Why Denmark Is Insanely Well Designed
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I wonder how Denmark became such a superpower among wellfare states? Synonym for wellfare. How did that transition happen ?
Hej god vid 🇩🇰🇩🇰
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Er du dansker fordi du er maget godt til at udtale danske navne
Danmark
Hey am Danmark
It just seems to be that small places with a population of between 5 & 10 million people tend to be very functional, small enough that the government can focus on more or less everything that needs to be done without being overwhelmed by the scale or lack of geographic proximity to the problems that need solving.
And then there's Portugal
@@LanteanStargaterPortugal is more Balkan
You've probably never heard of Ireland
@@manishdkthrow in 800 years of no investment by a coloniser might explain a bit..
@@kevfitz8087 china was poorer than many african countries until i think the 1950s. Look where they are now
My parents (English father, Danish mother) both worked on the Storebælt bridge, which is how they first met in 1990. It's cute that a bridge-building project designed to connect people is what literally brought them together, and is the reason I exist.
That's cute. I hope they are happy.
Wholesome intensifies
Byggeriet begyndte ikke før 1991 😅
@@Jebersbach Opbygning af ESG (European Storebælt Group) fabrikationsanlægget (HR mor, ingeniør far) i Nyborg begyndte før 1991
Faktisk helt tilbage i 1988 begyndte planlægningen @@Jebersbach
As someone living in the Netherlands I can see so many similarities, its almost like the two countries are distanced brothers.
Some values are definitely shared =)
There are a lot more commonalities, in a way it does provide an excuse for those that can't tell us apart. Denmark is the flat country where bikes are everywhere, a long and proud naval tradition, a difficult to pronounce germannic language and reserved and direct people. Whereas the Netherlands is a flat country where bikes are everywhere, a long and proud naval tradition, a difficult to pronounce germannic language and reserved and direct people.
@@vrenakBut land's in Denmark aren’t fake like Netherlands lol
the netherlands is like denmark on sterioids. it's flatter and more populated
@@snefokk_i_heiene and fake Lands
Germany should learn a thing or two from Denmark about digitization and bureaucracy. Almost every government process in German is steeped in contrived bureaucratic processes and the state of digitation there is abysmal.
That's Germany for you. Too big a population to avoid a bureaucracy that disconnects from its national goals
Germans have always had this lean towards rules and regulations. Unfortunately they screw themselves in the process by over regulating.
@@Mcfunfaceno, nothing to do with its size, since it is a Bundesland.
More with a mentality of slow adaptation of digitalisation.
my teacher told me that the german chanchellor angela merkel went to the biggest university in berlin and proudly proclaimed that the teachers there finally got themselves some work related emails
even the teachers were proud and happy the sad thing was that it happened in 2021 meanwhile denmark the teachers has had work related emails since 2004 ish
I don't think this is so easy to compare. The bigger and more complicated something gets, the more regulations you need to get things in order....
Denmark doesn't even has population of Hessen.
Their biggest town would be barely in the Top 10 of biggest towns of Germany.
From my perspective they are also much smaller and seem much less divided. The people in Schleswig Holstein are like people of another Nation compared to the people of Bavaria...
I've been staying in Copenhagen for a few weeks, and it lives up to everything you said. Very purposeful, very efficient, very well run. Great place to be. There is a focus on other important things in life - raising families, enjoying the outdoors, being active, socialising. The city eally seems like it was designed for humans, rather than just an economy.
That's great to hear
I Wanna live in Copenhagen One day too
Nice to hear. And we are not terrible, but it's not that great either. Try driving our city rings in rush hour.
I would like to say, I have been to Denmark and it is an amazing country. Would I say it's worth the higher taxes I would say yes from an out sider to the country it is very expensive but it is an amazing place, everything works great and affectively. Highly recommended
@marcosfreijeiro8763
Expensive compared to what?
We are often in the US. The cost of living there has gone through the roof. Grocery shopping is 2-3 times more expensive than in Denmark.
@@KoldingDenmarkcompared to other countries in europe it is more expensive in Denmark.
@@KoldingDenmark expensive in comparison to the Spain and England, but saying that I would happily return to Denmark it's a fantastic country. A side note no country is perfect but some come close.
@@marcosfreijeiro8763
Hope you return and go island hopping (we do that every summer) and explore the peninsula part of Denmark (Jylland) and the mentality and nature there. 🫡
@@KoldingDenmark One thing to account for when comparing the cost of living in Denmark vs. the US, is the tax-rates. Which is close to evening out the prices.
I didn't realize you were Danish before you started naming the islands. Good to meet another Dane doing English speaking videos here :)
The perfect Ø pronunciation, when I heard that in this video, "Jeg vidste det" (I knew it)😊 I've had a hunch for a while, but now we know, the boy is a Dane, now I have to some more of his vids. Det er et yndigt land, okay to far maybe. Cheers Mate🫡
Great video! As an American it's painful to see how far behind we are with public transit infrastructure compared to other developed countries. I admire the Scandinavian people for being so practical, rational, and forward thinking. Our car dependent culture over here needs to change. Stay awesome Denmark! ✌️
You want to pay 25% VAT on everything?
