What a huge city. :) The signs are clear, and easy to read, and I like that. I appreciate your dedication to putting out these wonderful videos of your travels around Europe. Thank you for showing us another part of Amsterdam, even if we drove around in "circles" ;) Keep up the fantastic work, and can't wait for the next one. :) One old gal from Canada. :)
It's funny you say huge city, Amsterdam is actually really tiny for a capital city. The route shown is only 30km long. In comparisson, the beltway of London is is about 190 km long. Paris has multiple ringroads, the inner one is 30km long, the second one 80km long. In Rome the the ringroad is 68 km long.
You have to realize that I'm a small town gal. :) The nearest place to me, is a small village of 1000 people. Our nearest "city" is 50 km away and has around 40k people. I live in a small province in Canada, and my nearest neighbours are as follows: 1. field of cows, 2. hermit, 3. my Mom. :) ooh and there's a few bear and moose, deer, a rabbit and other assorted wild animals. To me.. any city over 40k is big. ;)
Dana Chappell I lived in Canada. That country has the same population as Tokyo and it’s the second largest country by land area, so I wasn’t surprised by your reaction to Amsterdam. It has about the same population as Montreal, which is a huge city by Canadian standards
I live in Atlantic Canada, and none of our cities compare to Montreal, or even Toronto for that matter of fact. My whole province wouldn't even fill 1/4 of either one of those cities. lol I'm a country gal, and my nearest neighbours are sheep, cows, my mom, a hermit, and one idiot (whose village kicked him out) lol.
There are smaller capital cities in the world. And if you look at the urban area instead of the city proper, it’s actually pretty big. And it keeps growing. Population aside, Amsterdam has all the metropolis characteristics when it comes to big city life :) I understand where you’re coming from Dana. I had the same feeling growing up in a provincial town in the Netherlands. When I was young, Amsterdam was my definition of the ‘big city’. Once I got older I was able to travel the world and go to places that have suburbs the size of Amsterdam :D But I will never forget that feeling I had a a kid. I still live in this provincial town, but thanks to the small size of our country and a dense road and rail network a bigger place is always nearby if I need some true city life :)
@Doffy Rob I am a Dutch citizen and have been in Vietnam 2 yeats ago. And as far I can speak the Vietnamese roads around cities are from a great quality, vetter than the Belgian roads...
It's planned to start in 2019. It's a complex project with a railway corridor in the median and office buildings right next to the motorway, while at the same time keep traffic moving.
The city’s main arterial roads. Several have a (partial) motorway layout (multiple carriageways, grade separation) others are or become more like avenues or even plain big streets. Especially the center of Amsterdam is not intended to be attractive for cars, so getting too close is somewhat discouraged.
@Fietsen in Enschede e.o. Are you sure that's not just a coincidence? In The Hague the S-roads have numbers like S100, S101 etc. as well, but that doesn't correlate to the postal codes.
It's because of speed control. The speed limit there is 100km/h (62mp/h). If you go into a tunnel you gain speed because of going down, so if you still have your foot on the gas while going down, you could easily reach 130km/h (81mp/h). So your speedticket would be around €230 ($266). So that is why they all brake.
@@brian5154 you should travel more, at least then you will have an idea what others do. No, they do not have 'the best roads'. They tend to build more roads because the country is just trough route to Germany.
What a huge city. :) The signs are clear, and easy to read, and I like that. I appreciate your dedication to putting out these wonderful videos of your travels around Europe. Thank you for showing us another part of Amsterdam, even if we drove around in "circles" ;) Keep up the fantastic work, and can't wait for the next one. :) One old gal from Canada. :)
It's funny you say huge city, Amsterdam is actually really tiny for a capital city. The route shown is only 30km long. In comparisson, the beltway of London is is about 190 km long. Paris has multiple ringroads, the inner one is 30km long, the second one 80km long. In Rome the the ringroad is 68 km long.
