As housing and transportation prices are skyrocketing around the developed world, Japan has somehow remained (relatively) affordable.

For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not.

Yup. Cars are REALLY expensive, and they're getting more expensive. And yet, most car owners seem completely oblivious to it.

Europe is known for its train networks, and the EU has been promoting trains as the preferred mode of travel. But the train networks are not functioning well, and it's not a coincidence that many EU countries are spending twice as much on roads than they do on rails.

It occurred to us the other day that we have lived 10 years without owning a car. This didn't happen intentionally, we just moved to a walkable neighbourhood and living car-free just made the most sense.

Can rural people understand city folk and vice-versa? American Fietser went from being a die-hard truck driver to a cargo-bike riding urbanist, and it all started with a trip to the Netherlands.

City Simulators, such as SimCity and Cities: Skylines are very popular, both among gamers and the general public, but they're not real. Should we be concerned about the car-centric myths they reinforce?

You've probably heard the phrase "The War on Cars" before, but did you know that this term has been around for over a hundred years?

Not Just Bikes, normally a champion of all things Amsterdam, talks to RMTransit about why the Amsterdam Metro isn't good enough.

The American “transportation engineer” is a really a civil engineer who has received a little exposure to the transportation sector. If all a nation can provide are civil engineers who are given a crash course in transportation studies, what do we get?

Our family has lived in the Netherlands for 5 years; here's what it's been like.

A single mother in my hometown of Fake London in Canada was forced to pay $6000 she couldn't afford to fix the transmission in her car. This situation happens all the time in North America, but thankfully, it's rare in Europe. Jason from Not Just Bikes and Adam Something talk about the stark difference between Canada and Europe with respect to car dependency, and how that may be changing as urban planning becomes a culture war issue.

Rowhouses is illegal in huge swaths of the US and Canada, but it's extremely common elsewhere because it is the greatest form of housing.

Paying for public transit is way too complicated, especially if you're an occasional user or tourist. Can open payments make this process easier for everyone? In this conversation, Jason from Not Just Bikes and Thea from Urban Caffeine discuss recent developments in open payments. If we're going to charge for public transit (which is a whole other conversation), how should payments be collected? Why are we still using obtuse way s of paying when credit cards and debit cards...

Jason from Not Just Bikes and Reece from RMTransit go through the top candidates in the Toronto mayoral election and give our takes on who we think should be (or shouldn't be) the next mayor of Toronto.

Jason (Not Just Bikes) and Ray (CityNerd) discuss how traffic engineers use complicated models and guidebooks but still manage to build terrible streets that don't actually work.

During the covid-19 pandemic, many US cities made streets off-limits to cars and opened them to people walking an cycling. These "open streets" were loved by urbanists everywhere, but now that the lockdowns are over, many of these places are being given back to motor vehicle traffic. In this episode, I talk to Dave from the YouTube channel City Beautiful about these closed open streets and what the future of "open streets" might look like in the US and Canada. How New York City Lost 63...

Jason from Not Just Bikes and Reece from RMTransit discuss the shocking lack of law enforcement towards drivers in Toronto, while violations against transit riders and cyclists are ramped up.

Jason from Not Just Bikes and Alan from the YouTube channel Alan Fisher discuss the rise of micro-mobility, vehicles that are smaller than a car, but aren't a bicycle.

In this inaugural episode of The Urbanist Agenda, Jason from Not Just Bikes and Adam from Adam Something discuss a topic that just ... won't go away: the conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities.

A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers.