Do NOT forget that this was filmed on probably the hottest and sunniest day of the year... I live in Belgium and I can assure you that at least 70% of the year, the weather is way rainier, more humid, cloudier, and WAY colder than when it was filmed here in this footage...
Such clean streets, such smooth roads, even the tiles are normal, and without waves, no advertising from all sides, no loud music from cafes, the decoration of buildings in one color palette and architecture does not jump according to styles, bike paths are simply heavenly for cyclists and they EXIST. .. It looks like a parallel paradise universe ... Hello from Russia, from a city of 1.25 million people ..
There is some people that do throw their trash on the streets. :( And some advertisement, but mostly kept in check. There is cyclist roads across the country! I never been to Russia yet, but I do hope they make some cyclist area's if they have none yet! :D Its easy and healthy
Nuts, you got us. We were hoping to fool you. Amsterdam doesn't really exist as it's an invention of socialist/commie/car-hater propaganda. Don't tell the others here.
Great video. As a cyclist in Chicago USA, I am struck by the complete lack of car horns and homeless people. The general level of civility between pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists is remarkable.
@@davidturner4076 Those figures are slightly misleading because the last time these were counted, the Netherlands was undergoing the effects of the migrant crisis...which influx caused a temporary peak. Now, for the rest ...most homeless people here in the Netherlands are so because they either wish to, or are illegals. Each registered homeless person has the right to benefits, not extremely much, but to enable a decent living. They might very well spend it on the wrong things, but they could also power their way into a new life. Most important note, the majority of them are being looked after, they're able to ask for help, or get out of a bad system if they wanted. I understand that this might seem a bit too utopian, and many wont succeed or find the help...but there at least is a decent system giving them a chance.
@@Snaakie83 homeless are homeless for a reason, and illegals are still people. I understand your point however, there isn't much more that the Netherlands could do to lower the numbers, specially with the extremelly unnafordable housing that we see there today. Have a nice day.
I've lived in Amsterdam all my life and I've cycled on every single street shown in this video. You cycled past my house, the house I was born in, a couple of friends houses, a girlfriends house, a couple of stores I worked at, close to a couple of schools and a college I went to. The first 5 minutes of the video are part of my daily commute to work now. Get out of my head! =D
Okay, wrong choice of words. I have been to Amsterdam twice, once with my bicycle and before the pandemic. It’s a biking paradise there! Every large city is expensive to live, but there is a reason why people stay there. I see my reason if I could.
Amazing to read all the foreign reactions. To us, Dutchies, the view and way of transportation isn't that awesome. It's just the way it is in the whole of the country. Not just in Amsterdam. I like how you guys feel safe, talk about how clean the air has to be and how good you feel about cycling infratstuctures. Gives me a reason to realize how lucky we are. I myself ride around 9k kms a year to and from work and during touring rides. Now with Covid I have to work at home and the 45 kms a day I miss now make me feel unfit and a couple of kg heavier. This video is my wake up call to jump on one of my bikes more often again.
Y'all sure are Lucky I'm African and hate to see that were following the path America did , Constructing cities around cars instead of around people like Amsterdam
So true, the oy thing I miss from the 'office' is the cycling to work! When you live in the Netherlands you develop a strange 'syndrome' you become really lazy to walk 😂...so you end up cycling everywhere.
Yes, count your blessings. I used to ride about 50km/day to and from work here in Sydney but that involved sharing peak hour traffic in the left lane, being on a narrow cycleway on a freeway, lots of crossings and a lot of ignorant drivers. That was about 20 years ago. Hopefully things are better now, but in no way are they like Amsterdam! Cheers - Dave
@@CedricCaffa you are right . In my country lots of people with bicycle die on the road every month so if bicycle is a way of transportation in there it is enough for us 😂
@@CedricCaffa this was my exact thoughts, I'm not a walking lover or a bike lover, I do it as I want safer, cleaner streets in England. I really dont like cycling, it's just we cant keep putting cars on roads. My housing estate is jam packed full of cars and now the pavements and grass verges are getting blocked too.
Imagine if every bike had been a car, how much space they would take on the roads, in that beautiful multi-story bike park, how much noise and air pollution!
Nce for if you need to be within Amsterdam or directly around, but going to Maasticht by bike, you need a car (train takes forever and doesnt take me where I need to be)
@@jopieavier7825 So google maps states that from Amsterdam to Maastricht is 2hr 9min by car (outside of rush hour) and 2hr 18min by train. The car is nice if you need to get at some obscure location on the outskirts of the city, the train is nicer during rush hours, because you can easily add another hour to the journey if you'd go by car during rush hour. [edit] oh and you can probably take your bike with you on both types of transport, though slightly easier on the train i guess (depending on car size)
@@Vegadmir You are forgetting the travel time to the trainstation and from the trainstation, either by Ov-fiets/bike or bus/metro/tram. But, a direct train from my city to maastricht is between 3 and half hours and 4 and 14 minutes. By car 2 hours and 46 minutes. A return ticket would cost me about 54 euro's. So with 2 adults, that would be 108 euro's. My kids, thats almost 200 euro's, and then I need to arrange for bikes or bus. Yea, sorry, the car is much easier, faster and cheaper. And yes, we do have special offers for 19 euro's but 4 people still more expensive to take the train. Sorry.
I've only been watching videos about the Netherlands for a day. But as a person living in the U.S., especially in California, where cost of living is so high, and road conditions are horrible--yet cars are the only way to travel anywhere--I really want to learn Dutch and move there.
@@ryn2844 Maybe in Amsterdam but the other cities are mandatory in dutch and if people are living here for years they need to do effort to speak the language
One of the best experiences in my life. My love for biking and a chance at least to visit the City of my dream❤️❤️❤️ Netherlands I Love you so much!! ❤️ Frm: Philippines.
