In your comment about density, you're missing one important factor: trains! People don't generally bike from city to city in the Netherlands either, but rather they use trains for long distance and then use bikes for the "last mile". It's really common, for example, to have a separate 'commuting bike' parked permanently at the train station near one's school or workplace, or even to take one's bicycle on the train or rent an "OV-fiets" for travel to infrequent destinations.

And , drivers in the Netherlands are also cyclists , so they know where to look driving a car .

Nice to see another alternative transport channel! The more the better!

We rarely cycle all over the country. Most trips made, be it by car or bike, worldwide, are under 2 kilometres. So that's an easily cycled distance. So it doesn't hold up when people say 'but yours is a tiny country. Ours is waaaaay bigger!' Whereas this statement is factually correct, most people don't drive the whole distance across the country everyday. Plus, with a proper public transport system, long combinations of bike-train-bike can be a very good alternative to taking the car. Hence all the bike parking facilities at train stations

What I also like about the Netherlands, it’s not just the cities, you can bike even better on the countryside

This is the most underrated channel on KZread, but when it picks up at least we can all say we’ve been here since before 2.52k subs.

Short answer: it’s practical

Dutch philosophy: biking is cheap and the country is flat.

Very nice video, thanks.

This channel is bloody amazing mate I love this, how did I find this, you are going to be one of the greats like wendover someday

An excellent video! And thank you for mentioning my favorite KZread channel "Not Just Bikes". It really is a great channel.

shiiiit, the animations explaining everything are more than on point, good job my dude

Hi, I love your content and I too love the Netherlands. Please show us more content of the Netherlands...New subscriber :)

Always good to see videos from "outsiders" so I am reminded how lucky we are with something we basically take for granted and see as "normal".

Almost every driver is also a biker in the Netherlands. Also me.

A few comments from my side, its called "autoluw" instead of "autolew". Luw means to be out of the wind/sheltered from the wind. So autoluw means sheltered from the cars. Secondly, a few pictures in your video are from English or American streets, i think it would be better to use Dutch examples. Just steal them of google streetview! And lastly, roundabouts are not per se really that friendly for cyclists. Especially when turning right (and not paying attention before coming to the roundabout) its easy to miss a cyclist in your blindspot. Especially on some of the smaller roundabouts that we have in villages. But because of the segrageted bikelanes, it is ofcourse more safe then just cycling on the main road. Also, there are now area's where cars can come, but they are guests, meaning pedastrians and cyclists have priority, regardless of what the situation is. You see this most often in city centeres

Ayyy, nice video!

It's "autoluw" not "autolew"

Very nice essay! I see some cities in North America are doing a lot to make them cycleable, like New York! Paris is also getting there!

Good work.