@@fnnnknorth Yes, if it means having better infrastructure, less traffic, less accidents, and less pollution. Driving and everything associated with it is a huge expense, from vehicle maintenance to endless roadwork. Personal vehicle costs are particularly challenging for low income individuals. In a country like the US where most people live paycheck to paycheck and have little savings, being dependent on cars is not a smart way to structure the transportation sector. Moving people around through rail and biking infrastructure has many advantages that we have yet to capitalize on over here. Higher taxes are not inherently bad, it just depends on what you get for the money. Scandinavians have maximized their taxes for the good of the public and their societies have benefited greatly. They figured it out, which is why their quality of life is much better than ours. Smart tax policies made it possible.
@@fnnnknorth
1) Scholarship to the university level with no tuition fees. Only pay for books.
2) Guaranteed long term sick leave pay regardless of contract or if employer goes bankrupts.
3) Absurdly subsidised healthcare for less-critical areas and completely subsidised healthcare for critical ares.
4) Government backed unemployment insurance, long term unemployment benefits, part or full disability pension, and retirement pension.
5) Subsidised public transportation and infrastructure.
6) Subsidised cultural initiatives.
7) Government bond backed real estate loans that are only marginally above central bank interest rates.
8) Law enforcement officers have 4 years of education, and police stations are not run like a business.
9) Publicly provided legal counselling for private citizens.
10) A legal system where you don't need to be a millionair to litigate as a private person.
And I probably forgot 20 other things. Pay the damn VAT and be glad you don't have to take out 20 different insurances with private insurance companies who will bend you over when you need them.
US should generally not compare their infrastructure to Europe really. Since it tempts to be very much a population density question more than anything. little tiny Denmark has 30% higher population density than US
@@andersjjensen bare lige så vi er enige :p Så er dansk rets system også ret blæst.
Jury systemet fra USA eksmpelvis kunne være lære noget af.....så det faktisk er en uafhængigheds dom :P
There are a few mistakes in the video.
* You say that the Fehmarn Belt bridge will reduce congestion in Copenhagen. But nobody going to Germany is going through Copenhagen anyway, unless they start at that spot. And the through traffic from Sweden will still have to use the same motorway from the bridge and as far as to Køge, so it doesn't divert any traffic at all until *after* Køge.
* The comparison of stations/inhabitant with London is also incorrect. If you count the entire S-Train network, then you should use the population of the entire region that is served by S-trains, which is about a million. The 600k figure is for Copenhagen Municipality alone, but the S-trains extend far beyond that area.
* ERTMS does not allow for driverless trains, and there are no plans for driverless trains on the mainlines. However, the CBTC system (which is only for the S-trains) does allow for future driverless trains.
* The UK has most of the national railway network as a state-owned railway, owned by Network Rail. However, it is operated by private companies on concession agreements.
* Also, you say that developers don't need to ask Parliament for permission for big projects in Denmark. That's just blatantly false. All infrastructure projects require an "Anlægslov" in order to be built.
Just in general, there is a huge problem with Danish railways: there is no coherent long-term plan. Instead, projects are considered on an ad-hoc basis, which means that sometimes, projects that would really work much better if done together, end up being split up... and at other times, projects that are individually good but would conflict with each other, can end up being approved at the same time. This is why there is no proper flyover on the railways east of Ringsted - the politicians wanted to save a bit of money in the short term, so they cut out the flyover, making it much more expensive to retrofit a flyover in the near future. The current system of switches also causes frequent delays.
A lot of swedish people is taking the Puttgarden, so is norwegian people. So yes, both Swedes & Norwegian people are using that path to get to Germany.
@@imscrate Of course people are taking the Puttgarden route. I never said they aren't. But they aren't going through Copenhagen, they're going around Copenhagen on the Køge Bugt motorway. And when the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link opens, they will continue to use the same route... so it doesn't reduce the traffic through Copenhagen at all.
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood. I thought driving around Copenhagen counts too. Going through Copenhagen would be horrible. @@wasmic5z
@@imscrate It's not so much about what counts as "Copenhagen", and more about that the traffic patterns won't change at all. The people who use the motorway today will still use the motorway after the Fehmarn tunnel opens. But the video says that the Fehmarn Link will help traffic in Copenhagen... which it won't, because people will still be using the same roads within that area.
The part about developers not needing to ask had me go "Ehrm, what?", too. Any sort of big change needs the approval of one or more public entities; even changing the tiles of your roof or moving that part of your sewer piping that connects your house to the closest node needs some paperwork and the OK of one or more entities. And that is in part what makes stuff work.
As someone who lives in Norway and has a similar tax as Danmark, I believe it's worth the higher tax when it comes with more benefits than negatives.
Free detal care until 18, and for me, who was born with certain dental challenges, this alone saved my parents thousand of kronors.
General free health care in case of emergency unless it's cosmetic surgery for beauty purposes, then its from your own pocket.I had a complex wrist fracture couple of years ago and it hasn't costs me much other than a small fee of a couple of hundred kronors but it would have costs me a house and my pride in country like America.
To sum it up, the benefits outweigh the negatives by far, and if offering 30-35% of my monthly salary for it to keep it like that, then it's worth it.
