Discover the UTRECHT FAST TRAM (Utrechtse Sneltram) 

Do understand that Nieuwegein and IJsselstein are cities on there own. They both have there city rights and a mayor.

I live quite near Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn station. Here are a few remarks. The largest station on the Uithof is near the Botanical Gardens. A bit of a tourist destination. Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn station is NOT actually in the center of Utrecht but near its edge. From there you can head towards the Twijnstraat, the oldest shopping street in the Netherlands. From there head towards the Dom (Cathedral tower) along the Oude Gracht (Old Canal) and you'll soon be in the center. 24 Oktober Plein is known for a mass shooting that occurred on the tram near to the station in March of 2019, not for artwork. The central stop in Nieuwegein where the tramline spits is next to a shopping center, however quite a long way away from the old center of Nieuwegein. In IJsselstein you should get off on the Binnenstad station. Its just a short walk from there to the small but beautiful mideaval town. A recommendation for ANY tourist that discovers the Utrecht Tram System. End-of-the-line stations are often terrible as destinations - on trams in the Netherlands.

I love the fact that you perfectly pronounced most of the names. But Octoberplein was perfectly pronounced in German, instead of Dutch ;)

Fun fact: the Viennese trams weren't supposed to run as 'spitstrams' or peak hour trams with a skip-stop service. That was a solution for the fact they turned out to be too slow to operate on the regular service. Sadly, they also weren't needed, as quickly after they were introduced, a cut-back line due to construction works combined with the economic crisis meant that the expected growth in passanger numbers didn't occur, in fact they dropped by over a third. So, overall, an enormous waste of money😄 That's another thing the Utrechtse Sneltram is famous for. The section to De Uithof is claimed to have been the most expensive tram line in the world. It needed to be reconstructed several times before it was even opened, and there is about 10 million euro's that's still completely unaccounted for. It was paid to the contractor, but nobody knows why. Except the contractor of course, who claimed that everything was in order.

Nice video! Some remarks / additional info. The tram parking under the car park of Utrechtscience park is used very often by the trams, especially during the weekend it it packed with trams. WKZ was older, they connected the newer Prinses Maxima hospital with the overpass so they can share certain facilities (including operating theaters and diagnostics rooms), the WKZ is more generic children's care (including the NICU) and the Maxima is the centralized Dutch pediatric oncology center). 24 oktoberplein was where the tram attack was a few years ago (March 18, 2019).

The section between the central station and the university has also replaced a bus line commonly known as the 'sardientjeslijn' (sardine line). I've only ever been on it myself outside of rush hour, and it was already packed even though they used double articulated busses. I understand why it was given the nickname.

0:50 classic mistake. In Dutch the ij combination is one letter, therefor it is IJselstein and not Ijselstein I have driven on the Vienna trams. They were fun. edit: removed most of my comment as everything is already said by others in their replies.

Nice video about the trams in my hometown. Missed (but not that bad): UMC stop in the Science Park. Trams on the outside of the platforms, busses on the inside. At all other stops (including Padualaan) the busses have different stops, behind or before the tramstop. Westraven stop on 20 and 21: serving only a single carpark and nothing else. A shot of the depot between Westraven and Zuilenstein (but a bit hard: line goes from top (bridge over a canal) to down-under a highway so you have only seconds to see it). Stop St Antonius Ziekenhuis used to have an extra spur. Extra trams for people visiting sick people in the hospital. But those extra trams hardly run. Spur has gone since the stops went from high to low. The end of 21 at IJsselstein (2 capital letters at the beginning; IJ in Dutch is "one letter") is at the suburb "Zenderpark". There is a tower, about 366 metres high for telecom and television signals. Around Christmas it becomes the "biggest Christmastree in the world". There is a video about it on RU-vid. It is visible from the tram between IJsselstein Zuid en IJsselstein Binnenstad if you are on the right side of the tram. Did you also noticed that the double set only has two 5-car sets, a 5-car and a 7-car set, and never two 7-car sets? And the strange sign on the coupling between 2 sets, warning not to cross it? And that you can not board, right behind the driver as is mostly the case at other types? And that tram 22 to the Science Park does NOT run on Saturdays and Sundays?

It's not so fast. If you travel from Utrecht to IJsselstein it takes almost 45 minutes, when you take the bus on the same route it takes only 20 minutes and is cheaper aswell. Beside of that, the tram is often not riding. There is always something wrong with that tram!

I'll just post it here as well: This line is considered a failure (financially, technically and logistically) and the the local government wants to replace it with a 4 billion euro metro line. It is already the most expensive tramway in the world (no joke), and the eastern half of it doesn't even operate in the evenings and weekends. It isn't used at all by residents of the city, the western half is exclusively used by people from Nieuwegein, and the eastern half exclusively by commuting students. Never the twain shall meet, though, as it is approximately 15 minutes faster to bike from Nieuwegein to Utrecht University, than it is to take the tram! Outside of rush hour, the trams are usually entirely empty. Going by bike is way more reliable (the line is closed every other week because of maintenance or collisions with cars). Utrecht has one of the worst local public transport networks of any western European city. A Swiss traffic engineer wrote an interesting article about it a few weeks back, and also the work of engineer Wolfgang Spier is notable.

7:56 In a tram attack in Utrecht on 18 March 2019, four people were killed and six injured in and around a tram in Utrecht. Gökmen Tanis (37) fired a handgun at tram passengers and passers-by on 24 Oktoberplein. He was arrested later that day. On a piece of paper he left behind earlier that day, he wrote that he had committed the attack because, according to him, attempts were being made to kill Muslims and because, in his opinion, attempts were being made to dissuade them from their faith. On 20 March 2020, Tanis was sentenced to life imprisonment. Next to the tramstation is a memorial to remember this tragedy.

Nice video! Though you do mention the impressive length of the trams, you've forgotten to mention this is combined with a relatively high frequency (every 5 minutes in the morning peak, every 7 minutes the remainder of the day). A lot more cost-effective compared to the buses used before on the route to De Uithof, as double articulated buses ran every 2 minutes and still could hardly cope with the number of passengers. Those double articulated buses are still used on the route to De Uithof via the city centre (though a lot of them were lost in a large depot fire and replaced by slightly shorter second hand buses), which probably once will also be replaced by a tram though talks about it have been going on forever. The first expansion will however be trams running on weekends when there is a football match in the Galgenwaard stadium along the line, I believe from October this year already.