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Road design is one aspect. More attention has to be paid to which rules are enforced. In North America far too much attention is given to cell phone use and speeding. Lane discipline on freeways and main highways should take precedence over speeding. Intersections have a high accident rate yet seldom is there any attention to them. Some location may have red light cameras but maybe just making sure drivers know the rules of the road would improve.

My grandfather was one of the people behind the Verkeerscirculatie plan. Its funny to see it mentioned and also funny how he has been continuedly been proven right, again after the whole Jullianaplein debacle

zou maar in groningen willen leven xd

It has been proven time and time and time and time and time again that reworking roads like this does little to nothing, i'm a Caltrans worker of 16 years and those major road works such as roundabouts and diverging diamonds would just creep back up again as soon as the cameras stopped rolling. Some 40 projects here where roads were built as this video describes actually would turn more dangerous than before within 90 days of install. This is nothing but people lying to themselves hoping people see this as "they're doing something" when in reality only 1 thing is ever going to fix this, Discipline and respect!!! people don't care, but when they see cops writing them tickets and getting one in the mail, then they start going slower and respecting the rules. Rural eastern Cali has proven that time and time again, but no one listens, then they come up with this crap and fudge the numbers to feel good. Job security for me and the towing industry at least. Edit, i should ad that this probably only applies to the US, i'm just in California and see what is happening here and watching it unfold in other parts of the US too.

Netherlands IS NOTHING LIKE AMERICA now German moutains ok

Sorry bud but for now we are are spending on ukranian roads instead of ours

I've lived in Germany for 3 years and drove in many European countries to include the Netherlands...the driving mentality between Northern Europeans and Americans are just so different. I miss driving in Europe. Unless you're on a no speed limit section (Netherlands has sections on their highways at night) everyone is driving the speed limit. Not in America. Roundabouts are dangerous in America compared to Europe. And crosswalks...I remember driving with some European friends on Ramstein...a poor Airman was just waiting to cross a "zebra stripe" (crosswalk) for about 10 minutes...no one was letting him go even though he had the right of way. We finally got to that intersection, stopped and waived him through. He was so hesitant to cross but he had the right of way. Americans just don't take driving seriously. My neighbor had to pay thousands of Euros for his son to take driving lessons and I think he couldn't start until 18? Don't remember the age but older than typical American kids driving at 15. This isn't going to be solved until Americans take driving seriously.

4:37 Outdoor warning siren spotted!

How about curves, or something magical called, a speed bump! Not only for like school zones, but areas with high density of people, i've been to some cities in America, and i've seen massive roads in the middle of cities that go in a straight line without a single speed bump, i also despise the idea of the cycling lanes being squeezed right next to where the cars are, i live in a 3rd world country, and not gonna lie, our highways are similar, but our urban roads are like 10 times better planned than the US.

0:18 , Romania somehow makes the USA's problem look small... ,

Cars are getting bigger and wider in the US. Euro roads don't work in the US and never will. Crashes and dumb people are just a part of the accepted risk you take when driving or living close to a busy street.

MAYBE, its the people

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Yet America is still better than Europe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅

5:52 is kruithuisweg in delft

I’m Swedish and I took a drivers license test in Florida some years ago and it was a joke. I believe that education is important for road safety. Also Americans drink/drug and drive…

Wait till you go to the UK 🇬🇧

The initial graph is flawed. There is on average , more people driving per million inhabitants in America then other countries. So you need to redo the graph to show deaths per a mile driven or deaths per car on the road. For example, Sweden has approx. 545 vehicles per a 1000 people with a total population of around 10 million . The USA has 908 vehicles per 1000 people which is almost 1 vehicle per a person and a total population of over 330 million... lol... Also note, most cars are as dangerous as the driver, I have witnessed a person driving while drinking a cup of coffee, smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone all at the same time. If the Coffee was in one hand and the phone and cigarette was in the other... how F*** were they steering????

