When ever I see Bike roads like that I have to tell myself these aren't bike Trails but actual roads. In England we have two Bike trails that spring to mind the Tissington and the Monsel trail where you can rent bikes. For pleasure and that is what this bike rout screams to me Pleasure and everyone looks relaxed. It's nice to see the bikes that I've seen in other videos like the urban arrow and the bullet. I'm not sure weather that's the types I saw the passers by used but it was interesting to see the cargo bikes the car looked a bit out of place. If that was the UK the driver would probably be blasting his or her horn and shouting something unrepeatable through the window but yes people looked Happy great video
Another reaction of the DABF, the Dutch Anti-Brompton Front. You, John ... and Jordan, get a proper bicycle/omafiets/bakfiets. You now got a connection with a "custom builder".
I guess he is from Arnhem, 8 miles north.... Big competition between the "born" people from both cities. I like both, so I live between! You almost went that way with the bicycle highway. But I missed the explaining and talking in this video. The two in front were discussing a lot.
Seeing these residential areas I always wonder, if they were all build like this or have been retrofitted? Here in Germany residential areas basically keep their street design "forever" - like the one you rode in Leipzig. Build with cobblestone in the 19th century, so they still have cobblestone (when you are lucky with asphalt on top) today. And this goes for almost all the design iterations, so you can still see this "jump" from the bigger and bigger streets until the 70s to the much narrower 30-zone designs since the 1980s. Only the worst "car oriented city" designs have been somewhat redesigned, as their "density though height" concept causes several other (social) problems.
Yeah, that's a good question. I'm not sure. Jos would probably be able to provide more context. That's interesting about the German experience. Cheers! John
They have been retrofitted. When streets are due for maintenance they sometimes update the design. But they respect the design of the city centres while doing so. And sometimes they try to bring back old features. For example Zwolle, they wanted to bring back a canal that used to run through the city (like Amsterdam still has). The canal still runs underneath the streets. They decided not to bring it back....but my government does things like that. When they do maintenance they upgrade it if things need to change for safety reasons but they keep the ascetics in mind as well. But they also do that with buildings. In Zwolle they got rid of an old hospital (and build a bigger one near the outside of the city with better access). On the spot of the hospital they build houses....but in the old style of the old buildings near it. Also there is a rule that in the city centre no building may be taller than the Peperbus (=the church tower). That tower will always be the vocal point of the old city centre. You can have both modern and safe cities but also respect the old aspects of the city.
Some have been retrofitted, some have been built like this. For instance, the streets shown from ua-cam.com/video/NAnCvkrgDE0/v-deo.html onwards were all built as bike roads (bikes have priority, cars are allowed at max 18 mph). How do I know this? Well that's my street - Grote Boel. This whole neighbourhood was built between 2015 and 2019 - I've lived here from the moment the houses were ready. The streets in the city center are up to 2000 years old and were built by the Romans or in medieval times. So no, these haven't been bike roads from the start but have been converted in the last 10 - 20 years. Before that, the city center was very car centric (leading to chaos, because the Dutch are gonna bike there regardless). The bike road bridge that's right next to the train tracks was purposefully built for bikes and simply hung off the existing rail road bridge that was there. The bike road goes straight through the old (140 yr) bridge head tower (ua-cam.com/video/NAnCvkrgDE0/v-deo.html) The elevated bike road, including the green bridge, was specifically built for bikes too and helps bike riders to cross a spaghetti of roads below without having to wait for traffic lights at each crossing. It's a shame they stopped short of biking onwards towards the nearby town of Elst - you'd bike over one of the "bike freeways" (fietssnelweg), which run from town to town and are completely car free and have priority at crossings (or elevated or tunnelled when crossing major car roads). If you download the app and enable bluetooth on your phone, you can even set the colour of the lights inside one of the tunnels on that route before you leave from home - the colour will change for each biker with that app on their phone, mixing the colours in a rainbow motif if more that one bike is in the tunnel at a time.
Nice city tour! I was just recently in the Netherlands. Well, yesterday lol. Currently in Brussel, which is a real car hellhole.
Thanks! Yes, Brussels has a lot of work to do... although I could tell, they have come a long way. Thanks so much for watching. Cheers! John
Missed the live, sorry. Catching up! Lovely place, Nijmegen, I want to go visit it again👍🌷
Yeah, highly recommended 😀
Wonderful. Really looking forward to a longer visit of the Velorama cycling museum.
Thanks, Gary. Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
What a beautiful ride! I especially enjoyed the elevated portions of the cycle track. Just gorgeous!
