A bit of car-centric LA in BC — Richmond Urban Design Critique

Описание: Richmond was like a little piece of LA in BC—car-centric in the extreme. In the intro I walk around the West End near downtown Vancouver where we stayed and appreciate the traffic-calming evident almost everywhere.

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Vancouver is located on the stolen & unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and other Native peoples.
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References:

At 1:23 I mention a ‪@NotJustBikes‬ video about continuous sidewalks:    • The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - C...  

At 5:25 I discuss ‪@NASA‬ 's finding that automobiles are the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world: https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/ne...

I mention stroads in almost every video, because they're utterly inescapable in Canada, the US, and many other countries plagued by car dependence. What's a stroad, you ask? The term was coined by Strong Towns creator Charles Marohn. This ‪@NotJustBikes‬ video explaining stroads changed my life:    • Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous...  
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Equipment
Camera: GoPro Hero 7 Black
Gimbal: Hohem iSteady Pro 2
Bike mount for gimbal: https://www.amazon.ca/iSportgo-Camera...
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Chapters
0:00 West End vibes~
0:55 Walking to the SkyTrain station
1:34 A diversion at Robson Square
1:57 Walking through downtown Vancouver
2:15 SkyTrain to Richmond
4:09 Just... parking lots
4:42 Walking around Richmond
6:34 SkyTrain to downtown Vancouver
7:41 Walking home
8:20 What did you think?