Amsterdam children fighting cars in De Pijp, 1972

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025

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  • @VictorLiso
    @VictorLiso 11 лет назад +89

    Here in Brazil this video deeply touched me and some people I know. We're in the middle of a fierce political and cultural battle for each square centimeter of urban space in my city. This video gave us some hope. Bless you all!!!!

    • @valentecaio
      @valentecaio 3 года назад +9

      I am reading this 7 years late and the battle still going on! mas nao vamos desistir

    • @idromano
      @idromano 2 года назад +3

      And I, 8 years later, got equally touched and motivated.
      CARROS SÃO VISITA!

    • @jdj8168
      @jdj8168 2 года назад +2

      Good luck from the Netherlands❤️

    • @leafbranch1872
      @leafbranch1872 3 месяца назад

      Ten years later how has this worked out for your group❓

  • @asifnasim7010
    @asifnasim7010 10 лет назад +29

    Great,Less motorized traffic,Less pollution.Now,cycle is much popular in Holland but in 1972,no cycle was seen in this clip,3rd world particularly learn a lesson from these Kids.Thanks from Pakistan.

    • @bruob
      @bruob Год назад +2

      Mmm.... I saw at least eight bikes. But it's true that it's nothing compared to the amount of cyclists you see nowadays in this particular neighborhood.
      Say hello to Pakistan!

  • @nivelan
    @nivelan 3 года назад +28

    Seeing kids triumph over adults like that is mind blowing.

  • @as910bn920
    @as910bn920 Год назад +44

    As a Taiwanese, this video really made me think a lot. The traffic in Taiwan now is even much worse than this video, which was filmed 50 years ago. Taiwanese people was deeply brainwashed by the government to believe that car-centric cities can make their life better. That resulted in so called “living hell for pedestrians”, and this issue is highly discussed in Taiwan now. I really hope that every Taiwanese citizen could watch this video and realize that we have another choice to achieve happier, safer and freer life, by accepting the concept of human-centric cities.

    • @leafbranch1872
      @leafbranch1872 3 месяца назад +1

      Thanks for this. It resonates.

  • @trmdtv
    @trmdtv 9 лет назад +145

    In case people are interested: Many streets in this doc are closed off to car traffic to this day, trees were planted, and it has become a nightmare to navigate by car while there's plenty of room for pedestrians and bikes.

    • @ChrisInToon
      @ChrisInToon 9 лет назад +42

      +Andromeda2803 is that not the point! that cars are not going through area unless they have a real need to do so.

    • @skitlus335
      @skitlus335 3 года назад +19

      Good.

    • @TatamiDisco
      @TatamiDisco 3 года назад +18

      Wonderful. We need to do this in nyc asap.

    • @arth2614
      @arth2614 2 года назад +6

      La voiture prend 10m2 au sol pour une personne il ne faut pas l'oublier . Le but c'est de donner davantage d'espace a la vie. En voiture oui il faut faire des détours et c'est très bien pour ne pas encourager ce mode de transport gourmand en espace vital . Mieux vaut planter des arbres pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique que des routes.

    • @leafbranch1872
      @leafbranch1872 3 месяца назад

      What's the air pollution and noise pollution levels like nowadays.

  • @scorchedearthdj
    @scorchedearthdj 11 лет назад +239

    These kids are more politically engaged than most adults today, it seems.

    • @prozeeterps
      @prozeeterps Год назад

      dont come back they know nothing

  • @98Zai
    @98Zai 3 года назад +18

    The 60's and 70's were amazing in the way they inspired people to change the world.

  • @engleshen
    @engleshen 11 лет назад +35

    Amsterdam has come a long way since those (ironic) gray times :) It's a shame here (Portugal) we still vanglosrize the automobile ... but we're getting on the way to a greener and colourfull future.

  • @punksolid
    @punksolid 11 лет назад +20

    Not a Mickael Coville speech, or Enrique Peñalosa video made me feel like this one. This is maybe the best video about livable cities. Amazing!

  • @BrianJMonahan
    @BrianJMonahan 9 лет назад +15

    I loved the fight half way through! He looks like Michael Palins character from "A Fish called WWWwanda"! Also, you can see the Man holding the Microphone beside the Van.This is a great video for modern times, perhaps more Cities will follow suit.

    • @leafbranch1872
      @leafbranch1872 3 месяца назад

      Nearly a decade later, what's your verdict❓

  • @jona8261
    @jona8261 2 года назад +5

    What a perfect video. Amsterdam's my favorite city in the world going back in November.. I love how the streets are cleared from the cars thank God for that period the bicycles can roll free

  • @CycleOrgAu
    @CycleOrgAu 10 лет назад +7

    Thank you for sharing, a real eye opener.