Building standalone bike lanes is not enough to encourage biking culture. Disincentivizing car rides, making last-mile commute from public transport via bikes easier and making the biking experience safer and more relaxing is what the Dutch have mastered since the 70's. This is a wake-up call to cities worldwide!
Roads in general are build as weird as it sounds in a way to bully cars. There is tiny gentle speed bumps and llittle curves back and forth in roads just so people keep their speed at the speed limit and thus keep the people around the cars safer!. Easy and comfy to navigate at lower speeds... a hell at higher speeds. :p (obviously highways don't work that way)
Not a wake up call. Since this is just part of a global political agenda long in the making. Look into the UN sustainable development goals as it pertains to cycling. The Dutch were likely chosen as a social experiment test group for the fact that they have always been 'bicycle friendly' and live in a very flat country. It works. Everybody loves it. So don't worry, It's coming to your town soon, alongside a long list of less popular environmental rules and radical changes to our lifestyle
@@SustainableEnslavementAgenda the Dutch cycling movement started in the 70s as a coalition between historical preservationists who didn't want to see old neighborhoods torn down to build highways and parents who were concerned by increasing numbers of children being struck and killed by cars. They campaigned for safer streets and beautiful neighborhoods. Plus, building enough car infrastructure for everyone to drive would have been MORE expensive than making bike paths and encouraging cycling. It doesn't take a global conspiracy for people to decide on the cheaper, safer, quieter, and less disruptive option. The movement coalesced under the slogan "Stop der kinder mort", or: "Stop murdering children" and Dutch cities are now some of the safest places in the world to ride bikes to school. In the US, we've apparently decided that a certain number of kids regularly dying is fine as long as we get to drive our huge SUVs as fast as possible everywhere. Or at least, the auto industry has been successful in spreading propaganda that makes this seem normal and unchangeable.
There’s a fairly good set of roads and canals in the workshop specifically aimed at recreating Amsterdam. Ijust wish that whenever cs2 comes out, it features a method of creating waterlogged ditches without creating awkward triangle-shaped protrusions.
@@CANTIJustPostacommen I agree with criticism. Don't want to spend time shifting through the workshop looking for all kinds of mods. Certain things should be standard in the game like functional pedestrian streets (not those useless paths), traffic type limiting per street, lane management, etc. Then you'd be able to create a true autoluw, bike and pedestrian friendly city in skylines. Now your always forced to build car accessible roads everywhere. Also, the bicycle gutters in between traffic and parked cars cities skylines uses everywhere are considered unsafe in the Netherlands now and are being phased out as much as possible in favour of seperated bike paths next to the parked cars and tge pedestrian path. So even there skylines is behind the curve. Still skylines is the best city builder I've played in years! Every other builder is crap in comparison! (Cough cough looking at you sim city 2013)
@@jam6636 One grew organically over hundreds of years while the other is a city builder. I would be cool to somehow model-in a city design over hundreds would be excellent. However it would still apply mostly to Western Europe. Most of the world lived on their farms while a good amount of Western Europe lived in cities or towns and traveled out to their farm ever single day. That had a major impact in differences in travel design for every mode of transportation.
A mis 65 años de edad, compruebo que, a pesar de ser mestizo, llevo en mi sangre indígena herencia europea, española, lo que se percibe en este recorrido hace parte de mi propia vida dado que, desde que uso bicicleta (digamos que a partir de 1974) para desplazarme al trabajo, diligencias por los barrios de Bogotá (Colombia), atendiendo mis clientes, visitando amigos, etc., es lo que me identifica y caracteriza; alguna vez usé motocicleta, pero jamás he querido usar automóvil, pues siempre he sido consciente de las ventajas de la bicicleta...... mejor dicho, este recorrido es mi ensoñación plennamente realizada!!! Aquí en Bogotá, y en otras ciudades, se viene implementando este modelo urbanístico con excelentes resultados, desde hace unos 25 años. Muchísimas gracias! Saludos a todos!
True Sir I feel an era in my India when under developed of 60's Truly This video happened to share for me When Pollutions debates is in its peak no humane steps nor any corrective steps taken by all of us suffering in a period of #covid19 effects millions starving job losses Away from all the mess This video I shared to open up every ones mind and heart Will it help? I dont know? Living in Mumbai city India God Bless all Skies are purely clean amazing cost effective healthy life
I love Amsterdam, it's my favourite city on earth. I love the Dutch and their general attitude to life. Fond memories, wishing I was there... sigh. Great place and good video, thanks for sharing.
If cycled this distance in England I'd have been punished passed and have verbal abuse thrown at me... I've given up cycling to work as I'd find myself cycling as fast as I can out of anxiety.... I now just walk, even that's kinda crap as pavements get blocked by cars and I have to cross loads of roads where drivers really dont feel like giving way. This video is so relaxing to watch, we need this...
As a Dutchman who lives in London, there is a difference in attitude between UK and Dutch cyclists. In the UK people tend to see their commute as a workout, so they cycle faster. In NL we would all these race cyclists and you shouldn't cycle like that in cities. I sometimes see cyclists here get angry at pedestrians when they meet on the road the cyclist could have easily just swerved around them without making a bug deal of it. There is a lot more tension ont he road and it would all be better if people could just mentally and Physically chill.
@@ZoetePoep Nope, wrong. The cardriver always shares 50% in liability costs, even though the cyclist can be 100% in the wrong. Only very few cases get to see the cyclist paying in full as evidence will say that what he or she did was so extremely stupid/ignorant/dangerous that the cardriver had no chance to take mentioned behaviour into account.
Cities in America combined with suburbia have become a nightmare of roads that seem to be falling apart because there are so many to maintain .. This video is refreshing...
