Biking in the North End — Winnipeg Urban Design Critique
Channel: Car Dependency Index
Date: 2022-10-26

My partner and I bike around the North End in this one. The North End is a mostly working class ward with a large share of Winnipeg's communities of color. This area is highly Indigenous and Filipino, and has many newcomers and immigrants as well. Though it has many social problems due to inequity, racism, and colonization, it's a lovely part of town with a tight-knit community.

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Winnipeg is located on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional land of the Anishinaabe, Aninishiniwak, Dakota, Dene, and Ininiwak peoples, and the homeland of the Métis nation. Indigenous peoples did not view the Treaties as a cession of the land, and Canada has repeatedly failed to uphold its end of the Treaties. Our water here in Winnipeg is taken—through a disputed agreement—from Shoal Lake, home of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation and Iskatewizaagegan 39 First Nation, which were under a boil water advisory for 23 years from 1997 to 2020.

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References:

Stats I reference at 6:16
Pedestrians killed by drivers in Canada from 2016 to 2020: https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/statistics-data/canadian-motor-vehicle-traffic-collision-statistics-2020

Pedestrians killed by Drivers in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/523283/netherlands-number-of-pedestrian-road-fatalities/

Active mode share in number of trips in the Netherlands in 2017 was 44%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856417315525

Active mode share in terms of commuting to work in Canada in 2016 was 6.9%: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/98-200-x/2016029/98-200-x2016029-eng.cfm

Not only did Oslo have 0 pedestrian and cyclists killed in 2019, Helsinki had 0 pedestrians killed as well: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

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 Not Just Bikes video explaining stroads changed my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM&t=1s
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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-Cameras-Lights-Monitors/dp/B072J52GBP

Chapters
0:00 Model trip starts in William Whyte
2:39 Biking on Redwood Ave
3:15 Harry Lazarenko Bridge
4:11 Elmwood
4:21 A Winnipeg "bike route"
5:01 Henderson Stroadway
5:22 Pedestrian crossing on highway
6:55 North Point Douglas (briefly)
7:33 Bridge over Disraeli Freeway
8:06 South Point Douglas (briefly)
9:04 Downtown
10:04 Main Street Project
10:34 Recap