Yes! Those were really special sections, for sure.
I'm European, German to be exact, and love your content I've immediately subscribed to! ❤❤
Yay! Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Cheers! John
Lovely tour of the city.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.😀
When ever I see Bike roads like that I have to tell myself these aren't bike Trails but actual roads. In England we have two Bike trails that spring to mind the Tissington and the Monsel trail where you can rent bikes. For pleasure and that is what this bike rout screams to me Pleasure and everyone looks relaxed. It's nice to see the bikes that I've seen in other videos like the urban arrow and the bullet. I'm not sure weather that's the types I saw the passers by used but it was interesting to see the cargo bikes the car looked a bit out of place. If that was the UK the driver would probably be blasting his or her horn and shouting something unrepeatable through the window but yes people looked Happy great video
Thanks, Bobbie! Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Another reaction of the DABF, the Dutch Anti-Brompton Front. You, John ... and Jordan, get a proper bicycle/omafiets/bakfiets. You now got a connection with a "custom builder".
Hehe, yeah the DABF is relentless. 😂
I totally agree with that message 😁
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Al moet ik kruipen ...
See ya then!😀
I guess he is from Arnhem, 8 miles north.... Big competition between the "born" people from both cities. I like both, so I live between! You almost went that way with the bicycle highway.
But I missed the explaining and talking in this video. The two in front were discussing a lot.
Seeing these residential areas I always wonder, if they were all build like this or have been retrofitted? Here in Germany residential areas basically keep their street design "forever" - like the one you rode in Leipzig. Build with cobblestone in the 19th century, so they still have cobblestone (when you are lucky with asphalt on top) today. And this goes for almost all the design iterations, so you can still see this "jump" from the bigger and bigger streets until the 70s to the much narrower 30-zone designs since the 1980s. Only the worst "car oriented city" designs have been somewhat redesigned, as their "density though height" concept causes several other (social) problems.
Yeah, that's a good question. I'm not sure. Jos would probably be able to provide more context. That's interesting about the German experience. Cheers! John
They have been retrofitted. When streets are due for maintenance they sometimes update the design. But they respect the design of the city centres while doing so. And sometimes they try to bring back old features. For example Zwolle, they wanted to bring back a canal that used to run through the city (like Amsterdam still has). The canal still runs underneath the streets. They decided not to bring it back....but my government does things like that. When they do maintenance they upgrade it if things need to change for safety reasons but they keep the ascetics in mind as well. But they also do that with buildings. In Zwolle they got rid of an old hospital (and build a bigger one near the outside of the city with better access). On the spot of the hospital they build houses....but in the old style of the old buildings near it. Also there is a rule that in the city centre no building may be taller than the Peperbus (=the church tower). That tower will always be the vocal point of the old city centre. You can have both modern and safe cities but also respect the old aspects of the city.
Some have been retrofitted, some have been built like this.
For instance, the streets shown from ua-cam.com/video/NAnCvkrgDE0/v-deo.html onwards were all built as bike roads (bikes have priority, cars are allowed at max 18 mph).
How do I know this? Well that's my street - Grote Boel. This whole neighbourhood was built between 2015 and 2019 - I've lived here from the moment the houses were ready.
The streets in the city center are up to 2000 years old and were built by the Romans or in medieval times. So no, these haven't been bike roads from the start but have been converted in the last 10 - 20 years. Before that, the city center was very car centric (leading to chaos, because the Dutch are gonna bike there regardless).
The bike road bridge that's right next to the train tracks was purposefully built for bikes and simply hung off the existing rail road bridge that was there. The bike road goes straight through the old (140 yr) bridge head tower (ua-cam.com/video/NAnCvkrgDE0/v-deo.html)
The elevated bike road, including the green bridge, was specifically built for bikes too and helps bike riders to cross a spaghetti of roads below without having to wait for traffic lights at each crossing.
It's a shame they stopped short of biking onwards towards the nearby town of Elst - you'd bike over one of the "bike freeways" (fietssnelweg), which run from town to town and are completely car free and have priority at crossings (or elevated or tunnelled when crossing major car roads). If you download the app and enable bluetooth on your phone, you can even set the colour of the lights inside one of the tunnels on that route before you leave from home - the colour will change for each biker with that app on their phone, mixing the colours in a rainbow motif if more that one bike is in the tunnel at a time.
Doesn't seem to be a lot of places where people walk around...
In the historic city center it is very pedestrian oriented 😀
fun fact... Nijmegen was actually bombed by the US. (during ww2)
Oh man, that doesn't fun at all. War is tragic.