How modern Dutch cycle routes are seamless

so regarding psychopaths in the netherlands there is just something i want to talk about it’s the smoothness of connections on cycle routes not just psychopaths this is a bicycle street where it’s only really local access for cars of course but the red asphalt here is a signal that it’s a bicycle street and then it’s not a place where cars are priority there’s also speed ramps narrowing at the junction but this is a key part this now turns into a psychopath they’ve removed the bollards here because they become redundant eventually ah they’re actually refracted rather than move but anyways and then psychopath segregated slightly hot meat in the middle like that and we’re back on to the bicycle street which has access to residence parking this particular street used to just look like a very uk and irish filtery permeability scheme where there’s a baller i’d say it’s a normal it’s a normal residential street but it was updated in the last couple of years and now it looks more like a seamless cycle route now you might want that everywhere but you need it some places you need roots and here we have [Music] and it continues on into a mini town center in the suburban utrecht and we’re now back onto bicycle street and it’s seamless so this isn’t a scary place people are walking on the road okay and of course dutch drivers are not angels so it really is the infrastructure that matters now this is again no entry for uh motorists going at least in this direction it’s only one way for motorists to wait for cyclists and we’re back onto a cycle pat now in a second with this side all right again it’s actually a non-priority crosstalk and crossing a psychopath and onto another second and a railway underpass loads of bicycle parking at suburban station of course and we’re underneath and a psychopath true and an underdeveloped area undeveloped area [Music] so footpath could be better here but most people cycle so in a way we have to try better and we can we can do both now i know some people say they don’t like underpasses but to go over that railway would be a hell of a ramp and then to get over the wires and everything while an underpass gives you a bit of speed going down a bit of momentum and then it’s not half as hard going back up especially when the railway wasn’t elevated what i said that we couldn’t do better and we can do better for pedestrians even in russia which is here this morning there’s very few pedestrians so it’s really a matter of building for the context and being pragmatic about it is that’s small but there’s no need to go overboard in criticism too it’s actually a tram not a railway [Music] and this is a two-way cycle pad on one side of the street because it makes sense there’s nothing on the other side of the street here there’s no really there’s no real access requirements on that site i think beta pragmatism is really beneficial ready the entrance detail here is important psychopath continues straight across the private entrance awesome again i hope i could be a bit wider and this there’s actually ample space for here as well just down a little bit it does not be due to it so there’s lovely segregation here from the road which is not a primary road but it’s a true road and even at that there’s a pinch point in a single uh pinch point where the cycle route goes over we’re gonna raise crossing and then at the first junction where we are kicked back onto the road onto the street onto the cycling here’s a raised junction and this is an example of everything not being perfectly but it’s reasonably low volume drop and there’s also speed traps which are recycling friendly speakers they’re more like mini speed tails okay that’s a big one though so i’m going to leave this video here i hope my voice wasn’t too annoying i know i usually don’t do them thanks for watching