Amsterdam Bike Tour by Urban Planner Meredith Glaser
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2019
- Urban Arrow arranged for a bike infrastructure tour while we were in town for their International Dealer Conference. I wanted to share this tour as I think it provides some really great explanations of what infrastructure in Amsterdam exists and how it works.
Check out more from Meredith and the Urban Cycling Institute on their website www.urbancyclinginstitute.com or RUclips channel / urbancyclinginstitute
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As ever great content Chris. At the end Meredith mentions what can bike retailers and bike brands do to help this movement from cars to bikes? She also mentions I think that immature places (little bike infrastructure) have more a culture of competitive cycling... lycra, helmets, speed, racing bikes, winning etc. as apposed to cycling for fun, for everyone. That’s the nub: the industry is feeding the race culture. Go look at Trek, Specialized, Giant, Scott and all the rest... all major on competition: road and mtb. The industry needs to make FUN for everyone cycling sexy. Hell, ALL cycling is Fun and Sexy. The bigs brands need to wake up and broaden their horizons - and be advocates for better transport.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I 100% agree. Thanks for calling this out.
The Dutch really look towards cycling mainly as a form of transport. What else is competitive cycling than for fun? I don't commute to work or do my shopping by bike for fun or being sexy, it's plainly much more convenient.
jhcfight : actually, no: I’m Dutch and I don’t consider cycling as just another form of transport, I also like it because it adds to my quality of life (health, fitness, fresh air, less stress, brain activity, social interaction etc. etc.) So whenever I commute or go to a shop I prefer to take the bike not just for convenience, but because I enjoy cycling much more than riding my car.
cycling has been aimed the recreation performance cyclists not so much transportation as many european cities where cyclists have their own lanes for safety .North America tends to be me myself and l first attitudes and MOTORISTS think they own the road get out of my way l m faster bigger BS
ALL LIVES MATTER !! l think if motorists cant respect that then pull their licenses tell em to ride a bike instead !!
I just let go of my sport, competition, speed self image and bought a leisure/commuter ebike...at 68 Im very happy to realize I just want to be in nature with my wife and friends and have some fun and oh, get some exercise...
"A traffic death in a public space is unethical." A policy the Dutch government implemented in the 1990s. Amazing! Such an evolved public policy philosophy!
That does explain the complaints I sometimes heard during my childhood. Born in 1990 ;)
For example when somebody mentioned there was an unsafe street and people were driving to fast regularly, they would often add; "They don't listen to us, they will only change it after a bad accident happens."
This video needs to be on PBS as well, maybe then here in the USA we'll wake up a little and put a little funnds into creating a traffic Infrastructure similar to what's been done in the Netherlands. I've seen so many fatalities lately here in NYC and in other cities I've lived in over the years.
Yes please! Let’s make this happen. We need to wake up for sure!
@@Propelbikes Do Electric bike dominate the Amsterdam more than cars and regular bicycles now they are the best in taking care on riders more
@@carlosreid51definitely not. i would say 95% of bikes are (dutch) regular bikes. You ride them in a much more straight up position than a bike typically seen in the US. The channel not just bikes has a great video about it. E-bikes are very expensive and the urban arrows are quite big and you could compare them with a minivan, they are used to bring toddlers to daycare and such.
I am an Amsterdam native, 40 years. This video is the best I have seen concerning concept, quality, presentation and knowledge connected to the transportation infrastructure. Excellent work!
Totally agree, and since I'm 'only' 18, I hadn't realised that so many of these changes happened relatively recently. Knowing this, it makes me appreciate living in Amsterdam even more.
I'm a Taiwanese immigrant in Canada who ride Made in Taiwan GIANT bikes all my life and have travelled to Amsterdam many times. How I wish Taiwan, Canada, and more places could learn from Amsterdam. It's simply greener and people are happier traveling in bikes.
Thanks to Chris and Propel for bringing this tour and Meredith's talk to your channel - it is definitely a public service that benefits the cycling community.
Thanks Ted! I’m really happy to be able to share. As others have said. We have a lot to learn from the Dutch. I hope city planners in the states watch this video.
Excellent stuff. Needs to be like this everywhere.
That’s what we’re hoping for 😉
Nellie Rutten lol
What a great documentation about the dutch bike infrastrakture. I m from Germany and I love to cycle in the netherlands. I wish that it could be the same in Germany. Keep on going with your good work!
