Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Thats the thing with biking, at that speed you dont need signals or anything. People will just figure it out.

And accidents are rarely fatal.
- As long as you wear a helmet.

Can we have this everywhere please

There are probably more people moving unhindered through this short video than you see in an average traffic jam photo.

yes, people counted and compared. This plus trams has waaay more throughput than a usual car intersection. Check out not just bikes video on that topic with various combinations and graphs, and get mad at car infrastructure with us!
- Oh yeah no I’ve been in that camp for a long while. I’m actively furious that my state had an approved plan for high speed rail like 15 years ago connecting all the major cities in the area, and connecting to the national line. And then some asshole republican came in and scrapped it even though it was already fully funded and ready to go.
  It would be active right now if that hadn’t happened. Instead I have to drive 2.5 hrs to see my friend, 2 hours to go to my specialist doctor, and the same 2 hours in the opposite direction to get to the national line. All of those trips were supposed to be under 45 min on the train.
  So so fucking salty about it. I fucking hate driving. I hate having to pay to maintain a vehicle. I hate that car infrastructure means walking is almost impossible. I’d love to ride a bike or bus locally, but the infrastructure doesn’t sufficiently exist for either to be practical in my area (I’m not riding my bike on the road. People here would actively try to kill me.)
And many more mildly hindered, but in a way which is easily and safely resolvable while maintaining flow

See, this is why you shouldn’t encourage bikes. That street looks totally unusable! 😤😤😤🚗🚗🦅🇱🇷

With so many bikes it's going to make it impossible for cars to go through quickly! reeeeee!
True Liberian here
- Leave Liberia out of this :)
classic public service inefficiency. If they made the lanes a little wider cars could drive here too. But of course they forgot that.

Hey that's me! I see myself cycling xD

Hi Me!
- Hi This Guy!

It's so quiet. 🥹

As NotJustBikes pointed out multiple times, we have the idea that cities are loud, but it's actually cars that are loud.
i hear people talk and laugh. That is what i want a busy street to be like.
Kind of eerie

Fairy sure that you're seeing a bicycle only intersection. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but zero cars is not plausible, not even in Holland.

Source: I lived there for a decade and I've also been watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

This is one of the busiest bike intersections in Utrecht. It is right by the central train station. When the camera pans right, you can see the exterior of the amazing bike parking structure that sits under the plaza in front of the station and shopping mall.
Just 100 meters further this same traffic has to cross with public transport and cars, it's mayhem there. But hardly any accidents. Just a lot of impatient cyclist. Source: It's on my daily commute
Obligatory pedantic correction: this is in the Utrecht region in the Netherlands (same name as the city). So neither South nor North Holland in this case.
- Er is er altijd wel eentje ..

It's so beautiful.

Are ebikes not a thing in the Netherlands?

They are a thing. But most people are gonna ride a beater that if it gets stolen, no big deal. ebikes in particular are a big target for theft, especially the shitty fat tire ones. In fact, ebikes are becoming a bit of a nuisance because of the speed difference between them and regular bikes. In Amsterdam, we already force the mopeds (ICE or electric) to be on the street with the cars. And the city will vote soon to ban the fat tire ebikes from Vondelpark because of the nuisance they cause among heavy mixed traffic. There have been complaints to the city that older people don't feel safe on the fietspad any more because of the big speed difference and I agree with them. The fietspad should be for everyone, not only the fastest.
- That makes sense. I never understood the popularity of fat tire ebikes. They are much heavier than regular bikes and therefore don't hold a charge as long.
Ebikes are less important when you don't have hills to deal with.
You can see some people riding ebikes on the video.
Edit: originally stated that lots of people riding ebikes, but on closer inspection they're less than I originally thought.

bikes? eww. That sounds an awful lot like communism to me.

Every bike in The Netherlands is automatically equipped with a radio locked on a communist radio station frequency with a loud speaker which cannot be turned off. If the police find you with the radio off or not loud enough, you will be sent to the Gulag called Urk where you will be forced to produce stroopwafels for the glory of the workers!
- Oh my. Must suck living in a socialist hellhole. Free healthcare that doesn’t send you bankrupt if you have the misfortune of becoming sick. I’ll stick with crippling debt for life thank you very much (not really. I’m in Australia)
  Oh. Don’t forget about the mass shootings every day