In his eye-opening talk Pekka explains why cycling and walking are good for cities, well-being and local economy. As he argues, the time of car supremacy and pollution is over. Therefore, he provides the audience with solutions on how to return the city back to pedestrians and cyclists.
Pekka, the Vice President of Winter Cycling Federation just loves nature, especially a proper winter. And bikes. Be it cause or consequence, he resides in the winter cycling capital of the world: Oulu, Northern Finland. Located almost at the Arctic Circle, the city enjoys long, snowy, harsh winters, which, even though you might think the opposite, when paired with good maintenance make winter cycling just a normal everyday activity in the city. Apart from bicycles, he has a huge interest in transportation history, vintage pianos, adventures of all sorts, and ice cream. Being capable of moving around by one’s own muscle power is what Pekka says is smart mobility. His main areas of expertise are about how walking and cycling can make our transport system work more efficiently, how they can improve our lives, health and economy, and all in all make our communities of better quality.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Fantastic, now I just need to get my city to start thinking about such things.
This is an awesome talk. So much good sense!
Awesome Pexi =D
Great talk! There are some unique ideas in here.
Kiitos Pekka, loistava
I wish cities here in North America will start putting bicycle infrastructure for the wellness of the environment and the people living around it.
And he didn't even once use an example from the Netherlands to support his argument. That would be too easy!
The solution is to plan cities so that everyone can live close to work and shopping. If people can't live close to work and shopping, they will want a car. If they have a car, they will use it for everything.
When they show New York and the “transformation” of time square it is because the left is an everyday business day and the right is some kind of blocked off festival lol
Good stuff and well presented! Would you have a translation for 11:05 traffic sign joke?
The bicycle will save the world. GREAT TALK!
Epstein was murdered.
All good stuff! To bad only 20K people have watched this in 3 years…..
The population of Oulu is only 200k.
Would make sense in Hong Kong as it's so small yet people think cares are a sign of wealth.
I use my bike only in the summer and winter i use my car because i live in canada
12:17 some is about to have a bad day
6:30 – "imagine dressing up like this when you want to meet your friends at a local cafe. Nonono" – 'funny', seeing this after Corona. Which is actually party caused/boosted by our terrible health conditions and bad air quality. So think again, those who still haven't yet.
There are about a million other people making youtube videos telling you the same thing. That bikes are so wonderful. Seems to me if bikes were so great they wouldn't have to tell you all the time. You'd just know it.
lol this liberal clown makes a video about the economy… Then he says cars cost to much money. Perhaps he doesn't understand it is spending money that makes the economy strong…
I think if he spoke it in Finnish it would be better
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I love cycling 🚲🚲🚲🚲❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Why does he has a Chinese accent?
Nice Talk, Pekka, well done. Greetings from Germany.
“Nobody cycles in winter, it’s impossible”
-Every boomer Canadian ever
☘️☘️ awesome ☘️☘️
thanks million for sharing your information about bike riding, i've been riding bicycle for more than 15 years and encouraging people to do the same.