The thing about cars not being moved is something I recognize from Stockholm. There are so many people who just keep their cars around for stuff like weekend trips, yet they occupy so much space in the streets.
Best video about cycling in the Netherlands I have ever seen. You touch on all the relevant points. Congratulations. I am English born, lived in Washington DC for three years, and have lived in the Netherlands with my Dutch wife and children for the last 20+ years. I could never return to the UK, and am now a Dutch citizen. I see a possible problem with the transferance of Dutch cycling culture to the the US and the UK. Both countries have a large democratic deficit. Surprising as they are the two nations that are always going on and on about freedom, whereas in reality they are both 2 party states (here in Ned we can choose around from around 30 parties), and particularily in the case of the US both parties are probably funded by big corporations, in whose interests a cycling revolution may not lie. In my opinion your video should be mandatory viewing in any country that does not have a bicycle culture and infrastructure. Brian Oosterbeek Nederland. PS Surprised you weren't asked why no-one wears helmets. I see you mentioned Almere. As you know I'm sure, Almere is a new town, and perhaps hasn't been the success it should be, and isn't particularly pleasant.
Thanks Brian! Meredith did an excellent job and it was great to have her as a tour guide! I agree there are many challenges with transferring these ideas, but eventually cities will have no choice but to relent. The bicycle is such a great tool and eventually there is no denying it.
We actually made a separate video about why the Dutch don’t wear helmets. ruclips.net/video/NpVncWxyMJw/видео.html
The reason you see less cycling in Almere is because it is a brand new city build on the drawing board with the intention to separate bus/train/cyclist and car of each other. Almere has fully separated buslines (separated as in a road of its own. more like a train) There are a lot !!! of buses. There is always a bus stop within walking distance. And at the stop you only have to wait for a few minutes to get on a bus. This with a good rail connection to Amsterdam, Schiphol and Utrecht. Makes less need for the bike. In the end, there is less biking because of a very successful public transport.
@@Stargate-command Also take into consideration that Almere was designed in order to relief Amsterdam with housing issues. Now Almere can be regarded as a suburb of Amsterdam and many many citizens of Almere commute to Amsterdam and Utrecht. Because of the distances people travel mainly by car and train to Amsterdam Utrecht etc. And in a lesser extent by bus. Therefore you see less bikers than in Amsterdam. But still Almere has a very good cycling infrastructure. The bike lanes were designed first, just like the bus lanes, and the housing was designed around it.
@11:15 Meredith is unsure about the road design (being arterial roads vs distribution roads) and their speed limit. As a Dutchie for me this is very clear. These are 50 km/h roads, as this is the default speed limit within a village/city limit. Would this need to be changed to a 30 km/h zone (i.e. residential) there would be signs at the beginning of the street, probably just after the bicycle crossing. Also an arterial road could be designed to Cary an even higher speed limit (i.e. 70 km/h or 80 km/h) but then would be completely separated from the local stream and often elevated; an example being the Gooiseweg. The roads we are looking at are actually the other way around. The one she calls out as a distribution road at 30 km/h is actually an arterial road at 50 km/h (Jan van Galenstraat), although by design of the road and traffic density this is likely to be lower. The other one (Bilderdijkstraat/Frederik Hendrikstraat) could be a distributor or an arterial, but either way they are 50 km/h :-).
One remark about that, such a great many parties also mean that everybody needs some recognition in any inevitable coalition, and as a result, you get stability, at the cost of not being able to quickly change when the times demand it. "Doorpolderen" wordt "doormodderen".. Also, it empowers unaccountable power in the bureaucracy, which is the corollary to 2-party system in Anglo countries. So, it's the history of the culture that affords responsiveness of the local government to local demands. On the national level, it is not much different from Anglo countries, imho.
Thank you so much for posting this! It gives many people the opportunity to learn about Dutch urban design without having to physically be there! Also the speaker had great topics and made the mobile seminar--if you will, very easy to follow and understand!
This is such an excellent video explaining how the bike infrastructure works in Amsterdam/Netherlands and also explains so well how it got to this point. This video should have way more views and every city council should watch this as a starting point to get a basic understanding of just how much a place can be improved by working to design the space for EVERYONE.
