I remember 11 years ago, when my brother got his driving license, we got on an adventure from Germany (Ì`m from Frankfurt) to Antwerpen and then via Gent and Terneuzen into Zeeland, around Vlissingen. It was the first time in the Netherlands for me and we didn`t even bother to book a hotel, just went without any aim and slept a few hours in the car. Boy, was i impressed with the infrastructure there. After the Netherlands, our German roads looked like third world to me. Belgium on the other hand reminded me of eastern Europe where i`m originally from, especially their way of driving :) But those completly illuminated highways were also impressive. We then went back through Belgium down to de Panne and went on into France, driving by Calais and almost getting onto the ship to Dover as we took the wrong exit and got in the line leading to the ferry. But ultimately we managed to land in Paris, where we stranded as we didn`t have any clue of the motorway toll until we had to pay it with our last money a few kilometres before Paris, leaving us with an almost empty fuel tank and no money to refill it. Well, we somehow managed to come back (Parents money sent via bank wire) but had to sleep a night in the car on a motorway service area near Paris, which we barely reached with the fuel running out...I`m sorry for the long story, but looking at those motorways reminded me of this major story of my youth an i had to share it with the world :) Paris by the way was absolute chaos in terms of driving, and it doesn`t make it better when you just got your license...
@@nishhnishh1088 Rich because of the mentality and attitude of hard-working people who can be found in different countries of (Northern) Europe. Then you get such beautiful roads ...
Some people say we can't drive though. Especially Germans, but unless you live i the Ruhr Area, there's almost nothing to compare. Here it's off lane, on lane, 2km further off lane, on lane and so people constantly move lanes, or stick too long on the left, because they see someone might want to merge to the lane on the lane next to you. GErman highways often have like 10km/20km nothing before an exit.
One thing they specifically do in the netherlands which I havent seen in any other country near it is that they organise the streets in a very neat, spacious, tidy and almost symmetrical way, and there are no annoying fat overlapping trees or bushes in the medians of two roads but instead thin trunk trees or saplings so it aint too dark and long distance views are much easier. The roads are very smooth with clear road markings + no potholes at all and you can see the distance on the motorways from miles away with vibrant green grass fields surrounding most of the autobaans whereas here in the UK the roads seem 3rd-world in some areas compared to the netherlands and the streets are much narrower with more potholes and no nice aesthetic views on motorways because they for some reason want to surround the the tight motorways with bushes and trees. Netherlands is also very underrated by a lot of my mates who live here in south london as the only image that pops up in their head when they think of holland is the centre of amsterdam and the weed culture, if tourists are visiting the netherlands, they shouldnt only enter amsterdam as if its the only city 🤦♂️ Also netherlands should be mostly stereotyped for tall people, clean flower fields, good roads, windmills and cycling as there are wide red cycle paths separate from the road in nearly every public street you go to. Furthermore, most houses and flats in holland are clean, modern and of good quality as if they were newly built, even the old fashioned houses in amsterdam look clean with polished windows compared to the dusty victorian houses you see every in UK. There is a much wider variety of different houses in many colours in the netherlands so the streets arent boring and a lot of the massive ‘old’ flats dont even look that old and fairly modern compared to the shitty council estates in london and generally the flats in the rest of the UK, I guarantee you it is much easier to buy bigger and better quality houses in the netherlands for cheaper price than to buy an average old house in the UK for more expensive price aswell. I mostly notice these differences because I used to live in netherlands for 4-5 years before moving to the UK (werent my decision) but I still visit back there every now and then, it’s generally a very advanced country with futuristic infrastructure compared to the rest of the world.
On the signage, until maybe a couple of years ago, we still had some arrows pointing down. They have been slowely removing all signs with the arrow pointing down, when they had to be replaced anyway, to an arrow pointing up, and that was after a study showed it creates for more fluent driving. The arrow down would make people not being familiar there, that the reason it's down (and kms to go isn't on it), would think they are almost there. I also remember a Reddit post, about how different european countries do the signs, whether they have the furthest away place on top or bottom.
I think, we have the best roads in Europe. God didn't give us interesting landscape but we certainly make up for it with our spectacular engineering. Ik ben trot op Nederlands....
+Talib Jalloh Things have improved significantly in the past 10 years. It wasn't too long ago that you had those 4-lane bottlenecks everywhere... Such as A2, A4, A12, A28, A50... There's still a lot of work to do, but the Dutch roads have changed a lot in recent years.
+Talib Jalloh Things have improved significantly in the past 10 years. It wasn't too long ago that you had those 4-lane bottlenecks everywhere... Such as A2, A4, A12, A28, A50... There's still a lot of work to do, but the Dutch roads have changed a lot in recent years.
But the roads are pretty good all around. Getting better after the left wing made a mess of it with all the environment crap. Still a lot of work to be done though to make it future proof.
This video was an inspiration for me to start my own channel :) Thank you for showing off one of the best highways I've seen on yt... really impressive work :) Greetings from Slovakia Adam
Damn! A freeway on steroids, if there was ever such a thing. Awesome job on this...found the tunneled section to be equally as interesting as the mega-wide 18 lane section. Favorited.
And in this video you cannot even see the layers. Schiphol Airport has a railway station underneath and all you see is the exit and entree and the tunnel for the highway underneath it all.
That bridge in the beginning was purely economic and it's that you don't speak Dutch, but it gave failures over 100 times at least, since they 'celebrated that'. The old one (theres still a 2x3 tunnel for normal traffic, but this bridge is for dangerous goods and has an entry from Spijkenisse, which now can either pick the bridge or the tunnel, the old one had to get up 4 times an hour, causing delays from trucks and trains. But also was too small for when the tunnel would be closed due to maintenance or an accident. So this is one is higher and the majority of vessels (small ones come there, not big ones) have a max height lower than that.
Very closeby the start of video, probaly ~ 8 km back of that, a new tunnel is going to be finished not so long from now betweeN Rozenburg and VLaardingen th-cam.com/video/tKOuVOcOCSs/w-d-xo.html
Very, very nice, thanks for taking the time to upload this videos, I enjoyed watching every minute of it, and good luck with the next videos, the Netherlands is a very nice country.
Undersea trenches, canal UNDERpasses & tunnels that've been expanded multiple times over... At least one of those big interchanges was above 3 levels high, wasn't it??? Nothing short of impressive infrastructure & civil engineering, that's for sure's!
As mentioned, Prins Clausplein (at 5:25), the only full four-level stack junction in the Netherlands. Named after the beloved husband of the former queen, Beatrix.
@@nielskut2256 That's a bit of a hotchpotch. A "proper" four-level stack has fly-overs for all left turns (or right turns in a drive-on-the-left country), and Ridderkerk/ster doesn't, even though it has four levels.
