@The Aristocrat I guess it could. I live in Utrecht and cycle past this junction pretty much daily. I never knew it was the biggest in the Netherlands 🧐
There are unwritten rules before you bike in The Netherlands 1. Biker is a king 2. Stay in your own lane 3. If you want to change the lane to turn, you will have to look back and give arm signal 4. Don't bike too slow 5. Don't brake out of sudden 6. if you are in the crossroad, you have to look in the eye of people who rides / walks opposite of you. So you know who is going first. And for pedestrians, please, always look right and left when you cross even in an empty street. if you violate the unwritten rules, people will shout at you "Sukkel"
Not just that, but the street infrastructure needed to support them. You'd be living in a six lane hellhole of a city, if not even more (imagine everyone having their own car). Then all the noise and bad air that comes with it too. Hard to fathom how much the oil industry fooled the world for so long, and they knew in the 70s and 80s already how bad it would get.
I was in Utrecht in 2018 for a concert. It was the first time for me in the Netherlands and i fell in love with the city! The architecture, the infrastructure and the people! Good Job dutch people. Love from Sweden.
UK cities are better than New Zealand, where I grew up. Better quality housing, lower cost of living, actual city life with local shops and leisure within walking distance vs detached suburban development that forces you to drive everywhere, decent public transport The grass is always greener, and I'm envious of the Dutch too, they make all countries look bad, but there are glimmers of hope to be found in many UK cities.
@@ryanscott6578 Well life isn't perfect here either. Living in certain blocks in Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam and other big cities is a nightmare. High crime rates, assault rates, drug dealing etcetera. Plus we have a huge shortage on housing here. If you're a student wanting to move out of your parental house you're quite lucky to even get a room or apartment for yourself.
@@Ned-nw6ge if you compare the worst neighbourhoods in the Netherlands to so many other country’s it really is a luxury living in a “hood” in the Netherlands. However housing is a real problem, especially the prices because there are enough houses here already, they just cost a ridiculous amount of money.
Que7 You woke up this old post, not so many people that use them, students, these are students It's not the US, we never commute longer the 20 minutes, we claim our land! Not willing to move for jobs!
I’m from Utrecht. I drive my bike every day. 3 times a day. And the bike roads are Amazing. It is not only the City Utrecht where you can drive your bike like this video shows, , but the hole country have Excellent bike roads. Where ever you go in this country, you can use your bike. From the north to the south, and from the east to the west.
When u're from the Netherlands, but saying ''Holland'' when it's the Netherlands. Holland is only North and South Holland, stop confusing every fucking tourist with it. By the way, they need to put a wall around Amsterdam, it's a shithole anyway.
Same, I worked for thuisbezorgd for a year (the folks with the big backpacks dressed in orange) and cycling in the city center was honestly the most beautiful and relaxing thing you can imagine. especially in the summer when it isn't pouring rain lol
@@hiddevandervliet7391 ja vroeger met een vriend op het veld waar bevroren plassen waren. Erover heen fietsen en dan de voor rem in knijpen en bidden dat je niet door het ijs breekt😂👊🏽
What surprises me the most is that it's actually very narrow. Paris' most used bike paths are usually the largest (and the best located), but this is just a regular cycle path in term of width, it's insane. It's just so well designed.
I would really appreciate long steady street shots for an entire video from a single position. Something like those log-fire or aquarium videos that give you the impression that you are just sitting somewhere watching the world go by.
I don't usually do those. But you should check out Bicycle Dutch for that kind of thing. His excellent work features much longer perspectives and are even more popular than mine!
You might start with Mark's very recent video of the same crossing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gOl5vF8l7Fc.html Most of it is from one point of view. You might turn down sound, because of the building noises coming from the site on the left side of the screen. (It does have at least 3 lycra helmets and 3 moped helmets in it!)
My school is 5 minutes away from the Utrecht city center, so also to Vredenburg. I used to cycle (online lessons now) through Vredenburg everyday, it is crazy how safe it is. There are hardly any cars because it is so hard to get there with car, it is just buses and cyclists.
It's very difficult to make any comparison between Holland and the UK. The Dutch made the decision in the 1950s to make cycling a priority in urban areas. In the UK at the same time, the policy decision was made to create a national car road infrastructure and hence the situation we have now where vehicle drivers have the roads to themselves for 70-80 years. No wonder they don't want to give it up.
Centre of Utrecht is dominated by bikes. Sure there are cars but during rush hour (pre corona) there are definitely more bikes since the centre is constructed mainly for bikes and since there are so much bikes it is so more efficient to travel with a bike then by car
cycling happens in all villages and cities in my country (the Netherlands), and its my believe that that is not the case in Denmark. but i am not a 100% shure.
@@tetrabeetle8630 That might be due to the much higher population density in the Netherlands. Bicycles are perfect with respect to short distance displacement.
You shouldn't speed cycling in the city. You don't race with your car in the city either. Outside the city there is fine infra to speedcycle for sports and training and longer distances.
@@tmsupreme7763 I think he means to Dutch standards it's horrible. Also has to do with the amount of people there. Cycling there would be a terrible experience for us with how busy it is.
Well, that's because all those Dutch cycling films are recorded in city's. You don't race with your car in a city, you don't speed cycle in a city. Outside the city there is excellent infra for sport and speed cycling (with helmet) and long distances.