This is great! Thanks! Chicago needs all of this. Even with how much it has improved in the last decade, the cultural change hasn't happened enough.
We sure hope that America can learn about these things from the Dutch. They seem to have a lot their doing right and people do seem to be a lot happier.
Patience and persistence are very important. We Dutch have been spending over 40 years to reach this level of integration and of acceptance of the bicycle into our city lives. And we are still busy.
Having lived in the Netherlands and owning both a bike and a car this is an excellent video. It should work in the US however the weather plays a big part in using signs and road marks. I now live in Jackson in Minnesota and they have implemented and are extending their cycle network.
So so so cool this, love how companies are working with cities to implement bike infrastructure in their cities and beyond, and collaboration with public transport.
Thanks Steph! We were also really impressed :)
Great tour! Love that she highlights how it's been an ongoing process! Not just the physical aspects, but also the psychological and political changes, and learning that has taken place to get the Dutch where they are!
I like this girl. Living in Munich.
Didn’t know of this cooperation.
Glad this is happening! 😍
Thanks! I think there are similar improvements coming to Munich as well. Some dealers from Munich were on this ride with us.
Part of it:
- Counties have (had?) ordinances that ban grocery stores outside of residential zones, so stores are kept small. They don't need to compete against Walmart. In suburbia, there is a grocery store, a hair salon, a frieture (fast food shop) and a elementary school, all within walking distance.
- In a car, "you can't get there from here" is a thing. Bicycles can pass between the bollards that separate the neighborhoods from each other. But motorists are forced onto arterials that go around each town. Only traffic for each neighborhood enters the residential streets.
12:35 the reason you don't see as much use of phones while driving especially in more urban areas where there are a lot of bicycles (it does happen more often on highways oddly enough) is that every single one of those car drivers you see, is also a bicyclist, so because they wouldn't want an inattentive person when they are on their bike, they don't do it when they are in their cars.
Also another thing is that driving a car in the urban area of the Netherlands requires you to pay A LOT of attention, there are very few roads that are just long straights, there are often obstacles that you have to maneuver around and pay attention to, so not only do you need to pay more attention, but it also makes it so you don't get bored that you decided to pick up your phone and mess with it. Let's be honest most of the time when someone is on their phone while driving they don't really need to be on their phone, it's not like they had a call or are making a call or are checking up on a important message, no instead they are messing around on Facebook or something dumb like that, things that can wait.
It's also very much forbidden to handle your phone while driving. High fines. Handsfree carkits are allowed.
23:00 Interestingly, in the UK it was announced recently that within the next year the law will change so presumed liability is on the larger or more powerful vehicle. I wondered where we got that idea from. This also means, of course, that if a cyclist injures a pedestrian the responsibility is with the cyclist.
A similar law has been implemented in NL years ago.
I think in NL it only applies to cars versus cyclists and pedestrians, as car drivers are required to have insurance. Cyclist do not have that requirement.
Another major change in NL was that 'equal' crossings are eliminated in cities as much as possible. So main roads always have the right of way. No more guessing if th3 crossing is equal (I.e. traffic from the right has the right of way) or if the larger road has it.
Kudos to Meredith Glaser! Great expertise well-explained.
. This video should be compulsory in schools in all Countries, it pertains to everyone. Very interesting, thank you Merideth
She really did an awesome job! I was thankful she let us record it!
Lot to learn from the Dutch....
I totally agree!
Never thought that Almere would be classified as the worst biking city in the Netherlands, then again this can be the result of an almost 100% separate bus system where other vehicles are not allowed to use except for emergency vehicles, during the day time you only have to wait 5 - 10 minutes for the next bus of the same line and the coverage of this system is good enough that most people living here can reach a busstop within 10 min walking distance.
its pretty bad...
Yup, the total number of trips doesn't usually change by much - yeah, it might go up a little bit if some modes get more accessable (e.g. if you can reach things by mobility scooter), but that is a very small percentage. The major shift that can occur is between the modes - obviously this video focusses on the shift towards bikes, but if a city finds it easy to shift their population towards public mass transit, that will reduce bike traffic. But that isn't neccessarily a bad thing, because the only important thing at the moment is to reduce the volume of individual motorized traffic as much as possible. Any shift away from single-occupant cars and few-parcel delivery vans/trucks is a good one.
