[Ep. 1001] Riding a bicycle in the centre of Berlin, passing some of the city’s important landmarks.
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Woah, that looks stressful compared to the Netherlands. All the commercial billboards trying to sell bicycles (2:11 or 4:52 for instance) strike me as cynical jokes.
Nice to see my small hometown here 😉 While it is not comparable to the Netherlands, I still enjoy doing all trips by bike, it definitely is possible. Love your channel, greetings from Kreuzberg!
As a Berliner: sorry that you had to endure this infrastructure. There just so much bad or unsafe stuff around and I have no big hopes with the new gov that it will get better soon. It is just sad how carbrained Berlin is.
I am surprised how little traffic there was – especially compared to the crazy videos from Paris Active Towns currently has 😅 Sadly I haven't seen any part where they have really build a bike lane under current standards.
Só posso dizer que tenho inveja desse seu lindo país. Aqui no Brasil, não se tem um mínimo de respeito com o ciclista e com os pedestres no trânsito: o carro sempre tem prioridade, ele "passa por cima" se for preciso. Sem contar com os motociclistas que alteram os escapamentos das motos e as tornam demasiadamente barulhentas. Aqui a sensação geral é todos contra todos, uma terra sem lei. Seu país é lindo, espero um dia poder conchecê-lo.
There being so few protected bike paths is severely disappointing for the city of Berlin's status. And many access streets are needlessly wide for the amount of traffic they're carrying. They could use with narrowing and general traffic calming. Seems that motorist are still favoured by the city planners there.
Unfortunately, there’s a long way to go, and the current government isn’t helping. Still the new bike infrastructure is quite wide and relatively comfortable and there’s a big bike culture in Berlin – there aren’t any cities this big with this much bike traffic I know of. I ride my bike here everywhere, not a thing I would do in every city. Still bike paths are narrow and not in the best shape, bikelanes are missing, people drive here not very cautiously and there’s a lot to do.
They seem to have a lot of space to do something, which we tend not to have so much in the UK. And I assume they have more societal and political will for change than we do in general too. Since Germany takes green policies more seriously in the mainstream than Brits do. Or at least the British media. The actual working class British population probably do want change on balance, but we won’t get it. Berlin might.
The bicycle infrastructure in Berlin (and Germany as a whole) can hardly be described as such because it is not safe. In Berlin alone, 7 cyclists have died in accidents so far this year. After the elections, politics in Berlin was taken over by the conservatives (CDU), who are even reversing planned and implemented cycle paths (I highly recommend the video of extra3 to this topic)… The situation will therefore not improve. In Germany, only the car as kind of transport has priority…When I want to experience good infrastructure I spend my holiday in the Nederlands.
English isn’t an easy language and I’m sorry to say, you came across two of the nastier bits. Trough is pronounced “troff”. And the “th” sound is not common in Dutch. Hence the title should read “… through…”. Sorry!
the cherry on top of the bad infrastructure is the aggressive driving of the car drivers with close passes and too much speed. They are all driving as if they are delivering a transplant for a heart surgery. If this is on a Sunday, it is nuts. There should be a ban on cars for Saturdays and Sundays in cities. Only required services allowed to use a car (i.e. ambulance and police etc.)
Although a lot of people here write that they think it's dangerous. Actually, I find it to be pretty good quality and safe. But it's true that it's infrastructure that assumes knowledge of traffic laws and knowledge of driving in traffic (which should be must have).
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Hey BicycleDutch it would be nice if you could include where do you start/end on a map of Berlin.
Nice video!
Woah, that looks stressful compared to the Netherlands. All the commercial billboards trying to sell bicycles (2:11 or 4:52 for instance) strike me as cynical jokes.
Nice to see my small hometown here 😉 While it is not comparable to the Netherlands, I still enjoy doing all trips by bike, it definitely is possible. Love your channel, greetings from Kreuzberg!
30:07 is scary. This is really infrastructure that kills people, why someone think this is a good design for a bike path?
