As to why the cycling paths are yellow. The architect determined that the red looks of conventional cycling paths don't really fit in the street view of the surrounding city. For example the town hall and historical post office have these old sandstone and granite looks. The designers of the new infrastructure projects in the city centre decided that these dark-yellow cycling paths fit in the surrounding environment much better! + As a bonus, the asphalt mix that has been used is a lot more durable than the mix that is normally used.
Because almost every cycle Lane in the country is red, pedestrians keep walking on the yellow ones on coolsingel and I find it really annoying when I cycle there
@@UrbanCyclingInstitute The bike tunnel has another tunnel below for walking only. That tunnel was the first in the world made with in parts with they sunk to the bodem. After it was complete it almost got blown up by the resistance in the war to prevent the Germans from using the tunnel. car tunnel (Maastunnel)
@@letheas6175 good point, but how can a reason to keep something of great impact to a certain subject be to check out another video. The whole idea of this video is that you don't have to do your own research on transport in Rotterdam right?
It may be but I remember taking the tram to Alexander (for musicians that's a logical destination) instead of the metro simply because I wanted to see the town. For people in town, metro is faster and sure enough, when I needed to be near Ahoy on time I took the metro instead.
Holy shit I've never wanted to party so hard while watching a UCI video. The transitions and music timed with the video is A+ work. Loving how this channel is going.
Those wooden escalators in the tunnel were actually the longest escalators in the country for 70+ years untill Amsterdam put longer ones at the trainstation of the "Noord-Zuid" line
Okay I gotta say... the shots from 4:08 are gorgeous. I have often seen skylines in movies from many American cities or other cities who have skyscapers and all that. But I have never seen the Netherlands highlighted like this. And I have to agree, it looks fantastic! These are great shots!
Not even 30 secs in and I am enjoying this video very much 🤣🤣 keep up the great production design!! Really makes me miss my trip to Leiden back in Fall 2016 😄🥰🚲🇳🇱
You can blame previous presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a massive keynsian and dumped cash into his cronies in the car industry with his socialist economic policies that favoured cars and lorries/trucks over all other forms of transportation...
Same my friend! If a city like this existed in the US I would move there tomorrow. It actually seems like a big opportunity for someplace in the US to really stand out and be that place...
It would be great if you would explain why you give a particular score and what the city should do in your opinion to score higher. It would give some more insight.
Lovely. Like the program Top Gear, you could also fit each city into what place it gets on the ranking of all cities thus far. And if smart link to those for more views. ;)
You had a fun day it seems :-) I wonder though how to get 5/5 on the sharing aspect. What more would you hope to see?
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Exactly. Hell, Rotterdam is one of the few cities where you can even get a cargo bike through an app. The only thing that's missing is, IDK, a helicopter sharing system?
Very unclear video. You don't really show anything well. Yes, the aerial shots are nice, but three seconds of the bicycle tunnel doesn't give me a good picture.
Nice video! Definitely want to go there sometime, i was in the Hague this summer. Perhaps you can review Bremen, its the best city over 500k in Germany to cycle (ADFC Radklima), so that'll be very telling of German bike infrastructure in general. Spoiler: there's still a lot to do but we're heading in the right direction. I can also show you around if you contact me
I'm so glad I'm not from either of those cities. Now I can enjoy them both without prejudice (I do understand it's a joke though, but for many people it is the sad reality that they'll never be able to appreciate the other city for what it is)
Please come to Dublin. It would be very interesting to see how we’d score. Only thing I don’t like about the Netherlands is the scooters in bike lanes. It seems like a recipe for disaster, and has potential to negate much of what’s good about Dutch active travel.
@@jeroenmeijer1062 mopeds are just as dangerous. I don’t care about the technicalities. Mopeds, scooters, impossible to police. If you continue to allow their use in areas set aside for active travel, you will kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
You should go to Zwolle, we were just awarded with being the best cycling city in the world by some website. Just beware that apart from the train station we have only a poor bus service as public transport and even though we have lots of cycle routes the city is banning cyclists from entering the city center.
@@DarkDutch007 Its the same city that didn't like people improperly parking their bicycle, so their brilliant solution was to remove all bicycle parking alltogether.
