Having a car in the Netherlands is very expensive and driving even more expensive petrol € 2.01 per L parking € 7.50 per hour (Amsterdam center) Parking garage € 40. – -> 80.- per 24 hours + road tax and then the car €10000 to ???????
Great video. You are saying the reason why Dutch people bike around so much is because of the infrastructure. I would disagree. I would say it is the other way around. The reason why there is a lot of infrastructure is because the Dutch bike so much. The biking culture was there before the infrastructure was there. I would say the reason why they bike so much is because of the country being very dense, so most trips are relatively short, and the fact that the Netherlands is very flat, as we all know.
You don't have to, but I remember one girl that lived near her schools and always walked. She, albeit Dutch, didn't like to cycle. As such it gets socially complicated when you want to go out in a group. But if you're an individual, sure. You can walk, take a bus, metro, tram or train. If you really need, you can even take a car. But why whould you? In short: you don't have to, but it's definately expected.
America: "our country is so free we can go anywhere we like with CARS!" NL: "we have more freedom, our kids can go to and from School safely and they keep up that desire all their lives… if they stray from it and into their cars, they will go through insufferable torment in the cities"
bikes are great if you live in a flat highly developed high population low acreage country with relatively mild winters. try riding to school on a ice mountain road when it is well below zero and the school is 10 miles in to town.
"super empowering" Exactly. That is why kids use bikes. They can make their own decisions, go to their mates, go to the city center to hang out, go on a cycle-about through the fields or woods. I think I must have been only 8 or 9 when I would cylce to school all by my self (and my little brother).
And occasionally, when the weather was particularly horrid, my dad would give me a ride.
As a native I've walked to school, cycled to school, and taken public transport to school. It really is a matter of distance and personal preference (Cost too I guess for the last option, though I imagine public transport is less costly than being driven to and from school by your parents).
That's funny! The part where you filmed those kids waiting for eachother at the gas station is where I live. Did not expect that. Edit: you later even biked in my street!
I think the answer is wrong-headed. It implicitly gives off this feeling that the Netherlands doesn't have a very good car-infrastructure and you will feel forced to ride a bike and that all the focus is on biking infrastructure and that cars are left to struggle. The real answer is this: If you absolutely do not want you or your kids to bike then the Netherlands has an ultra-high quality car and public transport infrastructure. You have the option to pick any mode of transport you prefer and all destinations are usually closely reachable by all the modes within comparable travel times. Furthermore because so many people will prefer other modes over car-use you will be on a road without much traffic. Only those few who have to drive or those who really like to drive will usually be driving in the Netherlands so that means we do more with less asphalt. It's a win-win-win-win situation simply by giving people the freedom to choose more things and accommodating all of those options seriously in the infrastructure.
That being said.. if you move here you will naturally start choosing the bike or walking for many short distance trips and you might not even give your car a second thought most of the time. Even with long distance trips you will probably notice that a train is much more comfortable than driving somewhere and the last-mile-problem is usually solved at every destination you can think of. Either with borrow-bikes or an excellent bus/tram system.
In the states you’ll see a school bus stop a half mile before the school and pick up a load of kids. In all fairness, a good amount of high school kids within a mile choose to walk to school in my area, on the side of a busy road, nothing separating them except a painted white line, from moms and dads rushing to drop their kids off so they can hurry up and sit in traffic. It’s rather interesting.
le auto si fermano un bel po' di tempo prima dell'arrivo della bici, incredibile. io invece devo sempre urlare, sbracciarmi, ecc. per farmi vedere e dirgli di fermarsi.
Eh, sorry but not every roundabout has bicycle priority. It is likely in side the city boundary but is unlikely to have bicycle priority away from cities…
So, no, bicycle do not have automatic priority when entering a roundabout!
On the school busing, there would have to be some of that in the country since wouldn't there always be some parents having their kids going to a private school 10-20 miles off, farther than an ordinary commute ride, and also wouldn't there sometimes be a public school assigned or selected which would also be that far for numbers of the students going there but also living generally in the same area? Obviously, this is all good stuff. What tends to happen where I've lived is that you'd wind up riding bikes to your schools up to 8th grade because they were in the same small city, but then you'd get bused to your high school since it was five miles off two cities over where the traffic would of been a safety problem.
Australia (Australian states) retards any of the normal school kid cycling lifestyle, and resulting fitness from that, by way of their bike helmet laws and the warped mentality behind it. They've had about thirty years to see the obvious error of their ways with that, and yet it's still there. Of course other countries and states force that on children too, also warped and stupid, but probably with less severe enforcement. If you want to have more people on bikes generally, you take away the restrictions, and the associated state propaganda, especially the ones which give the impression that cycling is always a sport, and always dangerous.
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The Dutch old enough to drive a car will never ride a bike again 😁
This is like asking, Do you have to walk? No you can just keep crawling but why would you
I would highly encourage biking if you live in the Netherlands, if only to see traffic from a bikers perspective.
Don't forget to signal with your arm which way you're going.
Not extending the arm causes a lot accidents with bicycles.
Thank you Nederland for the cycling culture
https://youtu.be/gMGmvokF-jM
😉👍
Having a car in the Netherlands is very expensive and driving even more expensive petrol € 2.01 per L parking € 7.50 per hour (Amsterdam center) Parking garage € 40. – -> 80.- per 24 hours + road tax and then the car €10000 to ???????
Why did you want a car in the Netherlands?
