Besides the obvious benefits of having access to great bike lanes, I've noticed they also provide space for trees and grass, and set the buildings further back from the road and it's noise. I wish this was more widespread.

@gert-janvanderlee5307

2 жыл бұрын

Well, not all streets are the same in the Netherlands. But we do consider plants and trees to be important in the living environment.

Every city should be a bicycle city. A safe, clean healthy transportation option.

@harryraam9566

2 жыл бұрын

With a dictator u can, not in a democracy.

@rutgerb

2 жыл бұрын

@@harryraam9566 with a window you can, not in a building.

@user-kp1js6cb2s

2 жыл бұрын

@@harryraam9566 so netherlands are a dictatorship?

@harryraam9566

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-kp1js6cb2s u can not just make every city a bicycle city just because u want it.. not in a democracy, last time i checked.

@harryraam9566

2 жыл бұрын

@@rutgerb Mensen zoals jij die 'the current thing' supporten heb ik al helemaal niks mee.. Te simpel. Vorige keer was het nog een zwarte vlag voor de zwartmens en die keer daarvoor de regenboog vlag en daarvoor de franse vlag en morgen een 'greendeal union flag' 😂 Zonder ruggengraat en principes.

Somehow it's beautiful for cyclists, pedestrians, transit riders AND motorists. Also, wouldn't this be more freedom for everyone too? Wish we had this in Canada.

Goed gedaan Mark. Mooie film en geen windgeruis. Tien op tien voor inspanning. Ik ben een Engelsman die zoveel van Nederland houdt dat ik de taal heb leren spreken.

@riasomers642

Жыл бұрын

I took care of 2 for a lady that worked @ embassy in NYC. Learned a little. It's a rhythmic language.

This is so fun to watch. We are moving to Rosmalen in July, from South Africa. My offices are located in 's-Hertogenbosch. Great to see some snippets of where I'll be cycling in the near future!

@liesbethboesjes3307

2 жыл бұрын

Welkom in Brabant!

@harryraam9566

2 жыл бұрын

I've met a guy from South africa who fled to Holland aswell. Living now close to me in a place called Hensbroek, he loves it here.

@MChagall

2 жыл бұрын

welcome to 's-Hertogenbosch!

@ofjeworstlust69

2 жыл бұрын

@@MChagall Haha, under no circumstanced should you say Den Bosch if you mean Rosmalen. The Bossche annexation of Rosmalen didn't go without a fight

@MChagall

2 жыл бұрын

@@ofjeworstlust69 thats only for the older folk. Rosmalen is filled with import nowadays (Groote Wielen etc)

Superb bicycle infrastructure makes for stressless riding, wonderful.

Glad to hear you are back and satisfied with your progress! Hope your recovery continues smoothly. Your videos are an inspiration to my family, thank you for continuing to share.

A very pleasant ride all the way. Thanks for showing

As a veteran meal delivery driver (by bike) and inhabitant of Den Bosch for 10 years , I'm always looking forward to your vids about Den Bosch. The van Berckelstraat transformation ( 0:13 - 0:32 ), from car to bike friendly, was imo possibly one of the best decisions they made. I cant recall how many times I almost got hit by cars before, because I lost count. And let me not even start about the time ships still came through the canal! ;)

@dutchman7623

2 жыл бұрын

Many times I have been squeezed between cars and the high curb on the 'van Kasterensbrug', and you cannot pedal round anymore when you get that close. Daily I took that route for over thirty years, going to office, and 99% of the time it all went well. But twice a year over that time means sixty times being squeezed, and that's something you do not forget, certainly not when it's a bus or truck. According to me, 'van Berckelstraat' and 'van Kasterensbrug' should have been one way traffic for cars into the city, and the 'Orthenbrug' and 'Citadellaan' one way out. Both could have had protected cycle paths. It would have solved a lot fifty years ago. And the 'Zuid-Willemsvaart' at the GZG side has enough capacity to connect the two.

So calm and peaceful, the occasional intrusion of a car is really jarring!

Love the greenery especially the hedges. Also it would be better to let the grass grow into a meadow in some places and verges for wildlife , and our eyes to feast on beautiful flowers ans wild plants.

@mourlyvold64

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, and that practice is more and more common all over the Netherlands.

Thoroughly enjoyed the journey, thank you so much for uploading.

I think Mark is already fitter than the majority of adult Brits though. And I think it’s admirable to get back on a regular bike first. I probably would have ridden my e-bike only to begin with, and gradually reduced the assistance mode as I gained fitness back. Then get on a regular bike after that.

Wow, it looks like a dream! Especially the middle section of the video.

Funny to see the asfalt change to red (and after back again) at the points the bike road crosses a road for cars.

Even very minor surgery was a disaster for my stamina and physical fitness a few years ago so this is progress is excellent.

Thanks for posting Mark, nice video. And good to see you are making good progress in your recovery. Keep it up!

Thank you, Mark! It was very interesting to see!

Thanks for making the videos.

The mirror at 8:26 is a fantastic detail for safety 😲genius

@velwooddrive6362

2 жыл бұрын

Kind sir, please provide a reference or instructions on how to leave a time hyperlink in one's comment please?