I adore biking but my country has (trust me) one bike line. Its 1.5 metres wide and runs for 200 m. Thats it. Congested traffic, bumpy roads, heat, pollution, and “cyclist haters”. It makes me so miserable. I properly feel sick from how polluted the air is, and how we only have hard water.
@@alicia-hd2cs me as a Brazilian living in one of the most urban cities but that doesn't have any planing: you guys have a designated lane for anything?
I am seeing a lot is comments of how clean and beautiful the city of Amsterdam is. But something I am missing is how good this video shows just how much safer a city can be if you majorly cut down on car usage. As an example, take 42:05 - 42:17. In this time frame of just over 10 seconds, you can see about 7 people breaking tracking laws (cargo bike coming from the right goes over the yield signage, girls on their bikes cut off some road to shorten their turn, even the person filming the video breaks a law by not yeilding to the pedestrian wanting to cross the crosswalk). However, in this clip, even though so many people TECHNICALLY are breaking (or lets just say bending) the rules a bit, the clip shows: 1. The worst that could've realistically happened from this is two bikes colliding at about 5km/h, this will basically hurt nobody fatally. 2. If the pedestrian kept going and the video filmer hit him at a few km/h, maybe the worst that could happen is: the biker falls and hurts their wrists. Now imagine all those people travelling by car. Not only has it been proven that this will increase commute time in any city above a certain population density, but also: image now, what is realistically the worst that could happen if a car doesnt yield to a pedestrian and the pedestrian goes anyways. What happens if a car doesn't perfectly yeild or doesn't notice the filmer and they collide with 50km/h in 1500kg metal boxes? I have grown up in the Netherlands and know most roads shown in this video. I have also studied abroad and tried to commute by bike basically everywhere I went. Coming back to the Netherlands, I don't care about how pretty it is or how clean. The roads here make me feel safe. I feel safer on a bike in Amsterdam than in a car in basically any other capital city I've been to.
In The Netherlands we have the most and safe cycling trails. It’s the future for big cities like Paris, London and New York City. No cars, only bikes and underground. Healthy for animals and humans and good for the climate. Greetings from The Netherlands and…when you visit us…hire a bike.
Thanks so much! I've never been in Amsterdam although most of my life I lived quite close. Now I'm on the other side of the world, sitting on my exercycle - lovely to be able to get a glimpse. Thanks for leaving the natural noises, too. It adds to the experience. I'll come back to do it again. If I ever travel to Amsterdam in reality I'll feel right at home.
This video was an added pleasure to my indoor bike ride today. lots of interesting sights to see along with thousands of bicycles. Also like the ambient sound.
So beautiful the city is! Many people use bicycles. No doubt pollution level of this city is less. Everything is beautifully planned. Thank you for the video.
Wow this is a dream place for bike riders around the world I ride bike in London and make videos every week but this is fantastic I love to visit there with my bike and make videos
Lot of money spent over the years to keep cyclists safe and segregated from busy roads, was offered to ride a hire bike in London and I firmly said "no way too dangerous". Dutch ppl who know how to cycle and drive understand both sides, the uk ppl who drive are pitted against the cyclists.
I was in Amsterdam one day and ate so much Spacecakes, I were never ever that blazed in my life, but we had bikes, they where awful to steer with thoose wide handlebars but i felt so safe there while i was driving xD love that country and the people there !
Thanks much for this video and the wonderful trip. My brothers and I emigrated to N America from Holland, with our parents, when we were little kids and training cycling with this video gives me such a longing to come back for a visit sometime. N America is still stuck in it's car culture but there is a world wide re-awakening to the beauty, the efficiency and the joy of the bike in all it forms. It's great to be a part of that.
I find it fascinating how close the bikers are when riding. Im surprised there aren't more crashes, but then, if they have been riding all their lives, they know how to navigate the bike lanes. I love the fact that you can see A'dam in this video without having to actually ride a bike and pay attention to that. Fun look at a great city!
Don't forget that what you see is a day during the pandemic. We did not have true lockdowns like other countries had but because a lot of people worked from home, the streets were far less crowded than would normally be the case. The start of the video, behind Amsterdam CS, is usually an ant-hill of all kinds of traffic (well, excluding cars that is) and not at all as quiet as in this video.
There are not many highlights to be seen. The journey starts and ends at the main railway station of Amsterdam. At 30:36 you arrive at the Museumplein with behing it left the Van Gogh museum and the Rijksmuseum. On the right you have the main concerthall a little bit later. The windmill at the end is called De Gooyer.
@@jwslijm7278 I just meant that captions showing street names woiud be a help for anybody who knows Amsterdam. It's nice to know where you're located in the city.
Thx for share great video Amsterdam city🎥🚲👍🏻 its really great nice clean nature place and never seen before sooomany bicycles in my life 🚲🛵🏠 with nice colors houses absolute beautiful 👍🏻❤🙂heel moooi stand👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻♻
Every City in NL has this (or even better) bicycle infrastructure. Also in between cities and villages we have good bicycle infrastructure. I go to work on my bike (12 km): 28 minutes. (By car 25- 45 min)
Your videos are fabulous!! I was in Holland to cycle a few years ago and you’ve touch an emotional nerve with these videos...I have very fond memories of my 5 weeks in Holland...May I make a suggestion?? Pan around to either side with your camera...give us a panoramic view too...keep up the great videos...I can never get enough of them...Great tourist attraction / tour guide...Makes me want to return tomorrow...
Hello Canadian Lady, Put this .... [ Bicycledutch 360 degrees ] in the TH-cam search bar and you'll find a lot of videos on that channel where you can scroll around ( 360° ) and look up 'n down with your mouse, ...... enjoy the vids. Regards from the Netherlands .... 😉
Geinig! Ik hoefde op t eerste stuk m’n hometrainer maar 1 x te ‘ stoppen ‘ andere stoplichten werden op z’n Amsterdams genegeerd😉! Dank voor t uploaden!