1:38 That road does not need 4 lanes WTF. Utrecht get your shit together! Why did they make such a busy bike path standard size? They should've made it the first 4- or 6-lane bike path in the Netherlands, that would be so cool.
Its only busses and its fine that area was in flux and has been redesigned again esp. the parts leading and going from that area. The busses need space since its also close/the main city busses path in the city. Its fine esp. compared to 20 years ago when normal cars where still allowed and there was only a small path. Keep in mind this as a bicycle person in utrecht i try to avoid since its the 'worst' in that its so busy. They don't make paths wider if even more is needed they change the whole road to 'bicycle paths cars are guests' they can't do that here but later on that road that has been done. bikepaths where taken out and the whole road is now bicycle path with 'cars are guests' sounds like a bad thing but given the like 10x more bicycles than cars its better. This small area can't be done like that since too many busses.
So have they reached a point where the bicyclist should just reclaim the road? It actually seems rather absurd that these thousands of cyclists are relegated to relatively small paths when the few motor vehicles still command two thirds of the street!
I think it should be dropped completely. In the same way, everybody just writes "United States of America" instead of "the United States of America". The latter is the official name.
Then we’ll still go cycling, and then we have to sit at work drenched for the first two hours. Some people wear these special ‘rain pants’ to stay dry, but every teenager hates them and rather gets soaked lol
It is a bike town because you have to pay parking tickets for your car for fucking EVERYTHING!! like 4-5€ per hour sometimes even 8€ in Amsterdam.... even if you want to get your fucking groceries
Along with it comes the Dutch weather mate, can't have one without the other :) Greetz from Eindhoven (where Romario and Ronaldo once had their first encounters with snow)
This video is a total misrepresentation of reality. I cycle here everyday and I can tell you this bike lane is f*cking dangerous, I've seen numerous accidents happen here. Outside of Corona time the lane is so crowded you can barely cross the street, with people just avoiding getting hit by a bus. This crossroad is hands down one of most poorly designed ones in the city.
@@jurianvandebeek9541Dat is geen leugen, dat heb ik met eigen ogen gezien. Het is echt een gevaarlijke weg, om nog niet te spreken van de voorstraat, en st Janskerkhof waar nog minder ruimte is.
Well if people want different music (and trust me there are plenty of people who LOVE the music) then it would be nice if people would donate money since I am but one person on a shoestring budget with zero crew and have made 1,000+ films that way for 18 years.
0:56 observation: no bus front bike rack. (Here in the Denver area, buses have 2-bike racks, with very few 3-bike racks; longer-distance intercity routes also have baggage storage underneath.) Web search turned up this blog comment: "This kind of scale means that things done for bikes can’t be done in small doses. Too many people ride bikes to add a 2-bike rack to a bus…that just wouldn’t make sense. You’d need a bicycle trailer for buses in Amsterdam!"
I'm not sure we'd need a bike rack though. In case of long distance trips here, we tend to just ride our bikes to the train station and take the bike on the train with us.
Never seen bike racks on a bus in Europe, there's usually a largeer open compartment in the middle for bikes or strollers. I think we could redesign buses similar to how some train wagons work (here usually only a small part at either end of the train), with folding seats at the edges, facing towards the now very open middle. That way you have a lot more room in the middle for things like bikes, but you would lose about half the seating space depending on the exact design (but usage of buses is way down thanks to corona anyway).
Not only the cycling infra is fine mazed: you can cycle to any destination you can think of - but in citys public transit is also fine mazed which means you can reach nearly every destination in the city and outskirts by tramcart, bus or train. Therefore you rarely have to take your bike with you to further your travel. City to city travel occassionaly requires you to take your bicycle with you. But most park their bike at the train station, hop on and have an other bike or other mode of transportation on the other side of the train route.
NOT Holland. N & S Holland are provinces, as is the province of Utrecht, where the city of Utrecht is. The country is the Netherlands or Nederland in Dutch. Brian Oosterbeek Netherlands
@@tarquinmidwinter2056 most people dont, the say nederland since thats the name of the country, and quite a lot of people get offended if you say holland even tho its not in holland
@@tarquinmidwinter2056 Another reason to detest these tv shows. I think they want to appeal to nostalgic feelings, because 'Holland' is more associated with the past. The age of the average tv viewer is relatively high.
Stop being such a smartass. Although it is factually accurate that Holland used to refer to the two provinces south and north Holland, you know as well as I do that most Dutch people use the name interchangeably. Nobody would think you are referring to just those two provinces when you talk about Holland, so what you are doing is just senseless nit-picking.
@@noirr9390 Correction: Helmets are mandatory for E-bikes that do not have the electric assist cut off above 25 km/h, or have an electric power assist exceeding 250 Watt. Helmets are not mandatory for E-bikes having an electronic cut off power assist above 25 km/h and the power assist does not exceed 250 Watt maximum output. Helmets are not mandatory for human powered only bicycles. Regardless how fast they can or do drive. For the latter, see, among others: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ssD_ZVErgTg.html .Top speed: 60 km/h. Average: 50 km/h.
@@-whisper- many Dutch folks (me included) are pissed off by statements like these. It is not an equivalent, and every false use needs to be corrected.