[785] A ride from the University Campus in Utrecht to the Central Station bicycle parking garage. Filmed on a sunny day in June 2020. More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.w...
I love the various things you come across: 00:00 a three segmented bus 5:08 the girl casually grabbing her backpack while the light turns green 6:34 a delivery person on a bike 7:04 a mom with a kid on a bike 7:56 a group of speed cyclists 10:29 person in a wheelchair on a specialized bike 11:53 guy on skateboard casually ignoring a red light (part of dutch culture of course) 12:54 guy on bike taking a second bike with him 13:09 of course a bakfiets as well 14:27 micro van (probably for collecting trash) Then there are also a lot of people wearing very casual clothing for riding a bike, did you spot any helmets? It's interesting to see just how many different forms of transport you come across in just 20 minutes, and to top it off there where hardly any cars. There were a few bits of road that were maybe a bit less safe for bikes, but car traffic was light so it didn't really matter
I want back all moments of my 5 months' stay in Utrecht. Now I'm in Istanbul, am trying to cycle but it's a complete mess. Not just cycling but life in general was so much more peaceful in Utrecht. Great city.
Well stay there, as Holland has become a ness too because of too many from where you live invade us, bringing yoyr ways with you. Built your own civilisation and hapiness
@@rayerscarpensael2300 Or in other words, we don't mind others sitting next to us looking at our "homework" and copying it, but we do mind you grabbing a pen and writing on our "homework".
@@ericnijkamp7926 Don't know what you're talking about Eric. The video doesn't lie, it's modern and civilized, still needs a lot of improvement though, like banning the car entirely from Dutch city centers.
Omg this comment just made me realise how blessed I am to be immigrating to The Netherlands residing in Utrecht 💝💝 All the way from South Africa 🇿🇦 Cape Town
@@melbourneknuffeler i love how dutch are so good and yet they keep wanting more (which is good), while most of the world can't fucking figure out how to build bike paths in cities lol
I haven’t cycled in Utrecht in over 35 years. Such a beautiful city and oh those cycling lanes, absolutely fantastic. Thank you for posting this video.
I love Utrecht! I think it's one of my favorite cities in the world. I was trying to follow your ride on Google maps, and it was nice to see the hostels I stayed at, and the Wilhelmina Park! It's so cool to see traveling Utrecht by bike. When I was there I was never comfortable enough to bike. This video makes me want an Amstel Light.
Aw man, dat brengt goede herrineringen terug!! 1975 tot 1984 daar gewoond, goed te zien dat Utrecht zo fiets vriendelijk is geworden. dat was toen wel anders! Mooie beelden.
I don’t think it’s his bike he’s mentioned on some of his videos before that he uses the public hire bikes which use the travel card which trains busses and registered taxis use.
That's because they have the biggest trainhub in the Netherlands and therefore invested in public transport rather than roads. They transferred the roads back to water- and bicycle ways. Cars are just simply not too welcome and the effect is more bikes and less (noise) pollution.
Yesss but when university starts a lot busses will be there and a million bicycles and even more people walking and Talking on these roads. And a lot more cars. It is the busiest (bicycle) route in Utrecht from September till july when people are going to university or to the offices next to the campus. So filming this in August during Corona is a little bit deceiving haha. Usually you have to fight for your space on the small bicycle lanes
Love the crossing at 17:45. Wow - that was so much fun - thank you! We got to enjoy it all while not having to watch how we drove. :D Gorgeous city and such fuss free getting about for everyone.
Nice one! The Uithof really came together the last decade as a nice place to be and look at. I never thought they could make all those cubes and rectangles come together as a good Mondriaan painting. As a part 2(,3,4,5) a trip from the same starting location to De Bildt, Zeist or Bunnik (continued to Houten) would be yet another demonstration of how well the network fits together between 'big' city, small city, medium city and village.
I love this video! It represents the exact route I take from my studentflat at the campus to my boyfriends' appartment in the city center. I'm downloading it for keepsake, thank you very much!
So, uh...Listen, I don't really have much in the way of skills or anything, but who in Utrecht wants to hire me? Can I even get a work visa if I'm stuck in the US? My wife is an excellent tour guide. I just really want to live in a civilization.