As a 94 year old who grew up in A’dam in the 30’s, it was such a treat to relive it again thru your eyes… REUZE BEDANKT! Al hoewel ik dat fietsend geklammerij ok niet leuk vond. ‘
This is so fucking brilliant, it's literally a dream. I wish from the bottom of my heart it was the same in the UK and any other place on earth for that matter.
I can only imagine how cleaner the air is over there too. I wish cities everywhere were like this. no cars unless traveling long distances otherwise get on your bike. Or walk. This is so lovely.
Greetings from southeast Texas. So jealous of the cycling culture you guys have. Here you have to watch out for empty commuter diesel pickup trucks at every turn 😅
I so much liked this one since the route you took passes through my neighbourhood. I even checked if I was by any chance walking around at that time. =) . For anyone who like to experience biking in Amsterdam, please be prepared because it is not calm like this on the video all the time (especially damrak and central areas).
Wow two guys cycling in front of you do much conversation while cycling, they can finish their communications about many important things while ahead to their destination, such a happy city
Watching from a place with little to no bike lane, this is heaven to me
Same feeling here
tell me about it :(
тоже самое
same here, riding in narrow twisted streets filled with cars
Do NOT forget that this was filmed on probably the hottest and sunniest day of the year... I live in Belgium and I can assure you that at least 70% of the year, the weather is way rainier, more humid, cloudier, and WAY colder than when it was filmed here in this footage...
Such clean streets, such smooth roads, even the tiles are normal, and without waves, no advertising from all sides, no loud music from cafes, the decoration of buildings in one color palette and architecture does not jump according to styles, bike paths are simply heavenly for cyclists and they EXIST. ..
It looks like a parallel paradise universe ...
Hello from Russia, from a city of 1.25 million people ..
There is some people that do throw their trash on the streets. :( And some advertisement, but mostly kept in check. There is cyclist roads across the country! I never been to Russia yet, but I do hope they make some cyclist area's if they have none yet! :D Its easy and healthy
I totally agree with you !
less cars on the road means nicer roads for everyone... wish people knew this
@Sigrid Kaag, what do you mean about car driving? :) Interesting to listen about the difference.
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I really like watching these futuristic fictional videos. The special effects are so real and lifelike.
Nuts, you got us. We were hoping to fool you. Amsterdam doesn't really exist as it's an invention of socialist/commie/car-hater propaganda. Don't tell the others here.
Does this mean I am just part of a movie set?! HELLO all the foolks back home!
rather historic because people aren't in lockdown, don't you think?
UE 5 is simply amazing!
waiting for someone to not get the joke
Great video. As a cyclist in Chicago USA, I am struck by the complete lack of car horns and homeless people. The general level of civility between pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists is remarkable.
The homelessness rate is higher in the Netherlands than in America.
@@davidturner4076 Those figures are slightly misleading because the last time these were counted, the Netherlands was undergoing the effects of the migrant crisis...which influx caused a temporary peak.
Now, for the rest ...most homeless people here in the Netherlands are so because they either wish to, or are illegals. Each registered homeless person has the right to benefits, not extremely much, but to enable a decent living. They might very well spend it on the wrong things, but they could also power their way into a new life.
Most important note, the majority of them are being looked after, they're able to ask for help, or get out of a bad system if they wanted.
I understand that this might seem a bit too utopian, and many wont succeed or find the help...but there at least is a decent system giving them a chance.
@@Snaakie83 homeless are homeless for a reason, and illegals are still people. I understand your point however, there isn't much more that the Netherlands could do to lower the numbers, specially with the extremelly unnafordable housing that we see there today. Have a nice day.
I heard 1 car horn in the video...at a pretty girl i think... no aggressive bike riders or car drivers!
There are plenty of homeless in Amsterdam.
I've lived in Amsterdam all my life and I've cycled on every single street shown in this video.
You cycled past my house, the house I was born in, a couple of friends houses, a girlfriends house, a couple of stores I worked at, close to a couple of schools and a college I went to.
The first 5 minutes of the video are part of my daily commute to work now. Get out of my head! =D
Thank you for sharing a little bit of your life with us. Getting a little context for the video, for me, has made it homier. I'll bugger off now. ;)
heaven of urban planning
Architecture ❤️
If you are rich...
@@davidturner4076 i dont think so
@@thismyaccount2379 rents in Amsterdam have skyrocketed in the past few years, now the poor are being pushed farther and farther away from the city.
@@davidturner4076 This video is the standard for all of The Netherlands, not just Amsterdam.
I should have been born Dutch and living in Amsterdam. It’s paradise!
men in amsterdam are all impotent, they ride bikes and it affects its potency
It's not paradise bro, for a a room with 12 m2 you pay 600 euro's minimum. Shit's wayyyyyy overpriced, we have a housing crisis in the Netherlands..
Okay, wrong choice of words. I have been to Amsterdam twice, once with my bicycle and before the pandemic. It’s a biking paradise there! Every large city is expensive to live, but there is a reason why people stay there. I see my reason if I could.
@@it5221 it's really?
@@mauriciom7691 yes
Amazing to read all the foreign reactions. To us, Dutchies, the view and way of transportation isn't that awesome. It's just the way it is in the whole of the country. Not just in Amsterdam. I like how you guys feel safe, talk about how clean the air has to be and how good you feel about cycling infratstuctures. Gives me a reason to realize how lucky we are.
I myself ride around 9k kms a year to and from work and during touring rides. Now with Covid I have to work at home and the 45 kms a day I miss now make me feel unfit and a couple of kg heavier. This video is my wake up call to jump on one of my bikes more often again.