Thanks for this. I understood the basics but this colors in nicely where I've been connecting the dots.
Please remember. Amsterdam doesn't even have a million inhabitants. This kind of infrastructure is implemented countrywide. That is for 17 million people.
Excellent footage.💎
Thanks Richard! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Funny thing, before you eve get to your driver's license, you will have to a bicycle exam at the end of primary school. This is because most people will have to bike a lot further to reach their high schools, so you will have to do an exam where you bike for quite some distance through all sorts of urban areas. When getting your driver's license, you are taught many things that take into account cyclists. Of course you have been a cyclist yourself so most of it is pretty self explanatory. They teach you to slow down at roundabouts and even to shift down a gear, never to overtake in curves and corners as there might be a cyclist where you can't see it and always keep space on shared roads for cyclists. Keep to the speed limits in urban areas as you can easily kill someone by speeding, which you know very well as you know the fragile nature of being a cyclist yourself!
There are also things people do out of kidness that are rather normal because they have been a cyclist themselves. There are car roads where cyclists have to pass without any signs or trafic lights, meaning they have to wait until there are no cars passing by or there are none close enough. They can then cross. Most car users will stop and let all the cyclists pass even though they don't have to. This happens a lot at a section where I have to pass daily to get to work. They simply signal with their head lights and we can pass. This happens more often when it is raining or very cold, as the car drivers know the nuisance and suffering of the cyclists! Some traffic lights even have moisture detectors build in to their structures, in order to detect if it is raining. If so, the cyclist lights get a green signal more often than the cars.
Fun fact; The biggest nightmare you can get when taking your driving lessons in order to get your driving license's, is when you have to do your driving exam between 07:30 and 09:00 am. This is the time when literally everyone is either going to work or school by bike. This means mother's with 3 children strapped on their bikes and supporting a little one on their small bike, young children on bikes everywhere, teenagers on bikes everywhere and adults on bikes everywhere. If you have to do this during winter, it is still dark and you can't really see that much, adding to the nightmare.
I used to take a bycicle exam, (1990) but that same district now no longer teaches that. i think that practice might be dying? my nieces and nefews didnt get them
"Humans make mistakes" is something that I think about a lot when I look at the issues that plague the US. Even computers require constant error correction built in but US policy just assumes perfection from its users and accepts the negative outcomes as collateral damage and blames the individuals as if the problem wasn't systemic. It's really quite crazy.
You made it to my country. Welcome!
I sure did! It's an awesome country and I will be sure to return soon :)
I learned a lot! Thank you lady!
Love, love, love Amsterdam. Beautiful women, awesome food and restaurants and don’t forget the “coffee shops”….HEY NOW
Spoken like a true tourist. 😉
I LOVE THIS MOVIE ! simple explanation for "complex" problems
i'm not sure whether to continue watching this or save it till i go over there to see my cousin and sign up for a tour!
You should totally do it! It was an excellent experience!
@@Propelbikes yeah I stopped watching after ,5 mins. Now I know I can do this when I visit there next. Thanks for the taster!
@@StuffOffYouStuff Did you go yet? :) Curious about your experience.
I regularly go to France. In the past, France was the most bike unfriendly place ever. But gradually more and more cycle tracks seem to appear. In some regions, the obsolescent narrow track railways have been replaced by bike-lanes. So also in France, bike are appearing. The necessity to get bikes introduced will become more and more urgent in clogged up cities. People are choking in exist fumes and traffic is often severely clogged. Bikes can alleviate this problem.
Great tour!
Love this- Informational! 🚲 🚊
Glad you enjoyed it! The tour was amazing and I would highly recommend it if you have the opportunity in the future.
Awesome tour Chris. Great Going!!!!
Thanks Mark! We were really happy to be able to share it as it was really insightful. Meredith was a great guide!
@@Propelbikes Absolutely - and the new person you have doing your video work, again, is doing a wonderful detailed work.
Thanks! I’m really pleased with her work as well. I’m excited to have the opportunity to share these things and it’s been great to have a solid team to work with.
Btw - I’m still traveling, but I think I’m going to take your advice and I’m going to do an improv class. I would imagine it would have a similar effect as stand up. I guess we’ll see 😉
Propel Electric Bikes You already have a great “Real Person” style Chris. Don’t go turning into some cheesy Talkshow Host or slippery News Anchor 😱. 😂.
