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References & Further Reading
Build the Lanes
https://www.youtube.com/@buildthelanes
My Street Was Rebuilt – Build the Lanes
Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they’re everywhere) [ST05]
The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks – Continuous Sidewalks
Klinker (steen) – Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinker_(steen)
Time Lapse Road Construction in Russia
How are baked klinkers made?
Hoe worden gebakken klinkers gemaakt? – Bestratingsweb.nl
Pakketteren gebakken klinkers in Amsterdam
Vieze klinkers weer schoon met de STENENWASSER
Het nieuwe straten maken
Machinaal h klinkers leggen
VB Bestratingen herstelt historische klinkerweg machinaal met Tiger-stone
Stratenmaker van 74 jaar
RoadPrinter Bricklaying Machine, paving the easy way
https://www.youtube.com/@roadprinter/videos
Historical Photos of Grote Market Haarlem
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/EA5A54BFA39642B785124657D5DDD3E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/BFC3FBB14A124EE687125DD3495E81E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/3D24F8509106491FA7B44E0BAD270B55
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/EA5A54BFA39642B785124657D5DDD3E8
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/6DE714A2C90048B19690BE6CEF499DD5
ZOAB
https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/wegen/wegbeheer/aanleg-wegen/zoab
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In limburg heeft men al langer straten met klinkers omdat er veel verzakkingen waren vanwege de mijnen. Groetjes
Blaming cars is always right!
Wait you live near Vondelpark? The eating must be good from complaining about cars!
My admiration for the Dutch keeps growing under the loving eye of your videos.
3:23 that is so dutch
"you can't tell if they were dug up at all" sometimes yes, mostly no. they done the fiber in my street and they just chuck m back and you end up with a terrible street untill the "real" paving company fixes it. eventually.
I live in a place where they try to follow you're type of European design. In the best case scenario a new neighborhood is built sometimes huge sidewalks on both sides. The road entrance/exit to neighborhood narrowing to one lane causing terrible traffic jams during rush hour. It takes a half hour to go from your neighborhood to the next by car sometimes and bussing and walking about as bad. Within a year of building the neighborhood they tear up all the pavement to repave the road and replace the sidewalk with those bumpy bricks. This is done with imported cheap labor. In some neighborhoods people regularly park there cars and drive on the 12 meter sidewalks. The bricks/clinkers are often damaged when left in huge roundabouts for a month. And the speed bumps cause the motor mounts on vehicles to wear down faster then normal.
19:09 your pronounciation is pretty close, except for the first diphthong.
Wikipedia IPA says 'uitrit' is œytrɪt.
16:30 We do have some stroads, but you'll only find them at a 'industrieterrein' or industry area. Here you sometimes get 50 km/h roads with acces to destinations. But they typically don't have any shops or anything, just industry (who would've guessed)
I did actually see those machines laying large sets of tiles once in practice!
8:11 Hey there, I heard you talking about Dutch cities replacing dug up asphalt with klinkers and I thought I could maybe give a little insight in how that process works.
The reason they do that is because of the city council. To make work more efficient, they will go around one time in the year/once every two years with an asphalt truck to fill up all the holes that have been dug up. This means that the contractors breaking up the (mostly small) parts of asphalt, don't have to hire an asphalt truck and crew to fill up the small holes they make arround the city. This means works will be more cost effective and done faster.
klinkers have saved thousands of lives. they are great!
and cost many broken wrists because in winter its more slippery than ice. like 10 times more slippery than ice.
Great video! It's still baffling that the road in front of my house (Drenthe countryside) is a 2m wide affair asfalt road with a 80 kph speed limit (even though more than half of the people do over 100 kph, motorway speeds. Unfortunately, not all areas are as modern and safe in the country yet. Out here it's like it's still the early 90s 😂
Talking about street constructions, right now there is a big construction going at a major road here in Nijmegen, and what they are changing is something the US would never do.
Its a 3 lane road on both sides with a big area where roads go in all directions, and at the junctions there is cycle and pedestrian paths crossing it, with traffic lights.
Right now they are completely redesigning it, and the spots where bicycles and pedestrians have to cross the road will become tunnels under the road, the whole flow of traffic will be adjusted as well.
Really curious how it will be when done, it has partially been done due to there being a new small train station near it now, and it will improve flow and safety for those going to neighbourhood De Goffert, especially when concerts/festivals are held there.
The bricks are fired so hot they get glassified, which makes them klinkers but also gives more resistance. I remember seeing a wall (part of some building) of thick glass cubes, and I feel as though it is more resilient than concrete.
Whenever you cut to U.S./Canadian roads from the Netherlands I immediately feel an instant regression.
It’s like going from future to medieval times 😂😂…….😢
18:35 that "subconscious message" never worked in my home city in Ukraine – Lviv. On the contrary – people are quite ok to drive well above 60 km/h over a cobblestone street producing deafening noise (over 80 dB). I doubt the US drivers would be different.
nice video on dutch vowels, learned a lot
I've seen the brick carpet machine (road printer) in use about 5 years ago in a town in the east of the netherlands, when they were repaving a bunch of roads all at the same time.
Here in Berlin, we have plenty of bike lanes made of klinker. And I absolutely hate them, if they use larger plates. Even if maintained properly, which they seldom are, the drag they produce at the tires is horrible. It highly depends on the pattern they are using. There are patterns I actively avoid when driving my racing and city bike. With my fully suspended mountainbike, I don't really care. And don't get me started on cobblestone roads. There is a district in my part of Berlin, where the bikers drive on the sidewalks, because the gaps between the stones are the size of the width of biketireS. I reported these issues years ago. Nothing happens. You don't even get a response from the maintenance department.
wow. it's incredible to see how well designed city streets can be! inspiring stuff
This channel is bad for me because it just makes me sad and angry. You and I both know Its not like I can do anything to make America look like the Netherlands.
It's like watching mansion house tours, "wow look how nice things could be, too bad I can't even afford rent this month."
I can confirm that they put asphalt in my parents neighbourhood some 35 years ago. This is now being replaced by klinkers! Nice video even for a Dutchie!
2:10 Makes me think of the Hardtack meme from Tasting History with Max Miller.
Fascinating and it all makes sense, although personally I think the increased road noise is a big sacrifice even if the traffic is relatively light. 🤔
Neighbors be like: "Schat, de Canadees staat weer stoepranden te filmen!"
Canadian flag's cameo spotted at 18:00
1:10 I wonder if there is a channel similar to this one for Portugal. Portuguese cobble is beautiful, but it is a nightmare when wet and unmaintained, which is the state of a lot of it throughout our country. That said, the places where we have "clinkers" are only better when they're new. I somehow tripped over 5 times while watching this video 😛
3:30 You are in the middle of the bike lane bruv
Klinkers look sooo nice 🙂
7:41 channeling JaboodyDubs
13:42 the bricks you talk about here are also used at the sides of really small country roads, so the grass at the side of the road won't completely be destroyed with big pools of mud when two cars pass each other. So the road is made wider without actually making it wider
16:37 zoab asphalt has another great feature. It also absorbs water, so in rainy contitons (and it rains a lot here) there is almost no water vapor blocking your view
My dad has told me that a good number of streets in Erie, PA used to have tiled bricks instead of asphalt because it was easier to rip and replace when needed (which is often especially after the winter season cause the roads get destroyed by how much snow we get). He always claimed the real reasoning they replaced all the brick road with asphalt was because they wouldn't have to pay people as much since repairing it would just be filling in holes with blobs.