Freiburg is build near the Black Forrest hills in the East, so it's not sewage water but clear rainwater from the hills that's running to the small canals in the city center. Great woodland area for a weekend trip !! Been there more then once. A Ring road is a road build for leading cars around a town instead of going thru the city center.

I,m dutch and i like this kind of video,s always full of information and things i didn,t know yet . Even when i am a neighbor from germany that shows we can,t know everything. Thanks Charlie 💪✌️👍

A ring road is a high way that goes around the whole city outskirts in a 'ring'. They are pretty commone in North-West European cities. If you look at Amsterdam in Google Maps you can clearly see what i mean by looking at the high way numbered 'A10'.

Type Ashton was the channel Black Forest Family. You have probably watched videos of her‘s.

No its not a sewrsystem. Its just water from a nearby river mostlikely. It might be just city design of has had a funktion in the olden days. But i can assure you its no sewer water. At leadt wasnt in my city. Kids would literally play in it.

There is not only the Black Forest, but also the Harz, Spessart, Thuringian Forest and Bavarian Forest, among many others. And people cycle everywhere in Germany, as in the Netherlands. You would be amazed at how many older, really old people cycle, whereas in the States they are half dead in their armchairs. Cities like Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the north, and Osnabrück have a cycling infrastructure. These are really German cities that were once rebuilt for car-friendly users. Just look at them!

These canals are cooling Down the City in summer

A ring road or bypass is a road that (partially) encloses a certain area for traffic as a ring. Ring roads facilitate faster traffic flow and relieve pressure on the area they enclose.

In Germany you can repair or maintain your car without problems. But changes (replacing suspension with a lower ones, replacing original brake parts with 3rd party brakes, adding front or rear spoiler, glue plastic body kits at your car, replacing the head lamp with "fancier cooler ones" etc.) need either approved parts (Tested by the german DMV (TÜV) or a similar EU-authority - for exactly your type and model of car) and partly a entry in the car papers "Parts approved and the owner installed them correctly" or when using not approved for your car parts you need a "Einzelabnahme" (individual acceptance check) what can be costly. As an Example: Osram and Phillips now have replacement H7 and H4 head lamp LED-Bulbs that are street legal in Germany - for these LEDs there is a (growing) list of Car Models where TÜV approved that these H7 or H4 LEDs can be used with these cars original head lamps (combination of head lamp and LED-Bulb fullfills all needed standards). You can get the "certificate" for your car from their web page print them and put them to your car papers and replace the bulbs - in this case without additional approvement. But when you put the same LED-Bulb in a not listed car you either drive with illegal light or you have to do a individual acceptance check for your car (and as said - it is expensive, because the will check not only the way the light is set on the street but also additinal safety stuff (risk of short circut, risk of contact with moving parts in the engine bay, is the connection "stable" and vibration resistant or is the bulb to heavy and could change the position inside the head lamp or in worst case fall of the head lamp get in contact with the generator, some moving parts nd causes damage or short circuits and in worst case set the car on fire,....)

More greens in a town means less heat thats brilliant.

Typically a ring road just circles around the city with exits in different sectors of it.

15:00 - it's about 270 miles further south from the Netherlands, so in european standarts not quite...

Lots of states in the US have mandatory automobile inspection.... and, I have tio say, knowing both cities, that Freiburg and Rotterdam have very little in common, architecturally...and it"s no where the Netherlands, being in the extreme south of Germany..

The Black Forest is a densely forested area and low mountain range in southwestern Germany, located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, on the Rhine and on the French border

3:20 The "Bächle" (diminutive of Bach = brook) in Freiburg are supplied with water from the Dreisam, the small river passing through Freiburg. They exist at least since 1220 AD and were used for the irrigation of fields below the town, but also to provide water for domestic animals (e.g. horses) as well as for firefighting. (Since wells had to dug 12 meters deep they also used wooden pipes to bring water from nearby springs into town, but that was strictly reserved for human consumption.) The runnels helped also to drain rain water out of town, but that was not their main purpose. They were also not meant for sewage; actually it was forbidden to use them for waste disposal since the 16th century (before that it was only forbidden during daylight). 7:07 The (inner) Freiburg ring road circles around the old town. It consists of the B31 (Federal Road 31, connecting Breisach at the French border with Lindau at the Austrian border, thereby crossing the southern Black Forest) in the South, the Schlossbergring (the part he is mainly talking about) in the East, separating the old town from the Schlossberg (palace hill), the Friedrichring in the North and the Bismarckallee / Schnewlinstraße in the West, which separates the old town from the railway and the main station. 21:50 Freiburg is the "western gate" to the Black Forest, situated at the foot of the hills in the East, while the Upper Rhine valley lies in the West. There are many vineyards around Freiburg.

I think that this water gutter ensures that the water does not disappear into the sewer, but into the water of the river or something like that.

Grassy tram tracks are much silenter as ungrassy. Its becaus the of the poroes surface that swallow the vibrations of the wheels. Its like the walking over fresh snow the noise is reduced.

There is more than just a hint of the Netherlands in Freiburg. It sits on the Basel-Köln-Utrecht trade highway that the river Rhine has been since the bronze age after all. The cultures of the Rhine cities have a lot of things in common because they have been connected for so long. You find the same thing along the Donau or the Meuse. Or, when you think about it, the Nile, Ganges, Yangtze, Congo...... It is a common theme :)

Yes as seen below a ringroad is a road around a city! They unload the city from car traffic.

