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How the Dutch Cycle UNDERWATER across the Nieuwe Maas | Rotterdam Maastunnel Tour
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
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What do you think? Where else do we need this? Do you think this is a good solution?
This tunnel was built in 1942, few people had cars. Bicycles where the mode of transport. Onder the bicycle tunnel is a pedestrian one. Inn the 50's and 60's you could find 10 000 bikes a day . That's why you'll se 4 escalators per side.
we have had a cycle tunnel for centuries in Glasgow under the Clyde, however if you go in you will never get out😆
At the bottom of the escalators, where the tunnel begins, there are also stairs that go another level lower, where you find a tunnel for pedestrians that goes right underneath the tunnel for cyclists. Right next to these tunnels, there are the tunnels for motorized traffic.
Ballard Bridge replacement
Further towards the coast is the Benelux Tunnel which also has a wonderful bicycle-tunnel (no pedestrians though...)
And further south of Rotterdam is the Heinenoord tunnel that also has a fietstunnel. No idea if there's a pedestrian tunnel there.
Unlikely to repeat but I did take 4-5 escalators in the UW parking garage to the upper campus. Whoa! Heavy bike and weighted with the battery over the rear wheel on my Arroyo was harrowing to hang-on!!
And there's a whole other level just for pedestrians!
Shout out to the Pancake Boat (De Pannenkoeken boot) zooming by at the start of the video!
Aww I love this video, and I love your vibe! As someone who is studying mobility, I just wish I knew more people like you in real life
The bike tunnel is awesome. It looks like fat tires would be more comfortable with all the cobbles.
Not really. Dutch bikes are designed to absorb the movement to not make it uncomfortable for you to ride on, only those shitty bike share bikes wobbly and are unstable as hell.
Love the video ❤ I think using your back brake on the escalators might help keeping the bike in place next time
Good advice!
Turning your front wheel, so it's perpendicular to the escalator's long axis/direction should be sufficient to keep your bicycle securely in place.
Reminds me a bit of the Old Elbtunnel in Hamburg - but that only has an elevator (or manual stairs for pedestrians), making things a bit slower.
More than 50 years ago when I was still a small kid, I drove with my family in a car through the Old Elbtunnel. All the other Hamburg road tunnels did not exist yet at that time. I also remember seeing from a long viaduct over the train yard, that most trains there still were pulled by steam locomotives. I was very impressed by the huge plumes emerging from their smokestacks, shouting out (translated from my native language) "Train with smoke!". By then we didn't have those anymore in The Netherlands.
When you are back in town (metro Seattle), take the Iron Horse Trail Tunnel near Hyak in Snoqualmie Pass. Heck, take the whole Iron Horse Trail, but certainly the tunnel.
It's true gravel is not featured enough on my channel
@@BestSideCycling Could be a new series for you! BOG - Brompton On Gravel ! :) :) :)
@@BestSideCycling Another one is the Western Chehalis trail, you can take the Amtrak Cascades down to Olympia-Lacey Station, there's a very short segment (two minutes) on Yelm Hwy pulling out of the station parking lot but after the bridge you get onto Balustrade Blvd which has decent bike lanes and it's a short ride to the trail. Trail is fully paved and after 11 miles south it connects to the Tenino-Yelm trail, about 7 miles to either town, I think Yelm is more exciting but you could visit both. Or if you go north (not quite as nice) you can connect onto the Woodland trail into downtown Olympia. No hills (it's a former rail right of way) but it's an incredibly nice path.
1:36 600 meters is just over a third of a mile. A quarter mile is about 400 meters.
The Dutch build tunnels just for bikes ;)
Another surprise - No graffitti - amazing!
I suppose they would be kinda trapped in there :)
The number of mopeds is a surprise
They are with a blue plate which means not allowed to ride faster than 25. The yellow ones are not allowed everywhere and like in Amsterdam both are not allowed on bikeroads only on the carparts
That is one clean tunnel.
The tunnel is lit bij highly efficient LED lights. Poorly lit and dirty (bike) tunnels are vulnerable for graffiti and we don't want that. So the tunnel is painted with paint graffiti can not stick to and all graffiti gets immediately removed so the 'artist' knows his 'art' won't be seen by many and therefore isn't worth the trouble.
@bestsidecycling Highly Combustible Reacts send me and subd up. Love this video about my hometown. I have used this tunnel myself several times.
:) I really enjoyed Rotterdam! Thanks so much for watching and subbing.
Using escalators for a bike tunnel was an interesting choice. I had to an ebike down the escalator at UW station the other day and it was a genuinely awful experience (thought I was gonna lose my grip and take out everyone in front of me 😱). I'm surprised they didn't opt for a longer ramp-style escalator like they have at some of the metro stations in Amsterdam. Perhaps it was an engineering limitation.
Also seems rather dangerous to allow gas-powered mopeds in an enclosed elevator like that!
[] ... Also seems rather dangerous to allow gas-powered mopeds in an enclosed elevator like that!
Gas-powered mopeds are not allowed in this tunnel. Those mopeds are electric mopeds. Gas-powered mopeds must take the detour over the Erasmus bridge. This tunnel is guarded at both ends by city employees (you can see an employee standing at the corner near the lift at 1:28. And an other employee at the other end at 2:56).
The trick is: When you turn your front wheel, so it's perpendicular to the escalator's long axis/direction, it keeps your bicycle quite securely in place. All regular users know this.
Remember the tunnel was build in the 1930 and opened in 1940 (during WW2 but they kept it closed so the Germans couldn't use it) , no one know how to do it.
FYI, this tunnel is quite old, construction started in 1937 and was finished during the 2nd world war...(More info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastunnel)
Nice video, just one small remark : at 1:42 "about 600 m in length which is just short of a 1/4 of a mile".
1/4 of a (statute) mile is 402 m, so ......
I knew this comment would come. 🤣 I am a Canadian expat living in America is hard. I had 0.4 in my head and out my words came a quarter.
@@BestSideCycling Thank you for responding so quick on this detail.
Ànd for decades this is the case already.
Realizing how much money they saved by building this tunnel instead of having to maintain all the car infrastructure that they avoided!
There is a car tunnels next to the bike tunnel. Its one piece of infrastructure. Google on Maastunnel section and you will see a nice cross section of the design. It was made in the 30s btw.
Well one floor below this bike tunnel is the car tunnel 😂
@@thomassnaaijer1364 , oh lol! At least they built another one for bicyclists I guess.
Or they avoided having to build another tunnel.
Not really 😂😂
@@Bramfly , wdym?
This 'under water tunnel' for cyclists and pedestrians is not unique. Quite close to this one, is one in Antwerp. Much shorter, though. A little older than this one. Also with wooden escalators as in the 'Maastunnel'.
Nothing new. In Antwerp they cycle more than 70 years under water.
I'll have to visit Antwerp sometime then!