@Tellz02

2 жыл бұрын

@@velwooddrive6362 Certainly, Just type it into the comments the way you see it in my earlier comment, and when you post the comment it will change to a timestamp automatically.

That is awesome. Please make more videos In 's-Hertogenbosch

I used to live on the Klokkenlaan, 9th Floor, with a beautiful sight towards city center. This was also the route, we took with the bicycle, to the city center

Great ride Mark, sounds and sights are marvellous!.

Just beautiful! I love these kinds of videos

This was relaxing to watch while having breakfast :)

@Snaakie83

2 жыл бұрын

That's how many of our kids feel in the morning during their ride to school. It's a relaxing way to get your daily exercise to and from school, by improving their independence.

"Uitgezonderd" seems to be one of the first words that a foreigner should learn when cycling.

@Snaakie83

2 жыл бұрын

That's a funny one because it both means exceptional and with exception of. It usually means 'these and these road users may use this road, with exception of'

@artman40

2 жыл бұрын

@@Snaakie83 Depends whether the sign is blue or white with red borders?

@Snaakie83

2 жыл бұрын

@@artman40 no, many Dutch words have more than one meaning...they sometimes just overlap. It's a weird language sometimes. 😉

What a beautiful ride! Thank you for taking us along 🧡

All looks great apart from those mopeds/scooters. Those would scare the heck out of me if I was a cyclist there.

@kai663

2 жыл бұрын

They are louder than the cars

@MrSeine2

2 жыл бұрын

Cars don't want them in their space and cyclists don't want them either. Thats an old problem here. The cyclists lost this. Electric Scooter-types (E-scooter) are available but not common yet. I hope that the goverment would promote these. Or a limit on noise. Between the houses the noise is even louder.

@harryraam9566

2 жыл бұрын

What i see here is that we've become softies.

@RealConstructor

2 жыл бұрын

They should fade them out, just like combustion engine vehicles.

@philbear2185

Жыл бұрын

It must be very stinky having a 2 stroke engine passing by, but there was no visible negative reaction from anyone. Some people will not easily afford the switch to electric motors, I see the same thing in Canada (although scooters are very rare here because of long distances and cars being more affordable in general). In the absence of cycling infrastructure, a good route planning is the smart way. Lots of side streets, parks, unused sidewalks. Overall, not a very straight route, requiring practice and adjustment.

Lots of grassed areas; wonder if any group is considering planting wild flowers in them?

@Fjodor.Tabularasa

2 жыл бұрын

They mowe less and less outside cities (mostly budgetary reasons...) but to be honest the plant variety is very limited where they mowe 2 or 3 times instead of every few weeks. Inside cities at some places they mowe less also but mostly its still kept neat, unfortunately. It would be much beter to mowe much less, actively increase (flowering) plant varieties. There will be more bees to pollinate and insects for birds to eat = more lively around humans and much better for nature. There is no concerted nationwide drive towards creating more biodiversity. The good ideas mostly get stuck on the drawing board or they seed some wild flowers once and the next year its all overtaken by nettles. You can see the difference of inside and outside the city after 14:52. Its mostly tall grass with if lucky sporadically 1 or 2 flowering plant varieties. No bee can survive on that and it doesn't really attract insects either. But hey the target of creating 'nature' is met 😉.

Lovely. I only watched while doing chores, but unless I missed something, it did lack a few things that I recall from bicycle commuting in the UK: 1) pole in the middle of the bike path 2) sleeping bag and human turds in the hike-a-bike pedestrian crossing over the rail lines 3) dumping you onto the drop off and pick up lanes of a major international airport Otherwise, quite nice. I liked the finish in nature.

this bicycling infrastructure can easily handle like 4x of the present Netherland's popuation i.e 4 x 16 million = 64 million . it will be a bit crowded but i think their cycling lane system is so organised that they will hardly have any traffic problem

Just beautiful to watch

Mopeds aren't the biggest problem but their mirrors are. More than once they have grazed my arm...

the loudest thing was the scooter, beautiful

i saw some of my friends going home from school in this vid

Bisiklet sürmek bir mutluluk

Lovely video😍

Very nice, I wish you would have extended to at least another 15min or so throughout the city....

two way bike paths on both sides of the road under the bridge!!!! (Rompertsebaan)

Super Amazing

Funny how loud those cars are, about 10 minutes in , even crossing over the road on a bridge.

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Very nice, but the noise from cars is still very prevalent. It shows that, even here, even more trips could be taken by bicycle/bus and less by car/moped.

@Fjodor.Tabularasa

2 жыл бұрын

In 5 or 10 years the noise is gone, all will be electric.

@Arashmickey

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fjodor.Tabularasa I can't wait, and I imagine people and wildlife will become habituated to relative quiet again.

@Fjodor.Tabularasa

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arashmickey we are so used to the deafening noise of the combustion engine. I hope it will really be quiet.

@RealConstructor

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fjodor.Tabularasa There will still be stinking and noisy scooters.