And Don't forget 25% VAT
@@Jk-qx7gmThere are many other benefits and nobody pays 50% income tax lol
@@Jk-qx7gmOnly if You're a high income earner and don’t have large student debts
@@Jk-qx7gmIf You're high income earner then USA is slightly better than Denmark but not by much
@Jk-qx7gm the U.S is still the highest spender on healthcare per capita by a lot. So, it seems that your private healthcare system is just ripping you guys off, not sure that's ideal or efficient... just drives poorer people into even more poverty
The transitions at 10:30 were insane - good job there in the animation process. I love watching videos where I can see that a lot of effort went into them ❤️
it wasn't obf...
i'm pretty sure that's made by the metro, probably from an informational video or something
I visited Copenhagen from the US back in October. I really enjoyed just how easy it was to get around the city. It was a great trip!
As an american, countries like denmark 🇩🇰 are one of the three countries that's been on my radar to go live in
@@andrewreynolds912 as an added bonus, every Dane I spoke with had better English than many Americans I know.
@@jewishjedi well somewhat I mean their English is a second language and they have one of the highest speaking language populations in Europe and also american isn't always bad but illiteracy has been getting worse so I could believe that but my English is good enough anyways despite me being a gen z who's also a nerd
@@jewishjedi they still perfer their native language
@@jewishjediwe learn english in the school here, we almost focus more on english than danish
An incredible video as always, and I'm glad to hear you do a video on your home country and city! I'm deeply jealous of the simplicity and digitization of your government and wish the same could be done here in America. Again, no place is perfect - but I feel Denmark is one of the best role models around.
Our government is supporting a genocide 😢 An immoral role model
As a Dane it stings a bit to say it but the Swedes deserve a lot of credit for getting Femern going, it wasn't really our idea nor ze Germans (doesn't bother me at all that many are using the German spelling for a Scandinavian financed and conceived project that Germany is merely upgrading their own network to accommodate/connect to). Gonna be handy now they found Rare Earths in Sweden too.
If I am not mistaken Sweden footed most of the bill for the Oresund bridge so Denmark could build the Femern tunnel
@@dan-bz7dz Is the Øresund Bridge Danish or Swedish?
Øresundsbro Konsortiet is a Danish-Swedish company, which is owned equally by the Danish and Swedish states. The Øresund Bridge Konsortiet owns and operates the Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden.
Well since you can say something nice about us ill say something nice about you, you did good when it comes to the e.u, refusing to implement laws that others make was smart.
And yet the Swedish government is currently refusing to allocate resources to improve road and rail infrastructure in Skåne, meaning there's gonna be a massive bottleneck here once the Fehmarn connection is completed.
@@zzzaeYeah, sadly the Swedish government is quite Stockholm centric.
Hi great video
Just watch it with my boyfriend.
As a Dane I enjoyed it a lot and actually learned a lot.
But I come from Lemvig in the West Coast. And I would like to see a similar video talking about the infrastructure in the rest of Denmark.
This video is very focused on CPH. And the West Coast of Denmark is very different.
Also would be great if you include what the impacts of the new tunnel would be on Jylland.
As a Jyde I felt left out 😂😂 Again great video! Keep up the good work!
De skide københavnere tror bare, alt handler om dem😂
What infrastructure in the rest of Denmark? The metro? The s-trains? Bike only lanes? four to six lane motorways? Busses every 10 mins? lol
don't forget the single most efficient piece of infrastructure in the whole country: letbanen! ;-)@@DanishCamp
i live in a city in southern italy that has been moving towards public transport and bike infrastructure(we got 2 new metro lines, 4 tram lines, and various km of bike lanes) im really hoping we dont stop whit this expansion.
it may look like nothing but my city has always been poor and neglected by the government so even those small steps mean alot to us and have improved our everyday life
Italians are digging and building Metro in Copenhagen.
@@user-pt1ow8hx5l oh yeah! we know 1 or 2 things whit building tunnels mainly thanks to the rough terrains and many archeological excavations we have to work around🤣
Hopefully your city will keep on improving. Most of Denmark is also neglected by the government here in Denmark. Public transport only works in Copenhagen og Aarhus.
We bough the metro trains from Italy.
@@anotherelvisoh really? good to know
As a Danish person, I'm quite happy with the higher taxes. I get health care and such for far, far less than I could ever get in another country.
Plus public transit here in Aarhus is pretty great too, so I have nothing to complain about.
In india with far lower taxes we get free healthcare with free medicines or for very cheap
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 in Brazil too but not the same quality by demark
I bet you're too young to have ever paid taxes. The rate is too high and billions is wasted on bureaucracy and the insanity of the public sector.
and what else do you get for those taxes? It is worth noting that "and such" (as written by ocfos88) actually covers quite a bit here
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 yeah but india is trash
i like rejsekort in the physical form. just so i dont have to warry about my phone running out of juice tho i cant wait for DSB and Rejsekort to come out digitaly this year
Secret to success: educate your population, unionize your workers, vote for non-corrupt politicians and take care of the weakest and poorest of your people.
What not to do: Concentrate wealth at the top, educate only the inbred rich kids, ignore workers’ rights and wage war on the poorest and weakest in your society.
We’ve tried both in Denmark… so glad I’m here now and not 150years ago.
Good analysis - the UK has maintained the latter approach for so long now that it has become a client state of the USA.