I love the piece about parking. I live right by Lake Michigan and we're losing space at the parks that line the street and yet there is free street parking that the Chicago Alderwoman won't even consider removing. At the same time she talks about climate resiliency. What a world we live in.
Part of why I'm considering an e-bike is so I can keep up my speed riding in the same lane as vehicles. I'm grateful to have the money to upgrade my bike but wow, wouldn't it be nice to take leisurely rides in the city without fearing harassment, injury, or death?!
These types of comments always make me so grateful for living in the netherlands. We dutchies take our infrastructure and liveable streets for granted.
26:00 lol the irony of that scooter passing by right when it did...
Smart informative presentation thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I just discovered this video. But it's even more relevant 2 years from when it was uploaded
Compliments for the accuracy in wich you give information about bikes, but most of all the infra-structural effort that has gone into these changes over the decades. Biking in the Netherlands is a normal thing, out of nescessity not as much for fun.
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Great video.
Thank you for sharing this. We can only dream of such a connected network in the American suburbs. Someday.
step 1 (or 2) would be to abolish single family zoning laws - this allows for the creation of a healthy mix between homes, terraced houses, businisees and apartments
Very interesting and informative. Very well done!
I love the content and hope we will adopt similar policies in the U.S. Also, I cannot help but want to just quickly cross the street for a stop at the Gebakkraam shop, yum! :-)
Thanks Garth! I totally agree, we are starting to learn that this is a good way to run our cities. Funny thing is I didn’t get to try the Gebakkraam while I was there. I guess I’ll have to go back to try some ;)
The article about presumed lability is article 185 of the Dutch traffic law, although this law is from 1994 this article is very old, probably from the 1930's and "weak" traffic particiants include trams and trains since by Dutch law those aren't motor vehicles. Over half a century ago my grandfather knew that the main motivation for this article was insurences. Only drivers of motor vehicles were and are obliged by law to have a liability insurance and to make sure that nobody had to pay individually for damage caused by traffic accidents law makers ruled that preferably only insured people can legally be held responsible for such damage. A lot of people don't know this and guess that that rule is there to protect vulnarable people in public space and it does but that is not the main reason why.
Oh and by the way; really great video!
Very interesting tour. I wonder how the Dutch experience, policies and the solutions implemented over the years could be translated to American cities. As you know in the US we are still focused primarily in cycling as a recreational activity rather than as a means of transportation. Here in Texas it certainly is very slow going when trying to roll out protected bike lanes. Thx again for a very interesting video.
Thanks Juan, keep in mind the Dutch were very focused on cars in the past as well but they started to get behind bikes and bike infrastructure in the 70’s. We have a long way to go, but with enough traffic and pollution even the land of the car will eventually give up on the car.
@@Propelbikes
Yes prepare for that.
As a Dutch,i hated our anti car policy back in the 80s.
Another factor is that in most mid sized villages we have supermarkets and shops, and other facilities like GP's, gyms etc fairly closeby, so in biking distance. It's is normal to do your food shopping by bike, and a lot of people shop a few times per week for their fresh stuff. I've never been in the US, but the idea I have is that people, in general, have to travel further for their shopping and other activities. So they may shop once a week and buy bigger quantities, that requires a car. Because we are a densely populated area, facilities are often closeby. However, in the less dense populated areas and small towns, shops and facilities disappear, like ATMs. And people have to travel further, and may be more inclined to take their car and shop once a week.
@@EowynRises Completely agree; living in Amsterdam, on my five minute commute by bike from work to home I pass at least two supermarkets, where I just buy what I need that day. I think there are a lot of reasons why many American cities are the way they are; with most shops on the edge of cities that are only accessible by car, but a lot of them are political decisions of putting priorities on cars rather than any other means of transportation
(public transport, biking, walking). Reminds me of this video on parking space regulations in the US: ruclips.net/video/Akm7ik-H_7U/видео.html Just one of many reasons why US cities are so spaced out.
Don't forget that the distance are all relatively small in the Netherlands. American suburbs are huge so changing cars for bikes might not work. But in really big cities with crowded traffic, the bike might offer a solution.
Meredith..... if you see this.....