@@bastiaan4129 Can it be that the person(s) that awarded this title to Zwolle made an error with a roughly similar name, idk... Zeewolde perhaps? and picked the wrong place? About 40km ish apart from eachother in the (upper)center of the country Both starts with a Z and both has WOL in the name, easy to see someone mix up the 2.
He's also looking at it as a foreigner. The OV-fiets thing has been changed to a 'plan' (abbonement) so you need a personal OV card. While I don't think that being a Dutch (or even European) citizen is a requirement, it's a little more difficult to get one as a tourist since it needs to be mailed to a Dutch (or possibly Belgium or German) address.
@@tiaxanderson9725 yeah good point . That's probably part of their business model :) but still you can (or could ?) Rent a bike the conventional way for a Day and probably still be cheaper off (with more comfort )
I think it's a bit silly to judge the transportation of a city by the touristy parts of the city. For example, cycling is great everywhere in Rotterdam, besides the city center. And the public transport is generally really good with one big area where it's bad: the poorer south of the city.
The Utrecht region has the best long-range serious bicycle infrastructure. With "serious" I mean as a real alternative for the car for home-work travel. The worst is the wider Maastricht region, where bicycling is more for sports, but not for daily commuting. Same counts for the quality of public transport in both regions.
I hate cycling over the Erasmus bridge for the sole reason that when you have crossed it, there will always be a red traffic light. You build up all that energy to get to the top but never get the benefit of using all that energy because you always have to brake for traffic. I prefer the Willems bridge where at the very least you get to spend all that energy before you have to stop.
love that they have bike and foot path all over the city. wish my city and surrounding areas had better bike paths. having several different architectures in the same area is a bit much and makes it look a bit gaudy. they should have spread them out more.
Pity you totally missed the Rotterdam Metro system and the specifics of the Blaak station with 3 transportmodes on 3 different levels ; tram, train and metro. maybe a case of PPPP ? ( Preperation Prevents Pispot Performance)
You lost me at the score Public transportation 5/5 butt cycling and walking 4/5??????? You're aware that you need to drive, cycle or walk where public transportation doesn't go So how the hell can PT get 100% butt cycling and walking only 80%?
I believe it is about how welcoming and inviting the mode of transportation itself is. My guess is that he experienced cycling and walking as less convenient compared to the trams, especially given his experience with other Dutch cities. Are paths too narrow? Distances too long? Crowds too chaotic? Road situations too troublesome? I don't live in Rotterdam, but if he feels that the infrastructure doesn't help as much as it could and should, then it makes sense to lower the points awarded.
sorry to burst your bubble but the metro is the king in Rotterham, I don't like Rotherham, it's too chaotic for me, I happily chose my quit Limburg over Rotterdam anytime.
There's a reason for that. In a country where we actually really love old architecture, we chose the most destroyed cities as having the modern archicture. Those are Rotterdam and Eindhoven and they have beauty of their own, if you know what to look for. For historic cities, you can pretty much visit any other Dutch town! I recommend Maastricht, Deventer and Utrecht.
You do know why it looks that way, right? Had it not been deliberately and comprehensively destroyed by German bombs in WW2 (to force a Dutch surrender), it would look very different indeed. There were certainly mistakes made (the focus on prioritising cars in the post-war decades being the biggest by far), but there is much to appreciate for anyone who actually takes the time to notice it in the first place.
Modern architecture I think can look pretty good but unfortunately most modernist buildings look out of place in the area they are built in but by the looks of Rotterdam, the buildings fit in pretty well (I've not been there before so maybe not so much on a human scale) and so I don't see much of a problem here and at least they (hopefully) aren't tearing down canal-side buildings in Amsterdam built over 100 years ago now are they...?
@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials Rotterdam is very much a city for those prepared to experience it as it actually is, rather than for those who would judge simply for what it cannot be. There is a lot old history of preserved…and also new history that has been created. It definitely rewards the patient and persistent traveller, for sure, especially those who understand that it is more than just its CBD. 👌
You forgot also to mention the waterbus (public transport service which uses the waterways and connects efficiently to the surrounding vilages, cities and sights) (www.waterbus.nl/en/). There is also the watertaxi which, as it's name suggest, an efficient taxi service which usses the same waterways (the watertaxi's are visible on almost all of your videos which show the water) (www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/).
