@notjustbikes This is super interesting podcast because it's much more focused on Lived Experience. Instead of talking about good transit and infrastructure, from an engineering perspective, talking about what it’s like to experience good and bad transit and how it makes us feel, makes for more powerful and emotionally appealing stories.
I think we need to talk more about the constant fear, the anger and the stress that car centric cities create. How we feel looked down on as cyclists and pedestrians in these cities. And how liberating and happy we feel to be in cities that aren’t dominated by cars and have good transit choices.
I guess this is why I enjoy The Arrested Mobility Podcast and why I have great empathy with the people featured in the episodes.
@MrLee Thanks! In general, I try to focus on experiences on my YouTube channel.
That's one of the reasons I started the channel: because so much urbanist content pre-NJB was very factual and very data-focused. That stuff is important to advocates and planners, but at the end of the day, literally the only thing that matters is the experience of the people in that environment, regardless of what the data tells you.
@notjustbikes@MrLee As a senior user experience critter, good urbanism and transit definitely come from understanding the needs of the human animal; Jan Gehl’s pedestrian interest scale, all of the Pattern Language patterns. A city designed by zoologists to ensure enrichment would be something.
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