  • @Zenit_Bourg
    @Zenit_Bourg 2 года назад +10

    Ronald Dam had more drip at early age than i have my entire life

  • @TriniFietser
    @TriniFietser 3 года назад +18

    Amazing....hope the people of Trinidad & Tobago would wake up soon to the menace of the automobile! It's killing us literally and largely unnecessary on tiny islands with ease of walkability and bikeability, if only we'd close the streets to vehicles and open them to people, and develop safe bike infrastructure! This activism by the children was so inspiring to look at! We haven't made any physical improvements to our environment, and continue to cramp people onto narrow sidewalks, while we leave streets open for metal boxes.

    • @leafbranch1872
      @leafbranch1872 3 месяца назад +1

      Preach it‼️ And look at the crime, I think there is a link between the numbers of 🚙 and the violent crimes plus robbery.
      If there wasn't so many cars in T&T crime might go down.

  • @ChrisInToon
    @ChrisInToon 9 лет назад +38

    this is why I have a great admiration for the Dutch they are bonkers yet very rationale, what is it in there national psyche that precipitates such behaviours in contrast to hear in the UK where most people are obliging of the statusquo of unattractive city centres. People are very much wedded to their cars as a form of identity and they equate providing for cycling in city centres as making a city less successful when in fact it is quite the contrary. Many make up excuses like how will I be able to get to work, how will I get to the shops, the answer is the bus or cycle, its a whole system perspective and they are too selfish.

  • @skitlus335
    @skitlus335 3 года назад +8

    Fuck cars! Every city needs this.

  • @foggy4180
    @foggy4180 2 месяца назад +1

    I was born there in 1958 near the Albert Cuypmarket and in the early sixties there were only a few cars parked and plenty room to play but during the sixties into the seventies that changed quickly and the streets were filled up with parked cars everywhere. The old neighbourhoods were never designed for cars, small streets designed for horse and wagon in the 19th century but in the 60/70ties everybody earned more money and could afford a car. I think it was from the ninetees that everything in the Pijp was changing and more and more cars dissapeared. Funny detail; in those days you hear that everybody was talking with an Amsterdam accent like me, nowadays almost no people talk with that accent anymore and most of them are outsiders.

  • @LifeDCandVA
    @LifeDCandVA 2 года назад +6

    This is great. Trying to do same in some dense parts of Arlington Virginia but fighting the county the entire way

  • @OSHO-devotee
    @OSHO-devotee 3 года назад +10

    Het gaat hier om de kinderen en hun power, niet de buurt. Hier zie je kinderen die niet bang zijn.... Ze praten met vreemden en voelen zich thuis! NU zijn jonge kinderen beschermd door hun ouders die bang zijn, dus ze praten niet met vreemden.... want dat hoort niet volgens de ouders!

  • @syedamina
    @syedamina 11 лет назад +2

    oh man 1 dislike why?... this is so creative clip i admire those children good work

  • @felicianocastanovillar289
    @felicianocastanovillar289 8 лет назад +14

    "Todo está diseñado para los coches, ¿por qué no vamos todos en bicicleta?"
    El sueño y la lucha organizada de niñas y niños, trenzada con el vecindario, urbanistas y otros sectores, logró que la amabilidad de la bicicleta se convirtiera en protagonista de la movilidad en la ciudad, frente a la hostilidad del coche en Ámsterdam.

  • @markvandergriend3359
    @markvandergriend3359 8 месяцев назад +2

    Nowadays things have changed a lot. One way streets, or no cars allowed at all, old houses demolished or renovated ... You need to have a lot of money to buy a rather small house in De Pijp. 60 m2 will cost you at least 550.000 euro.

  • @braindump1446
    @braindump1446 7 месяцев назад +1

    Too bad that the cursing (with Amsterdam accent) is not translated 😀People were passionate and didn't take NO for an answer. Love it!
    This old footage is priceless if you ask me.

  • @ouahidbouchikhi74
    @ouahidbouchikhi74 5 лет назад +1

    this song was so much of mychildhood

  • @Vinix30
    @Vinix30 7 лет назад

    Visited De Pijp last year..can't believe these two are the same place.

  • @mercedezz1
    @mercedezz1 9 лет назад +6

    That time in holland/ amsterdam we got big social housing plans 100,000 s houses every year for normal rent prices, the last 20 years the housing projects slowed down because they only want to built in the private sector , where the money is !

  • @violetagalicia8632
    @violetagalicia8632 8 лет назад +5

    This video is part of the documentaire; 1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp. ¿right? Anyone knows where can I find the whole documentaire subtitled to english?

