ROTTERDAM: A relaxing bike ride on an emerging Dutch cycle network (ride-along series video)

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In this ride-along series installation, we explore some of the streets and cycle paths of Rotterdam, NL, by bike. I compiled this video from previously unreleased footage that I shot during a PeopleForBikes Big Jump study tour to The Netherlands, which included visits to Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam.
A special thanks goes out to Warner Beumer for leading this fabulous and instructive tour.
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@MM-ih4rj 3 месяца назад

Beumer has a proper Dutch/Rotterdam accent, love it! 😂

@ActiveTowns 3 месяца назад

Naturally! Hehe 😅 Thanks for tuning in. 🙌

@erikpl6402 4 месяца назад

I've always felt that visiting Rotterdam is the better option for policymakers and activists from North America. Rotterdam was heavily bombed in WWII and had to be rebuilt pretty much from scratch after 1945 during a time when city planners were infatuated with cars. So Rotterdam is the most car-centric city in the Netherlands and somewhat reminiscent of North American cities in terms of its streetscape and highrise architecture. This makes it easier for North American visitors to envision what bicycle infrastructure might look like in their hometown. Places like Amsterdam, Delft or The Hague are centered entirely around their historic cores. While they do have more modern neighborhoods around the center, these don't usually have a core function within the urban area in question. So visiting those cities will be somewhat less relevant for North American policymakers. Policymakers from smaller American towns might also learn a lot by visiting Almere, which is a 'new' town built from scratch in the 1970s. It, too, was built with the car in mind and has seen extensive implementation of new infrastructure for walking and cycling in more recent decades.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Yes, this is precisely the context of our study tour visit to Rotterdam. There were delegates from many different North American cities of similar scale participating in this tour. Although we didn't visit Almere on this particular multi-city tour, some of us did visit Houten, also as an example of a 'new' town mostly built from scratch, but with a plan for 'managing the car.' Thanks so much for watching and for these thoughtful comments. Cheers! John

@Conservative-Leftie 4 месяца назад

Wow...!!...😆...My birthplace and where I lived most of my life...love it...! Since my youth I have seen the city develop bit by bit...from the first red bike lanes and watertaxi's to the new public transport net like Randstadrail...Rotterdam is very different to other Dutch cities cause they could start a new design from scratch after the bombardment in WWII...now it has become a very modern city and the trade center of the Netherlands...or as we say here: Rotterdam Earns... The Hague Distributes... and Amsterdam spends...😉

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Yay! Thanks so much for watching. I'm looking forward to seeing how the city has continued to evolve later this summer. Cheers! John

@Arjay404 4 месяца назад

0:11 Honestly just look at that scene, that scene looks pretty much exactly what mockups of planned redesigns that are often made to show an example of what a things could look like or the ideal vision of what the designers want something to look like, but as we all know, they never end up looking like with those mockups show, but here, they actually did it! They took a redesign mockup and just dropped it into a real city. I'm from the Netherlands and I couldn't not make a comment about how unreal this scene looked.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

I hear ya... Definitely worth appreciating as well that this represents part of the Rotterdam 3.0 (1.0 Pre WWII and 2.0 the immediate Post WWII design) evolution. Cheers!

@Haroekoe 3 месяца назад

Nice to watch this particular video 😍 The first minutes is actually what I bike daily, living straight behind Rotterdam Central Station, working at the Weena. Having lived in Rotterdam since 1969 I saw it change tremendously overtime. Thanks as always for your nice videos!

@ActiveTowns 3 месяца назад

Ah, very cool! Thanks you so much for watching and for commenting. I really appreciate it. Cheers! John

@Gianluca-ROTTERDAM 4 месяца назад

My hometown ❤

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Yay! Thanks for tuning in for this short taste. I'll be returning later this summer to do a more comprehensive profile.

@ageoflove1980 4 месяца назад

That shot at 06:45 really shows what Dutch urban planning could do for North American cities, as this could be anywhere in that part of the world.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Yep. Precisely. Thanks so much for tuning in for this short ride-along. Cheers! John

@wimahlers 4 месяца назад

Thad Englisz hurts my eers wery much a lot ;-) Anyway, welcome to the most car-centric city of The Netherlands (Rotterdam). It looks much better than I experience it is on such a sunny day.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Thanks for tuning in!

@jayandreas1131 4 месяца назад

3:37 Great shot. Makes me wonder whether Americans might notice the lack of cars.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Thanks! Well this group of Americans certainly did. hehe 😂 Thanks so much for watching. Cheers! John

@chipdale490 4 месяца назад

Nice vid, and só quiet! And as usual, our US-cousins giving themselves away instantly by having their saddles set way too low. 😉 What's with that? So inefficient. 😂

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much! Yeah, that's a clear sign the person doesn't ride a bike very often. Cheers! John

@bartvschuylenburg 3 месяца назад

2:00 as a Dutch man, even though he speaks English I can clearly hear he’s from Rotterdam. I love that city and the old Rotterdammers.

@ActiveTowns 3 месяца назад

Cool! Thanks so much for tuning in! 😀

@theooppie9615 4 месяца назад

Mr. Beumer is speaking "Dunglish" 🙂

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

We were very appreciative that he took the time out of his busy schedule to show us around. Thanks so much for tuning in. Cheers! John

@klaasvanbeek5985 4 месяца назад

Haha, his English is awful. Just like mine.

@jayandreas1131 4 месяца назад

What the Dutch call ‘steenkolen Engels’ 😂

@Haroekoe 3 месяца назад

This video is on biking, but what a nice comment from a (fellow?) Dutchman on a Dutchman who tries to accommodate foreigners in a best possible way. As a resident of Rotterdam I see an increasing number of foreigners, expats, residing in Rotterdam, who don't speak Dutch, who even don't do any efforts to learn. By the way, would love to hear your English ....

@dimrrider9133 3 месяца назад

Warner is a real Rotterdammerd as you can hear ;p In the past Rotterdam was very carcentric and the citycenter is even bad for cars to get out but they change a lot so hopefully its getter better wich i believe in.

@ActiveTowns 3 месяца назад

Yeah, it has been under a continuous transition to become more balanced and livable. Thanks for tuning in once again. Cheers! John

@colleenharrison2942 3 месяца назад

Interesting city.

@ActiveTowns 3 месяца назад

It really is! 😀

@apveening 4 месяца назад

You pointed to Noordereiland and De Hef, but I think you should have taken a detour over the Willemsbrug and on towards the Erasmusbrug to get to De Veerhaven. And yes, part of that route shows places where the biking infrastructure needs upgrading.

@ActiveTowns 4 месяца назад

I’m pretty sure ended up doing that the next year in 2019. Thanks for tuning in. Cheers! John