@@Jk-qx7gm 100%
@@Jk-qx7gm "No, secret to success is to be small country in western europe." Actually no. Being a small country with few natural resources are usually the road to poverty and economic ruin. Only by utilizing your brain-trust to the fullest by education and managing your economy and in general working together can such a country prosper. And Denmark have managed to do just that for more than 150 years.
Denmark owes much of it's success to one person, N.F.S. Grundtvig, who saw this back in 1800s. His work for public education began in the 1830's and culminated in his first school for the public in 1844. Learning for life became a mantra for him and the Danes and encompassed everything from learning about democracy, history, reading, writing and more for even the lowest classes in society. This together with social democracy in a capitalistic society build the Danish society we know today. All this despite Denmark having few natural resource to build that society.
It's easy to become rich when you can just dig your wealth out of the ground but another thing to build it by using your brains for generations without fail.
Nope, be a homogeneous tiny microscopic country in Western Europe and don’t allow any poor immigrants in, free yourself from the high cost of defending yourself by relying in the military power of others. You can use those billions of dollars to build bridges and other cool shit.
@@JK-vc7ieseems like someone is coping hard 😂😂
Its sad to see someone be this jealous.
Technically ''Storebælt'' have already been paid off, but the Danish state have been using the income from the bridge to finance other infrastructure projects..
Which is not really bad - as those who use the network pay for it. It would be a problem if the government would use the money to inflate itself or by votes through welfare programs while letting the infrastructure to rot as it is the case here in Germany
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skolegården er på lock ja man kalde det en kæmpe block
Do Danes like Mexicans? I’m from Mexico 🇲🇽 & want to visit Denmark 🇩🇰 will the locals there welcome me or no? :)
@@Salvatoreluciano.Vi elsker alle som ikke er opps
@@dude6333 translation please :)
@@Salvatoreluciano.We love everybody but the opps
A little correction, the bridge "Store Bælt" has already been paid off, but you still has to pay to traverse, to insure maintenance and bring a lot of money to "statskassen" which partly goes to healthcare and such
Your danish is very good, it's so refreshing to hear good danish in a video about Denmark.
Dette var et meget interessant videoer! Som et Kanadiensk at vil gerne flytte til Danmark efter jeg blev forelsket med den lande på et ferie i Oktober af 2022, det var dejlig til at høre et dansker mening om infrastructuret jeg var så imponderet over. Til at høre planerne til fremtid for lande bare laver mig flytte hurtigere.
Ahh... "Vognmandsruten". The ferry us "poor" people would travel on back in the day, before the Great Belt was bridged.
That was also when the motorway from Copenhagen terminated in Ringsted and you would travel the main country road to Korsør. Visiting the family in Jutland just just took way longer back then.
Everything is getting bridged these days. Femern next.
Maybe we will get another bridge between "Sjællands Odde" on the island of Zealand and "Ebeltoft" on the "nose tip" of Jutland?
Someone has also come up with the crazy idea of connecting "Grenen" the northern tip of northern Jutland with Sweden.
I think we already had plans to connect Odden through Samsø, into Midtjylland somewhere with a bridge. Honestly, I'd quite love to see it.
@@ocfos88 It would connect from Hou to Asnæs or Røsnæs near Kalundborg, not Sjællands Odde.
The way you pronounced Fyn and Sjælland was flawless. Had to pause and tell you that. Waow.
Yay a video about my favorite country atm
The great bridge was a lot more expensive than 950 million dollars. It was 3 billion USD back in 1988. Also, while it is technically still being paid off, the reason is that the government still collects money from it to use on different projects (1.3 billion USD have been used on other projects).
And maintenance
Such a great channel.....unique!!! Love from the Netherlands....also insanely well designed😀!!
I think im going to keep my self in scandinavian related topic comment sections. This is the nicest and most polite comment section i have seen in a long time 🤣
s-busses usually isnt from the cityceter to the suburbs, most of them dont go to the center, they go perpendicular around it in rings connecting the 5 finger of the finger plan
I am from Denmark and I love the country. Sometimes I wish my mother had brought me to the US, buy that was 65 years ago when US was magical…..now, not so much. I miss Denmark
Jeg elsker også Danmark! ❤️ 🇩🇰 🇩🇰 🇩🇰
It's really nice to see a person who actually comprehends how good his country is, usually you see people always complaining.
Denmark is the absolute TOP TIER country on a world scale, and this is a very very exclusive club, I am specifically referring to living standards of ordinary people, NOT GDP, military or some high tech (supposedly rich) dystopian country like South Korea for example.
thats true, but there are problems, like in every other country.
Yes, up there along with its Nordic cousins, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
@@olliegreen3446yeah, but it is better than most other countries, it is as good as it can possibly get.
@@gytan2221 yup, defo true, happy to be a dane, the monarchy is my personal favourite in this country. the most liberal monarchy haha.
@@olliegreen3446 Queen of Denmark is abdicating
A few mistakes in this video.
- Storebæltsbroen is 16.7 km not 6.7 km
- Storebæltsbroen technically has earned back the construction cost - however maintenance is a thing, it is a good business, and people haven't rioted yet, so the cost is still high to cross.
