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The population density in the Netherlands is comparable to the coastal areas of the US. Just cut out the 90% in the middle thats endless corn fields. It would be possible, and profitable, for coastal US states with large urban areas to follow the same model. The argument it cant work in the US because the country is too big is nonsense. Just do it in the areas that are densely populated. Having safe biking infrastructure and functional public transport reduces commute times for everyone, which in turn means people have a better quality of life and are more productive at work. Investing money in this type of infrastructure is good for the economy and generates huge returns. Thats why the Netherlands keeps investing hundreds of millions a year into making this infrastructure better. We would lose money not doing it.

Americans are already using the Metric System. Since around 1990? When you buy an SSD into your home computer, or just handle a file size, you don't use the following fictive imperial units: • 1 binch = 25 bytes • 1 boot (pl. beet) = 305 bytes or 12 binches and 5 bytes • 1 byle = 1631 bytes, or 5 beet and 3 binches and 6 bytes Americans use Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes. It's Metric. 😏Now imagine you as an American are forced to use the imperial units above, starting with Windows Explorer or Mac Finder displaying file sizes with them. It would cause a rage, and not because you are used to Metric System in IT but because it's bulsh**

And don't forget biking is even cheaper if you take into account the health bonus. In civilised countries with socialised medicine this saves everybody's tax dollars and less civilised places (you know where!) people's own pockets. Either way it's a big incentive to build good biking infrastructure.

Imperial is so ridiculous that it NEEDS metric to have a standard.

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Nice to have you back bud!

good to hear from you

Of course, make another video.

Super and excellent video,great information,never ever seen

“The EU is not a country because we do not believe it’s a country.” This is a horrible argument. Who are “we?” If I believe that my mom is a cyclops, does that make her a cyclops?

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8:16 "biking is not quieter than any vehicle" - on what planet does the author live?

Dutch children aren't "some of the happiest in the world" 7:05, but THE happiest in the world for years in a row now. They have a lot of freedom and start the day with chocolate sprinkles 😄

Almost every driver is also a biker in the Netherlands. Also me. That’s why I am sympathetic to bikers when I am in my car. I give them right of way when possible because I know how nice that is riding my bicycle

What is a half a tank of gas in metrics?

For all the documents that the ship needs to dock, is everything electronic? Don't they have some kind of card reader that has it all in place?

NOT YET !!

Riding your bike from one side to the other ? REALLY ? Ofcourse not, Even by highway it would take you hours. Don't lie.

Simple and practical 🙏

Something I noticed from the earlier parts had to do with the graph and the numbers and miles for cycling being way up even before the war and way down later after the war. It was mentioned about the strength in numbers aspect, but clearly even in the 1930s or 1920s there had to be some better method for traffic and city planning in Holland supporting that massive difference in cycling practice. It couldn't of just been more people on bikes unqualified. Also during the German Occupation I have no idea what their take on it was. Did the Germans take steps to promote utility cycling or ignore it for other obvious concerns?

Good, straight forward video, with practical solutions summarized at the end.

Nothing can fix STUPID....!

0:35 conversion error: 1 km = 1 000 m = 100 000 cm = 1 000 000 mm

Nature doesn't think anything.

I’m sure there was a gauge on the plane to let them know how much fuel they have on board. Why didn’t they land earlier somewhere?

Gigia.

Great video! Really interesting and engaging. I hope the Dutch come up with more solutions to rising sea levels, it would be devastating for the Netherlands and many economies connected to them if they where to permeate flood, and loose land they took from the sea.

Since multiple edits tend to nuke the comment I make another one :) For those wanting to experience a beautiful route that is also challenging, I recommend trying the LF1 Coastal route from Bad Nieuweschans (north east tip in the province of Groningen) to Cadzand in the province of Zeeland on the Belgian border. It follows the entire coastline of the Netherlands and will have you go over the Afsluitdijk and past the Delta Works.

