In the national cycling counting week Vredenburg in Utrecht was the busiest cycle path in the Netherlands in the last two years. 37,000 people pass on a working day on a bicycle. This is what that looks like.
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I used to think I was a fairly skilled cyclist. Now I realise I'm Level 1 and the Dutch are Level 10.
Seriously, I'd be furious with some of the moves pulled in that video, but you guys are so expert that you're actually chill with it. Huge respect!
Greets from Manchester, UK.
less fat people compare to trumptopia
Really nice , that means health.
I feel like a traffic light system would work better. Bike turning left looks like an accident about to happen
Not a single helmet! I love it!
Where's the twat in a bmw texting, speeding, unable to keep in lane and building up for a road rage ?
Oh it's the Netherlands, those types are controlled by a daily opium pipe or two.
If cycling was like this over in Britain many wouldn't feel the need to dress as lemons and oranges with stupid over priced lycra and helmets.
Looked way cooler in 1966
It is crazy how cool and intrested i am in this. Should be everywhere in the world where (big) cities exist
i love how some of the more obvious immigrants were biking as well. just lovely.
There's always one: 2:06 squeak squeak
Now I want to live there ❤️
Looks like true mass cycling in the 1930s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgSuV42klcQ
!:53 I spot an American tourist.
The thing with the 1966 view is that you'd think it would be 5 bicycles to 1 car for the same amount of people, but because everyone has a different journey, often you only have 1 or 2 people in a car, so the road is needlessly busy.
You can also hear a lot more nature sounds as it is considerably quieter save for the occasional 2 stroke scooter sound, though i am not sure how necessary they are to roll along at 10 mph on the flat.
Imagine if most of them were using cars! It would be noisy and the air would be worse, and it'd need way more space for automobiles.
They need to widen the cycle path and add more lanes! 🙂
Just imagine the noise and pollution if these were all cars.
There were some using mopeds. Is it allowed.
4:19 Jesus dude.
Einfach ganz große Klasse, so-etwas bekommen wir Deutsche nicht hin. Schade. Bei uns ist man leider nur aufs 🚗 Auto fokussiert 😢.
cycling is such great exercise. I bet 90% of the population is clinically fit.
I really want more videos like this. It’s really calming and it’s just so interesting to watch. Please make more and make them longer than an hour!
The woman in brown making a left turn (at 4'18") did a niffy maneuver which would have started a fist fight here in the US but it bothered nobody over there
Bf would use a bike trailer to go shopping with. 😎
Just imagine some funny Architects deciding to replace the junction with a roundabout…
As a comparison: the busiest overall road in the Netherlands is the A10, the highway that circles Amsterdam, which carries somewhere between 100k and 200k cars per day on average, depending on where you count. If you add up all of the lanes that pass through there, you get 14 lanes. Now not all of those lanes are A10, but it's still a pretty damn busy intersection.
So this one bike path, with no signals, no special raised intersections, no runoff areas, no massive right-of-ways, is able to carry a traffic load that doesn't quite match, but is pretty damn close to, the amount of traffic passing through massive highways, at a fraction of the cost, with a fraction of the required footprint, and being a lot more safer and pleasant to be around. Imagine an 8 lane highway passing right next to your house, and compare it with this.
Utrecht in general is one of the best places to bike. It also has the biggest and busiest train station in the Netherlands, and due to its central location the rest of the country is very easy to reach by train. So the train station empowers those cyclists to get anywhere in the country easily and comfortably.
As a Dutchman, I take this stuff for granted some of the time. I just take it as self evident that you can take the bike somewhere safely and quickly.
Aaaah, it's so quiet!