- The femern belt connection is a tunnel, not a bridge
- Denmark doesn't have a shortage of farmland. 59% of the country is arable land, next-highest in the world, second only to Bangladesh
Storebæltbroen is in negative earnings, as the government is taking loans to cover up expenses
I think he means that the suspension bridge part is around 6.7-6.8 km long
Just a little note 😊 S busses are “station busses” and have there routes along the train routes we also have E busses and those are local busses (most for older people) that go past swim halls city offices libraries and other local centres ❤
Why is Portugal on the Spain's map? i demand an explanation, Caralho
Interesting take. On the other hand, if one looks just at Sjælland, the network is very "Purchasing Harbour"-centric. Kalundborg (for example) where the evil empire produce all that insulin, has to depend on its port, as the commune still hasn't built the motorway to Holbæk despite Novo Nordisk shelling out billions in tax. The single rail track still isn't electrified, the road to Slagelse (and onwards to Falster) is extremely slow (even when you get past the multitude of pensioners driving at 60 km/h) and most of the country roads are appalling (flooded, pot-holed, too narrow for the traffic). So yeah, there is some fantastic infrastructure in DK, and it maybe it's individual communes that are responsible for their network, but there's still plenty to improve on. ;)
Life has changed. Back in the early 2000's I took a ferry from Malmö to Copenhagen when the bridge was not yet open. ( I was travelling by bicycle so I don't think that even today I could take the bridge sinne it's most likely for motor vehicles only. )
A few years after that, also by travelling by bicycle, I took the ferry from Rødbyhavn to Puttgarden. Soon it can be crossed by car, but Stiller you have to take a ferry if you travel by bike.
I will say, that as a Dane, who's brother oftenly takes long train rides, the trains rarely are on time. We have experienced 2 times over the past year, that the train has been over 2 hours delayed. As a person who takes train and bus every day to get to and from school, i totally agree that the S-trains, the busses and the metro work together seamlessly tho.
arriva trains are a pain in the ass to be honest sometimes they get cancelled for no apparent reason (not talking about the snowstorms, obviously)
This might have something to do with the huge upgrade project going on since 2019 on train tracks & signal system.
Skide god video. Er selv under uddannelse som grafisk video-klipper, og dine videoer har virkelig inspireret.
You mentioned taxes at the end, I think it is important to note that no matter how much tax revenue the US government collects or how much money it spends that it will be wasted and be a net negative to society, mostly used for corruption and enriching the rich further and / or the military industrial complex. This isn't solely military spending, though, it's anything they do. It's incredibly rare for a government to actually reinvest any of the money it collects in a way that benefits 90% of society instead of the elite.
Sounds like a third-world scenario, but some of what you're describing does apply, perhaps to a lesser extent, here in the UK. Hence the zillion-dollar (pound disaster that is HS2 (High Speed 2) project
@@daffyduk77 yeah, it is substantially worse in every country outside of nordic countries. Those countries are unique and special in their level of corruption. The best US example is healthcare, the US government spends 2-3x the amount of the next country per person and doesn't even manage basic treatment because it is all going to kickbacks to the rich, a capitalist system would cost 5x less and have the same results. The outcome of what the government does in any country largely just depends on how crooked it is, the US is immensely crooked and the government is just a system to transfer wealth from the working to the rich.
It is a good thing Denmark does not have to provide for their on defense and can live under the umbrella of NATO.
@answerman9933 yet Denmark and the Nordic countries also have more effective militaries than the US relative to their size. Sweden has more effective capitalism. The only place the US is winning out is due to the dollar dominating world trade which is more an accident of circumstance at this point rather than a cultural one. (The US used to be different and dollar hegemony is a remnant)
You can tell the quality of a video, whenever the narrator pronounces the words in Danish absolutely perfect without any accent.
Hahaha 👍
i was literally thinking to myself "damn i wonder hos those maps are made, and the outline animations around the countries and stuff" and then an ad about it comes😭
Comparing London tube stations with Copenhagen metro+S-train stations is misleading. Mainly because London also has the Overground, DLR and the south-of-the-Thames network of rail stations that act as de facto S-trains. Also, the stations you listed for Copenhagen seem to be network totals, and much of the network is outside the city proper, particularly for the S-trains.
Definitely Netherlands and denmark looks similar in many aspects.
The bridge over “store bælt” was payed back twice as fast as expected, and we still pay a large ammount to use it. Of cause it still cost to keep it in mint condition. But the initial cost was payed back several years ago.
Perfekt video. Tak ❤
There's a lot the UK could learn & apply from other countries, like Denmark (I'm half-Danish, btw) but you can't really compare the task faced by London Transport (LT, or TFL), for instance, with that of København's local transport operators. It's just on a different scale, upgrading/revamping existing infrastructure poses huge cost & organisational problems.
well you have relatively similar ppp and gdp p capita in uk?
I agree with your first point, but I understood Copenhagen has only built its metro system in the last 20 years. Outside London, we have very few metros. There must be 10-12 cities as big as - if not larger than - Copenhagen without one. We had a little spree building trams in the 90s, but then gave up!
@@SteaksOnSpear Not really. Denmark is about 74,000 dollars per capita where the United Kingdom is 55,000. That's actually a huge difference. Denmark is one of the countries who also benefit most from their GDP because of the high corporate taxes. For example Irelands GDP is massively inflated by companies located there paying nearly zero taxes. Meaning the government doesn't actually see any benefit form the high GDP. Therefore Denmark is actually even richer than their GDP sugests.
