A ride in Ghent (Belgium)

[Ep. 1032] A ride from the city centre of Ghent in Belgium to the railway station Gent Sint Pieters showing a variety of cycling infrastructure in the 3rd largest city of Belgium. More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p...

[@iamjoestafford]

I loved Ghent when I visited a couple of years ago on a cycling tour - definitely one of my favourite cities in Europe!

[@yagi3925]

Gent wordt in België algemeen erkend als de best fietsbare stad van het rijk maar breder genomen is het een stad waar de mens, niet de wagen, centraal staat.

[@TheWalkingDutchman4K]

Leuk feitje!

[@TheWalkingDutchman4K]

Nice video keep it up!

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice video.

[@elbartorulez]

At 4:29 you can go left and use 'tunnel' that goes next to water under road.

[@hansbraam73]

Wat is Gent toch een fijne stad. Je voelt je als Nederlander toch onmiddellijk op je gemak als je buiten de grenzen te midden van andere fietsers en her en der geparkeerde rijwielen mag rijden over rood asfalt.😊

[@RonaldMedia]

Ja ik vraag me af of het stadsbestuur veel naar Nederland kijkt. Als je had gezegd dat dit een Nederlandse stad was, dan had ik je geloofd.

[@TheWalkingDutchman4K]

Helemaal mee eens!😁

[@panagiotisvarelas2399]

this is fun

[@miraadi97]

Nicer with political background of the present state and what partisan issues are talked around it, that can help rhetoric of other city viewers.

[@oldbrokenhands]

A lot louder than your usual videos.

[@SturmZebra13]

I'd still consider people in Gent cycling despite the infrastructure and not because of it when I look at this. But I guess there are nicer places and quiet roads don't need infrastructure as well

[@lws7394]

What do you mean ? This is so quiet foe a 300k city ! Even to dutch standards.
What you don't 'see' here is the Low Traffic Circulation Zoning in the down town, which prevents thru traffic in the town centre. With filtered permeability and one way streets.
And no, with road filtering you don't need excessive bike infrastructure to create safe streets for cycling and walking . Great, right ?!.
most streets were designed for xars , before the low traffic circulation.

[@SturmZebra13]

@@lws7394 I know but the cross sections of the roads are still bad in my opinion

[@shervetsel]

Especially when you had 3 lanes of one way car traffic and the cycle path was half of what the pavement used to be, instead of a two way, separated one. Bikes and pedestrians need to share the pavement while cars get 3 lanes.

[@PhilosopherStone]

@@shervetsel @SturmZebra13 It's the ring road, which has to accommodate all traffic that isn't allowed to pass directly through the centre. Those lanes are more than justified, since that makes the rest of the city liveable. Most of the times, you can easily avoid the ring road by taking more bike-friendly routes while losing minimal time (Coupure, Scheldekaai-Muinkkaai, Visserij, Neermeerskaai...), which I think is a sufficient trade-off. I can only think of two major cycling routes that are worse than this (and even lead to active avoidance by bikes imo): Kortrijksesteenweg immediately south of the railway and the section of the Zwijnaardesesteenweg west of the University Hospital. Otherwise, the bike infrastructure in Ghent is exquisite!
Source: I frequent the roads you saw in the video literally on a daily basis

[@shervetsel]

@@PhilosopherStone i mean, I don't think taking a car lane away is that big an ask. And making it even more annoying to take the car is desirable, imo. Less cars, more bikes, less traffic.

[@DenzelPF-jl4lj]

I'm not really impressed with this infrastructure to be honest 😅