problems of running trains in a near vacuum compared with conventional rail and metros.
People stuffed onto a train in Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing Tokyo)
Short 2006 footage of station staff in white gloves pushing commuters onto a packed morning train at a Tokyo station on the Toyoko Line.