The Most Dangerous Places to Cycle in Amsterdam

Having said all of this, in rural areas you often share the road with everybody, the speed limit is 60 kmh, everyone goes faster 😂 but traffic volume is much lower and people are almost always more courteous than in the west. Some of the rudest road users are actually people from the west who come to cycle here and stare at you like you're a zoo exhibit and then hastily look away when you greet them, or wielrenners, those often stuck as well

My German home town is centuries old and built before the introduction of "cars for everybody". Today cars are parked on both sides of my street, often partially on the sidewalk, but there is no place at all to park a bike. You are actually allowed to ride a bike against the cars' one-way direction, but with the road being barely wide enough for cars in one direction I wouldn't dream of doing that. A bit further away there is a busy roundabout with the bike lane disappearing at the most critical spot.

I just took on a new job in town and consider buying a bike – but it is crazy that I have to first look at google maps to find out if there is a safe way to get there! I never owned a car, but seeing what the bike lanes are like I'm not sure I will ever own a bike either. It makes me quite angry that I have to pay for that madness, streets I dare not use and other peoples' parking lots.

What is ironic is that the worst lanes here are like the best bike lanes in London. London is getting there, there are some good lanes and it is safer than it was 10 years ago. Most London cycling is hybrid lanes were traffic combines.

For the people who want to compare Amsterdam search videos about bike messengers in New York, and you will learn what is reckless and dangerous bike riding, also extremely fun if you know what you are doing. There is a great channel, Terry Barensten, he rides in NY most of the time but also in other cities of the world following local cyclists but this cyclists are usually bike messengers or fixie riders, they ride fast very fast and ride among the cars.

3:06 "Only the dutch would complain about this psychopath not being good enough" lol These youtube captions are like the bugs on Skyrim, I can't bring myself to hate them.

Ah, the total unmitigated mess of a street-disaster, or as I as a Berlin resident call it: a street.

Living in Berlin, I always thought "well, better a painted bicycle gutter than nothing". This is actually the standard German bike lane, so until very recently it was the best you could get. But then I started thinking and realized that the two standard Bike-deaths around here – car turning right without looking and cyclist having to change into the car lane because a car or delivery van is using the bike lane as a parking strip – actually depend on the bike land being unprotected, along the street and at intersections. So yeah, get rid of them!

I do like your videos and the comparisons between Canada and Netherlands. My father and his younger siblings were born in Netherlands while his 9 older siblings were born in Canada. i find it interesting that the worst bike paths shown are equivalent to the best we have in Melbourne Australia.

I actually used the bike lane on Northfield to bike to work for several years. Frankly, I was glad at the time that even that existed since I wouldn't have been able to bike to work at all otherwise. However, now I obviously know that we could do much better.

glad to see nobody’s perfect

Your example of the worst streets for bikes in the Netherlands are like examples of the absolute best streets in America. The extent of our bike infrastructure here pretty much ends at the "Share the Road" signs randomly scattered around our poorly designed stroads.