As a Berliner: sorry that you had to endure this infrastructure. There just so much bad or unsafe stuff around and I have no big hopes with the new gov that it will get better soon. It is just sad how carbrained Berlin is.
I am surprised how little traffic there was – especially compared to the crazy videos from Paris Active Towns currently has 😅
Sadly I haven't seen any part where they have really build a bike lane under current standards.
Só posso dizer que tenho inveja desse seu lindo país. Aqui no Brasil, não se tem um mínimo de respeito com o ciclista e com os pedestres no trânsito: o carro sempre tem prioridade, ele "passa por cima" se for preciso. Sem contar com os motociclistas que alteram os escapamentos das motos e as tornam demasiadamente barulhentas. Aqui a sensação geral é todos contra todos, uma terra sem lei. Seu país é lindo, espero um dia poder conchecê-lo.
15:40 What are those😮 moped cars? 1 seat soap boxes?
Anyway/Wie auch immer, nicht schlecht. Saubere Straßen, guter Asphalt, es hat Potenzial.
There being so few protected bike paths is severely disappointing for the city of Berlin's status. And many access streets are needlessly wide for the amount of traffic they're carrying. They could use with narrowing and general traffic calming. Seems that motorist are still favoured by the city planners there.
Well that looked pretty unpleasant and frequently unsafe, lots of improvements needed.
I would love to see the same route during rush hour
There is enough space!
Unfortunately, there’s a long way to go, and the current government isn’t helping. Still the new bike infrastructure is quite wide and relatively comfortable and there’s a big bike culture in Berlin – there aren’t any cities this big with this much bike traffic I know of. I ride my bike here everywhere, not a thing I would do in every city. Still bike paths are narrow and not in the best shape, bikelanes are missing, people drive here not very cautiously and there’s a lot to do.
Now i seen this i understand why german people prefer to wear a helmet when they are bycicling.
They've got quite a mish-mash of different infrastructure types for biking. Still better than a lot of US cities
Where are the bikes? Country with almost 80 mln people and you showed us one ,maybe two or three ,cyclist in the first half hour on dangerous roads!🤨
They seem to have a lot of space to do something, which we tend not to have so much in the UK. And I assume they have more societal and political will for change than we do in general too. Since Germany takes green policies more seriously in the mainstream than Brits do. Or at least the British media. The actual working class British population probably do want change on balance, but we won’t get it. Berlin might.
The bicycle infrastructure in Berlin (and Germany as a whole) can hardly be described as such because it is not safe. In Berlin alone, 7 cyclists have died in accidents so far this year. After the elections, politics in Berlin was taken over by the conservatives (CDU), who are even reversing planned and implemented cycle paths (I highly recommend the video of extra3 to this topic)… The situation will therefore not improve. In Germany, only the car as kind of transport has priority…When I want to experience good infrastructure I spend my holiday in the Nederlands.
First 90 seconds, 9 car rental brands.
English isn’t an easy language and I’m sorry to say, you came across two of the nastier bits. Trough is pronounced “troff”. And the “th” sound is not common in Dutch. Hence the title should read “… through…”. Sorry!
the cherry on top of the bad infrastructure is the aggressive driving of the car drivers with close passes and too much speed. They are all driving as if they are delivering a transplant for a heart surgery. If this is on a Sunday, it is nuts. There should be a ban on cars for Saturdays and Sundays in cities. Only required services allowed to use a car (i.e. ambulance and police etc.)
Although a lot of people here write that they think it's dangerous. Actually, I find it to be pretty good quality and safe. But it's true that it's infrastructure that assumes knowledge of traffic laws and knowledge of driving in traffic (which should be must have).
Graffiti on a vehicle at 24:35, is that unusual?
Certainly wouldn’t be a thing here, yet..
Berlin is truly a lost cause.
Ive cycled a lot in Berlin as a dutch person who lives in Berlin
I'm Italian. Compared to italian cities (especially south italian cities), Berlin is the safest city for cycling I have ever seen.