British Teeth Proper freeways in UK? You must be joking. You can hardly get from east to west on a freeway or from north to south even have a freeway in England, let alone in the UK. In UK you have 6205km of freeways (including dual carriageways) on 63,7 million inhabitants (97,4km/million) and 0,025km/km2. The Netherlands has 2474km of autosnelweg/freeway (without autoweg/dual carriageway) on 17,2 million inhabitants (143km/million) and 0,073km/km2. So 1,5 times more freeways than UK per million and 3 times more freeways per m2 land. I have driven through UK and your freeways aren’t impressive. So don’t start to compare the road system in NL with UK, because you loose. I don’t wanna brag about freeways in The Netherlands because it’s ordinary to me, but we have a reasonable quality of bridges, tunnels and viaducts and good signage and maintenance of road surfaces. We’re only missing some pieces of freeways in our grid. But hey, we all have something to strive for.
2:44 "After six decades of planning and political meandering" - I agree it is worth a mention indeed but it is too easy to blame politicians. The A4 now goes straight through the "Green heart". A buffer zone between Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht where no urbanization is allowed any more. Locals were divided just as much and there was no simple right answer. The final part of the A4, the "Zuid Trace" from the Benelux intersection(0:45) to Klaaswaal is still being debated, once again because the area is classed as historical significant. People from those towns are stuck in traffic trying to reach Rotterdam on a daily basis. So the options: have traffic on the A29 on a daily basis or build the final part of the A4 and damage the landscape in the region, once again a big discussion and no one has a simple answer.
The quality and scale of dutch motorways, as well as the quality of driving is amazing. Everyone moves right when done overtaking - no undertaking required. Australians need to see this as a lesson on motorway driving! Great video! Loving the trance music as well.
Its only cold nordic pragmatism, with combination of great network of multilanes roads. Hurry and agression on roads are useless. But for example no speed limits restrictions are avalaible in Europe only on German motorways. If you want to hit 300km/h on autobahn, no problem its your choice, but you must take resposibility if something goes wrong.
Hi. This is my first time on your channel. I enjoyed your Amsterdam video. I,ve never been to Europe. Amsterdam is so beautiful. I like seeing the office buildings next to the freeway. I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for videos!!!
the north of Europe is much richer than the south, so everything is much better maintained in the north, and Spain is in the south of Europe, so all countries in the north have much better roads than in Spain
The Autoroutes in the Netherlands are amazing. The infrastructure in some European countries look way better than America's infrastructure. Some of the motorways in the UK don't look that great and France's autoroutes look like the Netherlands. I don't know but every motorway/autoroutes in some of the countries in Europe look exactly the same. Plus, they have the same road signs. And the UK and Ireland drive on the left and countries on the European mainland drive on the right. Also, I notice the windmills along the Dutch autoroute. It shows countries in Europe are for clean energy and clean air. Looking at the A4 Autoroute (Motorway A4), the Netherlands' system of autoroutes are impressive fabulous roads with good signage (no east, west, north and south on the guide signs), ridiculously excellent cleanliness on and on the sides of the autoroutes (graffiti on the bridges) and good management on the infrastructure. It just shows countries in Europe are ahead of America on everything. Healthcare, education you name it. They are putting America to shame. Europeans are laughing at how America is. They laugh at Americans, bash them, make fun of them (signing the American idiot song), don't care about them by not giving them a passing thought, talk about all the problems America has and feel sorry for them by giving them pity. Someone from Poland told me the UK sucks. Well, the UK may suck, but together with other sane modern European countries, the UK and countries in Europe have their problems, but they don't have the problems that America has. Plus, Europeans aren't brain-dead, crazy, weird, anti-social, cliquish, narcissistic, paranoid, cold, dead, lifeless, mean, evil, toxic, stiff, unemotional, workaholic interchangeable undereducated, violent, heartless, cruel gaslighting robots like Americans are. Great video of a Dutch autoroute.
The US doesn't have that great roads. Even Portugal has better roads than the US, according to the World Economic Forum. th-cam.com/video/6mCOWV5uZvA/w-d-xo.html
I was stationed in the US Army (AFCENT) in Brunssum, the Netherlands in 1968-1970 South (Limberg) province. There was the more older highways many two lanes. I was in the motor pool drove 1965-67 V-8 Chevy's, Ford pickups and Ford flat bed trucks you talking about driving crazy. We only had civilian vehicles since it was a small NATO military base. Driving on the German Auto bohn was the most fun. NO speed limits in many places.We would go 120 miles per hour as fast as the car would go mile after mile and in Belgium there was a there was a three lane the middle lane was a passing lane for both sides. Like playing chicken. The first car to blink the lights wins the passing and at times, we would go 110. We was young then. We should of got a ribbon for danger. The best time of my life. The Netherlands people was very nice.
Very impressive. There are few freeways of this caliber for such a distance in the USA. This most reminds me of some Ontario freeways in and around Toronto.
We have this quality nationwide, everywhere. In the lower density areas it will just be 4 (2×2) lanes but otherwise exactly the same high standards. What we are not good at is speed. We take ages to get something done, but once it's finally done it usually is good and lasts a long time
@@Blackadder75 roads in USA are uncomparable with roads in Holland, the quality of the concrete is terrrible in USA where dutch roads in general are smooth as butter. Every USA citizen which lived for a while in USA and every Dutch citizen in USA would for sure agree. USA is not even close in road quality.
@@Inferi0r I agree (I'm American btw). The one thing I prefer about US interstates is that rural interstates were often designed in a more aestetically pleasant way, with wide forested medians, gracefull curves and rolling hills. They seem to blend in to the coutryside. However, interchanges are very often cluttered with commerce (motels, fuel stations, etc), which is rarely the case in Europe.
This video was very unsettling. The speed reminded me of dreams where I was driving but the steering wheel wouldn't work and we kept going faster faster until hitting something.
i dont how how simelar they are but 'our' font wsa designed by the ANWB (AAA). when our government took over placing the signs this lead to some problems because of copyright reasons.
+astey highways (Autostrada) It was built as a reversible lane, but I doubt if it has ever been used as such. It's mainly used as a service route. It hasn't been a daily congestion spot so far.
If your ever in Holland again, could you please please make a video driving the randstad circle !!at night!!, so Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht Gouda and Rotterdam again. I think that would be beautiful :)
Cool video. First thing I noticed - asphalt is perfect! In my country Russia bad roads is big problem. What second song you used for? Because it is not pointed by you song - Dance Among the Ruins (Jaimie Fanatic 'BBoy' Mix)" by Tommie Sunshine... it's something another.
Roads in NL are 10x better ang better maintained, signals system are also much clearer. They invest a lot in big infrastructure, check the new h.v. towers at 4:15. Otherwise food is 10x worst.
