[Ep. 996] The bridges on the Euro bank notes were supposed to be fictional. That was true until one town in the Netherlands built them all! The Euro Bridges in Spijkenisse (near Rotterdam) are now some sort of a tourist attraction!
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Astonishing! Am I dreaming? This is too good to be true, and yet it is true!!!
Should be at least ⭐⭐(Worth a detour) in the Michelin Green Guide 😀
Haha, wat leuk dit. Nooit geweten!
Haha nice. Dutch and British humour seem quite similar 😅
Would you show us bicycle roads near that condos on the background, especially with black cube on top, please
This is so dumb🤣
This is all part of an insidious Dutch scheme to impose livable cities throughout the union. First the cute bridges to suck up to the ECB, whose employees will pester EU leaders into moving the bank to R´dam. Other EU bodies will soon follow suit. Finally, threat of turning of ERDF cash taps unless other member states get cracking with building cycle infra. You read it here first.
Really funny
Interesting share!
Horrible, horrible design :/
I love that they did that. The bridges do look a bit silly, but it makes it better that they’re designed to look a bit over the top. I’m sure it puts a smile on the faces of the people who use them daily.
I love them and the colours. So happy looking.
GEKOLONISEERD? 😅
As the Netherlands are clearly preferred now it is time to get new notes or the bridges must be removed!
Cool initiative!
Did the woke brigade approve of this monetary appropriation?
Dutch: Lets make it fictional, so its fair
EU: Thats sounds fair
Dutch: sinister laughter excellent!
Very smart move!!! 😹
This is incredibly stupid, I LOVE IT! Imagine this on the Seine!
Nice way to make what would have been probably dull small bridges crossing a canal into something peculiar and fascinating.
Making urban environment a little fun, even in its design, helps to make it more livable
I'm so embarrassed, I pass every one of these bridges but I never noticed that there are two different sides 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Alsome on Netherlands making euro note bridges real.
As a German, I highly respect the based crazyness of the dutch.
This made me chuckle, hilarious 😂
Are the cable stays on the pink bridge real?
😂
And now we are waiting to get a law-suit for a copyright infringement.
Dutch rules.
Looks like the Truman Show
ℹ A few years back, @TomScottGo also made a video on those bridges.
The design on the euro notes are disgusting it has no style or history to it.
Great to see what you can do with concrete. These bridges are for fun of course and look a bit over the top, but why not making more concrete constructions a bit more beautiful with the right colours and details? That would make our cities and towns much more attractive.
I love this, it feels like a joke. I would love to cycle over all of them
soulless designs
A moment of silence for the purple 500 bill. Rest in peace, you were a real one.
I'm not sure if this is arrogant or creative. It's bold, for sure.
If it were any other nation, I’d expect a toll respective to the notes these bridges are designed after.
Ah the Dutch.. Even when it's not about us we make sure it will be about us 🤣
"A well stolen idea is better than a badly thought up one"
-Dutch proverb
Im ashamed to admit that as a Dutch person who lives pretty close to Rotterdam, I had no idea this was a thing 😂 Now I kinda want to go to Spijkenisse to see these bridges myself lol
One day the Netherlands as a whole will be like the Efteling
The Euro is one of the currencies that do not display something like 'Twenty Euro(s)' and 'this note is legal tender' (or similar) due to the number of languages spoken in the EU. Ever wonder why road signs use symbols wherever possible and use the triangle to warn?
Just wondering if we can pull it off with the digital ones as well.
neat and functional just wish America was not so drunk on cars
It's a miracle that the EU didn't force every country to build the bridges depicted on the banknotes.
Also, nothing stops other countries from building these bridges aswell.