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As to why the cycling paths are yellow. The architect determined that the red looks of conventional cycling paths don't really fit in the street view of the surrounding city. For example the town hall and historical post office have these old sandstone and granite looks. The designers of the new infrastructure projects in the city centre decided that these dark-yellow cycling paths fit in the surrounding environment much better! + As a bonus, the asphalt mix that has been used is a lot more durable than the mix that is normally used.
Thanks! Pinning this
Because almost every cycle Lane in the country is red, pedestrians keep walking on the yellow ones on coolsingel and I find it really annoying when I cycle there
Official Tour de France routes in the city are also painted in yellow with signs in the middle
@@fluffych1cken I never had this happen.
Red looks so much better than this yellow
Nice video, but I am a bit surprised you don't even mention Rotterdam's extensive metro system, the biggest and most useful one in the country.
Great point - for an in-depth historical explanation of Rotterdam, check out this video by Not Just Bikes! th-cam.com/video/22ovt1EMULY/w-d-xo.html
@@UrbanCyclingInstitute The bike tunnel has another tunnel below for walking only. That tunnel was the first in the world made with in parts with they sunk to the bodem. After it was complete it almost got blown up by the resistance in the war to prevent the Germans from using the tunnel. car tunnel (Maastunnel)
@@UrbanCyclingInstitute that's not a reason why you kept it out of your video
@@abelkoenen7377 Only ever a valid thing to claim if you know someone personally and know their reasoning behind things.
@@letheas6175 good point, but how can a reason to keep something of great impact to a certain subject be to check out another video. The whole idea of this video is that you don't have to do your own research on transport in Rotterdam right?
Not the trams but the metro is the King of the transit system. The metro is way faster than the tram.
It may be but I remember taking the tram to Alexander (for musicians that's a logical destination) instead of the metro simply because I wanted to see the town. For people in town, metro is faster and sure enough, when I needed to be near Ahoy on time I took the metro instead.
@@PendelSteven there isnt a tram going to alexander you used the metro wich at that point runs above ground
Holy shit I've never wanted to party so hard while watching a UCI video. The transitions and music timed with the video is A+ work. Loving how this channel is going.
Those wooden escalators in the tunnel were actually the longest escalators in the country for 70+ years untill Amsterdam put longer ones at the trainstation of the "Noord-Zuid" line
Okay I gotta say... the shots from 4:08 are gorgeous. I have often seen skylines in movies from many American cities or other cities who have skyscapers and all that. But I have never seen the Netherlands highlighted like this. And I have to agree, it looks fantastic! These are great shots!
Correct! Rotterdam has that! It's a city fairly nearly to me that I love
Not even 30 secs in and I am enjoying this video very much 🤣🤣 keep up the great production design!! Really makes me miss my trip to Leiden back in Fall 2016 😄🥰🚲🇳🇱
Man the production quality in this video is fantastic!
I wish the US had cities like this.
Nope we have to sit In traffic and turn what would be a 10 minute walk into a 12 minute drive. No wonder we have an obesity problem.
You know what? I'm Dutch, but I also wish US had cities like this.
You can blame previous presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a massive keynsian and dumped cash into his cronies in the car industry with his socialist economic policies that favoured cars and lorries/trucks over all other forms of transportation...
@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials Great story bro.
Same my friend! If a city like this existed in the US I would move there tomorrow. It actually seems like a big opportunity for someplace in the US to really stand out and be that place...
It would be great if you would explain why you give a particular score and what the city should do in your opinion to score higher. It would give some more insight.
Excellent tip!
I've lived my entire life in Rotterdam, and I've never noticed the bike tunnel.
I always thought that it was just an ordinary building
Beautiful city
Lovely. Like the program Top Gear, you could also fit each city into what place it gets on the ranking of all cities thus far. And if smart link to those for more views. ;)
3:05 That editing is awesome
You had a fun day it seems :-) I wonder though how to get 5/5 on the sharing aspect. What more would you hope to see?