Y'all sure are Lucky
I'm African and hate to see that were following the path America did , Constructing cities around cars instead of around people like Amsterdam
@@gidd that's why Taliban don't want Americans lol
So true, the oy thing I miss from the 'office' is the cycling to work! When you live in the Netherlands you develop a strange 'syndrome' you become really lazy to walk 😂...so you end up cycling everywhere.
I read it as 9km a year lol
Yes, count your blessings. I used to ride about 50km/day to and from work here in Sydney but that involved sharing peak hour traffic in the left lane, being on a narrow cycleway on a freeway, lots of crossings and a lot of ignorant drivers. That was about 20 years ago. Hopefully things are better now, but in no way are they like Amsterdam! Cheers - Dave
couldn't refrain from smiling since the very beginning after seeing that little speed bump for bicycles
It's there because of chance meeting pedestrians at that point.
looks like heaven for a bicycle lover
It's not even showing the beautiful parts.
Thing is, we don’t have that many bicycle lovers here. It’s just a way of life. It’s like saying your a water lover when everyone drinks it.
@@CedricCaffa you are right . In my country lots of people with bicycle die on the road every month so if bicycle is a way of transportation in there it is enough for us 😂
@@CedricCaffa this was my exact thoughts, I'm not a walking lover or a bike lover, I do it as I want safer, cleaner streets in England. I really dont like cycling, it's just we cant keep putting cars on roads. My housing estate is jam packed full of cars and now the pavements and grass verges are getting blocked too.
Of course there are people living in Amsterdam who are saying I wish I lived in America where I would never have to ride a bike again.
Imagine if every bike had been a car, how much space they would take on the roads, in that beautiful multi-story bike park, how much noise and air pollution!
imagine parkin them
Nce for if you need to be within Amsterdam or directly around, but going to Maasticht by bike, you need a car (train takes forever and doesnt take me where I need to be)
@@jopieavier7825 So google maps states that from Amsterdam to Maastricht is 2hr 9min by car (outside of rush hour) and 2hr 18min by train. The car is nice if you need to get at some obscure location on the outskirts of the city, the train is nicer during rush hours, because you can easily add another hour to the journey if you'd go by car during rush hour.
[edit] oh and you can probably take your bike with you on both types of transport, though slightly easier on the train i guess (depending on car size)
@@Vegadmir You are forgetting the travel time to the trainstation and from the trainstation, either by Ov-fiets/bike or bus/metro/tram. But, a direct train from my city to maastricht is between 3 and half hours and 4 and 14 minutes. By car 2 hours and 46 minutes. A return ticket would cost me about 54 euro's. So with 2 adults, that would be 108 euro's. My kids, thats almost 200 euro's, and then I need to arrange for bikes or bus. Yea, sorry, the car is much easier, faster and cheaper. And yes, we do have special offers for 19 euro's but 4 people still more expensive to take the train. Sorry.
That would be impossible. There wouldn't be enough space for all those cars.
It's a bit like a virtual vacation, just sitting on the sofa at home, but feeling the big city atmosphere! A wonderful walk !!!❤️❤️❤️
I've only been watching videos about the Netherlands for a day. But as a person living in the U.S., especially in California, where cost of living is so high, and road conditions are horrible--yet cars are the only way to travel anywhere--I really want to learn Dutch and move there.
No need to learn Dutch. We all speak English.
@@ryn2844 yes he does
cost if living is also expensive in the netherlands
@@laminebah9374 I know a couple of people who've been living here for years and still don't speak Dutch. They're fine.
@@ryn2844 Maybe in Amsterdam but the other cities are mandatory in dutch and if people are living here for years they need to do effort to speak the language
Nothing like cycling around a city on a nice sunny day :-)
One of the best experiences in my life. My love for biking and a chance at least to visit the City of my dream❤️❤️❤️ Netherlands I Love you so much!! ❤️
Frm: Philippines.
You warmed my heart! Now I want to visit the Philippines where such wonderful people come from!
The City is Amsterdam, the Country is The Neatherlands
Building standalone bike lanes is not enough to encourage biking culture. Disincentivizing car rides, making last-mile commute from public transport via bikes easier and making the biking experience safer and more relaxing is what the Dutch have mastered since the 70's. This is a wake-up call to cities worldwide!
Roads in general are build as weird as it sounds in a way to bully cars. There is tiny gentle speed bumps and llittle curves back and forth in roads just so people keep their speed at the speed limit and thus keep the people around the cars safer!. Easy and comfy to navigate at lower speeds... a hell at higher speeds. :p (obviously highways don't work that way)
Not a wake up call. Since this is just part of a global political agenda long in the making. Look into the UN sustainable development goals as it pertains to cycling. The Dutch were likely chosen as a social experiment test group for the fact that they have always been 'bicycle friendly' and live in a very flat country. It works. Everybody loves it. So don't worry, It's coming to your town soon, alongside a long list of less popular environmental rules and radical changes to our lifestyle
@@SustainableEnslavementAgenda the Dutch cycling movement started in the 70s as a coalition between historical preservationists who didn't want to see old neighborhoods torn down to build highways and parents who were concerned by increasing numbers of children being struck and killed by cars. They campaigned for safer streets and beautiful neighborhoods. Plus, building enough car infrastructure for everyone to drive would have been MORE expensive than making bike paths and encouraging cycling. It doesn't take a global conspiracy for people to decide on the cheaper, safer, quieter, and less disruptive option. The movement coalesced under the slogan "Stop der kinder mort", or: "Stop murdering children" and Dutch cities are now some of the safest places in the world to ride bikes to school. In the US, we've apparently decided that a certain number of kids regularly dying is fine as long as we get to drive our huge SUVs as fast as possible everywhere. Or at least, the auto industry has been successful in spreading propaganda that makes this seem normal and unchangeable.