its because in America they'd rather pull you over for doing 5 over and not for hogging the left passing lane or doing dumb shit. Also the quality of common sense when it comes to driving is horrendous, they would rather fail you first 2 tries to milk you for money then pass you out of obligation on your third rather than pass you first time because you are a good driver and fail others 50 times because they suck. The culture is the main problem, the roads are a small factor in all these greater problems, the culture is so much different, the difference I see in culture in Poland and Canada is huge, most people are more courteous in Poland and not willing to do dumb selfish shit but in Canada/America people are so much more selfish, I've been driving on a 4 lane main road in the 3rd lane preparing to switch to 4th to make a left turn, and then a driver from the right side turns right onto my road, except she turns EXACTLY into the lane i'm driving in straight in front of me, THEN she goes into the fourth lane after driving 10 kmh in my lane and forcing me to brake, like why? Either turn into the second or fourth right fucking away, or at least fucking accelerate if you really need the third lane so bad. This isn't solved with road infrastructure this is solved with proper culture, which goes far beyond just roads or drivers ed. It's something rooted in you when you grow up. If you just make the roads smaller without changing the culture people are just gonna be ripping 20 above speed limit in those narrow roads and causing more crashes than before. People don't speed because they feel it's safe, people speed because they don't care if its safe. Sure it's safe to speed on the highway, sure its safe to do 5 over in the city most of the time, but you need to actually CARE about safety of others and actually judge for yourself when its safe to speed or not. People who cause crashes by speeding alone do not CARE and go 30 over in the city. Crashes aren't simply caused by speeding unless you go very high over, crashes are caused by lack of attention/knowledge pretty much everyone speeds to some degree, including that in your statistics is just false causation. If you remove 5-10 over crashes from the "speeding is a deciding factor" statistics, I can bet your crash statistics will drop down to maybe 2% being due to speeding with generosity. The main problem is other aspects of driving, speeding itself is not the problem 95% of the time. Take my previous situation where a guy pulled into the third lane I was driving in, what if I was a shit driver that was on the phone or just zoning out? I wouldn't avoid that collision. Its almost always a possibility to avoid a collision when you drive with a brain I've dodged many collisions in my lifetime by idiots merging into my lane, stopping on the entrance ramp or running reds, simply because I pay attention. It surely attributes quite a lot that I love driving and am always fully immersed in the driving experience rather than just using it as a transportation measure, but even then just paying attention is not that hard.

Yup... Only in the State of California, (US), 80 plus fatal accidents occur EVERY DAY, on Highways 5, 8, 10, 15, 405 and 805. This data corresponds to the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. This is of almost 30K deaths per year. Every year! ,

You guys should just lay off complaining about American Roads... it's never going to change because it's against the law to change them. This is because it would be to expensive and the government only cares about money... quit complaining. It will never change

We need to build more self sufficient, charming, walkable towns in the US

Well, I tried to drive when dangers caused them to happen like this situation did not pass the driving and permit test for drivers license.

TRULY REALLY TRULY IT TRULY IS TRULY BECAUSE ( PENNDOT/DMV ) ( MUST MEET THEIR QUOTAS ) BY PUTTING SO MANY ( IMPATIENT/ASSHOLE/MORON/IDIOT ) ( DRIVERS ) ON THE ROADS .

the Netherlands, the Netherlands the Netherlands Tired with these eternal references to this miniature country in Europe that has VERY different conditions than many other countries. The US needs to do a lot to improve road safety but copying their ideas is no solution.

Never happen in America just like we will never have substantial number of high-speed trains

so this is what its like to live in a cities skylines world

I live there, never gave it a second thought. But it’s pretty cool to realise how clever it actually is.

That restaurant crash. 3 seconds into the video. Did any of the restaurant patrons die?

agree

Some notes; In the residential areas where cars, bikes, pedestrians and playing children share the same street, with a max speed of 30, cars have the lowest right of way. They have to wait for everyone else. So, if someone is walking down the street, or biking, you have to slow down even more. You dont have any right to start honking and demand people move aside so you can drive faster. The street is for the people living there, and cars are guests. The maximum speed may be 30, but the advised speed is walking pace. A kid could come running out of a driveway or kick a ball across the street at any point. If the max speed is 50 instead of 30, where 50 is the highest possible speed inside urban areas, then cars, bikes and pedestrians are seperated, with marked or seperated bike lines and a kerb for pedestrians. The trees dont just discourage speeding, they also for physical protection for the cyclists if a car has an accident. They will hit the tree. The tree will probably win. The cyclist on the other side of the tree is safe. They also provide wind shade, which is very important in flat land. The bike paths are set back at intersections so the drivers can more easily see cyclists. Instead of having to stop and look left and right at a 90 degree angle, the cyclists will be in their peripheral vision. This significantly reduces accident rates at intersections without lights where cyclists have to cross a car lane. The roads without lines in the middle are specifically designed to be exactly wide enough that 2 cars can barely pass each other, while slowing down, and driving on the bike lanes to the side. Meaning that, if there is a cyclist there, one of the cars has to wait for the other one to pass and only then can overtake the cyclist. Which further slows down traffic and makes things safer for everyone. Buses have special transponders that communicate with the streetlights and get priority over car traffic. They also have their own dedicated street light. So the 30 people in the bus spend less time waiting at intersections than all the people sitting in their cars alone. Parking in cities is very expensive. Some smaller towns may allow 2 hours of free parking next to the shopping mall, but in large cities you will have to pay several euro per hour to park in a partking garage or on street parking. In Amsterdam it can be up to 10 euro per hour. So its cheaper to park outside the city and walk or take the tram to the center. Or just take the train.

too bad they wont redesign road in usa cuz they dont want to spend too much money on redesign. they want use tax money for other thing like police to beat people out sh!t

In the suburb I live in all major roads look like the improved road in the beginning of the video

Why do we always talk about netherlands all the time? Why not Sweden

Lemo Indian Roads

I lived in Spain and enjoyed waking trough the city and had no car for the family. We bought a car before returning to Latvia and it's not because we don't like walking or bicycles. Car equals speed and quite often traveling long distances is not convenient with a bike. And sorry but not everyone lives, wants or can live in the city Center so pretty understandable why car lanes are the priority. Comparing Rīga to Netherlands? Check the weather sir. It's 4-5 months of normal weather here. Car makes all the sense. Also when the weather is good I still don't use a bike as I do not enjoy getting sweaty every time I need to get somewhere to work. Also I don't enjoy carrying shopping bags with my bike.