    • @p.m.8316
      @p.m.8316 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/iquhf_Mon7E/видео.html
      you can select youtube subtitles.

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid 11 лет назад +9

    5:00 while he got outof his car and was taking the baracade to put it far away, a protestor could have gotten into the car, driven it far away and left it :)

    • @syedamina
      @syedamina 11 лет назад +1

      people in those days were good wouldn't do such offensive :P

  • @yoninana4524
    @yoninana4524 10 лет назад +6

    wow this is the beggins now amsterdam is the city of pedestrian and bicycles

  • @ClayShentrup
    @ClayShentrup 3 года назад +1

    This is amazing.

  • @billB101
    @billB101 2 года назад +2

    Amazing, we could do with more kids like this in the UK.

  • @Kyderra
    @Kyderra Год назад +1

    I highly suggest looking up what "de Pijp Amsterdam" looks like now.

  • @u2buhr
    @u2buhr 10 лет назад

    Now it's the motor scooters and similar (two-stroke engine) vehicles in Amsterdam. What a stressful mess they have made of the center!

  • @RvL7752
    @RvL7752 11 дней назад

    Ik heb ook in de Govert Flinckstraat gewoond in de jaren '70. Er werd heel veel afgebroken en mensen verhuisden naar de polder waar ze een huis met een tuin, cv en een douche konden huren/kopen. Dat was er, behalve geen buitenspeel mogelijkheden, allemaal niet in oude huurwoningen destijds.

  • @pablow26
    @pablow26 8 лет назад +5

    Wauw dit is goud!

  • @manouchk38
    @manouchk38 11 лет назад +2

    Is this video available without embedded English subtitles? A friend would like to add Portuguese subtitles to it.

    • @BicycleDutch
      @BicycleDutch  11 лет назад +5

      Yes, the full 39 minute version is on RUclips several times: 1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp

    • @wolfy1987
      @wolfy1987 9 лет назад

      BicycleDutch
      Is the full documentary available with English subtitles?

    • @BicycleDutch
      @BicycleDutch  9 лет назад +1

      I don't think so.

    • @eldenina
      @eldenina 3 года назад

      Do you have it with portuguese subtitles already?

  • @HeatherYoungLeslie
    @HeatherYoungLeslie 4 месяца назад

    Where is Ronald Dam now?

  • @cwalkje
    @cwalkje 10 лет назад +12

    2:25 haha heerlijk accentje

  • @MJJYANA
    @MJJYANA 7 лет назад +3

    Back from those days were we went on the street to demonstrate or let our voice be heard. Not only in Amsterdam. These days we are cowards afraid to loose or income, safety, etc, not knowing we wont change any if we wont step up our rights, but think the government will take care.

  • @alexkapa654
    @alexkapa654 Месяц назад +1

    Gaaf dit ik word emotioneel van
    Zij willen gewoon spelen en mensen doen moeilijk alsof zij nooit kinderen zijn geweest….das fuckd up
    Had ik ook daar willen zijn

  • @dellsouth5678
    @dellsouth5678 9 месяцев назад

    WOW IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THE CITY IS FULL OF BICYCLES NOW

  • @gilbertrossiermcgoon9181
    @gilbertrossiermcgoon9181 Год назад

    Das war vor mehr als 50 Jahren ... und wo sind wir heute genau mit diesem Thema ?
    That happend more than 50 years ago and far we with the very exact topic today ?
    #socialJustice
    #NoJusticeNoPeace

    • @pandimandi624
      @pandimandi624 Месяц назад

      This and the majority of Amsterdam has been heavily pedestrianized. It’s a huge difference in constrast to this. Only the area is heavily gentrified and has no working class anymore.

  • @MarkNieuwenhuizen
    @MarkNieuwenhuizen 6 лет назад +6

    After it was gentrified in the early eighties, de Pijp, where I was born in 65, now is filled with bakfietsen.

    • @DavidFraser007
      @DavidFraser007 3 года назад +2

      I thought the same. A pity it's not a working class area now. I was there 3 years ago, yes it's nice to have bicycles and not cars, but it's just lots of cafe's and people trying to be trendy. I'm 62 now, I remember when people were more normal.

    • @foggy4180
      @foggy4180 2 месяца назад

      Ja, ik ben in 1958 in de pijp bij de Albert Cuyp geboren maar er wonen nog maar weinig Amsterdammers tegenwoordig, het zijn nu vooral juppen en vroeger waren het arbeiders en middenstanders.