Is there a chance that the connection between both segments of A4 will be built and the road will be continuous? I think if there is no intention to connect them eventually, then the southern A4 segment should become part of A29 instead.
+Albert Calis This has been planned for over half a century, but never moved close to the construction phase. It's currently not seen as a priority, because A15 was recently widened from six to ten lanes to accommodate traffic from A4 to A29.
Looks like they won't. Better add the double number A4 - A15 and A4 - A29, as they did many times with other motorways. They are busy pushing A16 towards A13 (started 2019, opens 2024) and building A24 between A20 and A15 between Rotterdam and its port (opens in 2020 or 2021)
+04smallmj practically nobody ever uses them. They're never used by the media, traffic information or in government press releases or documents. Signage consistency also varies by country, I wouldn't recommend relying on E-numbers when driving through Europe.
+04smallmj For humor, just look at the route of E5 or E25 :) They're not logical routes for longer distances. Some E-numbers use sea routes where ferries don't exist.
Belgium only uses the E-routes on signs in favor of the A-numbers. It's a pretty usefull system but unfortunately some European nations have made the illogical choice to not properly implement them.
+Michael W Stack There is no stretch without speed limit in The Netherlands. There is a speed limit of 100 Km/h ( 63 Mph ) on Snelweg A4 near Amsterdam. The common speed limit on Dutch motorways is 120 Km/h, sometimes ( but pretty rare ) 130 Km/h. Greetings from a German trucker who has driven some hundred thousands km on Dutch motorways.
yes its variable, around rotterdam (first part) it was 100 km/h, second part is also 100km/h or 130km/h depends on the time and the last part till amsterdam is 130 km/h.
National speed limit is now down to 100km/h to limit particle emissions that are eliminated in the cat . Many people don't really obey and the government saw fit to install automated systems to fine offenders `to promote and enhance safety` but as you can see on a stretch of road like this the chances of a real bad accident are pretty slim and so the measures don't appeal to passers-by at all.
@Vladimir Putin The history of The Netherlands is very different as I thought. Also the Protestants suppressing the Catholics for centuries, while cities like Hamburg or Bremen were in 17th, 18th and 19th century much more liberal than Amsterdam with its "Schuilkerken". Also Limburg was for example basically a colony since its forced integration in The Netherlands until Thorbecke made an end to this absurd situation. In the embarrassing low amount of time which was spend in Luxembourg in Dutch History, especially when you think we were once part of it, it was just presented as a tolerant open-minded country of traders around Amsterdam.
@@yes8032 a hell of a lot of Germans want to get rid of the unlimited autobahn speeds. Because of much higher risks of fatal or massive injury because of these speeds. So yea, look again at Germany...
Oh that is interesting, time related speed limits. Here in New Zealand we have just the one speed limit for the entire time. Our motorways are unfortunately restricted to a maximum of 60MPH/100 km/h. There is calls for limits to be increased to 70MPH/110 km/h
The rule is somewhat confusing to quite a few people though. There's big signs saying 100 around the road with a smaller sign beneath it saying 6-19h, and some people don't know what it means. I imagine it's especially confusing for tourists that don't know what's going on.
Neeee dat weer niet. Kijk normaal mag je 100 rijden op de snelweg maar ivm natuur en drukte is de snelweg voor een paar kilometer verlaagt naar 100. Dat heeft te maken met de uitstoot en de drukte op de A4 want het is 1 van de drukste snelwegen in Nederland
The section between ypenburg and N211 i think it is (at Den Haag). I know the ring A4 at Rotterdam is very bad in terms of traffic ;). Rijkswaterstaat released a video on TH-cam that shows a complete renevation in Den Haag !
Même vos lignes à haute tension sont belles :)). Pas un tag, pas une publicité. C'est le pays de Trumann ? Je déconne, j'adore les Pays Bas et les Néerlandais.
I drive from Maastricht to the Eindhoven area every day. From Luxembourg it was too far so I moved to Maastricht. As a student I lived in Den Haag for half a year, so I know that region too.
Car traffic is much lower in Europe in general because we actually have a good network of public transport as well and a better mix of residential and commercial zones so that many people live quite next to their work and don't need a car to commute
I drove here in massive traffic. I am from country Australia and the mental overload driving in Europe was immense. A Doctor said have a joint...but who can drive stoned except quiet countryside?
No doctor will ever prescribe drugs for driving, that s highly illegal. Anyway you get used to busy traffic and the roads and signs are AAA+ quality here
rubikfan1 Of het ontbrekende stuk van de A4 tussen knooppunt Benelux en Klaaswaal, zodat je van Amsterdam naar Belgie kan rijden over de A4 zonder omweg via A15+A29. Moeten ze wel het stuk A29 van Klaaswaal naar Heijningen hernoemen tot A4 zoals oorspronkelijk bedoeld was.
Joking aside, the reason for the delay is that the Dutch compromise -and therefore argue- about EVERYTHING. Then, because of the devolved government there is in the Netherlands, there are a LOT of entities involved: the central government, the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat), the province of South-Holland, the various local councils, environmental and planning agencies... and then, obviously, there is a public consultation period where anybody can raise objections, which then have to be dealt with. Having said all that, 60 years of talking is excessive even by Dutch standards.
@@derkhaslol Well... the "Randstad" is an urban conglomeration of around 8 million people, easily rivalling large European cities. It translates to "Border City" and is formed by cities and towns such as Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam and Utrecht. Within this rough circle, there is an area that is, relatively speaking, less densely populated, with a typical Dutch landscape comprising farms, fields, canals and cattle. It is called the "Groene Hart", or Green Heart, of the Randstad. The metaphor is that these are the "lungs" of the Randstad, and while it's more a metaphor than anything else, metaphors are powerful things, and a motorway going through the Green Heart is a sensitive issue. Yes, the missing bit of the A4 should have been built decades earlier, but one could wonder whether we really need ever more and ever wider roads. Especially in this time of working from home and social distancing, and those 16-lane motorways are a lot quieter all of a sudden. There is awesome infrastructure and technology in the Netherlands, especially when you consider that the entirety of this road trip is below sea level, but what you'll also notice is that there is very, very little greenery to be seen.
Nabij Apeldoorn zijn de enige "bergen" die je nodig hebt in Nationaal Park Veluwezoom. Ik zeg bergen om niet te zeggen heuvels, want volgens mij is het hoogste punt van Nederland iets meer dan 300 meter.