The small water channels in Freiburg's streets dont really serve any obvious purpose...citizens would likely say they're there for decoration and they aren't entirely wrong, but they have a much more important purpose. Not only does it collect rainwater, but it also cools down the streets, quite substantially, making it bareable to walk in the area during summer.

In the Netherlands you wil get a fine if you park on the side step where poeple belong to walk!

Fun fact, there is also a town called Fribourg... in Switzerland (french speaking part)

Your sound is perfect now

a ring road is a road that goes all around the city and has .. a ring form ! It is quite common in Europe. Most of the time they have 3 or more ways.

It is very nice to have good public transport, because a lot of people can not afford a car. I live in a beautiful place on the North Veluwe with good public transport, and I do not own a car at this moment, but I would like to have a car as well. It is very convenient to have car, because it is a lot easier to transport your stuff or to go to places where the public transport does not go. I do not think that public transport, even if it is very good, really can replace a car. It is just good to have it as well, so that you can travel to places that are difficult and expensive to go by car, like for example inner cities.

Freiburg in Breisgau is close to France and Switzerland

I suspect one reason many cities don't have grass on streetcar layouts is related to the cost of maintenance. Just look at the bushes at 20:17 planted around the high voltage posts. They are neatly trimmed, just like the grass. That certainly costs. At the end of the day, however, something like this is surely only a question of the political will to start and realize something like this. I'm afraid, to accomplish something like this in the USA is probably quite hopeless.

The town is very much like a town, within the Netherlands, only the landscape is different.

Car ownership is very expensive in Germany and the Netherlands, but it is affordable in Spain, for example. All these countries do have the same regulations concerning the safety of the car. The extra costs are fuel and taxes on cars. The Netherlands is very expensive, Germany is expensive and Spain has reasonable prices, when it comes to taxes and fuel for cars.

Danish city, with more bikes than cars, Copenhagen, and maybe even Århus/Aarhus...

In the Netherlands, you can also build your own car, but it must first be approved before it can actually go on the road

16:44 .. yes, these signs are all over Europe and I guess the whole world as well. It needs to be permitted like this in most of the countries

12:37 - don't know where you got this from. Haven't been in a workshop for years. I do all maintenance by my own and it's perfectly fine. You loose the manufacturers guarantee, if you do so, but that doesn't matter, if you own a used car which guarantee has run out years ago... You do have to go to inspection every two years of course, but if you don't buy american or french or italian cars, which are built to break, you're perfectly fine. Buy a german or better swedish car or japanese car and you will be okay.

Up to 1.5 kilometres is considered walkable without being too inconvenient. A mile is 1.61 kilometres for the Americans. Much more than that, and you probably need a bike to get there in a convenient time.

The Asthon channel is really awesome u should give it a try. I live near the Netherlands in the north of Germany and we have a ton of solar on the houses here too and a lot of windmills for getting Electricity. U can even invest with people's to build one together with a bank and sell the Electricity.

Hi Charlie great seeing you again!!👍

You can work on your own car in Germany, but if you change something important you need to get it approved by the TÜV, so you can drive the car on public roads. So there is no chance for a legal Couch-Car.

Check out maglev trains in Japan, Charlie :)

Vauban is featured in this video about the alternatives to sprawl. It starts with smaller suburbs in Europe and talks about bigger and bigger places with more people, more density, fewer cars, but still not feeling crowded. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9lxZa-WrbqthX0.htmlsi=p61ajQ5qdXpJ1DTA

hi charlie hope you are doing fine!

I very much like your style. Thanks for sharing. I live in Auckland NZ, where we do our very best to emulate the US in every way. NZ went the way of US planners post WW2 and it's a real mess transport wise. Public transport is useless, cars are almost everywhere, making Auckland the biggest city a rats nest of cars, air pollution and all the rest of it. So thanks your efforts to help people see how things might be better done.

You can work on your car yourself in Germany it´s just the safty related things like brakes you should always have done by a professional shop because in case of an accident your insurence won´t cover if you did it yourself and aren´t trained.

u should try a german car driving licence test :D this is nothing like the us . we have to learn about 1000 questions

Parking half on sidewalks is to save space on the road. It is common in Europe. I do not agree with people, who want to ban cars completely. It is nice to have public transport and bikes, but it is very handy to have a car as well. Some people do not even know how it is, if you do not have a car. Especially with children. I always had a car, although I used public transport and bikes as well. The last seven years I do not own a car, and I really miss it. If I leave the Netherlands, I will buy a car again. You just can transport everything and go everywhere.

I do not see many bikes?

7:00 Et voila kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7Kom9aostzWmJc.html

Seems more and more videos about Germany now, nothing against germany, but i am thinking you are now thinking about moving to Germany?

Yeah, it's quite a cool city, but e.g. Vauban is in my opinion a really bad example, since it's just another example for gentrification. All the old inhabitants of this part of the city just had to leave their homes in the end, because they just couldn't afford to live there anymore. As shiny, as it looks on first sight, it's again simply capitalism doing its' thing… and it doesn't ever go so well for ALL people living in the community..

Cities in europe or old and with old cities. They are not able build out with bigger streets to handle large amounts of car triffic. In america we have cities like new york and have train systems. Again america is the new world and europe is the old. Look at the homes in europe and see if their home run off LNG gas and how much it cost to LNG in their homes. Americans streets and hiways. Can run around the world twice. No other country can match that.