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In the Netherlands you cant drive a car while holding a phone, you can only use handsfree. If you drive without handsfree it can get you a fine of 240,- euro. Kids on bikes will hold phones and listen to music even though its considered dangerous to do so (hence the debate about it). The main point in traffic in the Netherlands is that the bigger the vehicle you drive, the more responsibility you have in traffic. Trucks and buses have the biggest responsibility, then cars, then motorcycles, then scooters, then bikes and then foot traffic. The bigger you are the more you have to yield and pay attention.
Man, with the price of gas today and this video popping up, I wish I could live and work in a country designed like Amsterdam.
the US has a number of cities that come a long way - but rent in these places is probably like 3000 a month for a 2bedroom apartment
wow you should come to the USA and tech our city's a lesson on how to make bike safety and the ways to improve our bike trails on and off the bike trails and highways this would be great to learn or know we in the USA could learn a lot on bike trails in the city's think about it take care from Alaska
As a Dutch native I took bikelanes for granted but this got me thinking that it is actualy sort of unique, so thanks for pointing that out. I do think the flatness of the landscape makes it well suited for cycling over more mountainy places but maybe with electric bikes that can chance. One thing I have to say: What's with the cargo-bikes with grown-ups as passengers? Don't you think that is asking for trouble even with the safety of the Dutch cyclepaths system?
More explanation on the Dutch 'sustainable safety' policy in this video:
ruclips.net/video/5aNtsWvNYKE/видео.html
Thanks for sharing! Great video!
What an interesting video. I live in the UK where there are a small amount of cycle paths...though there doesn't seem to be a consistent effort for the council to make the city more accessible, some of the cycle lanes just stop halfway up a road or the pavement....I have no idea what their plans are tbh.
What sometimes gets missed by other nations, is that cycling on normal streetbikes is not only for commuting but also for fun. It is the number one entertainment for older people to make long tours on their ebikes. The probably most bought item is a cycle carrier for cars. Put two ebikes on and make a long tour in the countryside. There are also bike-lanes everywhere outside of the cities. Nowadays, the most sold bikes are ebikes. Of course there are people buying specialised bikes such as mountain bikes or race bikes but the daily driver ebike is king.
Most Dutch children learn to ride bikes at a very young age, 3-4 years old. Once learnt, never forgotten. I hadn't driven a bike for at least ten years when I bought an ebike. Don't think I forgot how to ride a bike. That skill never gets lost.
It's more often quite the other way around, cyclists are seen as doing a recreational activity (in spandex!) and are not considered to be a serious mode of transportation or a part of traffic that needs to be planned for.
I'm in love.
(( 28:28 )) AMSTERDAM , HASEBROEKSTRAAT 44 - 46 / ( A t/m F ) ( 31:16 )
When I lived in Amsterdam - West, I ride by bike trough this part of " KINKERBUURT " and in the 1970 - 1990 I saw the building of this recovered place by " Nieuwbouw " we called it also "Rebuilding" old houses ....
Awesome video and presentation. Regarding that 80K per car new parking garage, I wonder what it would like when and if people conclude that the cost of the private auto in the city is not worth it and decide "ok that's it. no more".
Listen to this woman, we export many things, but knowledge we share for free.
#Malaysia need to start learning!!
I think cities will be much better places with more bikes 😉
26:10 - LOL just as she says that, a scooter goes flying by.
There were quite a few scooters. There are some places where they can ride so I can see it to be confusing.
In Vicenza (northern Italy) they are talking about giving free parking lots during the weekend in the city centre, to increase shopping. I'm ashamed
If you want to increase shopping visitors, you need less cars.
Cool!!
Funny thing is, the car had the right of way @ 6:05. It let you guys go anyway. Also for the speed limits you have "binnen de bebouwde kom" and "buiten de bebouwde kom", it essentially translates to inside a buildup area and outside a buildup area, these area's are indicated by particular signs when you pass between them (just google the words I mentioned). Inside is always 50 unless indicated, outside is 80 unless indicated otherwise.
The car did not have right of way at 6:05 I think, pedestrians and bikes always have preference over cars.
@@IsuAsenjo the car actually had right of way
notice the sharkteeth on the bikelane :)
Please,please come to work with us in Dublin, Ireland, indeed throughout Ireland.
We desperately need your expert input.
We need you in Toronto
It pains me that I will be old and feeble by the time any city in the US becomes this good.
