https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/60bfe660-94fc-443b-a1dc-236666f76aa2 A few weeks ago, the fantastic channel "Oh the Urbanity" posted a video—"How We Got Around Car-Free with a Baby (and Didn’t Regret It)"—about their experience as new parents living car-free in Montreal. There is so little urbanist content out there that includes the perspectives of kids and families. It's a great video, check it out: https://urbanists.video/w/vBsSdBqiVyCHWzu26MF5gm Their experience is with one newborn in Montreal - a great city for transit, walking, and biking. We’ve had a few other experiences, including in less ideal cities and with more and older kids. My wife and I lived car-free in Washington, D.C. until our oldest was a year and a half and now we live in Columbus, OH, where we're a one-car family that gets around mostly by bike and bus. We just welcomed our third kid and our oldest is now 5.5. So we thought we’d respond with some of our experiences, and talk about some of the biggest challenges and opportunities we’ve encountered a bit farther into the parenting journey. In this video, we'll talk through the gear we use, how we getting around, and what it's like to travel, but also touch on bigger issues, like pedestrian safety and the housing costs that contribute to a frustrating cultural expectation that families will move out to the suburbs once they have kids. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:53:43 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://urbanists.video https://urbanists.video/lazy-static/avatars/5e1b0dd4-c5ba-4867-a44e-929495166d35.png https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/60bfe660-94fc-443b-a1dc-236666f76aa2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://urbanists.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16427 https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16427 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:03:34 GMT I can totally echo the data point that kid bike trailers enable grocery runs. Back before I knew about cargo racks and panniers, my car-free grocery solution was to ask my parents if I could have their old trailer that they used to pull me and my siblings around in.

]]> Ian R Buck https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16426 https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16426 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:00:47 GMT I love how excited your kid got to ride the 21! Next time you're in the Twin Cities, that will be an aBRT line instead of a local bus.

]]> Ian R Buck https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16013 https://urbanists.video/w/cWVTCWiA95KwgubeL2ZqSW;threadId=16013 Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:12:11 GMT Nice to see you back by the way! 👍 Good luck with the latest arrival!

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