The Netherlands actually spends considerably more on rail than motorways (relative to usage). Rail makes up almost half the budget while account for about 12% of travel.
th-cam.com/video/aANgDRLoMVg/w-d-xo.html You should see this part of the A4 from the air mate. I'm from holland and I'm telling you This new road is almost invisible for the surounding living spaces. I mean: After you leave the new tunnel, that part of the road never comes above gound level. So from the suroundings you can NOT SEE this road. And if you see the bycicle-viaducts that go over the road, are from streetlevel on, so its on the same planes as the common roads surounding it. No need to go up a bridgehead or to go down when you cross those viaducts. It's frikking amazing. And then drving this road at night is thé absolute marvel. The lightnig of the road, the infrastucture is planned in way's you'd never come up with. for example, you never have the glaring of lights from oncoming traffic in the other lane. The guardrail and such, block the glaring. and the lights on the road are on perfect height. Just lighting the road and almost no light coming in the car. This road, I'm frikking in love with this road. All roads, íf made, should be made like that. Look it up on google. images0.persgroep.net/rcs/1SZ4gHc2sumJrljE3OEfBPqFEmg/diocontent/61839443/_fill/1600/817/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9 www.wegenwiki.nl/images/A4_Delft_-_Schiedam.jpg You wont believe it when you see it when driving there at night. Excuse mefor the long rant. 🤣
I remember 11 years ago, when my brother got his driving license, we got on an adventure from Germany (Ì`m from Frankfurt) to Antwerpen and then via Gent and Terneuzen into Zeeland, around Vlissingen. It was the first time in the Netherlands for me and we didn`t even bother to book a hotel, just went without any aim and slept a few hours in the car. Boy, was i impressed with the infrastructure there. After the Netherlands, our German roads looked like third world to me. Belgium on the other hand reminded me of eastern Europe where i`m originally from, especially their way of driving :) But those completly illuminated highways were also impressive. We then went back through Belgium down to de Panne and went on into France, driving by Calais and almost getting onto the ship to Dover as we took the wrong exit and got in the line leading to the ferry. But ultimately we managed to land in Paris, where we stranded as we didn`t have any clue of the motorway toll until we had to pay it with our last money a few kilometres before Paris, leaving us with an almost empty fuel tank and no money to refill it. Well, we somehow managed to come back (Parents money sent via bank wire) but had to sleep a night in the car on a motorway service area near Paris, which we barely reached with the fuel running out...I`m sorry for the long story, but looking at those motorways reminded me of this major story of my youth an i had to share it with the world :) Paris by the way was absolute chaos in terms of driving, and it doesn`t make it better when you just got your license...
Nice story
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Don't worry! That's what the internet is for, random stories from complete strangers :)
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Which German are you talking of?
Western Germany or Eastern Germany ex communist country?
@@silvanodelazzari8522 r u stupid? He literally said where he's from.. Frankfurt!
The Netherlands sure has an impressive system of motorways.
Yeah best roads from Europe togetter with Denmark
Best infrastructure and one of the best standards of living in the world mate
Rip flat holland
easy when its small in size, and flat
@@nishhnishh1088 Rich because of the mentality and attitude of hard-working people who can be found in different countries of (Northern) Europe. Then you get such beautiful roads ...
First time lapse I've seen in Europe. Great scale and engineering in the Netherlands.
Some people say we can't drive though. Especially Germans, but unless you live i the Ruhr Area, there's almost nothing to compare. Here it's off lane, on lane, 2km further off lane, on lane and so people constantly move lanes, or stick too long on the left, because they see someone might want to merge to the lane on the lane next to you. GErman highways often have like 10km/20km nothing before an exit.
Truly, Fabulous infrastructure, signage, cleanliness and management of Road in the Netherlands. I love Holland. Great videography buddy!!!
@Ralph Macchiato Ya, you all are asking the policy makers exactly what makes a nation well developed.
One thing they specifically do in the netherlands which I havent seen in any other country near it is that they organise the streets in a very neat, spacious, tidy and almost symmetrical way, and there are no annoying fat overlapping trees or bushes in the medians of two roads but instead thin trunk trees or saplings so it aint too dark and long distance views are much easier. The roads are very smooth with clear road markings + no potholes at all and you can see the distance on the motorways from miles away with vibrant green grass fields surrounding most of the autobaans whereas here in the UK the roads seem 3rd-world in some areas compared to the netherlands and the streets are much narrower with more potholes and no nice aesthetic views on motorways because they for some reason want to surround the the tight motorways with bushes and trees. Netherlands is also very underrated by a lot of my mates who live here in south london as the only image that pops up in their head when they think of holland is the centre of amsterdam and the weed culture, if tourists are visiting the netherlands, they shouldnt only enter amsterdam as if its the only city 🤦♂️ Also netherlands should be mostly stereotyped for tall people, clean flower fields, good roads, windmills and cycling as there are wide red cycle paths separate from the road in nearly every public street you go to. Furthermore, most houses and flats in holland are clean, modern and of good quality as if they were newly built, even the old fashioned houses in amsterdam look clean with polished windows compared to the dusty victorian houses you see every in UK. There is a much wider variety of different houses in many colours in the netherlands so the streets arent boring and a lot of the massive ‘old’ flats dont even look that old and fairly modern compared to the shitty council estates in london and generally the flats in the rest of the UK, I guarantee you it is much easier to buy bigger and better quality houses in the netherlands for cheaper price than to buy an average old house in the UK for more expensive price aswell. I mostly notice these differences because I used to live in netherlands for 4-5 years before moving to the UK (werent my decision) but I still visit back there every now and then, it’s generally a very advanced country with futuristic infrastructure compared to the rest of the world.
On the signage, until maybe a couple of years ago, we still had some arrows pointing down. They have been slowely removing all signs with the arrow pointing down, when they had to be replaced anyway, to an arrow pointing up, and that was after a study showed it creates for more fluent driving. The arrow down would make people not being familiar there, that the reason it's down (and kms to go isn't on it), would think they are almost there. I also remember a Reddit post, about how different european countries do the signs, whether they have the furthest away place on top or bottom.
I think, we have the best roads in Europe. God didn't give us interesting landscape but we certainly make up for it with our spectacular engineering. Ik ben trot op Nederlands....
+Talib Jalloh Things have improved significantly in the past 10 years. It wasn't too long ago that you had those 4-lane bottlenecks everywhere... Such as A2, A4, A12, A28, A50... There's still a lot of work to do, but the Dutch roads have changed a lot in recent years.
+Talib Jalloh Things have improved significantly in the past 10 years. It wasn't too long ago that you had those 4-lane bottlenecks everywhere... Such as A2, A4, A12, A28, A50... There's still a lot of work to do, but the Dutch roads have changed a lot in recent years.
Jentul Jay shut it with all the bregging!! we might have good roads, but our country is far from perfect...
But the roads are pretty good all around. Getting better after the left wing made a mess of it with all the environment crap. Still a lot of work to be done though to make it future proof.