Tokyo's metro + cross country bullet trains systems are incredible. An even bigger and more complex task than that of the UK. Probably the most complex yet incredibly well executed system I know of - and have experienced first hand.
AFAIK, London is often one giant gridlock.
In regards to the your comment that the Fehmarn belt fixed link. You said at 3:54 and 4:08. Due to the location of the Fehmarn belt fixed link, the trains will use the existing railway infrastructure between Ringsted and Malmö in Denmark and Sweden and since Copenhagen (København) is along this part of the route, the connection will offer as much a bypass to Copenhagen as the existing railway via Fyn and Jutland (Jylland). The same can also be said about the road connection where it's the same between Køge and Sweden which include the Øresund bridge and the Helsingborg - Helsingør ferry.
It's however a completely different question whether most of the passenger trains will stop in at least one station in Copenhagen or not. This decision that is made by the railway operators based on the commercial prospects of a stop in a case by case basis.
Experience with Copenhagen metro is full pleasure, very intuitive, fast, there is no bad thing I can say about it.
lovely video Copenhagen is my favourite big city that I have visited. Large amounts of people always annoy the shit out of me and Copenhagen is the on that stresses me the least. Less crowding than any big city that I have been to and its also stunning. It don't give me the cement jungle feels. Winters not to rough either (live in Uppsala slightly north of Stockholm). Denmark also has great food culture, better than Sweden I would say. Was born in Denmark and have some family there so I visit often.
It's funny since a lot of danes not from Copenhagen becomes stressed from visiting it.
Did you mean to show your address @ 15:14? 🤫
Lol, good you wrote the comment in the video, although why not just edit the narration.
I would have loved to try the first supersonic train.
As a Dane... The bridge is already paid off, but the government doesn't want to lower prices cause who will pay their fat salary if it doesn't get funded by the people, so the prices are just insane and doesn't match maintenance reasons
It is not paid it. It could have been, but it is not.
They keep increasing the loan to pay for other infrastructure projects.
The continuation of the payments for Storebælt bridge is partly due to the fact that the owner Sund & Bælt is required to provide yet another possibility of crossing Storebælt, that is ferry. So it is more or less the cost of the ferry that sets the price on crossing by Storebælt bridge.
A very well-managed nation.
Most of the Scandinavian countries are a role model of sustainable and equitable development with a first-rate record of ecological protection meeting SDG criteria.
In Serbia we unfortunately do not have any high speed railways and tunnels, nor do we have a large scale metro system in the capital. I think that this immensely hinders the country from prospering. We are very comparable to Denmark in area, population and size of the capital city. Conclusion. When you dont put your priorities straight, you end up with lagging behind other countries for decades..
Bingo, couldn't have said it better.
I only realized you were Danish when you said "fyn" and "Sjæland" at 2:18 (or at the very least have perfect pronunciation of those two words)
From one Dane to another, great video
Great video
I've only been to Denmark once in 2019 but my mum's side of the family is Danish. her father for many years managed a team of road builders (idk what exactly to call them). one road his team built is a major road in Denmark (I don't know the name sorry!) and this may not be true now but in 2019 it had never needed to be repaired once! He just turned 80 and hasn't been building roads for a long time so I find it incredibly impressive. when he last visited us in Australia in 2015 and every time before, he would always complain about the quality of the roads here 😂
Depends on "repaired" vs "maintained". One of the ways we make sure roads don't have to be dug up and have the bedding redone is by scraping the top layer of asphalt off, once it has had a certain number of cracks repaired, and re-apply the whole thing. They use machines with big gas flames to melt the top layer, and then "claw" it up. It then gets mixed with fresh bitumen and aggregate before it's rolled back on. This makes sure moisture (and hence frost expansion) doesn't ruin the bedding, which is what ultimately kills roads. For this reason we go the extra mile and do the bedding really really well. So establishing a new stretch of road is quite expensive in Denmark, but mending and maintaining roads is relatively cheap afterwards.
The roads here in Denmark is build to last 12 years before they need to be serviced,but yes we have nice roads for cars and for bikes
It would’ve been cool if you showed where the bridges are or are being built. You said some danish names of where they are but me as a non-Dane have no clue where that is, a map picture would’ve been cool:)
I saw lots of maps and zoom-in sequences indicating where everything was. Great presentation.
If you wanna go look at a map right now:
2:07 Storebæltsbroen or (Great Belt bridge) connects the islands of Zealand and Funen from Nyborg to Korsør. Funen is the island in the middle of Denmark, Zealand is the big one to the east.
2:52 Øresundsforbindelsen connects Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden with a tunnel on the Danish side and a bridge on the Swedish side. A manmade island "Peberholm" connects the two parts.
3:21 Femern Bælt Tunnelen (Fehmarn Belt fixed link) will connect Rødbyhavn, Lolland, Denmark with Puttgarten, Fehmarn, Germany. OBF mistakenly called it a bridge a couple of times, but it's actually a tunnel.
12:50 Storstrømsbroen will connect Masnedø (Zealand) and Falster in the southeastern part of Denmark.