Exactly. Hell, Rotterdam is one of the few cities where you can even get a cargo bike through an app. The only thing that's missing is, IDK, a helicopter sharing system?
Trams on grass - very civilised.
I love this.
your production quality in next level. I think your editor should submit his application to Michael Bay!
Amazing video and amazing city. I wonder how come everything seems so spread out compared to other Dutch cities. 🤔 Thanks for the video.
That would be because the city center was completely leveled through a bombardment on may 14 1940.
Very unclear video. You don't really show anything well. Yes, the aerial shots are nice, but three seconds of the bicycle tunnel doesn't give me a good picture.
and WATER TAXI's, the best thing ever.
Rotterdam is world city!
Nice video! Definitely want to go there sometime, i was in the Hague this summer. Perhaps you can review Bremen, its the best city over 500k in Germany to cycle (ADFC Radklima), so that'll be very telling of German bike infrastructure in general. Spoiler: there's still a lot to do but we're heading in the right direction. I can also show you around if you contact me
Nice video. We own the saving of the Laurenskerk to mr. A.H. himself, after the bombing in may 1940.
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Never ever use the 'A'-word in Rotterdam. (very soft whisper: I mean A- A- Amsterdam. Can barely get that out my throat)
Do you mean 020?
I'm so glad I'm not from either of those cities. Now I can enjoy them both without prejudice
(I do understand it's a joke though, but for many people it is the sad reality that they'll never be able to appreciate the other city for what it is)
the bike paths are more brown in Rotterdam to suit better in the scenery (usually more brick buildings along those streets)
If you miss a number on the route, you can use multiple apps on your phone.
You can even use the number system to get back to your planned route, simply turn around and follow the numbers again.
Please come to Dublin. It would be very interesting to see how we’d score. Only thing I don’t like about the Netherlands is the scooters in bike lanes. It seems like a recipe for disaster, and has potential to negate much of what’s good about Dutch active travel.
Maybe a video you would like, a Dutch bike channel goes to Dublin and shares his thoughts on it: th-cam.com/video/IvyfW_1Gxi4/w-d-xo.html
Scooters actually aren't allowed in bike lanes within the city limits. Only mopeds (
@@jeroenmeijer1062 mopeds are just as dangerous. I don’t care about the technicalities. Mopeds, scooters, impossible to police. If you continue to allow their use in areas set aside for active travel, you will kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
@@agaistin They're more annoying than dangerous, I hope we can ban at least the ones that use fuel and produce fumes and smell bad.
@@agaistin mopeds have the same max speed as electric bikes.
Dude, you didn't take a watertaxi.
You should go to Zwolle, we were just awarded with being the best cycling city in the world by some website. Just beware that apart from the train station we have only a poor bus service as public transport and even though we have lots of cycle routes the city is banning cyclists from entering the city center.
awarded being the best cycling city in the world, bans cyclist from entering the city center....
@@DarkDutch007 Its the same city that didn't like people improperly parking their bicycle, so their brilliant solution was to remove all bicycle parking alltogether.
@@bastiaan4129 Can it be that the person(s) that awarded this title to Zwolle made an error with a roughly similar name, idk... Zeewolde perhaps? and picked the wrong place?
About 40km ish apart from eachother in the (upper)center of the country
Both starts with a Z and both has WOL in the name, easy to see someone mix up the 2.
@@DarkDutch007 Elke stad in Nederland is de "best cycling city in the world"
The Lime/ Uber E bikes are outrageous price wise. For a Day trip indeed stick To the OV-bikes.
He's also looking at it as a foreigner. The OV-fiets thing has been changed to a 'plan' (abbonement) so you need a personal OV card.
While I don't think that being a Dutch (or even European) citizen is a requirement, it's a little more difficult to get one as a tourist since it needs to be mailed to a Dutch (or possibly Belgium or German) address.
@@tiaxanderson9725 yeah good point . That's probably part of their business model :) but still you can (or could ?) Rent a bike the conventional way for a Day and probably still be cheaper off (with more comfort )
@@berberbro That's also fair
Maybe if you did a city that would score bad like brussels or bruges belgium
I think it's a bit silly to judge the transportation of a city by the touristy parts of the city. For example, cycling is great everywhere in Rotterdam, besides the city center. And the public transport is generally really good with one big area where it's bad: the poorer south of the city.