Yaaaas honeey.
This video was an inspiration for me to start my own channel :) Thank you for showing off one of the best highways I've seen on yt... really impressive work :)
Greetings from Slovakia
Adam
Normally I don't like people advertising their own channel, but yours is cool and actually did get inspired by him. Subbed ;) Cheers from Rotterdam
Honestly , one of your best , very big THANKS for you & for the beautiful Netherlands
Hany Alsaeed yyu
Damn! A freeway on steroids, if there was ever such a thing. Awesome job on this...found the tunneled section to be equally as interesting as the mega-wide 18 lane section. Favorited.
Dutch engineering is on a whole other level! Excellent imo as someone who lives in Sweden.
And in this video you cannot even see the layers. Schiphol Airport has a railway station underneath and all you see is the exit and entree and the tunnel for the highway underneath it all.
We are good with water and roads. DOn't ask us to build a proper car, cough cough old Daf cars
That bridge in the beginning was purely economic and it's that you don't speak Dutch, but it gave failures over 100 times at least, since they 'celebrated that'. The old one (theres still a 2x3 tunnel for normal traffic, but this bridge is for dangerous goods and has an entry from Spijkenisse, which now can either pick the bridge or the tunnel, the old one had to get up 4 times an hour, causing delays from trucks and trains. But also was too small for when the tunnel would be closed due to maintenance or an accident. So this is one is higher and the majority of vessels (small ones come there, not big ones) have a max height lower than that.
Very closeby the start of video, probaly ~ 8 km back of that, a new tunnel is going to be finished not so long from now betweeN Rozenburg and VLaardingen th-cam.com/video/tKOuVOcOCSs/w-d-xo.html
As I live in Den Haag, I know this route very well! It can be a joy to ride at the "right" time on the "right" day.
I love these videos, thank you so much for taking the time to make them.
+account user thanks a lot :)
European Roads
Very, very nice, thanks for taking the time to upload this videos, I enjoyed watching every minute of it, and good luck with the next videos, the Netherlands is a very nice country.
Al Iralev
If you enjoy having no privacy at all...yeah, sure.
The Netherlands is regarded as having the best infrastructure in the world
Undersea trenches, canal UNDERpasses & tunnels that've been expanded multiple times over... At least one of those big interchanges was above 3 levels high, wasn't it???
Nothing short of impressive infrastructure & civil engineering, that's for sure's!
Schwenda that interchange is called: prins clausplein, atleast in the top 5 busiest interchanges in Europe
As mentioned, Prins Clausplein (at 5:25), the only full four-level stack junction in the Netherlands. Named after the beloved husband of the former queen, Beatrix.
@@SeverityOne What about knooppunt Ridderster
@@nielskut2256 That's a bit of a hotchpotch. A "proper" four-level stack has fly-overs for all left turns (or right turns in a drive-on-the-left country), and Ridderkerk/ster doesn't, even though it has four levels.
British Teeth Proper freeways in UK? You must be joking. You can hardly get from east to west on a freeway or from north to south even have a freeway in England, let alone in the UK. In UK you have 6205km of freeways (including dual carriageways) on 63,7 million inhabitants (97,4km/million) and 0,025km/km2. The Netherlands has 2474km of autosnelweg/freeway (without autoweg/dual carriageway) on 17,2 million inhabitants (143km/million) and 0,073km/km2. So 1,5 times more freeways than UK per million and 3 times more freeways per m2 land. I have driven through UK and your freeways aren’t impressive. So don’t start to compare the road system in NL with UK, because you loose. I don’t wanna brag about freeways in The Netherlands because it’s ordinary to me, but we have a reasonable quality of bridges, tunnels and viaducts and good signage and maintenance of road surfaces. We’re only missing some pieces of freeways in our grid. But hey, we all have something to strive for.
krijg spontaan zin om morgen een rondje nederland te doen
Nog steeds? (mei 2022)😉
Nu ook nog? (Februari 2024)
The music fits this video perfectly
ikr i love the music on this video
Very nice video, excellent picture quality and stability. I like the comments and the graphics for interchanges. Thumbs up!
2:44 "After six decades of planning and political meandering" - I agree it is worth a mention indeed but it is too easy to blame politicians. The A4 now goes straight through the "Green heart". A buffer zone between Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht where no urbanization is allowed any more. Locals were divided just as much and there was no simple right answer.
The final part of the A4, the "Zuid Trace" from the Benelux intersection(0:45) to Klaaswaal is still being debated, once again because the area is classed as historical significant. People from those towns are stuck in traffic trying to reach Rotterdam on a daily basis. So the options: have traffic on the A29 on a daily basis or build the final part of the A4 and damage the landscape in the region, once again a big discussion and no one has a simple answer.
Yes that part was a bit short through the bocht.
The quality and scale of dutch motorways, as well as the quality of driving is amazing.
Everyone moves right when done overtaking - no undertaking required. Australians need to see this as a lesson on motorway driving!
Great video! Loving the trance music as well.
Its only cold nordic pragmatism, with combination of great network of multilanes roads.
Hurry and agression on roads are useless.
But for example no speed limits restrictions are avalaible in Europe only on German motorways.
If you want to hit 300km/h on autobahn, no problem its your choice, but you must take resposibility if something goes wrong.
Hi. This is my first time on your channel. I enjoyed your Amsterdam video. I,ve never been to Europe. Amsterdam is so beautiful. I like seeing the office buildings next to the freeway. I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for videos!!!
The greatest highways I've ever seen in Europe. Spanish are great as well but Dutch a the greatest.
the north of Europe is much richer than the south, so everything is much better maintained in the north, and Spain is in the south of Europe, so all countries in the north have much better roads than in Spain
@@lorenzofernandes2482 That is not actually truth. I think Spanish roads are better than German or Belgian ones.
@@diogorodrigues747 In Spain and Portugal we combine great infrastucture and beautiful landscapes.
