Cool video! Too me, as a Dutchman, I took Dutch (cycling) infrastructure for granted. But due to videos by Not Just Bikes, Bicycle Dutch and yours I learned how exceptional it actually is.
@@MilkANDMagic I also took it for granted and now realize how important it has been in my childhood. Infrastructure like this gave us kids so much freedom because we were all able to move around the city safely and on our own without coming into contact with cars much. The freedom to explore without parental oversight is so important for kids development. I'm grateful to have had it.
What I've learned from accidently turning on auto caption: "cycle path" REALLY sounds like "psychopath" and even "cycle pat" and "slightly hot". Also, the wind, your panting and the buzzing of a moped are "(music)".
Utrecht has a huge infrastructure budget (high density city). Where I live, a more rural town, are not quite that fancy, more narrow, and less underpasses. But problably still amazing compared to the rest of the world.
@@markuserikssenbut speed is the reason for most accidents. That means speed kills. It is all the same for you, I really don't like mopeds on the cycle path, they cause accidents...
Important aspect in the dutch way of living with bikes is, that besides the infrastructure, most people are driving a car and a bike. So they know how to use a road in NL from both prospectives. And that is in other countries not common because they have not that tradition!
You're really lucky! Here it's car car car, more road for car only. Bicycle are on the side of the road, among the potholes and manholes, and in the shittiest possible condition.
@@grostire yeah that sucks. We even had a car road in the middle of our city until 5 years ago. They destroyed it and made a canal instead, to bring back nature and lower the temperature in the city. I'm proud of our city Utrecht to make that decision :)
@@kingmickey666 Love Utrecht lived there in 2005 for 6 months. was an foreign student/worker in a water treatment research facility. Loved going to work with my bike along the water. It was a good way of life.
He would get the full bill for the repairs of that bridge in NL. Simple Rule: you disobey the traffic rule => you pay all damages caused. This also holds for any accidents you caused of damage to others. And unless YOU can PROVE that it was an accident: no insurance payout.
I live in argentina and they recently repaved a street where i live. All of the asphalt in this video appears to be in better condition that the one week old asphalt near my house.
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971 Then you need to go and live in Africa for example. There they pay the least tax so that must be the best place to live for you.
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971 If you have more money you're able to pay more tax. If you pay a good amount of tax it means you're doing well, it means you have money. Also you get a lot in return when you pay tax, such as good bicycle lanes and good roads which are a lot safer then in most other countries. You can be happy to have all that.
@@ferdinandpipers3814 True, but when the area is naturally flat in general it's more efficiënt to go down about 3,5 meters with cycling paths than it is to go up about 6 meters in order to cross over the road. For roads themselfs the choice to go over or under strongly depends on the situation.
Don´t forget that with an underpass, you get to pick up speed which you can use to get to ground level again. With an overpass, you need to ascend without the bonus speed which costs way more energy
The other great thing about the cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands is how in general it's continuous, now I realize that you took somewhat of a specific route on this ride so this might not reflect a real ride (It seems to me like you may have ended up doing 3/4 of a big circle pretty much, which isn't a riding route people would usually take, in general it's a straight-ish line or at most a quarter of a circle), but that doesn't change the continousness of the infrastructure much. In this whole ride there were really only 2 spots where you had to actually put your foot down, everywhere else you rode without having to stop and even the spots where you came to a stop could usually be done without stopping by merely slowing down and coasting before getting to the crossing.
@Tennoio Was a bit curious as well; this is the route: Start at the big roundabout at Utrecht, t Goyplein. Take the street called ‘Vaalserberg’, then onto the fietspad to the street called ‘Oeral’ and onwards on ‘Hondsrug’. Straight on towards ‘Tussen de rails’ and the underpass under the railway station Utrecht Lunetten. Left on the Maarschalkerweerdpad and finally left on the Koningsweg. You can see how the streets near the railway station have been improved, as Streetview (for now) still shows a previous situation when there was no underpass.
@@maaiker2977 Google Maps misses a lot of cycle paths I noticed in my own neighborhood. Google Maps cycle route was almost 2.4 km longer than reality... it missed 200m of actual cyclepath, constructed in the 1970's. I tried to solve that 3 times with Google Maps, but still not in their cycleroute planning. I noticed the same in other places.
And here I am in the US risking my life every time I ride my bike. Most Americans vehemently oppose sharing the roads with bikes (and of course they oppose financing bicycle infrastructure)
They don't realize it would make their car trip better. Every cyclist is a car driver less on the road. You may withness that in The Netherlands.. NotJustBikes made items about it. Creating good bicycle infrastructure is a cheap contribution to better car traffic.