@1:17 ….what…..thats just dutch summer beautiful weather, makes you big and strong
cycling is for kids that all
Great video. You are saying the reason why Dutch people bike around so much is because of the infrastructure. I would disagree. I would say it is the other way around. The reason why there is a lot of infrastructure is because the Dutch bike so much. The biking culture was there before the infrastructure was there. I would say the reason why they bike so much is because of the country being very dense, so most trips are relatively short, and the fact that the Netherlands is very flat, as we all know.
You don't have to, but I remember one girl that lived near her schools and always walked. She, albeit Dutch, didn't like to cycle. As such it gets socially complicated when you want to go out in a group. But if you're an individual, sure. You can walk, take a bus, metro, tram or train. If you really need, you can even take a car. But why whould you?
In short: you don't have to, but it's definately expected.
Too bad for disabled students I guess, you need a bike to go to school
yes its fun and safe…. explore holland the guide ountry
1:32 ja die werkt ni. Echt n beginner zo te zien
Answer: yes. And you'll also have to eat fries with mayonnaise and raw fish
America: "our country is so free we can go anywhere we like with CARS!"
NL: "we have more freedom, our kids can go to and from School safely and they keep up that desire all their lives… if they stray from it and into their cars, they will go through insufferable torment in the cities"
bikes are great if you live in a flat highly developed high population low acreage country with relatively mild winters. try riding to school on a ice mountain road when it is well below zero and the school is 10 miles in to town.
Living in The Netherlands I never realized how good our infrastructure for biking is, it’s so normal. Never gave it any thought.
This is all close to The Haque
"super empowering"
Exactly. That is why kids use bikes. They can make their own decisions, go to their mates, go to the city center to hang out, go on a cycle-about through the fields or woods. I think I must have been only 8 or 9 when I would cylce to school all by my self (and my little brother).
And occasionally, when the weather was particularly horrid, my dad would give me a ride.
As a native I've walked to school, cycled to school, and taken public transport to school. It really is a matter of distance and personal preference (Cost too I guess for the last option, though I imagine public transport is less costly than being driven to and from school by your parents).
That's funny! The part where you filmed those kids waiting for eachother at the gas station is where I live. Did not expect that.
Edit: you later even biked in my street!
Segregation is key
I think the answer is wrong-headed. It implicitly gives off this feeling that the Netherlands doesn't have a very good car-infrastructure and you will feel forced to ride a bike and that all the focus is on biking infrastructure and that cars are left to struggle.
The real answer is this: If you absolutely do not want you or your kids to bike then the Netherlands has an ultra-high quality car and public transport infrastructure. You have the option to pick any mode of transport you prefer and all destinations are usually closely reachable by all the modes within comparable travel times. Furthermore because so many people will prefer other modes over car-use you will be on a road without much traffic. Only those few who have to drive or those who really like to drive will usually be driving in the Netherlands so that means we do more with less asphalt. It's a win-win-win-win situation simply by giving people the freedom to choose more things and accommodating all of those options seriously in the infrastructure.
That being said.. if you move here you will naturally start choosing the bike or walking for many short distance trips and you might not even give your car a second thought most of the time. Even with long distance trips you will probably notice that a train is much more comfortable than driving somewhere and the last-mile-problem is usually solved at every destination you can think of. Either with borrow-bikes or an excellent bus/tram system.
When cycling in the Netherlands always realise yourself: bad weather doesn't exist, just bad clothing 🥂.
im netherlands but i love your flog and go togeter in netherland
thank you so much for this beautiful bicycle tour Reindert from Suriname
Have to?! I'd rather bike anywhere, crazy drivers permitting….
In the states you’ll see a school bus stop a half mile before the school and pick up a load of kids. In all fairness, a good amount of high school kids within a mile choose to walk to school in my area, on the side of a busy road, nothing separating them except a painted white line, from moms and dads rushing to drop their kids off so they can hurry up and sit in traffic. It’s rather interesting.
le auto si fermano un bel po' di tempo prima dell'arrivo della bici, incredibile. io invece devo sempre urlare, sbracciarmi, ecc. per farmi vedere e dirgli di fermarsi.
800 bikes, that is 1600 cars per day @Dublincitycouncil…
Eh, sorry but not every roundabout has bicycle priority. It is likely in side the city boundary but is unlikely to have bicycle priority away from cities…
So, no, bicycle do not have automatic priority when entering a roundabout!
Voorschoten and Wassenaar?!
The Dutch are the envy of the world. Canada will never get close to this level of bicycle infrastructure.
So you're saying the Dutch are accomplishing road safety in a roundabout way?
On the school busing, there would have to be some of that in the country since wouldn't there always be some parents having their kids going to a private school 10-20 miles off, farther than an ordinary commute ride, and also wouldn't there sometimes be a public school assigned or selected which would also be that far for numbers of the students going there but also living generally in the same area? Obviously, this is all good stuff. What tends to happen where I've lived is that you'd wind up riding bikes to your schools up to 8th grade because they were in the same small city, but then you'd get bused to your high school since it was five miles off two cities over where the traffic would of been a safety problem.
Australia (Australian states) retards any of the normal school kid cycling lifestyle, and resulting fitness from that, by way of their bike helmet laws and the warped mentality behind it. They've had about thirty years to see the obvious error of their ways with that, and yet it's still there. Of course other countries and states force that on children too, also warped and stupid, but probably with less severe enforcement. If you want to have more people on bikes generally, you take away the restrictions, and the associated state propaganda, especially the ones which give the impression that cycling is always a sport, and always dangerous.