Awesome! Great to see the recently opened section between Rotterdam and Delft already in a video! :-)
The Autoroutes in the Netherlands are amazing. The infrastructure in some European countries look way better than America's infrastructure. Some of the motorways in the UK don't look that great and France's autoroutes look like the Netherlands. I don't know but every motorway/autoroutes in some of the countries in Europe look exactly the same. Plus, they have the same road signs. And the UK and Ireland drive on the left and countries on the European mainland drive on the right. Also, I notice the windmills along the Dutch autoroute. It shows countries in Europe are for clean energy and clean air. Looking at the A4 Autoroute (Motorway A4), the Netherlands' system of autoroutes are impressive fabulous roads with good signage (no east, west, north and south on the guide signs), ridiculously excellent cleanliness on and on the sides of the autoroutes (graffiti on the bridges) and good management on the infrastructure. It just shows countries in Europe are ahead of America on everything. Healthcare, education you name it. They are putting America to shame. Europeans are laughing at how America is. They laugh at Americans, bash them, make fun of them (signing the American idiot song), don't care about them by not giving them a passing thought, talk about all the problems America has and feel sorry for them by giving them pity. Someone from Poland told me the UK sucks. Well, the UK may suck, but together with other sane modern European countries, the UK and countries in Europe have their problems, but they don't have the problems that America has. Plus, Europeans aren't brain-dead, crazy, weird, anti-social, cliquish, narcissistic, paranoid, cold, dead, lifeless, mean, evil, toxic, stiff, unemotional, workaholic interchangeable undereducated, violent, heartless, cruel gaslighting robots like Americans are.
Great video of a Dutch autoroute.
The US doesn't have that great roads. Even Portugal has better roads than the US, according to the World Economic Forum.
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You forgot religious... nice rant 🤣
@@Blackadder75 , looks like I should of add that in. It wasn't on my mind. LOL.
Great video with all the engineering highlights (viaducts, tunnels)
Just like Germany's autobahns, the Dutch motorways have an impressive design.
Feeling nostalgic watching this since ive been working from home for so long damn😂
Really impressive, best of the highways of the world.
God, the progressive trance just makes things 100x better... thank you.
Netherlands is the state of trance music. xD
7:51 that guy is in a rush😂
Nederland, een van de beste autostrade en zeer duidelijk en proper 👍
Just sad to see all the graffiti along the Dutch main roads.....
World-class highways indeed👌
I was stationed in the US Army (AFCENT) in Brunssum, the Netherlands in 1968-1970 South (Limberg) province. There was the more older highways many two lanes. I was in the motor pool drove 1965-67 V-8 Chevy's, Ford pickups and Ford flat bed trucks you talking about driving crazy. We only had civilian vehicles since it was a small NATO military base. Driving on the German Auto bohn was the most fun. NO speed limits in many places.We would go 120 miles per hour as fast as the car would go mile after mile and in Belgium there was a there was a three lane the middle lane was a passing lane for both sides. Like playing chicken. The first car to blink the lights wins the passing and at times, we would go 110. We was young then. We should of got a ribbon for danger. The best time of my life. The Netherlands people was very nice.
Thanks for your service Frank! Appreciated from Holland.
Very impressive. There are few freeways of this caliber for such a distance in the USA. This most reminds me of some Ontario freeways in and around Toronto.
We have this quality nationwide, everywhere. In the lower density areas it will just be 4 (2×2) lanes but otherwise exactly the same high standards. What we are not good at is speed. We take ages to get something done, but once it's finally done it usually is good and lasts a long time
@@Blackadder75 roads in USA are uncomparable with roads in Holland, the quality of the concrete is terrrible in USA where dutch roads in general are smooth as butter. Every USA citizen which lived for a while in USA and every Dutch citizen in USA would for sure agree.
USA is not even close in road quality.
@@Inferi0r yeah, we have the best roads. some other EU countries also have good ones, like Spain
@@Inferi0r I agree (I'm American btw). The one thing I prefer about US interstates is that rural interstates were often designed in a more aestetically pleasant way, with wide forested medians, gracefull curves and rolling hills. They seem to blend in to the coutryside. However, interchanges are very often cluttered with commerce (motels, fuel stations, etc), which is rarely the case in Europe.
@@Blackadder75 Not true, A27 from Belgium to Utrecht is a big bottleneck 2x2 lanes with additional lanes in some area's has terrible conditions.
12:47 daar rechts stond rustig een Emirates A380 geparkeerd🥰
Great song choices. Love Trance 👍
European Roads this is great video on a sunny day in wonderful HD clearity im really enjoying this video thanks!
+robert cummings Thanks!
Better than US freeway such a classy engineering
This video was very unsettling. The speed reminded me of dreams where I was driving but the steering wheel wouldn't work and we kept going faster faster until hitting something.
This music is perfect for this video--anyone know what it is?
Ashes above and beyond
I love that 🇳🇱 uses the same typeface on its road signs as that used in 🇨🇦.
It's called bahnschrift, and is accually made in Germany (-:
Sybren Vellinga
In North America, it's called Highway Gothic.
Isn't actually the Netherlands use the same font as in the US? If you look closer to German bahnschrift, it looks very much different
rozak fassah
Canada and the US use the same font, Highway Gothic.
i dont how how simelar they are but 'our' font wsa designed by the ANWB (AAA). when our government took over placing the signs this lead to some problems because of copyright reasons.
The A4 between Schiedam and Delft is closed due to construction regularly, sometimes the entire weekend. Always check before departure.
Awesome ride, sir.
That's exactly how these videos should be done. Thanks
Nice vid! For what kind of traffic is dedicated the tube C on the Benelux tunnel? Emergency?
+astey highways (Autostrada) It was built as a reversible lane, but I doubt if it has ever been used as such. It's mainly used as a service route. It hasn't been a daily congestion spot so far.
Thank you for the explanation!
@@EuropeanRoads hij word gebruikt door scoters en brommers zodat die niet via de fiets tunnel hoeven
If your ever in Holland again, could you please please make a video driving the randstad circle !!at night!!, so Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht Gouda and Rotterdam again. I think that would be beautiful :)
Doe het lekker zelf. Aan je naam te zien kom je van hier. Krijg je van mij een like.
@@Hindelaufen heb nog geen rijbewijs :'(
Dutch Bicycle Roads by Stijn. Kan een hitje worden op YT. Succes. Limburg is heel mooi.
De Rotterdamse haven 's nachts.
Cool video. First thing I noticed - asphalt is perfect! In my country Russia bad roads is big problem.
What second song you used for? Because it is not pointed by you song - Dance Among the Ruins (Jaimie Fanatic 'BBoy' Mix)" by Tommie Sunshine... it's something another.
The second song is: Sasha, Krister Linder - Cut Me Down (Kastis Torrau & Donatello feat. Arnas D. Remix)
+European Roads, it's the same song, but male vocal, ou used female vocal. I looked and can't find the song with female vocal
Sorry, I pasted the wrong one :) It's Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes th-cam.com/video/uWGorOhCGlI/w-d-xo.html
+European Roads, yeahhh.... thank you =)))
Vladimir Evlentyev in the Netherlands they spend a lot of money of building or repairing roads hence why they look new.
Finally, this section of the highway,they completed
I find it quite similar to freeways and highways in Spain
Roads in NL are 10x better ang better maintained, signals system are also much clearer. They invest a lot in big infrastructure, check the new h.v. towers at 4:15. Otherwise food is 10x worst.