  • @gertjanrhebergen3499
    @gertjanrhebergen3499 21 день назад

    4:40 en daar gaan we een lekker Mokums potje matten; is inmiddels juppenbuurt aan het worden (zijn) ?

  • @brunon.8962
    @brunon.8962 9 лет назад +4

    That's Civilization.

  • @fedelledef6136
    @fedelledef6136 4 года назад +4

    Prachtig amsterdams accent!!

  • @mrniceguy4920
    @mrniceguy4920 7 лет назад +1

    de groeten aan onze Amsterdamse vrienden

  • @mercedezz1
    @mercedezz1 9 лет назад

    I am from Amsterdam and know that area good, then , it was not the only bad hood , it almost was everywhere, 25000 euro for a 3 etage house, now it is250.000 euro for a single etage , amsterdam now is for the rich people

  • @erikk9020
    @erikk9020 3 года назад

    Mooi

  • @spicyone
    @spicyone 2 месяца назад +1

    Toen er in Amsterdam nog Amsterdammers woonden.

  • @Gerrit56
    @Gerrit56 2 месяца назад +3

    De pijp is nu een Gooise wolk geworden

  • @ryder4508
    @ryder4508 9 месяцев назад

    Now the streets and parks are empty because everyone just plays with their phones all day.

  • @kevin22763
    @kevin22763 Год назад +1

    台灣的交通就是1972年荷蘭的交通 甚至更糟

  • @TheVincent0268
    @TheVincent0268 Год назад +1

    Eerste van der Helststraat is autovrij maar de ruimte is volledig ingepikt door terrasen voor de horeca. In het midden nog een smal strookje voor voetgangers.

  • @ddrhazy
    @ddrhazy 3 года назад +1

    Rabbit at 9:07.

  • @xenabellebeest
    @xenabellebeest 7 лет назад +4

    Toen kinderen nog goed konden zingen....

  • @keutjewa
    @keutjewa Год назад +13

    Hee! Ze spreken amsterdams! Ik woon vlakbij je hoort het nergens meer alleen Engels en Russisch.

    • @j.c.s_0592
      @j.c.s_0592 Год назад +2

      Waarschijnlijk Oekraïns

  • @aleksanderogaza2868
    @aleksanderogaza2868 4 года назад +2

    There was much more freedom/free speech in both parts of Europe in 70ties - western and eastern. Greetings from Poland.

  • @flitsies
    @flitsies 10 лет назад +1

    I think this is fantastic if only such things happened in the UK, but that would give the rail and such even more excuse to put the price of travel up even more.
    Motorcycles, scooters, electric bikes, electric super bikes, and so on ditch the car, it's fat, it takes up too much room, it wastes so much resources and it blocks roads.
    I would happily give up the car in favour of a lit motors c1.

    • @ChrisInToon
      @ChrisInToon 9 лет назад +1

      +flitsies depending on where one lives a car is a redundant asset I think. We are far too stupid in the UK to go Dutch, we are like 30 years behind them at least.

    • @flitsies
      @flitsies 9 лет назад +1

      CJTaylor 87 Not sure I would agree that a car is completely redundant because they can be useful for moving stuff around.
      But what I've never understood about the Dutch is why they lumped motorcycles in with cars, they are clearly two different animals in fact motorcycles are very much like the bicycle except with a motor.
      The odd thing is for long journeys motorcycles can be very advantageous.
      I also find it hard to understand no impossible to understand why a country like the UK seem so eager to issue tickets to motorcycles for parking when clearly motorcycles don't cause problems, and also why motorcycle bays tend to be placed in the most awkward of places.
      I mean why does the govt insist motorcycles park at right angles to the road ie with the bike sticking out into the road rather than having them park parallel to the road and thus not sticking out into the road.
      One way causes problems because the bike is sticking out into the road the other way is no problem ie not sticking out into the road.
      The UK law is a complete and utter mystery to any sensible person, you could have a string of motorcycles parked along the pavement and still not cause a problem.
      I think the UK has stone age minds running things.
      I would like to see more motorcycles and bicycles and less cars.
      I would also like to see motorcyclists city riding have the ability to choose to wear a cycle helmet instead of that huge thing we have to wear in order to reduce over heating in summer.

    • @ChrisInToon
      @ChrisInToon 9 лет назад

      flitsies yeah ofcourse a car is not completely redundant but I know of families who just have cars on there driveway and don't get used that often, just sitting there.
      I am sorry I know little about the motorcycle, it just makes you wonder that they are almost certainly neglected, never really stopped to consider the accommodation of motorcycles. Although just the other week i read about motorcyclists round my locality who were upset about a long stretch of cycle lane which had this new but bizarre division with the main roadway in the form of these raised hedgehog things even 2 metres, they say that this type of road layout is very dangerous to motorcyclists.
      Well in regards your accounts of poor parking facilities for motorcyclists we all know about a similarly ludicrous situation of those cycle lanes that go for 10m or less then finish and are just so horrendously designed its amusing.