Monday, August 1, 2022 This is so cool to ride along, virtually speaking, and see all the bicycle friendly paths! 🌳🚵♂🚵🌾🎋🐇🌳 I am half Dutch and I love Dutch culture! Thank you much for making the video. 😀
Me at 0:30 "this feels like Lunetten" .... happy to see at 4:30 I still recognise my city from a few seconds of footage. 5:27 for that area? nah... wide enough. Not much foottraffic at that point. Build according to need. Money doesn't grow on trees.
Meh, you can't have pretty bike lanes everywhere (too expensive), nor are they needed everywhere. There are residential areas in the Netherlands with a speed limit of 30 km/h, and with low-density and infrequent traffic, meaning it's safe to bike there without bike lanes(mainly because there's very little space due to parked cars on both sides of the street).
Dutch cycle roads are amazing. Dutch cyclists on the other hand...not so. In particular those mountainbikers and racing bikers (a-la Tour de France) have a tendency to be quite rude if you don't get out of the way fast enough
The colour of the asphalt, or part of it, has no legal significance. Only when the bicycle image is added it becomes a legally privileged part of the road for cyclists only. Other vehicles driving or parking there are in viaolation. Another option is seen at 0:53 where the sign in the upper right signals it is a mandatory bicycle path.
@@betamonu I'm in a wheelchair, I dont cycle anymore. When I was younger, I would cycle just for fun from Amsterdam to Utrecht and back. My longest trip was 180km from Emmen to amsterdam. It's ashame I can't cycle no more but I enjoy videos like yours a lot too. Ps. I didn't mean to offend you.
It differs hugely by municipality. Some are making it just lousier for cyclists with every change. Like wasting money on paved paths without any foundation. Courts should step in like in Germany to disable the mandatory status of these horse trails maskerading around as bike paths.
True. bicycle riders in Amsterdam treat road signs, traffic lights and -rules as mear suggestions. Unless they are to their benefit, then they are applied and used with fanatical conviction. LOL🤣😉
@@CarlHarwatt You never seen the hordes of middle aged morons in lycra suits on their racing bikes terrorising people on sidewalks, roads and bicycle paths.
Odd. I remember a guy driving by me whilst opening the door on me. Also just a few days ago. A man roaring at me for using a roundabout on a mostly pedestrian street. That guy seemed like a psychopath to me.
Cool video! Too me, as a Dutchman, I took Dutch (cycling) infrastructure for granted. But due to videos by Not Just Bikes, Bicycle Dutch and yours I learned how exceptional it actually is.
I wish I was in the Netherlands but alas I am not. Enjoy your infrastructure!
This infrastructure is needed in every major city in the world.
bro cycling there is a dream, im so sad i have nothing like that in my country
@@MilkANDMagic I also took it for granted and now realize how important it has been in my childhood. Infrastructure like this gave us kids so much freedom because we were all able to move around the city safely and on our own without coming into contact with cars much. The freedom to explore without parental oversight is so important for kids development. I'm grateful to have had it.
What I've learned from accidently turning on auto caption: "cycle path" REALLY sounds like "psychopath" and even "cycle pat" and "slightly hot". Also, the wind, your panting and the buzzing of a moped are "(music)".
HAHA! I heard the same...
yeah, but try to watch more youtube vids that way and you gradually go insane.
auto gen captions are so much fun to read! lmao
Hahahahahah! Here too.
I once watched a Danish video that TH-cam subtitles thought was Dutch. The outcome was hilarious. I watched it over and over
The auto captioner is talking about psychopaths, now I can't get it out of my head anymore...
i heard exactly the same , dutch psychopaths instead of dutch cycle paths 😂😂😂 , but hey lets be fair , we dutchies can be psychopaths 😉
Utrecht has a huge infrastructure budget (high density city). Where I live, a more rural town, are not quite that fancy, more narrow, and less underpasses. But problably still amazing compared to the rest of the world.
Even many country in europe aren't as good (i am italian and i can say at least one for sure)
At 10:35 "this is an example of everything not being perfect in the Netherlands" - yet still enviable infrastructure from point of view from the UK!
more so from the U.S.
Not perfect indeed, but not too bad either. A lot of speed bumps, so cars can't drive fast.
That's because of the old trees along the road otherwise something would have been done about this.
@@markuserikssenbut speed is the reason for most accidents. That means speed kills. It is all the same for you, I really don't like mopeds on the cycle path, they cause accidents...
This crossing will hunt me in my dreams, terrible! 😅
Important aspect in the dutch way of living with bikes is, that besides the infrastructure, most people are driving a car and a bike. So they know how to use a road in NL from both prospectives. And that is in other countries not common because they have not that tradition!
As a dutch person I find it surprising how this is new to the rest of the world. I took it for granted.
You're really lucky! Here it's car car car, more road for car only. Bicycle are on the side of the road, among the potholes and manholes, and in the shittiest possible condition.