Have $5500.- to start a business and you're welcome in the Netherlands. www.immigration-netherlands.com/how-to-relocate-to-the-netherlands-from-us Having a job can be useful too, but due to corona they're scarce these days.
You maybe can ask for asylum as a political refugee. But if you are serious check with your local Dutch ambassy. I know a few Americans who came to the Netherlands and enjoy life here. But most came because there partner is Dutch.
@@jeroen2082 🤣 Yes, especially if we're stuck with the same president for another 4 years, please, please accept Trump as president as a valid reason, otherwise know any good Dutch dating apps? 🥺
11:21 oh wow, a railway crossing gate for pedestrians. Such revolutionary technology. Here in Estonia no-one has seen anything like it. Never mind for cyclists...
Utrech donde mandan las bicicletas 🚴, un lugar por lo que se observa muy tranquilo y agradable para los que no lo conocemos. Espero volver a visitar 🇳🇱 post cuarentena del Coronavirus y conocer este lugar. Groeten uit Lima Perú 🇵🇪nederlandse honderd procent 🇳🇱
Netherlands compared to Denmark where I live seems in the future. Please let this be the future for Denmark🙏--And please Denmark get in some of that colours too!
That was a group of race-bikers, race bikers wear helmets & lycra clothing. Because it is sportive biking ( like in the Tour de France) which goes way faster than normal biking. They were training together as a club, like there are many in the NL. Most biking clubs ask their members to wear helmets for safety & insurance reasons. Privatly it is aloud to go race-biking without helmet in the NL, but most will wear.
We're all cyclists. I go to the supermarket on an old bike. For sport in nice weather like that race suit and race bike. You can wear a cotton shirt but it will get wet from sweat, racing clothes are just more suited and breathable.
@N Xarigow It would save the UK a lot of money if they'd build proper cycling infrastructure. The taxes on car sales, car use and gasoline, are never enough to cover the costs of the infrastructure. So the more people drive a car, the more congestion you get, the more money you loose. The Dutch are keen on money, and they've found out that cycling infrastructure has less wear and tear, so its maintenance is much cheaper. Also, when a lot of people cycle, they stay healthier = less sick leave, more production, less costs of doctors etc..
There aren't that many and abandoned bikes are regularly taken away. There's a special cleanup crew for bikes that goes around popular bike parking areas and puts a tag on bikes saying they'll be removed in a certain amount of time if the tag is still on. Those bikes get repaired or salvaged and are sold as cheap second hand bikes. This has become less of an issue is the last few years as the city of Utrecht built more secure bike parking facilities and pop-up bike parking spots.
Thanks for another champion video but Is this filmed at 6am on a Sunday ? Seems like a awful lack of people and especially people on bikes for Utrecht !!!! The young dude at the Miffy crossing 17:50ish ,the Skater dude and the girl in the green outfit ,11:50ish do a good job of showing whats its like taking to the bike in Utrecht - Fekin Love it :->
No they aren't. It all depends on who made the bike path. Those dashes are most regularly used as if it being a standard, but there are bike paths out there having longer dashes for whatever reason.
So nice. Here in Canada they value cars over people. Even when we do get a bike lane or two, cars will drive and park in them. The cars takes so much space and they are noisy and stink. Drivers here never look out for biker and many people ran over. I wish I did't live here.
Thanks for the lovely tour of the route we did back in May 2018 in the opposite direction. Great to see the tram running and Stationsplein fully open. Unreal to see that area that empty! Are they ever going to finish the construction outside of Stationsplein?
Not the best pass, I agree. But it isn't like he collects a cyclist once every ten passes. Mark undoubtedly heard the car, and may even have made room for the car to pass. As a cyclist, when you think overtaking is unsafe, you simply block the road.
At 5:17 the tram warning light comes on while the light for crossing bicycles is green. For an approaching cyclist, would the warning light override the green light, such that the cyclist should stop? Or is it just an advance warning for when the crossing light turns red?
Should absolutely stop, a tram is approaching. People that are not directly under the green light should not cross the tram tracks. Our cameraman was on the tram tracks when the lights turned on, so that's okay.
The warning light is mainly intended for pedestrians. The traffic light for cyclists will turn (first yellow, then) red at the same time. But this traffic light is after the tram track, to cross the road, not the tram.