Always good to see videos from "outsiders" so I am reminded how lucky we are with something we basically take for granted and see as "normal". I am from "before", All of this was just starting when I was a little kid. I still know how bad it was, remember being in the "child seat" (a padded baggage rack on the back with a foldable backrest and two footsteps mounted on the sides of the bike) and my father weaving trough traffic trying not to get hit by a DAF. My parents took part in the "Stop de kindermoord" protests that helped trigger the chance from car centric to cycle centric thinking. Or on my childrens bike having to drive on the inside with mom or dad on the outside to shield me from traffic. I remember visiting Amsterdam for the first time and almost choking on the "fresh air" because it was so polluted. The oil crisis did help, but it was the protests that triggered the change.

Even in compare of many country's, the dutch system is very good. But we also have problems with bike travic. Now we have different forms of bikes ( slow bikes (human powered), fast bikes ( e bikes ) and super fast bikes (pedalecs), and all forms of other transportations ( electric powered 2 wheels movers) . they dont mix to gether on bike paths or lanes . So we have to reconcider how to handle this. the more bikes and "bike like travic " there is we have to look how to manage that.

Hey, I am exactly one human and the wiener size of the drunk brit who created this mess tall

no such thing as 'imperial system' there's human measurements and american nonsense.

really nice !

Americans: You see that statue over there? It's 7364,92 imaginary numbers away or 52,7 colors which equals 326,372,140 crayons.

We should have GPS location monitoring technology 24/7 to measure the temperature and immediately once incident happened we need to send the helitack crew to the spot suddenly to control the fires

On all the confusion below, in Dutch we have 2 words to describe and divide between a commuter on a bike or someone using a bike for sport. Bike : Fiets Fietser : person that uses a bike for commute Wielrenner : person that uses a bike for sport Both Dutch words are translated to English : Cyclist, it causes confusion. I just went to another town, 7 KM's from home on a bike, 20kmh. bit less then half an hour. That is commuting, not racing. In the past I used a mountain-bike to commute to work, but I treated it as sport, 32kmh on a distance of 15KM (That may sound as slow, I can assure you that an untrained biker can't keep up) True athletes on lightweight bikes do speeds of 50kmh and up = 'Wielrenners'

Metric is OK. I sometimes use it. In a scientific setting, and in some other settings, sure, metric is the way to go. Imperial, though, picks up where the abilities of metric end. The choice of being able to decimalize or fractionalize imperial units fills gaps in the graduation of units that metric absolutely cannot address. A metric person may argue against that until shown examples of imperial's superiority in being able to do so. That argumentative metric person will back off when shown the truth. Fractionalization, again, in this case used as a means of its own, is a very convenient feature of imperial that metric falls far behind on. Metric and imperial are not superior and inferior systems, nor vice versa. They are different systems. Each has areas in which they excel, and each has areas where they fall short of other systems. The naysayers are quick to point out a few unfortunate events associated with the mixing of metric and imperial. They say those are the fault of the imperial system. Equally true is to say that the fault was due to the introduction of the metric system. See how the truth works? The naysayers also question using more than one system when metric is the supposed be-all, end-all form of measurement. Simply because it is not the be-all, end-all. See my opening statements for my reasoning. The issue of conversion between units is a valid, but weak, argument. I say that conversion "ain't no hill for a climber". It's not a big deal. It's not required as often as one may think. I see commenters often posing ridiculous argumentative examples in regard to conversion. It's plain to see that for the most part, they are contrived, non-real-world conversion examples. Not all, but many. I'm not one to throw out a good thing. I fully expect downvotes and dissention. If you come at me and have no idea what you're talking about, you will be dismissed. Intelligent conversation will be welcome.

No switch! Americans are unable to deal with change, no matter how easy and valuable.

"Because one guy decided to out a box in a box, then put it on a ship"

I didn't know that in the past everyone believed that the Earth was round. At 4:20

Only america would be stupid enough to not use the metric system

great explanation keep it up

An excellent video! And thank you for mentioning my favorite RUclips channel "Not Just Bikes". It really is a great channel.

I realy like this sort of videos because I`m a duchman my self and I live in Hulst. I live at sea level so if one of the dijken flods I`m fucket.

Pretty good video, interesting stuff!