Amsterdam looks like the perfect cities skylines city
yeah except city skylines is the opposite to amsterdams urban model
There’s a fairly good set of roads and canals in the workshop specifically aimed at recreating Amsterdam. Ijust wish that whenever cs2 comes out, it features a method of creating waterlogged ditches without creating awkward triangle-shaped protrusions.
Amsterdam is 4 meters (!) under teh sea level; thanks to the channel system they don't drown...
@@CANTIJustPostacommen I agree with criticism. Don't want to spend time shifting through the workshop looking for all kinds of mods. Certain things should be standard in the game like functional pedestrian streets (not those useless paths), traffic type limiting per street, lane management, etc. Then you'd be able to create a true autoluw, bike and pedestrian friendly city in skylines. Now your always forced to build car accessible roads everywhere.
Also, the bicycle gutters in between traffic and parked cars cities skylines uses everywhere are considered unsafe in the Netherlands now and are being phased out as much as possible in favour of seperated bike paths next to the parked cars and tge pedestrian path. So even there skylines is behind the curve.
Still skylines is the best city builder I've played in years! Every other builder is crap in comparison! (Cough cough looking at you sim city 2013)
@@jam6636 One grew organically over hundreds of years while the other is a city builder. I would be cool to somehow model-in a city design over hundreds would be excellent. However it would still apply mostly to Western Europe. Most of the world lived on their farms while a good amount of Western Europe lived in cities or towns and traveled out to their farm ever single day. That had a major impact in differences in travel design for every mode of transportation.
13:35 11 bicycles take the same parking space as 1 car.
That's a bicycle-shop, that's why they're parked so close together. But still, you're right
One car will take 11 bicycles. 11 bicycles will NOT take one car.
Thanks OCD.
@@MrDarracuda cars are not needed in well designed cities
As an American who loves to bike, you have no idea how jealous this makes me.
A mis 65 años de edad, compruebo que, a pesar de ser mestizo, llevo en mi sangre indígena herencia europea, española, lo que se percibe en este recorrido hace parte de mi propia vida dado que, desde que uso bicicleta (digamos que a partir de 1974) para desplazarme al trabajo, diligencias por los barrios de Bogotá (Colombia), atendiendo mis clientes, visitando amigos, etc., es lo que me identifica y caracteriza; alguna vez usé motocicleta, pero jamás he querido usar automóvil, pues siempre he sido consciente de las ventajas de la bicicleta...... mejor dicho, este recorrido es mi ensoñación plennamente realizada!!! Aquí en Bogotá, y en otras ciudades, se viene implementando este modelo urbanístico con excelentes resultados, desde hace unos 25 años. Muchísimas gracias! Saludos a todos!
It’s actually awesome how people just use bikes normally, it feels like something in a weird utopian movie. I love it!
There are country s who hesitate to make bikelanes, because there are no bikers.
Wrong.
Make bikelanes and the bikers will comes,
Yes that's common sense. Biking is way more enjoyable compared to driving.
Paradise. Healthy. Clean air. Beautiful people and food. Good enough for me.
Goede audio- en videokwaliteit! 👍
Groetjes uit Suriname! 🇸🇷
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This video is so soothing, I am much more zen now.
True Sir
I feel an era in my India when under developed of 60's
Truly
This video happened to share for me When Pollutions debates is in its peak no humane steps nor any corrective steps taken by all of us suffering in a period of #covid19 effects millions starving job losses
Away from all the mess
This video I shared to open up every ones mind and heart
Will it help?
I dont know?
Living in Mumbai city India
God Bless all
Skies are purely clean amazing cost effective healthy life
I love Amsterdam, it's my favourite city on earth. I love the Dutch and their general attitude to life. Fond memories, wishing I was there... sigh. Great place and good video, thanks for sharing.
What a breath of fresh air from watching the New York cycling condition
New York of course originally being New Amsterdam before the British took it from the Dutch 😏 this is what might have been...
@@lukeeclair7736 It all went wrong the English took over...
-Look at dated London anno 2021 ;)
@@lukeeclair7736 they didnt take it right? the dutch sold it i think
@@lukeeclair7736 It was sold
If cycled this distance in England I'd have been punished passed and have verbal abuse thrown at me... I've given up cycling to work as I'd find myself cycling as fast as I can out of anxiety.... I now just walk, even that's kinda crap as pavements get blocked by cars and I have to cross loads of roads where drivers really dont feel like giving way. This video is so relaxing to watch, we need this...
As a Dutchman who lives in London, there is a difference in attitude between UK and Dutch cyclists.
In the UK people tend to see their commute as a workout, so they cycle faster. In NL we would all these race cyclists and you shouldn't cycle like that in cities.
I sometimes see cyclists here get angry at pedestrians when they meet on the road the cyclist could have easily just swerved around them without making a bug deal of it. There is a lot more tension ont he road and it would all be better if people could just mentally and
Physically chill.
Love how clean it is. It seems like such a great example of how all cities should be. Also, I love how everyone gives way to bikes.
Bikes are protected like baby pinguins ,even if a drunk cyclist swerves off onto the road into a car, the car would be the wrong one.
@@ZoetePoep Nope, wrong. The cardriver always shares 50% in liability costs, even though the cyclist can be 100% in the wrong. Only very few cases get to see the cyclist paying in full as evidence will say that what he or she did was so extremely stupid/ignorant/dangerous that the cardriver had no chance to take mentioned behaviour into account.
Cities in America combined with suburbia have become a nightmare of roads that seem to be falling apart because there are so many to maintain
.. This video is refreshing...
I would love if my town was as bike friendly and I could ride everywhere I needed in a bike and leave my car at home most of the time
Lets write letters to our Governments!
I adore biking but my country has (trust me) one bike line. Its 1.5 metres wide and runs for 200 m. Thats it. Congested traffic, bumpy roads, heat, pollution, and “cyclist haters”.