Tak for endnu en god video. Jeg tænkte på om du på et tidspunkt også kommer til Nebula? Der er større udbetaling til den enkelte creator og platformen støtter også større projekter (Originals)
Well presented video. I would argue that the principles described in the video aren't all-encompassing for constructions in Denmark. The best example of the opposite is probably the land reclamation project of Lynetteholm. The plans for this peninsula should really be scrutinized a lot more, from the perspective of democracy, necessity, ecology, sustainability, use of space and the compliance with the Esbo-convention... Dig just outside of your Copenhagen residence and make a video about how Lynetteholm stands by the principles you've mentioned here. That would make for an interesting video.
Great video, as a Dane I must say that I agree, and yes the price tag is absolutely worth it💫
As a Dane i still love hearing random Danish words and names in our pronunciation in an otherwise English video, cause it always stands out as the total gibberish that Danish truly is compared to other languages xD
Edit: since moving to the Netherlands, I really do like that we can use regular debit/credit cards just like we would the rejsekort, I usually just use the card I have connected to my phone's NFC
If you think Danish sounds weird to us native English speakers, perhaps you haven't heard the expression 'double Dutch'!
Da han sagde Sjælland , der lød han fuldstændig dansk ,tror faktisk han er dansker
I love that its a dane who is Talking Great about his own country. I am Also from Denmark and i Can say that you are missing some very Big mistakes that we also have with our roads. But i Can stil say that you are right about Many things.
The way your able to switch from danish to english with a perfect accent in both amazes me
Even if Denmark isn’t perfect, I’d say it’s about as close as it gets. I’m a Brit living in the UK and things are pretty messed up here. I’d happily pay higher tax to get the quality of life Denmark has.
Be aware that no downsides have been mentioned and that you wouldnt be happy with paying half your paycheck for half decent services.
@@alfredl.b.6631 Be aware that every nation has challenges. I am quite satisfied with living in Denmark and have no problems paying 35-40% in tax. It is my experience that I (we) get a lot for the money. But if you cannot see or, for that matter, understand the benefits, you are naturally dissatisfied. For some people, nothing works and my money is mine, even if the conditions on which it is earned are created by the society in which it is earned.
In France we pay huge taxes to get our country invaded and hospitals not working
One of the big reasons why Scandinavia can do this but other countries can't is because of this. Denmark population: 5 million, Norway population: 5 million, Sweden population: 10 million. So basically the UK has triple the population of the whole of Scandinavia, that should tell you why it's pretty messed up in the UK
@@ItsOctoberr I have yet to see an argument for the size of a country having an effect on how a country organizes itself. Maybe you can deliver one? Saying so is just not an argument.
This is why some Dutch people like me simply love Denmark.
4:03 you keep calling it a bridge… but it’s clearly a tunnel project hahaha
Good to see more countries following in the footsteps of Singapore
You can be sure Denmark does not look at Singapore for inspiration.
Great video. But the audio is very muffled, making it difficult to hear.
I find the design and organization of small countries like Denmark to be interesting case studies but for some reason the solutions they use never scale to large countries. Whether it's China, Germany, the US, India or Russia there is this inherent chaotic nature to those places, brought about solely by their size. I come from one such place and when i visited Denmark i found its efficiency somewhat oppressive. This is a matter of getting used to but i suppose it also works the other way around as well, with people coming from these small efficient places being struck by how unorganized a big country can be.
I think part of it is as he said - Denmark “got lucky” when WW2 blew it all up and got to design it all over and do it logically, with purpose and made for its time and actual current use. But naturally occurring infrastructure is just kind of sprawling and random. Made in its time and for convenience, not for logic or long term use. Like at unis where someone laid stone paths, but people just create their own lanes in the grass, where it’s easiest and flows in the moment. Delhi is a great example of an absolutely wild city, that seems like total chaos when you’re a stranger, but if you know it, you know it has just as much precision and purpose, that it’s a strange, intricate, beautiful system that undeniably works. And yet if someone was building the city from scratch, there’s no way it would look the way it does. Denmark enjoys one of the perks of having this specific kind of very centralized government that made plans made for the future, was willing to make huge investments and having had a succession of leaders that stuck to the plan.
I do think it could work in bigger places, but you have to do some off it from scratch. Which would mean you’d have to raze/bomb the shit out of what’s already there. Which I don’t think anyone wants. Delhi is a marvel as it is. But other parts of India would probably be served well with better interconnected roads.
Wonder where all of this wonderful planning went when they where building Letbanen.
love the video and great pronunciation (im from denmark)
No... Denmark has *1.2 times* as much road/capita than the EU, not *12 times* as much, and that is perfectly in line with other low-mid density countries. Some common sense goes a long way.
And what's this "WW2 devastation" you're talking about? Weren't literally like 2 buildings destroyed for the entirety of the war?
I wouldn't mind paying higher taxes if the money is spent properly by the government.
A population that can make up such a government wouldn't need a government.
But it does.
If the majority of people vote for such a government, many individuals still need to be controlled and monitored so they don't cause any problems to the rest of society. Anarchy is cool but not really achievable with so many idiots everywhere. @@smorrow
You forgot to mention the rail electrification project.
2:40 - Storebæltsbroen is still being paid off, however that's because the danish government has been using the bridge toll to finance construction of other infrastructure projects. It has paid for itself over one and a half times at this point, but the loan is expected to be repaid in 2034 :)
3:20 Femern belt bridge?