Majority of drivers in Europe drive manuals and in North America the majority drive automatics. Driving a manual makes sure you are driving and not on your phone because you are constantly shifting up and down and paying attention to the task at hand. We only drive manual vehicles because I wanted my kids to be engaged in driving and not be on their phones.
Very informative! This definitely needs more likes! However, at 28:00 minutes you didn't show the street. At what innovation was Meredith pointing at? :)
Meredith: "Cycling is not right or left (political). It just something that needs to be done." Amen.
Here's a link to Google Street View with a view into the street where they are standing. Seen from the corner of the Hasebroekstraat and the Nicolaas Beetsstraat.
www.google.com/maps/@52.3659617,4.8650455,3a,59.6y,331.89h,89.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDhoUshyjUdRqn4DPaxh-ew!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Just as she said they were put on the road in April one just passed on the cycle path lol 26:13
Will she do her work in the uk?
32:26 fairly large box on your bicycle there, buddy 😂
Ironically i noticed multiple moped scooters driving in the bike lane while she was talking about them NOT riding in the bike lanes - i myself mostly ride a standing Escooter which is a new form factor to add to the discussion - in the future will vehicle types be seperated by speed limit ? or by the amount of body exposed ? or by cubic space footprint ?? Be interesting to see how we all handle the nuanced details because the future is not just bikes and cars= ITS MANY DIFFERENT FORMS OF PERSONAL MOBILITY -is it about cycling and cycling business interest OR is it about empowering individual ability to be mobile = food for thought :)
There is way to much focus on the costs of building bike infrastructure. When the benefits, like health cost savings etc, are deducted, the result may well be that it is profitable to do it
100 percent agree!
Bike infra is also a LOT cheaper than car infra.
The city Utrecht had some calculations done. Turned out that bicycle infrastructure actually SAVES them 250 million euros. A year. Every year.
www.ad.nl/utrecht/dankzij-fietsers-bespaart-utrecht-250-miljoen-euro-per-jaar~a55367d8/
@@peter1062 For those wondering how the city of Utrecht saves all that money, the article says it would have been lost on healthcare, measures against air pollution, and the slowing down of traffic if all bicycle users would take the car instead.
It's also worth noting that Utrecht has 350 000 inhabitants, so that would be over 700 euros (or almost $800 usd) a year of savings per inhabitant.
@@raizin4908 Correct. Only the province of Utrecht has 1.3 million inhabitants, but the article was about the city of Utrecht with ca. 350.000 inhabitants.
Is she doing more tours to participate in?
Presumed liability artikel 34 wegenverkeerswet, fantastische bepaling.
Liability yes, but not always at fault. One of the main reasons was that cardrivers have mandatory insurance.
Notice that there is enough space at the yield signs for a stopped car so someone who is continuing on the roundabout and starts looking in another direction also can.
Bit of a shame the camera-person doesn't listen to what the speaker actually is saying.
She makes this deliberate stop to explain that particular infrastructure and pointing to it, but we never see what she's actually talking about.
Fines for using a phone in your car or on your bike are 240 euro and 95 euro, respectively
Edit: it was just changed to 340
Great info. I guess the car is potentially much more hazardous.
In the UK...Fine - £200, plus 6 "points" on your licence, plus another 2 if driver didn't have full control of vehicle. 12 points leads to a driving ban. No specific law against using the phone while cycling, however cyclist can be accused of careless cycling which carries a maximum £1000 fine. Seems unfair, however careless cycling is barely enforced unless there is an actual collision. On the other hand, police will prosecute drivers if they receive dash/cycle cam footage from other road users, & they receive thousands a year. One particular London cyclist films hundreds of drivers using their phones every year, submits footage, usually gets a prosecution, & then posts the footage on youtube. Check out cyclingmikey.
Did you notice that the only noisy things in this video are damn scooters?
yeah therye awful, although i really liked riding one when i was younger
Great information. Image Americans advising the Netherlands on transportation. Crazy.
9:17 “we are responsible” “we are accountable” might be the reason why it would be hard in the USA: the love to sue everyone for big bucks will refrain from people taking accountability.
Here we both have some responsibility, and people can’t get rich from their own mistakes nor that of others.
I hope this question is not too stupid.
Are foldable bicycles permitted on dutch trains in the folded position?