@@grostire yeah that sucks. We even had a car road in the middle of our city until 5 years ago. They destroyed it and made a canal instead, to bring back nature and lower the temperature in the city. I'm proud of our city Utrecht to make that decision :)
@@kingmickey666 Love Utrecht lived there in 2005 for 6 months. was an foreign student/worker in a water treatment research facility. Loved going to work with my bike along the water. It was a good way of life.
In my country, a motorist would disobey the sign for no entry to the timber bridge for which their car would fall through. The end.
If that one motorist would not do it again after, I guess that means lessons learned?
This made me laugh
He would get the full bill for the repairs of that bridge in NL. Simple Rule: you disobey the traffic rule => you pay all damages caused. This also holds for any accidents you caused of damage to others. And unless YOU can PROVE that it was an accident: no insurance payout.
I live in argentina and they recently repaved a street where i live. All of the asphalt in this video appears to be in better condition that the one week old asphalt near my house.
Trust me, if you pay the tax we do, you would rather have bad tarmac lol
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971 Then you need to go and live in Africa for example. There they pay the least tax so that must be the best place to live for you.
@@riesjart1000 What is that kind of logic? do you even know the tax rates in the Netherlands?
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971 If you have more money you're able to pay more tax. If you pay a good amount of tax it means you're doing well, it means you have money. Also you get a lot in return when you pay tax, such as good bicycle lanes and good roads which are a lot safer then in most other countries. You can be happy to have all that.
@@riesjart1000 You don't even know the Dutch tax rates, and how the revenue is mismanaged, stop preaching me lol
Well that was a nice tour around my own neighbourhood (lunetten, utrecht). Nice to see something you take for granted through somebody elses eyes.
Underpasses are indeed way more efficient than overpasses.
Depends on the sitaution. The fewer gradient, the better
@@ferdinandpipers3814 True, but when the area is naturally flat in general it's more efficiënt to go down about 3,5 meters with cycling paths than it is to go up about 6 meters in order to cross over the road. For roads themselfs the choice to go over or under strongly depends on the situation.
Don´t forget that with an underpass, you get to pick up speed which you can use to get to ground level again. With an overpass, you need to ascend without the bonus speed which costs way more energy
@@WiardiVK That's also a very good point.
And an underpass means less wind which is also a huge bonus in The Netherlands.
Quite funny that the subtitle says psychopath instead of cycle path lol.
But in all seriousness, only the Dutch have done it properly
I need to come and ride in the Nederlands. It looks like amazing infrastructure.
Do it.
its great
We are so used to this infrastructure, we just take it for granted.
The other great thing about the cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands is how in general it's continuous, now I realize that you took somewhat of a specific route on this ride so this might not reflect a real ride (It seems to me like you may have ended up doing 3/4 of a big circle pretty much, which isn't a riding route people would usually take, in general it's a straight-ish line or at most a quarter of a circle), but that doesn't change the continousness of the infrastructure much. In this whole ride there were really only 2 spots where you had to actually put your foot down, everywhere else you rode without having to stop and even the spots where you came to a stop could usually be done without stopping by merely slowing down and coasting before getting to the crossing.
* P S Y C H O P A T H S*
I wish there would be a map in the end that showed the route taken!
The map is any cycle path in the netherlands. Better to stay out of the holland provinces if you dont want to be tourist trapped by popular cities.
We got apps for that. Even a GPS kind of app that will tell you where cycle to and where you are in real time.
@Tennoio
Was a bit curious as well; this is the route:
Start at the big roundabout at Utrecht, t Goyplein.
Take the street called ‘Vaalserberg’, then onto the fietspad to the street called ‘Oeral’ and onwards on ‘Hondsrug’.
Straight on towards ‘Tussen de rails’ and the underpass under the railway station Utrecht Lunetten.
Left on the Maarschalkerweerdpad and finally left on the Koningsweg.
You can see how the streets near the railway station have been improved, as Streetview (for now) still shows a previous situation when there was no underpass.
Thank you) The railway underpass got me confused at first. Great addition to a beautiful city~
@@maaiker2977 Google Maps misses a lot of cycle paths I noticed in my own neighborhood. Google Maps cycle route was almost 2.4 km longer than reality... it missed 200m of actual cyclepath, constructed in the 1970's. I tried to solve that 3 times with Google Maps, but still not in their cycleroute planning. I noticed the same in other places.
Great vid thanks. Love your accent too, but to my ears I can't stop giggling at your appreciation of the amazing Dutch "psychopaths" ....
The subtitles on this are hysterical
cyclepaths ... psychopaths lol
@@rensbuist I've heard Dutch cyclists are psychopaths
Psycheling trough Lunetten and at the trough Koningsweg.
great video, id say a voice over recorded later would make it so we can hear you better cause the audio isnt great
Nice, Lunetten.... that's where I live.