I so want to wear that trouser suit at 12 mins on my commute to work in the Uk, (no chance!), also her hair is so much nicer than mine when I'm riding, I HATE her.
Move to The Netherlands: enjoy the wind in the hair when ridind bike! And... you may notice gals like her everywhere on the cycle paths too: dressed for the destiny, not the jounrney! Enjoy these vids also: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B3smPA17D8M.html , and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jpi01x_DgDY.html
@Roosje Keizer It used to be just the bike thing that I often wished I had been born in a more enlightened European Country, but now it's almost everything, I'm so ashamed of this country.
@Roosje Keizer I get called all kinds of things for not wearing an helmet to ride to work, even my hubby has the occasional comment about it, but he's more like the kind of rider's the UK has, ie it's a purely sporting thing for him, mtb's and road, and while I love mtb'ing and the occasional fast ride on my road bike, I just love doing normal everyday traveling by bike, in normal everyday clothes, on my old three speed ( don't judge I'm Welsh and live in Wales, the scenery though!) comfy bike, and I'm classed as "odd" because of it.
Do ya'll listen to music in one ear when cycling? and have studed bike tyres for the winter? I can see how people that are used to their multi devices and using bluetooths in their big cars with multiple people can see this as alien to them.
It's all mostly red asphalt. Only when you see white lines they're painted. But the red paths are usually red asphalt or red bricks. Also the section from 13:06 to 14:00 they're riding on the road because of works going on on the right side where the bike path is.
Till 5:28 it's a cyclepath, no cars allowed. But yeah, even with paint you can accomplish a lot. And Utrecht is currently doing a lot with directing traffic flows on a bigger scale than just the road that's being considered.
1: they might actually be new, just a retro look. 2: if you’re a person that parks it outside a lot a bike with less value will be less likely to be stolen ;-)
What Sander said, and on top of that it is very likely that they are that old... I have three bicycles for example, two of them are actually from the 70's (My grandfather's bikes)
In NL, a "normal" bike still has a retro look. And some of them are just plainly meant to be retro, like this one: www.halfords.nl/cumberland-omafiets-york-mat-zwart-dames-54cm.html. A cheap, normal looking bicycle is for instance this one: www.halfords.nl/cumberland-stadsfiets-plymouth-heren-zwart-58cm.html I know that in the US, a lot of people owning a bike have a racing bicycle, an all-terrain bike or something else special. Here in NL, everyone owns at least one bike on average, so it gotta be a not-so-special one. Fun fact: a "bakfiets" for transporting stuff (13:09) can also be retro: www.halfords.nl/vogue-elektrische-bakfiets-carry-zwart-bruin-481-watt.html
@@darkknight8139 Thanks for the links! It's also so interesting that NL has such great features on the bikes (I thought they were accessories, but it looks like the bikes are made with them (seat in the front, the big bins, etc.). And yes, I guess that's just the style, and since it's so flat one doesn't need gears...
@@agaistin we have several sorts.. slower ones (25 km/h) are allowed on bicycle tracks, and faster ones 45 km/h have to use the road for cars. (Teenagers often ignore these rules)
@@markovermeer1394 He is propagating repressive actions, last week he was commenting about how he is affraid to leave his Amsterdam house. Hij woont hier maar leeft in Amerika, import grachtengordel met een geïmporteerde politieke visie en dito angstbeelden.
Rutger B Sure, I can exercise caution in an attempt to neither catch the virus or spread it, and that’s considered a character flaw. The gemeente is asking people not to travel in or out of Amsterdam needlessly, and I am heeding that advice.
@@amcaesar Not a character flaw. A foreign attitude, one which makes you come over as an preacher. you are a guest, do not preach when you do not understand that you are living in a different culture.
@@rutgerb I am immunity-compromised. I merely ask others not to risk their health -- and mine. If I preach, I do so with great apprehension and sobriety.
it's unfortunate to see the arrogance of some motorist ignoring the cycle priority lane on 7.41 minutes riding way to fast and cutting you of. It is the same here in Zoetermeer in the erea where i live. They ingnore the 30 kmh limitation and act like they are in charge.
