This Small City's LRT is so Good it Made me Angry

Made by humans for humans. No AI voices or generative AI were used in the making of this video. Check out my new public transit travel show, Day Pass, now available on Nebula! https://daypasstravel.com Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes... Sign up to Nebula and support this channel: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Buy a Nebula Gift card (now available with iDEAL!) https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Patreon:   / notjustbikes   Mastodon: @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com NJB Live (my live-streaming channel):    / @njblive   --- Relevant Videos The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities (trams) https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes...    • The Absolute Best Transportation for Citie...   How can a NEW Transit Line be THIS BAD!? https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes...    • How can a NEW Transit Line be THIS BAD!? (...   They Finally Built Good Transit!? https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes...    • They Finally Built Good Transit!?   Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!? https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes...    • Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars...   --- References and Further Reading Why is Waterloo’s new LRT system named ION? https://globalnews.ca/news/5413215/wh... A decade of change in uptown Waterloo https://thecord.ca/a-decade-of-change... Boom time: $1.2 billion in building permits expected for downtown Kitchener https://www.therecord.com/news/waterl... On The Fast Track: How to Make ION Even Faster https://www.tritag.ca/blog/2026/02/22... $3 million earmarked for Victoria Park https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2019/12... Kitchener budgets $238K to make downtown street off-limits to cars https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/arti... LETTER: 'I need transit that’s reliable, frequent and accessible' https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/letters... KW's LRT is up and running — so what can Hamilton learn? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilt... Northfield Drive tweet by Brian Doucet   / 1108844967508746240   Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works https://seanmarshall.ca/2026/01/19/io... By n.d. - http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitio..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... This video is original content filmed on location by Not Just Bikes. No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video. --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:50 Introducing KW 1:51 The Ion LRT 3:19 Construction & car lanes 5:47 Red lights and transit priority 7:07 New property development 8:32 Catalyst to good urbanism 9:17 Downtown Kitchener 13:21 Uptown Waterloo & surroundings 15:08 Building in a rail corridor 18:13 Speed restrictions 19:35 Malls & accessibility rant 22:43 Concluding thoughts 23:16 Day Pass & Nebula