And here I am in the US risking my life every time I ride my bike. Most Americans vehemently oppose sharing the roads with bikes (and of course they oppose financing bicycle infrastructure)
They don't realize it would make their car trip better. Every cyclist is a car driver less on the road. You may withness that in The Netherlands.. NotJustBikes made items about it.
Creating good bicycle infrastructure is a cheap contribution to better car traffic.
nice...if I stayed there, I would be cycling every day..
How can any of these people feel FREE without driving a car?!? (sarcasm)
Monday, August 1, 2022
This is so cool to ride along, virtually speaking, and see all the bicycle friendly paths! 🌳🚵♂🚵🌾🎋🐇🌳
I am half Dutch and I love Dutch culture!
Thank you much for making the video. 😀
Me at 0:30 "this feels like Lunetten" .... happy to see at 4:30 I still recognise my city from a few seconds of footage.
5:27 for that area? nah... wide enough. Not much foottraffic at that point. Build according to need. Money doesn't grow on trees.
It maybe me, but every time you say ‘cycle path’, l hear ‘psychopath’.
it's also in the subtitels, whe're not that weird here ....lol
Meh, you can't have pretty bike lanes everywhere (too expensive), nor are they needed everywhere. There are residential areas in the Netherlands with a speed limit of 30 km/h, and with low-density and infrequent traffic, meaning it's safe to bike there without bike lanes(mainly because there's very little space due to parked cars on both sides of the street).
Did you watch the video?
I am dutch and i was always thinking it was everywere on the world ...but Not
would I give to able to do this for my work commute every day
Dutch cycle roads are amazing. Dutch cyclists on the other hand...not so. In particular those mountainbikers and racing bikers (a-la Tour de France) have a tendency to be quite rude if you don't get out of the way fast enough
We all hate em, your not alone ;p
What suburb?
Netherland nice than England and very clean
The colour of the asphalt, or part of it, has no legal significance.
Only when the bicycle image is added it becomes a legally privileged part of the road for cyclists only. Other vehicles driving or parking there are in viaolation.
Another option is seen at 0:53 where the sign in the upper right signals it is a mandatory bicycle path.
You don't sound like cycling much, do you? I hear you huffing and puffing a lott. Lol
Lol… What age are you?
@@betamonu I'm in a wheelchair, I dont cycle anymore. When I was younger, I would cycle just for fun from Amsterdam to Utrecht and back. My longest trip was 180km from Emmen to amsterdam. It's ashame I can't cycle no more but I enjoy videos like yours a lot too.
Ps. I didn't mean to offend you.
It differs hugely by municipality. Some are making it just lousier for cyclists with every change. Like wasting money on paved paths without any foundation. Courts should step in like in Germany to disable the mandatory status of these horse trails maskerading around as bike paths.
Never in Ireland. You need planning and competence for such designs.
wow
Nice psycho path 😜😝🤪
I like how out of breath this guy sounds cycling at 10km/h
Dude, its sounds like your out of breath and cycling on a very old bike with wooden tires....;)
Yup it is a cycle path so don't pronounce it like psychopath. 😂
We do have smooth psychopaths
Considering that a lot of bicyclists actually behave like psychopaths the subtitles to this video are pretty accurate.
True. bicycle riders in Amsterdam treat road signs, traffic lights and -rules as mear suggestions. Unless they are to their benefit, then they are applied and used with fanatical conviction. LOL🤣😉
There seem to be far more psychopaths driving cars than riding bikes.
@@CarlHarwatt You never seen the hordes of middle aged morons in lycra suits on their racing bikes terrorising people on sidewalks, roads and bicycle paths.
Talking about those lycra idiots you see in other countries mostly.
Odd. I remember a guy driving by me whilst opening the door on me. Also just a few days ago. A man roaring at me for using a roundabout on a mostly pedestrian street. That guy seemed like a psychopath to me.
Sound is terrible
God, I'm so envious. That would be near impossible to build in North America
We paid for it with tax money...be carefull what you wish for lol. 40% income tax, 10 dollar a gallon for petrol, 21% tax on food ect.
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971
Fine to point out everything comes at a cost. But keep your facts straight. Food has 9% vat in the Netherlands.
@@ronaldvb3663 How do you call btw in English?
@@itsokaytobeaselfhatingjew5971 Tax Added Value???(Belasting Toegevoegde Waarde)
@@computeraddic675 Lol close , i just remembered it's VAT (value added tax/goods and services tax).
I'm afraid to ride by myself in DTLA.
Your name say it all civid 19 lol
people who believe that crap are all afraid ;p
@@dimrrider9133 Los Angeles California is a very dangerous city. FYI
@@covid19deltaextrarewardspr88 its a dems city
@@dimrrider9133 ya! Like Republicans right wing run city's are any better.