You have to realize that I'm a small town gal. :) The nearest place to me, is a small village of 1000 people. Our nearest "city" is 50 km away and has around 40k people. I live in a small province in Canada, and my nearest neighbours are as follows: 1. field of cows, 2. hermit, 3. my Mom. :) ooh and there's a few bear and moose, deer, a rabbit and other assorted wild animals. To me.. any city over 40k is big. ;)
Dana Chappell I lived in Canada. That country has the same population as Tokyo and it’s the second largest country by land area, so I wasn’t surprised by your reaction to Amsterdam. It has about the same population as Montreal, which is a huge city by Canadian standards
I live in Atlantic Canada, and none of our cities compare to Montreal, or even Toronto for that matter of fact. My whole province wouldn't even fill 1/4 of either one of those cities. lol I'm a country gal, and my nearest neighbours are sheep, cows, my mom, a hermit, and one idiot (whose village kicked him out) lol.
There are smaller capital cities in the world. And if you look at the urban area instead of the city proper, it’s actually pretty big. And it keeps growing. Population aside, Amsterdam has all the metropolis characteristics when it comes to big city life :)
I understand where you’re coming from Dana. I had the same feeling growing up in a provincial town in the Netherlands. When I was young, Amsterdam was my definition of the ‘big city’. Once I got older I was able to travel the world and go to places that have suburbs the size of Amsterdam :D But I will never forget that feeling I had a a kid. I still live in this provincial town, but thanks to the small size of our country and a dense road and rail network a bigger place is always nearby if I need some true city life :)
Just drove today to Amsterdam from Bruges. I was impressed with the roads.
Much better than Belgian roads
@Uswatun Khasana Nice!
@Doffy Rob I am a Dutch citizen and have been in Vietnam 2 yeats ago. And as far I can speak the Vietnamese roads around cities are from a great quality, vetter than the Belgian roads...
Just wanna say thank you for putting these videos out. Love it!
Thanks!
@@EuropeanRoadsdo more but the other side
this one is really really slick. Especially with all those skyscrapers along the freeway!
What skyscrapers? I didn't see any, only saw some office buidlings.
Greetings from Copenhagen. Wish we had a motorway all around the city like that.
Great video!
When they will start building that tunnel that you mention at 02:30?
Amazing video by the way ;)
It's planned to start in 2019. It's a complex project with a railway corridor in the median and office buildings right next to the motorway, while at the same time keep traffic moving.
It is called the Zuidasdok. Impression video: th-cam.com/video/TwVVTuaKmw4/w-d-xo.html
Is now already almost finished!Car traffic underground,train above and no noise anymore from the road.Road is the A9.
@@computeraddic675 nah that's a different one, this is the A10 Zuidas. But yes, the one on the A9 is now finished and nice!
Whats the name of the intro song please?
. Was this clockwise or anti clockwise? I suspect, errm, the former?
Clockwise yes
This was probably filmed on a Sunday..Normally much more traffic!
@Uswatun Khasana I have looked to your "highway"in Indonesia...It is laughable to compare this A 10 highway to that road!!
I assume the "S" routes are city highways, right?
we call them stadsweg here
The city’s main arterial roads. Several have a (partial) motorway layout (multiple carriageways, grade separation) others are or become more like avenues or even plain big streets. Especially the center of Amsterdam is not intended to be attractive for cars, so getting too close is somewhat discouraged.
@Fietsen in Enschede e.o. Are you sure that's not just a coincidence? In The Hague the S-roads have numbers like S100, S101 etc. as well, but that doesn't correlate to the postal codes.
Berliner Ring also calls A10 lol
When seeing the motorways around Amsterdam at first, you think you were in America... It was in 1995.!
Rochdale? Seriously?
9:30 going into the tunnel, people start beaking for no reason.
It's because of speed control. The speed limit there is 100km/h (62mp/h). If you go into a tunnel you gain speed because of going down, so if you still have your foot on the gas while going down, you could easily reach 130km/h (81mp/h). So your speedticket would be around €230 ($266). So that is why they all brake.
@@SuperDaddyWasabi
So you think you get a ticket in the tunnel????No,the police in the Netherlands is not that dumb.
@@computeraddic675 Dat denk je
@@SuperDaddyWasabi people use cruise control and plus no one presses the fas pedal down
@@SuperDaddyWasabi There is no speed control on the A10 tho..
It starts with: Rotterdam 😅
I've been rade. Holland just has two highways only. Is true?
Netherlands has highways throughout the land. Considered best infrastructure in the world.
@@brian5154 exactly the best system roads in the world
@@brian5154 agreed
North or South?
@@brian5154 you should travel more, at least then you will have an idea what others do. No, they do not have 'the best roads'. They tend to build more roads because the country is just trough route to Germany.