What's the name of the first song? It's beautiful...
+TGIF Productions Ocean Lab - Ashes
+European Roads Thx!
Is there a chance that the connection between both segments of A4 will be built and the road will be continuous? I think if there is no intention to connect them eventually, then the southern A4 segment should become part of A29 instead.
+Albert Calis This has been planned for over half a century, but never moved close to the construction phase. It's currently not seen as a priority, because A15 was recently widened from six to ten lanes to accommodate traffic from A4 to A29.
Looks like they won't. Better add the double number A4 - A15 and A4 - A29, as they did many times with other motorways. They are busy pushing A16 towards A13 (started 2019, opens 2024) and building A24 between A20 and A15 between Rotterdam and its port (opens in 2020 or 2021)
Wow. They have really fast cars in Netherlands. Going at least 300 mph.
The video is speed up.
Waarschijnlijk zal het deel Delft - Den Haag-zuid snel verbreed moeten worden vanwege het nieuwe traject. 2x2 is daar niet genoeg. Leuke video!
+H Hoef Dat denk ik ook. Gelukkig is er genoeg ruimte daarvoor. Deels is de verharding voor 3 rijstroken al aanwezig.
The motorways in the Netherlands are so unusual in parts nothing like in the UK....I assume this is because of the low lying coastal land in parts etc
How useful are the E signs/routes (E35, E25 etc)? Here in the UK the government can't be bothered to sign the E routes.
+04smallmj practically nobody ever uses them. They're never used by the media, traffic information or in government press releases or documents. Signage consistency also varies by country, I wouldn't recommend relying on E-numbers when driving through Europe.
+European Roads Interesting, thanks. Makes sense, I can't imagine that they're be very useful unless you're doing a European road trip.
+04smallmj For humor, just look at the route of E5 or E25 :) They're not logical routes for longer distances. Some E-numbers use sea routes where ferries don't exist.
Belgium only uses the E-routes on signs in favor of the A-numbers. It's a pretty usefull system but unfortunately some European nations have made the illogical choice to not properly implement them.
You can rely on them in some cases. For ewample E19 connects Amsterdam, Bruxelles and Paris.
most of beautiful highways in Europe is in Netherlands , @ drone videos
Elf jaar in Nederland gewoond, in the '90s. Nu al weer een tijdje terug thuis in the Patagonië. Hoop ooit nog eens een keertje kunnen komen bezoeken.
Patagonië? We kunnen ruilen hoor!
@@bartjuhh12 Doen we! Een paar maandjes zou wel fantastisch zijn ;)
Do you have before, after?
Is there a speed limit on A4? Mentioned was a constrained speed limit on a section of this video. Mike
+Michael W Stack
There is no stretch without speed limit in The Netherlands. There is a speed limit of 100 Km/h ( 63 Mph ) on Snelweg A4 near Amsterdam. The common speed limit on Dutch motorways is 120 Km/h, sometimes ( but pretty rare ) 130 Km/h. Greetings from a German trucker who has driven some hundred thousands km on Dutch motorways.
+Druckluftbremse Thanks: my TH-cam Netherlands train videos basically run at the top speed @120KPH
yes its variable, around rotterdam (first part) it was 100 km/h, second part is also 100km/h or 130km/h depends on the time and the last part till amsterdam is 130 km/h.
National speed limit is now down to 100km/h to limit particle emissions that are eliminated in the cat . Many people don't really obey and the government saw fit to install automated systems to fine offenders `to promote and enhance safety` but as you can see on a stretch of road like this the chances of a real bad accident are pretty slim and so the measures don't appeal to passers-by at all.
Incredible city of Rotterdam, this country used to colonize our country, Indonesia for approximately 3 centuries
@Vladimir Putin bla bla linkse zeur niet zo.
@Vladimir Putin The history of The Netherlands is very different as I thought. Also the Protestants suppressing the Catholics for centuries, while cities like Hamburg or Bremen were in 17th, 18th and 19th century much more liberal than Amsterdam with its "Schuilkerken". Also Limburg was for example basically a colony since its forced integration in The Netherlands until Thorbecke made an end to this absurd situation. In the embarrassing low amount of time which was spend in Luxembourg in Dutch History, especially when you think we were once part of it, it was just presented as a tolerant open-minded country of traders around Amsterdam.
Try riding the A4 between Den Haag and Leiden, around 8 am :)
I know it was expanded to 2×4 lanes, but there still traffic jams? Doubt.
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Wow, they drive really fast in the Netherlands
We have a 100 km/h speed limit 😭
You’re only allowed to drive at a maximum speed of 120-130 km/h between 19:00 and 06:00
@@clippower03 ikr it really sucks look at Germany they have more fun
@@yes8032 a hell of a lot of Germans want to get rid of the unlimited autobahn speeds. Because of much higher risks of fatal or massive injury because of these speeds. So yea, look again at Germany...
@@raymondk2202 oh no please I hope they won’t get rid of it I better start enjoying the autobahn right now
What is the speed limit on this particular motorway? 70mph?
J van der Kaas if I saw the signs correctly, I think the limit was predominantly 100 kph (60ish mph)
Most of the road has 100kph speedlimits between 6-19h and outside of that timeframe the national limit of 130 kph is in effect.
Oh that is interesting, time related speed limits. Here in New Zealand we have just the one speed limit for the entire time. Our motorways are unfortunately restricted to a maximum of 60MPH/100 km/h. There is calls for limits to be increased to 70MPH/110 km/h
The rule is somewhat confusing to quite a few people though. There's big signs saying 100 around the road with a smaller sign beneath it saying 6-19h, and some people don't know what it means. I imagine it's especially confusing for tourists that don't know what's going on.
That is a good point but we have the technology such as variable sign speed signs to overcome the confusion if it becomes a big issue.
A4 hebje ook bij Roosendaal
very nice, some impressive engineering there!
Mag je op de nieuwe snelweg tussen Rotterdam en Den Haag maar 100 het hele traject?
+ton van dijk helaas wel ja... Het is zelfs 100 vanaf Spijkenisse tot Burgerveen in deze video...
Neeee dat weer niet. Kijk normaal mag je 100 rijden op de snelweg maar ivm natuur en drukte is de snelweg voor een paar kilometer verlaagt naar 100. Dat heeft te maken met de uitstoot en de drukte op de A4 want het is 1 van de drukste snelwegen in Nederland
This surely wasn’t filmed during rush hour, because this road is daily cost in the traffic information on the radio
The section between ypenburg and N211 i think it is (at Den Haag).
I know the ring A4 at Rotterdam is very bad in terms of traffic ;).
Rijkswaterstaat released a video on TH-cam that shows a complete renevation in Den Haag !
@@1234hijs yup
@@jesperPLZ well this time we see it through the fingers.