It makes me so miserable. I properly feel sick from how polluted the air is, and how we only have hard water.
@@alicia-hd2cs sorry to hear that :
@@alicia-hd2cs me as a Brazilian living in one of the most urban cities but that doesn't have any planing: you guys have a designated lane for anything?
@@positivenergylife
You don't sound all that bright!
Thanks for the ride!
What a beautiful City!
Hope to be there one Day.
Regards
I wish all countries did this! This is amazing!
Lovely video. Red lights mean stop though 🛑
They’re interpreted more as advisory rather than obligatory over there ;)
Im dutch and i rarely wait for red light as a cyclist. If the road is free its free!
@@gentlebabarian was that you that ran into me at a a red light last year?
my goodness bike heaven.... how i wish to go there and experience the amazing view of amsterdam.... ride safe
Dankie vir die wonderlike video Ek wil ook Amsterdam toe gaan
I am seeing a lot is comments of how clean and beautiful the city of Amsterdam is. But something I am missing is how good this video shows just how much safer a city can be if you majorly cut down on car usage.
As an example, take 42:05 - 42:17. In this time frame of just over 10 seconds, you can see about 7 people breaking tracking laws (cargo bike coming from the right goes over the yield signage, girls on their bikes cut off some road to shorten their turn, even the person filming the video breaks a law by not yeilding to the pedestrian wanting to cross the crosswalk). However, in this clip, even though so many people TECHNICALLY are breaking (or lets just say bending) the rules a bit, the clip shows:
1. The worst that could've realistically happened from this is two bikes colliding at about 5km/h, this will basically hurt nobody fatally.
2. If the pedestrian kept going and the video filmer hit him at a few km/h, maybe the worst that could happen is: the biker falls and hurts their wrists.
Now imagine all those people travelling by car. Not only has it been proven that this will increase commute time in any city above a certain population density, but also: image now, what is realistically the worst that could happen if a car doesnt yield to a pedestrian and the pedestrian goes anyways. What happens if a car doesn't perfectly yeild or doesn't notice the filmer and they collide with 50km/h in 1500kg metal boxes?
I have grown up in the Netherlands and know most roads shown in this video. I have also studied abroad and tried to commute by bike basically everywhere I went. Coming back to the Netherlands, I don't care about how pretty it is or how clean. The roads here make me feel safe. I feel safer on a bike in Amsterdam than in a car in basically any other capital city I've been to.
🤩🤩🤩 Amazing place! Greetings from London! Liked and Subscribed! Thank you for sharing! 🤩🤩🤩
In The Netherlands we have the most and safe cycling trails. It’s the future for big cities like Paris, London and New York City. No cars, only bikes and underground. Healthy for animals and humans and good for the climate. Greetings from The Netherlands and…when you visit us…hire a bike.
A channel named “Not Just Bikes” and his videos about Amsterdam makes me wanna live in Netherlands.
Love from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks so much! I've never been in Amsterdam although most of my life I lived quite close. Now I'm on the other side of the world, sitting on my exercycle - lovely to be able to get a glimpse. Thanks for leaving the natural noises, too. It adds to the experience. I'll come back to do it again. If I ever travel to Amsterdam in reality I'll feel right at home.
This video was an added pleasure to my indoor bike ride today. lots of interesting sights to see along with thousands of bicycles. Also like the ambient sound.
I can watch these kinds of videos for hours on end. 👍
So beautiful the city is! Many people use bicycles. No doubt pollution level of this city is less. Everything is beautifully planned. Thank you for the video.
Wow this is a dream place for bike riders around the world I ride bike in London and make videos every week but this is fantastic I love to visit there with my bike and make videos
Visit us friend, our bike lines are waiting for you 🚲
Lot of money spent over the years to keep cyclists safe and segregated from busy roads, was offered to ride a hire bike in London and I firmly said "no way too dangerous". Dutch ppl who know how to cycle and drive understand both sides, the uk ppl who drive are pitted against the cyclists.
Beautiful and Stunning scenery.💕💕💕
it's always lovely to walk with you my friend. 👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing . happy weekend.🌼🌼🌼
I was in Amsterdam one day and ate so much Spacecakes, I were never ever that blazed in my life, but we had bikes, they where awful to steer with thoose wide handlebars but i felt so safe there while i was driving xD love that country and the people there !
Thanks much for this video and the wonderful trip. My brothers and I emigrated to N America from Holland, with our parents, when we were little kids and training cycling with this video gives me such a longing to come back for a visit sometime. N America is still stuck in it's car culture but there is a world wide re-awakening to the beauty, the efficiency and the joy of the bike in all it forms. It's great to be a part of that.
I find it fascinating how close the bikers are when riding. Im surprised there aren't more crashes, but then, if they have been riding all their lives, they know how to navigate the bike lanes. I love the fact that you can see A'dam in this video without having to actually ride a bike and pay attention to that. Fun look at a great city!
You get a lot of practice avoiding other bikers and pedestrians so it just becomes second nature.
Nice video! Very well captured!
Thank you for sharing this Cycling experience!
Oh man I wish my city have a bicycle lane like that... It's heaven... The air must be so clean....
It's a good environment to ride a bicycle. The sky is blue and the streets look so cool. I enjoyed the video.
I love how they use hand signals, Biking is beautiful
Beautiful architecture, sunny day, no car revs sound, bird sound, full of trees, full of bicycles and nice people. Amazing city!
Don't forget that what you see is a day during the pandemic. We did not have true lockdowns like other countries had but because a lot of people worked from home, the streets were far less crowded than would normally be the case. The start of the video, behind Amsterdam CS, is usually an ant-hill of all kinds of traffic (well, excluding cars that is) and not at all as quiet as in this video.