Do Utrecht please 😁
Coming soon ;)
The Utrecht region has the best long-range serious bicycle infrastructure. With "serious" I mean as a real alternative for the car for home-work travel. The worst is the wider Maastricht region, where bicycling is more for sports, but not for daily commuting. Same counts for the quality of public transport in both regions.
I hate cycling over the Erasmus bridge for the sole reason that when you have crossed it, there will always be a red traffic light. You build up all that energy to get to the top but never get the benefit of using all that energy because you always have to brake for traffic. I prefer the Willems bridge where at the very least you get to spend all that energy before you have to stop.
And why is everything in Rotterdam named after Erasmus. I get you guys are proud of him but seriously, it's getting silly.
You missed the new Fietstraat along Coolsingel?
No, that's the yellow one, right?
What is the point of this mobility score?
love that they have bike and foot path all over the city. wish my city and surrounding areas had better bike paths.
having several different architectures in the same area is a bit much and makes it look a bit gaudy. they should have spread them out more.
Love the fact we have bike path all over the country, everywhere.
Pity you totally missed the Rotterdam Metro system and the specifics of the Blaak station with 3 transportmodes on 3 different levels ; tram, train and metro.
maybe a case of PPPP ? ( Preperation Prevents Pispot Performance)
No mention of Feyenoord? Are you from the Dam, just slumming it for the day?
Haha, there's also Sparta, just saying... :)
You lost me at the score
Public transportation 5/5 butt cycling and walking 4/5???????
You're aware that you need to drive, cycle or walk where public transportation doesn't go
So how the hell can PT get 100% butt cycling and walking only 80%?
I believe it is about how welcoming and inviting the mode of transportation itself is. My guess is that he experienced cycling and walking as less convenient compared to the trams, especially given his experience with other Dutch cities. Are paths too narrow? Distances too long? Crowds too chaotic? Road situations too troublesome? I don't live in Rotterdam, but if he feels that the infrastructure doesn't help as much as it could and should, then it makes sense to lower the points awarded.
sorry to burst your bubble but the metro is the king in Rotterham, I don't like Rotherham, it's too chaotic for me, I happily chose my quit Limburg over Rotterdam anytime.
I'm leaving this comment instead of a like as a token of my appreciation for the person/people behind this video #nolikeswithoutdislikes
Dislike for modern architecture.
There's a reason for that. In a country where we actually really love old architecture, we chose the most destroyed cities as having the modern archicture. Those are Rotterdam and Eindhoven and they have beauty of their own, if you know what to look for. For historic cities, you can pretty much visit any other Dutch town! I recommend Maastricht, Deventer and Utrecht.
You do know why it looks that way, right? Had it not been deliberately and comprehensively destroyed by German bombs in WW2 (to force a Dutch surrender), it would look very different indeed. There were certainly mistakes made (the focus on prioritising cars in the post-war decades being the biggest by far), but there is much to appreciate for anyone who actually takes the time to notice it in the first place.
Modern architecture I think can look pretty good but unfortunately most modernist buildings look out of place in the area they are built in but by the looks of Rotterdam, the buildings fit in pretty well (I've not been there before so maybe not so much on a human scale) and so I don't see much of a problem here and at least they (hopefully) aren't tearing down canal-side buildings in Amsterdam built over 100 years ago now are they...?
@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials Rotterdam is very much a city for those prepared to experience it as it actually is, rather than for those who would judge simply for what it cannot be. There is a lot old history of preserved…and also new history that has been created. It definitely rewards the patient and persistent traveller, for sure, especially those who understand that it is more than just its CBD. 👌
@@dl4608 yes & thank you for the explanation
You forgot also to mention the waterbus (public transport service which uses the waterways and connects efficiently to the surrounding vilages, cities and sights) (www.waterbus.nl/en/). There is also the watertaxi which, as it's name suggest, an efficient taxi service which usses the same waterways (the watertaxi's are visible on almost all of your videos which show the water) (www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/).