Tag: video

August 7, 2023

Watch: An analysis of the 2015 Ride the Ducks tragedy on the Aurora Bridge

Nearly eight years after the Ride the Ducks tragedy on the Aurora Bridge, YouTube channel Brick Immortar recently released a detailed walkthrough of the event, including the history of the vehicles and details from the NTSB investigation’s report. It is tough to revisit the tragedy, but it’s important that we understand as a society how…
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tagged: aurora bridge, brick immortar, ntsb, ride the ducks, video
February 21, 2023

Watch: Why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands

With all the discussion recently about how people crash a car or truck into a Seattle building about twice a week, a commenter reminded me of a Not Just Bikes video from a couple years ago about why this rarely happens in the Netherlands:
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tagged: cars into buildings, netherlands, not just bikes, video
February 10, 2023

Watch: Bike blogger tries to fly a plane above Seattle (again)

I am trying it again. I noticed the other day that Microsoft Flight Simulator has updated much of the imagery for Seattle. So that seems like a great reason to take to the skies again and make another video (or more?). I created this video for urbanists.video, a new service created by Alexander Harding…
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tagged: microsoft flight simulator, urbanists.video, video
January 11, 2023

Watch: Biking around and feeling hopeful for 2023

Ride with me as I ramble about some reasons why I think 2023 will be a good year. And please let me know if you like this format for future videos.
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tagged: video
May 1, 2020

Episode 1 of Ask Seattle Bike Blog: Bus driver in West Seattle needs a bike route to the Sodo bus yard, so here’s my process for finding a new route

For the inaugural episode of Ask Seattle Bike Blog, I respond to a bus driver who lives in West Seattle and wants to know a good bike route to the bus yard in Sodo. I thought this would be a good opportunity to walk through my basic process for planning a bike route if I…
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tagged: ask seattle bike blog, video, west seattle
April 17, 2020

Watch: Talking open streets during COVID-19 with Gordon and Clara from SNG

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been working with local advocates to develop ideas for open streets as a way to relieve crowding on sidewalks, paths and major parks during the outbreak. We previously reported about some of their ideas, and the organization is still accepting open streets ideas via their online survey. Since taping this interview…
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tagged: clara cantor, gordon padelford, open streets, seattle neighborhood greenways, stay healthy streets, video