Captions showing locations would be a big improvement.
agreed!
There are not many highlights to be seen. The journey starts and ends at the main railway station of Amsterdam. At 30:36 you arrive at the Museumplein with behing it left the Van Gogh museum and the Rijksmuseum. On the right you have the main concerthall a little bit later. The windmill at the end is called De Gooyer.
@@jwslijm7278 I just meant that captions showing street names woiud be a help for anybody who knows Amsterdam. It's nice to know where you're located in the city.
woow, bike everywhere... this is paradise
This has been the coolest video i’ve watched in a while !
How Awesome to see a major city with more bikes then cars!! Love it.
Thank you for showing what I cannot do now. The fender rattling is what I like. Dankevel
Thx for share great video Amsterdam city🎥🚲👍🏻 its really great nice clean nature place and never seen before sooomany bicycles in my life 🚲🛵🏠 with nice colors houses absolute beautiful 👍🏻❤🙂heel moooi stand👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻♻
Every City in NL has this (or even better) bicycle infrastructure. Also in between cities and villages we have good bicycle infrastructure.
I go to work on my bike (12 km): 28 minutes. (By car 25- 45 min)
NL bike infrastructure became so good that biking has become as time efficient as driving is
This is amazing! :)
I am riding my bike at home, while watching this. Thank you!
Cool... wait no.
what!
Your videos are fabulous!! I was in Holland to cycle a few years ago and you’ve touch an emotional nerve with these videos...I have very fond memories of my 5 weeks in Holland...May I make a suggestion?? Pan around to either side with your camera...give us a panoramic view too...keep up the great videos...I can never get enough of them...Great tourist attraction / tour guide...Makes me want to return tomorrow...
Hello Canadian Lady,
Put this .... [ Bicycledutch 360 degrees ] in the TH-cam search bar and you'll find a lot of videos on that channel where you can scroll around ( 360° ) and look up 'n down with your mouse, ...... enjoy the vids.
Regards from the Netherlands .... 😉
Beautiful sky, city and peaceful atmosphere....Perfect.
Bike city heaven. Would like to visit that city in the summer and bike around the city.
Wow, amazing… a lot of bicycles
I like cycling
For me this is incredible. What a calm and friendly city.
Very nice to see bike riding around the city in .Keep it up .
Beautiful city，I love there，thank you for your sharing this
Geinig! Ik hoefde op t eerste stuk m’n hometrainer maar 1 x te ‘ stoppen ‘ andere stoplichten werden op z’n Amsterdams genegeerd😉! Dank voor t uploaden!
As a 94 year old who grew up in A’dam in the 30’s, it was such a treat to relive it again thru your eyes…
REUZE BEDANKT! Al hoewel ik dat fietsend geklammerij ok niet leuk vond.
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Dan had u op een Fongers moeten rijden 😉
You Make My memory back to 2009 When I was Work And Live in Amsterdam . I Recodnize Most of place from video. Thanks For Share.
This is so fucking brilliant, it's literally a dream. I wish from the bottom of my heart it was the same in the UK and any other place on earth for that matter.
Absolutely fantastic place superb video
That's a dream. Thanks for video :)
a heavenly (cycling) place. I might take my bike there for a vacation of city cycling.
I can only imagine how cleaner the air is over there too. I wish cities everywhere were like this. no cars unless traveling long distances otherwise get on your bike. Or walk. This is so lovely.
There are 15 million people on a size of a stamp, with millions of cars... clean air..where?
Yeah no clean air buddy 😂it's densely populated only carbon diaxide😂
Cool weather, good cycling roads, and makes you fit without sweating easily.
Beautiful city, love your bicycle culture! Greetings from a fellow bike rider in Vienna
I cycled in Amsterdam on vacation. Amazing to see so many bikes, trails and great experience.
Very nice, hope to make it back there sometime soon! Thanks for sharing =)
Wonderful! It's nice to see so many riders keeping an unhurried, comfortable pace and not riding like they're on a training run.
As a New Yorker, this makes me so jealous… why can’t NYC be like this?!
NYC was New Amsterdam 😉
The amount of reasons would be well over 50 lol.
Wow!!! Lots bikes....great vídeo 🇦🇷
Greetings from southeast Texas. So jealous of the cycling culture you guys have. Here you have to watch out for empty commuter diesel pickup trucks at every turn 😅
Very nice bike tour, i love explore too, this city is amazing, have a blessed week! 💚✨
Great ride and footage, your bike sounds like an old tired freight train, I’ve never seen so many bikes like that
It went from erratic rubbing to incessant rattle. Kind of takes away from a beautiful ride.
There is nothing more exciting to drive my bike in any large town in the world and be a part of the natives!
This is what I was waiting for in 2021. Great video..!!
Er wordt wel geregeld door het rood gereden in het filmpje 😅 Leuk filmpje, leuk initiatief! 👍
I so much liked this one since the route you took passes through my neighbourhood. I even checked if I was by any chance walking around at that time. =) . For anyone who like to experience biking in Amsterdam, please be prepared because it is not calm like this on the video all the time (especially damrak and central areas).
TAIWAN seeing this....this place is heaven...so friendly to bicycle users!
Wow two guys cycling in front of you do much conversation while cycling, they can finish their communications about many important things while ahead to their destination, such a happy city
Hahaa thats nothing for Amsterdam
Really nothing special in The Netherlands..
I love cycling with friends and colleagues, you have the best conversations on the bike and it makes journeys a lot more fun.
Leuke POV in hartje Amsterdam. Ga zo door!👍
Keep up the good work!💕
ah yes, urban utopia
5:36 the shocking moment of any driver
That's an impressive video .
Loved the video reminded me of when I lived in Amsterdam. One thing I noticed was not many people wearing helmets unlike here in England
This is really soothing to watch and listen to. Thank you