Yes, .. not only that they are considered luggage and go for free.
The mentality in Brussels is changing...
Beautiful development.
Bike is not something of right or left... so true
Love it! So true!
**should** not, but in the US, that's not always the case.
(( 01:50 )) De Boomkerk - H. Franciscus van Assisikerk - Church. Admiraal de Ruyterweg 406, 1055ND, Amsterdam.
But she made one mistake though the Netherlands is the most densely populated country within the European Union. Monaco is the most densely populated country in the world.
I also think making certain road safety policies and guidelines may be easier in the Netherlands because we have a more centralized government.
Please correct me if i am wrong.
I think this approach is great.
But, in the U.S. the mindset may be vastly different.
Everyone here is so competitive. I don't know if the Netherlands has had that mentality.
But, competition inhibits many things. In the car, drivers want to fight with other cars to be first. They'll pass to cut you off, to be the first at a red light.
In roundabouts, drivers race to get through the yield sign before another car can enter the roundabout.
(( 34:00 )) Rijks Museum .... In the 90's I could ride by bike under the 'Dutch Masters" .... until Amsterdam wanted to close the porth underneeth the Rijks Museum .... It was closed for all bikers too .... how sad. So the FIETSERSBOND made it possible after 2008 (?) to drive and walk through ....
lol the rijksmuseum(1885) build in the 1600s
very funny
7:18 as a runner, i am curios to know if its same hard as normal asphalt or softer?
you dont notice the difference, only difference you might be able to notice is on hot summer days, the red asphalt stays noticeably cooler
Just as hard
Many cities have to learn from Amsterdam
We couldn’t agree more. :)
PPFF< bro Amsterdam isn't the only place in The Netherlands.
Yes, but we can still learn from it. We hope to cover many more cities as well in the future.
@@Propelbikes No Amsterdam does shit.
@@Propelbikes I hope you visit Seattle and do a video about it here. I'm still a car driver, anticipating replacing it with an ebike, so I'd love to see an overview of how good or bad cycling infrastructure is in Seattle from someone who's been around to other cities.
The Rijksmuseum was not built in the 1600's. Try the last part of the 1800's . Still pre-car though.
Scooters on bike paths was a change that came along just when you came to The Netherlands I think. Now they are where they belong.
The idea was that they would drive 25 km/h, so nicely along with bikes... Well, we know better, they do 40-75. Not nice with bikes.
Government capitulated and now it's back to separation of risk factors.... "They shouldn't drive so fast" Yeah, sure. But they drive those
scooters to BE faster than bikes... Duh... So you had 'Tour de France'-like bikers in lycra doing 45 on the main road, off the bike path, and
scooters doing 35-40 amongst the bikers.. Did not work!
Thanks for sharing this insight
Signalizes! Please put that in a dissertation.
Leven begon met het NieuwMarkt verzet
(( 11:50 )) Amsterdam - Hugo de Grootplein & Frederik Hendrikstraat ...... GSM use / Cell - Phone not in you're hands allowed ..... Never do this for you're own safety at the bike .....
I see a lot of cars use signal on the roundabout. Is this hard to get a driver license in the Netherlands?
It’s very expensive to get a license I was told. Usually over $1000 Euros to my understanding. I think car ownership is rather low, especially in Amsterdam.
Propel Electric Bikes Getting a drivers license costs in average €2,300. You need to have a lot of lessons of €45 per hour, get your theory exam for about €35 and a practical exam which costs about €100. A lot of people fail the first exams so have to a second or third. In my case it was 12 months of 1,5 hour lessons once a week. And in the last month before the practical exam I had 2 lessons a week. I passed my theory exam the first time and my practical exam the second time. So for me it was about €2,150 or so. And the you have to pay the municipality for issuing the drivers license. That’ll cost you €40 and on top of that you need a passport fotograph taken for about €15. And every 10yr you have to renew it and pay the €40 and €15 for a foto. So it isn’t cheap but I think we have better/more considerate drivers than in other countries.
@@RealConstructor the praktijkexamen is now €230,-
19:47 its 7 euro an hour, and it will be 8,50 in 2020 most likely
That sounds more in line with Seattle's downtown parking costs where I live, or rather, a suburb of Seattle. So, I would expect prices in Amsterdam to meet or exceed that.
they should due this in the rian