@@1234hijs hahahaha
Delightful 😀
Buena imágenes, pero yo reclamo la velocidad de la cámara es muy veloz, me mareo.
Hi from GMA, Philippines' TV Channel. How can I reach you to formally send my request/permission letter to use your video? Thanks :)
Just use it, not that they're going to find out anyway
What is first name of short music?
0:43
Ik heb hier gereden in Euro Truck Simulator 2 Promods 2.30 :)
En dankjewel voor het me attent maken op die mod! Inmiddels geïnstalleerd.
@@SeverityOne geen probleem haha!
Même vos lignes à haute tension sont belles :)). Pas un tag, pas une publicité. C'est le pays de Trumann ? Je déconne, j'adore les Pays Bas et les Néerlandais.
What camera you use?
I drive from Den Haag A12 to northern Limburg A2 quite often, I should record it and send it to you sometime.
I drive from Maastricht to the Eindhoven area every day. From Luxembourg it was too far so I moved to Maastricht. As a student I lived in Den Haag for half a year, so I know that region too.
Botlek bridge is new!
16 lanes and 240K vehicles per day? Not equal to Highway 401 in Toronto, I think...
I thought Quebecois didnt like other Canadians with their superiority complex? :p ;-)
I’m an Ontarian, BTW!
@@Pyeknu Franchement?? With that last name? You sure? Or should I say 'Êtes-vous sûr de cela, monsieur Herriot?' ;-)
Car traffic is much lower in Europe in general because we actually have a good network of public transport as well and a better mix of residential and commercial zones so that many people live quite next to their work and don't need a car to commute
I drove here in massive traffic. I am from country Australia and the mental overload driving in Europe was immense. A Doctor said have a joint...but who can drive stoned except quiet countryside?
No doctor will ever prescribe drugs for driving, that s highly illegal. Anyway you get used to busy traffic and the roads and signs are AAA+ quality here
I love dutch highways, there are so cool, just like everything i saw in dutchland ;)
Thid vid is sick !I cant wait till im going to italy, i like highways for some reason, aleready know the road ill be going to italy from norway xD
bienvenue a Rotterdam 🌸🌹🌼
Het wordt tijd dat de A3 eens gebouwd wordt!
Dutch PublicTransport het word tijd dat ze de a4 naast leiden verbreden van 2x2 naar 2x3. Dat zou zo veel file schelen
Het wordt tijd dat jij je mond houdt
rubikfan1 Of het ontbrekende stuk van de A4 tussen knooppunt Benelux en Klaaswaal, zodat je van Amsterdam naar Belgie kan rijden over de A4 zonder omweg via A15+A29. Moeten ze wel het stuk A29 van Klaaswaal naar Heijningen hernoemen tot A4 zoals oorspronkelijk bedoeld was.
British Teeth Learn Dutch, toddler
2:55 They had to lower the streetlights to finally agree on building the highway.
Joking aside, the reason for the delay is that the Dutch compromise -and therefore argue- about EVERYTHING. Then, because of the devolved government there is in the Netherlands, there are a LOT of entities involved: the central government, the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat), the province of South-Holland, the various local councils, environmental and planning agencies... and then, obviously, there is a public consultation period where anybody can raise objections, which then have to be dealt with. Having said all that, 60 years of talking is excessive even by Dutch standards.
@@SeverityOne But in the end, it has a wonderful result for every party involved.
@@derkhaslol Well... the "Randstad" is an urban conglomeration of around 8 million people, easily rivalling large European cities. It translates to "Border City" and is formed by cities and towns such as Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
Within this rough circle, there is an area that is, relatively speaking, less densely populated, with a typical Dutch landscape comprising farms, fields, canals and cattle. It is called the "Groene Hart", or Green Heart, of the Randstad. The metaphor is that these are the "lungs" of the Randstad, and while it's more a metaphor than anything else, metaphors are powerful things, and a motorway going through the Green Heart is a sensitive issue.
Yes, the missing bit of the A4 should have been built decades earlier, but one could wonder whether we really need ever more and ever wider roads. Especially in this time of working from home and social distancing, and those 16-lane motorways are a lot quieter all of a sudden.
There is awesome infrastructure and technology in the Netherlands, especially when you consider that the entirety of this road trip is below sea level, but what you'll also notice is that there is very, very little greenery to be seen.
i dont care the road, i love the music. :D
Check out some sets from Paul Oakenfold around '99-'02 😏
I couldn't live in a country so flat: I need hills and mountains and lakes.
Lakes we have plenty : )
@@robeleco1
Very good!
We have a few mole hills in the south....
Nabij Apeldoorn zijn de enige "bergen" die je nodig hebt in Nationaal Park Veluwezoom.
Ik zeg bergen om niet te zeggen heuvels, want volgens mij is het hoogste punt van Nederland iets meer dan 300 meter.
Bij de Liedje van Bassie en Adriaan Wij Zijn Reuzen
I wish we would invest at least half as much into trains as we did into this. The cost of all this highway infrastructure is staggering.
The Netherlands actually spends considerably more on rail than motorways (relative to usage). Rail makes up almost half the budget while account for about 12% of travel.
music please?
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10:38 I live in Nieuw-Vennep :)
10:54 De Bus Dichtbij het Zwembad
A4.. so many traffic james during rush hour😵
Amazing sound track
Toll die Musik 🎶, danke
8:27 feels like the highway in dallas
We stole your Texan tunnel.
Merry Christmas Everyone and It was 2015 not today
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You should see this part of the A4 from the air mate. I'm from holland and I'm telling you This new road is almost invisible for the surounding living spaces. I mean: After you leave the new tunnel, that part of the road never comes above gound level. So from the suroundings you can NOT SEE this road. And if you see the bycicle-viaducts that go over the road, are from streetlevel on, so its on the same planes as the common roads surounding it. No need to go up a bridgehead or to go down when you cross those viaducts. It's frikking amazing. And then drving this road at night is thé absolute marvel. The lightnig of the road, the infrastucture is planned in way's you'd never come up with. for example, you never have the glaring of lights from oncoming traffic in the other lane. The guardrail and such, block the glaring. and the lights on the road are on perfect height. Just lighting the road and almost no light coming in the car. This road, I'm frikking in love with this road. All roads, íf made, should be made like that. Look it up on google.
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You wont believe it when you see it when driving there at night.
Excuse mefor the long rant. 🤣
Definitely USA roads bigger , semi truck all over . Id love to visit. I am a truck driver long haul don't see myself doing it in these roads.
No put holes your truck and tires last a 100,000 miles longer.
cool video!!🖒💶
I HAD EXPERIENCED IN HOLLAND AND AMSTERDEM. I LOVE HOLLAND