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Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road

Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2023.

Not Just Bikes looks at the cancelled plan to spend over $200 million widening Wonderland Road, a stroad in his hometown of London, Ontario. He asks whether the cancellation marks a turning point away from car-dependent development.

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Mentioned in threads on stroads and road safety as an example of the channel's critique of wasteful car infrastructure.

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“Not Just Bikes on YouTube covers road/pedestrian/bike safety extensively.”
— gcanyon, Nov 2022, in “The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

gcanyonNov 2022Recommends

Not Just Bikes on YouTube covers road/pedestrian/bike safety extensively. [link] Specific videos: Crossing the street should be safer: [link] How to quickly build a cycling city: [link] Wasting money on car infrastructure: ▶ this video The wrong way to set speed limits: [link] Safe cycling: [link] "Stroads" are dangerous: [link]

in “The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths” · View on HN

jodrellblankNov 2023Cites it

Haha, but it is though: ▶ this video "Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road" - on the road widening project of Wonderland Road in Toronto.

in “280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars” · View on HN

bo0tzzNov 2021Cites it

> I can't find the exact video right now I think that's probably because it was a Patreon exclusive ;) However, his recent video includes a similar comparison: ▶ this video

in “The Stroad” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Transit, cities & urban planningstroadsurban planningroad wideninglondon ontariocar dependency