Ride on the cycling bridge between Geertruidenberg and Raamsdonksveer (NL)

[877] Cycling across the river Donge on the Willem Letschertbrug. More information in the blog post: bicycledutch.w... and the video report: • A huge cycling bridge ...

[@DavidFraser007]

I could spend days and days cycling over these bridges, through the tunnels and round floating roundabouts.

[@Paul_C]

A staggering amount of bridges in the Netherlands.

[@BicycleDutch]

The Netherlands is one big river delta; there's water everywhere...

[@Paul_C]

@@BicycleDutch but you don't realise it travelling from a to b. That is this disconnect because you see it everywhere .

[@2cats4tea79]

As usual, I have biking infrastructure envy so bad right now. Okay, I'll ask (lovely bridge, by the way): what is that huge plume of gray smoke that we can see when you turn around and head back?

[@paolagrando5079]

Somebody burnt the pancakes.

[@matthijspw]

It is one of the few remaining coal fired power plants in the Netherlands (Amercentrale). The chimney is about 2 km from the bridge.

[@johndumpling1896]

And what is that wide gray chimney in the back?

[@matthijspw]

@@johndumpling1896 The wide one at the end of the video left of the church? That is a cooling tower of the same power plant. A lot of people associate these with nuclear power, but whenever you generate electrical power from heat(coal, nuclear, biomass), you need a way of dissipating a significant portion of that heat because of thermodynamics.
The heat turns water into steam, the steam turns a generator and then you need to turn the steam into water again to repeat the process. This cooling down is done by spraying (river) water in the bottom of the wide chimney. This water evaporates and by doing so cools down the turbine water. Out of the top you get regular clouds. The pollution comes from the narrow chimney you mentioned in the earlier post. If you look up Geertruidenberg on google maps, you can see the power plant just north-west of the village.

[@johndumpling1896]

@@matthijspw Ah okay, thanks for the clarification.

[@Owen-nw5zs]

Das godverdomme een mooie brug

[@m.vantveer3475]

Raamsdonksveer my hometown 😁

[@im8548]

How is it?

[@m.vantveer3475]

@@im8548 friendly people and everything you need is there or very close by.

[@im8548]

@@m.vantveer3475 Hope it's not too much to ask, but do you know about any rentals there or accomodation for students? I just need a small room and it seems like a nice place to live. Sometimes things can come from unexpected channels like this one ('channel' has a double meaning here)

[@m.vantveer3475]

@@im8548 No students here. No much rooms to let . There is no trainstation only buses. But they drive regulary to Utrecht or Oosterhout/Breda f.e. But rooms, nothing i can help jou with,sorry.

[@im8548]

@@m.vantveer3475 😊 Thanks anyway. I knew the dutch people are nice (probably not all of them..).

[@JustClaude13]

I'm not sure I like the chicane at the far end of the bridge.
It looks like you'll have people bumping into each other there.

[@simpleton7]

Seems like one side of town wants people on mopeds to use the bridge and the other doesn't.