@hanneken4026

2 жыл бұрын

Electrïc cars make just as much noise from their tires on the road as combistion-engine cars; above 50 km/h the tire noise is louder than the engine noise. So outside cities, where speeds are > 50 km/h, nature will still have most of the same noise to deal with as now, whether the cars are electric or not.

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The scooters should use the road?

Beautiful. Really nice to see integrated bike paths. I'd like to know what Netherlands people think of cycling in other countires. It would be interesting to hear their opinions.

@MAUVE5

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I've only cycled in Germany and Spain. You can really see the difference when you cross the border to Germany. You are clearly on a car road, often 50 km/h. Same in Spain, you had to pay more attention to the cars. They did have cycling lanes in some places. Cycling on the boulevard was nice, but you notice people don't expect to see cyclists. In Belgium I often miss walk paths as well. You're so used to the options to walk and cycle anywhere you'd like in the NL.

@sfhandc291

2 жыл бұрын

@@MAUVE5 Australia has too many aggressive people to cycle.

@sfhandc291

2 жыл бұрын

@@MAUVE5 I cycled from one city to another on mainland China. Let me tell you, there you have to be extremely alert and observant of every direction, including from behind. But China has excellent bicycle and scooter lanes in most prominent places, and once you understand the traffic flow, it is generally a joy to cycle there.

@przemys4466

2 жыл бұрын

Here is the author's perspective kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2aIqseYYZPKidY.html

@sfhandc291

2 жыл бұрын

@@przemys4466 Thank-you very much for the share! This was an excellent video : very informative. Have you cycled in many different countries? If so, what are your thoughts?

since the war i cylce a lot but our "cycleways" are just red paint on the road...and there ar hardly any so i always cycle on the sidewalk 😁dont want to get run over

What camera do you use?

👍🐸💙💛🌻

What is the overall distance of this ride?

@MChagall

2 жыл бұрын

5.5km, this is the route he took: www.google.com/maps/dir/51.6914065,5.308052/Natuurgebied+maasuiterwaarden/@51.7130054,5.2922899,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x47c6f12fc6e66fbd:0x852d243059e7b591!2m2!1d5.2987086!2d51.7346267!3e1

Are mopeds supposed to be in cycle lanes?

@gert-janvanderlee5307

2 жыл бұрын

The slow ones are. They only go about 25 km/hr. The faster ones aren't. They go about 45 km/hr.

@niall_al3059

2 жыл бұрын

@@gert-janvanderlee5307 thanks, I don't cycle much but I think I'd find loud mopeds in the cycle lane pretty annoying

@gert-janvanderlee5307

2 жыл бұрын

@@niall_al3059 These are modern ones and not even that loud. The older ones from the 80's and 90's were much noisier.

Are there apps that work like Waze that can give you turn-by-turn directions on how to get from one place to another via cycle paths? If not, there’s a freebie for someone more tech savvy than I.

@gdintrans

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of route planning apps do offer instructions for bicycle, including Google Maps. There isn't live traffic like in Waze, but it's not a big deal. I personally use Komoot, it has great cycles maps of my city.

@b_lee2003

2 жыл бұрын

@@gdintrans awesome, thanks for the information! I live in Kentucky, but I’ll pull up the app and see if it has any routes for my area. (We’re pretty hilly here, so it’s not a good place for commuter biking)

@MrHenkkkie

2 жыл бұрын

​@@gdintrans Google Maps is very accessible and easy to use, however often the route choice is very poor because the app is quite car oriented. It will usually take you on a detour

@gert-janvanderlee5307

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHenkkkie Or it directs you to N roads where you're not allowed to cycle.

@caelorum

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHenkkkie Google Maps is mostly poor because a lot of bike paths (and foot paths) aren't even on there. I spent a few evenings mapping out and submitting all the bike and foot paths in my neighbourhood (as well as submitted some foot paths commonly used to shortcut a few hundred meters as bike paths) and the usability of Google Maps has increased significantly. But submitting paths is quite cumbersome and you need to build a raport for submissions to be accepted in days instead of months.

Nice to watch. It is the exact same route I cycle or skeelered from the train station to my girlfriend. You cycled very close next to her house. Can you film the cycle route between Arnhem/Nijmegen or Arnhem/Zevenaar. I cycle over there when I cycle to my girlfriend. And it is a nice route. (Yes I cycle 80+km to my girlfriend)

Why motorcycles using the bike lane? It's not right

What is signified by the 's of 's-Hertogenbosch?

@peter1062

2 жыл бұрын

It's short for "des", a remnant from older Dutch, meaning something like "belonging to". In this case, the forest (bos[ch]) belonging to the duke (hertog). It is old though. You'll only find it in old, fixed frases like "In naam des konings" (In the name of the king). The German language still uses this.

@MrHenkkkie

2 жыл бұрын

's is an abbreviation of "des" which means "of the". So 's-Hertogenbosch means "des Hertogen Bosch" which is translated to "the forest of the duke"

@alejandrayalanbowman367

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHenkkkie Thank you

Mopeds should be FORBBIDEN on cyvling lanes

this is why we pay taxes theoretisch