    • @flitsies
      @flitsies 9 лет назад

      CJTaylor 87 It does make you wonder about the people who come up with these ideas doesn't it.
      I'm all in favour of bicycles I ride one myself sometimes but like your hedgehog things you have there, in the UK they come up with some pretty stupid ideas from time to time which is often seriously dangerous to motorcycles.
      As a motorcycle rider and a bicycle rider and a car driver and a large vehicle driver I find it really annoying that the planners don't take better care when designing their roads.
      In the UK they do stupid things like narrow a road down to one vehicle even though wide enough to accommodate upwards of three, which obviously causes congestion and pollution and is a danger to cyclists and motorcyclists it's damned crazy.
      Another thing that bugs me is the fact that electric bikes in the UK are limited to 250 watts that huge leap from 200 watts all the way up to that extra 50 watts, surely if they wanted to get people out of their cars they would offer the same type of law as California ie 500 watts with a 750 peak and 20 mph.
      That way all the fat one's who can't ride have a chance to have a go and feel safe enough to keep up with traffic.
      As it stands lots of the electric bikes often get bought and left as coat hangers cos they don't go fast enough.

  • @ouahidbouchikhi74
    @ouahidbouchikhi74 5 лет назад

    das geen verhaal

    • @alexkapa654
      @alexkapa654 Месяц назад

      Wel hoor een strijders verhaal

  • @victorcoo3583
    @victorcoo3583 2 года назад +1

    Taiwan need this

  • @leowang2657
    @leowang2657 Год назад

    台灣還有一堆民代想要限縮行人路權😂

  • @gewoonlukas3618
    @gewoonlukas3618 4 года назад

    Fock die mannen, t zijn haters. Pak mn 9 en laat hem praten.

  • @__X__O__O__
    @__X__O__O__ 3 года назад

    Bientôt en France 🤣

  • @elioavila7261
    @elioavila7261 6 лет назад +2

    No Turkish marrocans lads seen in this vid (?)

    • @SDGFDSZXC
      @SDGFDSZXC 5 лет назад +1

      Great, you have eyes. But there were immigrant workers in de pijp too

    • @Kemily91
      @Kemily91 4 года назад +1

      Be glad you are around today then! Who else could you blame for everything otherwise!

  • @janstolk486
    @janstolk486 2 года назад +1

    alsof die kinderen dat allemaal zelf bedacht hebben .

  • @robox91
    @robox91 11 лет назад

    Ze kunnen toch in het park gaan spelen. Volgens mij wonen er ook niet meer zoveel kinderen als vroeger. En vier euro in de oude pijp en drie euro in de nieuwe pijp hebben het parkeer probleem ook opgelost; ik kan altijd wel een plekje vinden. :-)

  • @lalalalnanan7434
    @lalalalnanan7434 8 лет назад

    hahah ik woon depijp

  • @migaczone
    @migaczone 4 года назад

    so this is how this modern cities CANCER has begun... ask to build the park not close the street ffs

    • @pspawnslayer
      @pspawnslayer 3 года назад +5

      Fuck off, cities & streets r for people not cars & obese hippos who sit in them

    • @burgerpommes2001
      @burgerpommes2001 3 года назад +7

      Amsterdam is way better now

    • @danielhouston8725
      @danielhouston8725 3 года назад

      Yes fuck off to this comment because it represents the other opposing comments from the kind of people who are the problem - and the problem people are those who are so ignorant, insane and deprived of life's basic social realities that they cannot even understand that a "city" should not be 100% efficient for cars - and more ignorant are these people that they cannot even understand that the point of having no traffic in a neighbourhood is that it allows the neighbourhood to have the quiet and normal environment that small towns have - and one commenter said "but motorcylces should be allowed" and this is also an example of somebody who has no experience, understanding or appreciation for the point of this story: that traffic is an ugly disturbance to a neighbourhood just like a kazoo and a tambourine is an ugly disturbance to a prayer vigil - and these "opponents" (idiots) to the idea of peaceful neighbourhoods being allowed to exist in some parts of a city would only be "opponents" (idiots) for the single argument that their automaton soulless consumer goal of getting from one place to another in a line as straight as possible, at a speed as fast as possible, and with as few delays as possible is more important than the people who live in the neighbourhood that idiot with a vehicle thinks he owns just because it has a road.