In Utrecht you’ll see the most mesmerizing site: Vredenburg carries 33,000 cyclists on an average day! 60% of trips into the city are by bike. Private cars are banned from the road, all you will see is mega helpings of people on bikes, plus pedestrians, many bus lines and the very occasional taxi (taxis aren’t very popular in Utrecht.)
On the plane ride home while going thru nearly 2,000 shots I took in Amsterdam and Utrecht, I realized so much of this good footage will not figure in the final product of my mega doc from Utrecht. So I thought best to put up a fun montage using some of the best shots. After all, I tweeted just one 30 second shot of footage overhead and that was watched nearly 400K times. So I figure there are probably many thousands that would love to just sit back and watch the bicycles flow by, sometimes their operators seemingly floating in air. If you go I warn you: one night I just sat for a half an hour sans camera taking it all in.
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And when it's raining?
00:04 corona virus: "hi"
Huts
0:11 Vredenburg is in Utrecht, so not Holland. Not mad just saying 🙂
I cycle there almost every day. So it'ss really cool seeing this video
Who else owns a cycle diploma? Teachers hiding in bushes to see if you made a mistake 🤣
Pre covid be like:
This video is a total misrepresentation of reality. I cycle here everyday and I can tell you this bike lane is f*cking dangerous, I've seen numerous accidents happen here. Outside of Corona time the lane is so crowded you can barely cross the street, with people just avoiding getting hit by a bus. This crossroad is hands down one of most poorly designed ones in the city.
Did you know that in the Netherlands Kids have to do an exam in cycling when they're in school? It's all about getting the rules & awareness in early. People in the Netherlands forget they're vulnerable when cycling compared to other vehicles.
Is this real? Amazing! Were are the cars?
my home city 🙂
Its weird that is cycle here every week
33000 per day is not that much?
How dare you call Utrecht Holland? That's a serious question.
Hier kunnen we nou trots op zijn 🥰👍
This is exactly what foreighers think that this is what the Netherlands look like. Its true about cycle lanes but its not so busy everywhere.
This is all fun and games but Utrecht is a leftist hellhole
India.. Nigeria.. pls watch this… and earth will be saved
It looks so good
Come on Copenhagen, Utrecht the 4th largest city of the Netherlands, do beter than that…come on we dare you..33.000 cyclists.
Imagine the legs of these people.
The music is killing me…
Streetfilms has the worst music, WTF luisteren we naar ? Moet die herrie aan tijdens het fietsen ?
It's very difficult to make any comparison between Holland and the UK. The Dutch made the decision in the 1950s to make cycling a priority in urban areas. In the UK at the same time, the policy decision was made to create a national car road infrastructure and hence the situation we have now where vehicle drivers have the roads to themselves for 70-80 years. No wonder they don't want to give it up.
Ohhhhh í love Utrecht
In my town youbare the cool kid if you are driving a car but if you only have a bike that's almost like a shame. It's so bad…
Just back from a trip which involved cycling in Utrecht. It is absolutely amazing. Let's get in with it and catch up them.
Presume Automobile manufacturers, doctors, bus service providers would be scoffing at an idea of bicycles taking over other means of transportation
1:38 That road does not need 4 lanes WTF. Utrecht get your shit together! Why did they make such a busy bike path standard size? They should've made it the first 4- or 6-lane bike path in the Netherlands, that would be so cool.
Netherlands = next level ❤
I could watch this all day (without the music, of course.)
Meanwhile at my American university I was almost run over on my bicycle by motorists not paying attention on two separate occasions in the past month
Nice footage, but the "music" is utterly awful. Why not just leave it with the actual sound?
such a beautiful sight to see cyclists moving