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Not Just Bikes is a YouTube channel run by Canadian-born Dutch content creator Jason Slaughter. The channel examines urbanist issues, including but not limited to cycling in the Netherlands, and contrasts the transportation, infrastructure, and built environment of the Netherlands and other countries to those of the United States and Canada.

Biography

Slaughter was raised in London, Ontario, Canada, which he has described as a "car-dependent hellscape." He and his family migrated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands to move away from car-centric suburban sprawl. He claims that sprawl is common in Canada and the United States, and that urban sprawl and single-family zoning make it difficult to walk or cycle to everyday destinations. He also criticizes North American public transportation. He criticizes stroads for their cost, inefficiency, and lack of safety in the United States and Canada, and mentions how cities can improve them.

YouTube career

Slaughter created his own YouTube channel named Not Just Bikes in mid-April 2019 after moving from Canada. On 7 July 2019, he uploaded his own first video of a POV demonstration of him using the Strawinskylaan bicycle parking garage in Amsterdam. In a series of videos titled "What Makes a City Great?" he explained his backstory, and the topic he would cover in his videos will be about the differences between transportation, infrastructure, and the built environment in the Netherlands on one side and in the United States and Canada on the other side.