American Roads are safe

The US has several times the motor vehicles than several European countries put together. As a result, most U.S. streets are designed around motor vehicles to begin with. Some areas create unprotected bike lanes in places they shouldn't, because the street wasn't wide enough to begin with, actually causing a vehicle/bicycle accident hazard, while traffic circles/roundabouts are a current fad in the U.S. (nothing like seeing tire tracks over the landscaping in the middle of a circle). There is neither interest nor money to redo all the urban roads in the United States, especially since taking up street parking with European-style measure in old neighborhoods, or slowing traffic with fancy restriction devices will simply get politicians voted out of office at the next election. One nearby town is redoing a 4-lane road with commercial and industrial traffic through a business district trying for the speed reduction and livability factors. That works SO well when they have an expressway on and off-ramps just south of the redone area, and traffic going through the redone area leading to industrial areas north of the area. I wonder how long it will be before it is returned to a regular US-style road, since they went from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes to plant trees, and widen sidewalks so businesses can set up outdoor spaces (not many restaurants/cafes along that route either). It ain't fancy; it's gritty, blue-collar people there, not fancy, trendy white-collar cafes serving wine and cheese. Enjoy the diesel fumes with your Chateau Whatever, right?? Don't forget to take in your ourdoor furniture every night so nobody steals it (it's a town fighting a high crime rate also).

Sinto muito ser tão sincero mas, como motorista brasileiro que viaja ocasionalmente aos EUA, constatei que os motoristas americanos são PÉSSIMOS! Muito ruins, mal educados w desatentos! Essa é a média, claro. Não são todos tão ruins, mas a maioria são péssimos.

Hungarian here and Hungary is always like this, when I see the news everytime. People are so stupid that when they hitting somebody when someone trying to cross the road zebra lines. There are so many psychos in Hungary also.

So you want to tell me that in US there is more accidents bcs there is less bikeroads ? Sorry man but i disagree with this what you are saying. Ofc in city when you have more bikeroutes, more people ride a bike and there is less cars which means less accidents. The problem is PEOPLE not roads. People look at their phones when they drive a car, or drive drunk, or too fast. I lived in europe and i like more road system in usa. Wider, less signs, everything more simple. When it comes to bike trails ofc they should be separated from roads bcs people on bikes are oo stupid to watch for cars. Germans have unlimited highways and somehow it works there very good and its bcs PEOPLE are careful.

You're using the circular reasoning that driving less is better, so everyone must drive less because it's better. You haven't even begun to address the reasons why Americans drive so far. So I'll help. We drive so far / spend so much time in traffic because (1) workers don't want to live in our ever-expanding ghettos, so workers have to drive past them to get anywhere, (2) a handful of corporate lawyers and executives benefit from all the government and office buildings being unnecessarily clustered tightly together, and benefit from the road system converging on a downtown, to the detriment of everyone else, and (3) most workers are unnecessarily forced to start and stop work around the same time, causing heavy congestion during rush hours. If you really want to solve these problems you have to use radical solutions that many won't like. You're never going to solve these problems by asking corporate lawyers or welfare mothers what they want.

1:10 is so funny to me, simple sure, but 1 leaves room for emergency services and uh, turning, while your "improved" version, does not.

I love that you mentioned the relationship between neighbourhood and wellbeing of children. The important of this cannot be underestimated.

In Florida or South Florida regardless of the road, folks don’t obey traffic laws. Licenses are passed out like candy. All you need to do is show up and they will give you a license. Folks also don’t yield to pedestrians or cyclists. They also go 65+ mph on a slow 30mph residential road. On i95 or any other highway they drive highly aggressive and reckless.

i live in aachen germany so very close to the netherlands. i really enjoy driving there but i hate the speedbumps. I love the street design and the traffic lights. late in the evening you often see your traffic light turning red and after 3 seconds while you are heading towards the traffic light it switches on green again. you spend so much less time waiting at traffic lights inspecially if its low traffic. but after my visit to the netherlands i enjoy the most driving over the german border and going home with 140mph :D

I dont get why every us city is build in squares. its so boring, bad for traffic and dangerous. every city here in germany is unique with a layout completly different to every other city

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Roads inTaiwan: 😊

Proud to be Dutch and to have almost everything within cycling range.