The online network and access of online public services in Denmark, is also the same in Norway and very familiar to the Danish online network. So Denmark isn’t alone, when it comes to the online network, access to public services and much more. So Norway and Denmark have the wide online network that gives every citizen accesses to the public services tools, online assets for business creation and much more.
When it comes to taxes on annual income, the Norwegian 🇳🇴tax level for annual income is around 34% or lower. So it’s nearly identical to the Danish 🇩🇰taxation level and like you said in the video, it’s 10% higher tax level than the other OECD average. So Norway and Denmark shares very much allot of similarities, when comes to development, systematisations and value creation.
They always says this: it’s good to be a Norwegian in Denmark. And also: it’s good to be a Dane in Norway. 😆 Det er deilig å være norsk i Danmark. 🇳🇴Det er dælig at være dansk i Norge! 🇩🇰
I live in Langhus, which is around 20 km away from the Norwegian capital Oslo. But access to buss and train is always there for me to access and available at all time.👍🏾
This guy's pronunciation of Danish islands is straight on point. Well done my dude.
Oh is he actually Danish?
Hey, jeg ved ikke hvor jeg ellers skal kontakte dig, har også skrevet på youtube. Men jeg er igang med et skoleprojekt om nogle geopolitiske grænser hvor jeg skal lave en kort dokumentar, og jeg så at du i videoen sagde du fik et skillshare om maps men den ikke er færdig, ved du hvornår sådan ca at den ville blive uploadet? For jeg arbejder med en rimelig hård deadline, så jeg ville ikke afhænge af den hvis først der går flere uger :D Fortsat god dag
While living all my life in Lithuania, I always thought of the digitalisation of government services as the normal thing governments do. Yet here I am realizing that my small county with 2.5 million people is more digitally advanced than Denmark, we are using apps for parking, buses, and cards for YEARS now as this point.
We too have been using apps for many years, its just the Rejsekort that has been outdated since it was introduced. But you can buy tickets and stuff on apps all over the country, and the same with parking if you are traveling by car.
There’s apps for parking, buses and cards in Denmark too
We got it in sweden too, think its the norm in northern europe or atleast around the baltic sea
tbf even in Portugal we got apps for that. Idk doesnt seem that impressive
I think even third world South Africa has all that lol
0:30 do the math Oliver!
12630/1100 is less than 11.5.
So it is not over 12 times.
This video should have been called "Why Copenhagen Is Insanely Well Designed". 99% of the video is not about Denmark but Copenhagen.
1)
The Great Belt Bridge has been payed off, however they took on additional debt. Toll income is now being put aside for maintenance, further projects (Fehmern) and paying off other projects (The Sound Bridge and tunnel).
The public companies running the two established bridges were merged early on as it looked like the Sound Bridge was an utter economic disaster and they needed some way to pay for it hence the income from the Great Belt Bridge was used, and now that Fehmern is pushing ahead the income from both bridges is being funneled in to that to keep the tax coffers out of it as much as possible.
2)
The Fehmern project is NOT a bridge. A bridge goes over an obstacle whereas the Fehmern project is going under the obstacle hence it is called a tunnel.
Yo yo yo, that is NOT a map of Spain, Portugal is there, be careful with the fallacy, what you say is Spain is the Iberian Peninsula, which has Spain, Portugal and even Andorra...
It's that it's a small and flat country, and small ones are easier to build roads in compared to large countries like the USA, Canada, or Australia.
biggest problem building roads here in Australia is the way the governments fund them, 1 kilometer at a time
That’s why New Jersey exist.
The new bridge by Frederikssund is a toll bridge as well, just for info.
4:05 The Fehmarn belt link will *NOT* affect congestion in Copenhagen at all. Traffic from Malmö will use the exact same route as before.
Bruuh stop hating on the Uk
Talking about objective statistics isn't hating
Copenhagen is far from utopia. It is fugly expensive.
Denmark has really reached near-pinnacle of the society tech tree.
and now we are dropping real fast with the amount of southern immigrants that come in.
Are you danish? your danish pronunciation is spot on
Denmark has one of the lowest immigrant populations in Western Europe, so there's fewer of them to ruin the system. The European countries with the highest immigrant populations are all suffering the worst. No coincidence, statistics don't lie.
Cut your xenophobic Bulls*it.
Denmark is in 21th place in the OECD in terms of the share of immigrants in its population, with the foreign-born accounting for 8% of the population.
Plenty of not-etnic Danes in Denmark, and most of them are second generation and therefore not included in the 8%.
Give the Danes credit for knowing how to properly govern a country, compared to most of Europe, especially Eastern-Europe who ironically have very few immigrants...
@@Exxperiment626well said 👑 king hat on
European not mention how much they hate Muslims challenge (impossible)
Do near maga in the background. Actually no that’s a storm front chant instead.
In the UK, w/o immigrants, the London Transport system wouldn't run (staffing). NHS & care sectors would be critically short as well. Works both ways
So DSB ended up having huge problems in the start of the 2000's with many delays etc. and we're basically back at it again, these last 4-6 years, lmao. Almost every train i've taken the last month has been delayed by at least 10 minutes
very impressed 👍
We live in a stable country, where SO many things are free and working well.... yes it's definitely worth the price.
Fake information btw, The UK Actually owns Majority of its railways 🚃