Sorry to hear that i hope that didn't turn her off riding. curbs and water drainage (putten) and i guess posts are always a issue they remove them when possible but you can't make things 100% safe. I am still working on making the videos better and will put more online going mostly from parts of utrecht into the country side. I hope that 'we' (the dutch) can export this tech/infrastructure combined with e-bikes combined its a good alternative for cars in many cases and so much more enjoyable.

Brightside, you also got to experience the dutch health care system.

Not the best time to move for the weather but i guess you will slowly see the spring later on. Utrecht is a nice city in my view but i am biased (i work in amsterdam). Its not even that we hate cars the netherlands has the highest car per km2 of any euro country its just that bicycles demand their space and infrastructure simply because there are so many.

@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko didn’t have much of a choice in the timeline due to job/visa/paperwork/selling stuff etc but we just have suffer for now 😌

@@NeillSoden Indeed it can only get better, hope the time to adjust will not be too long and we have a nice spring and summer...

Thanks i do feel that the last few are even more 'relaxed' in how i try to record them because of the camera position and how i aim it. Not sure if you agree if you compare.

I guess at times we feel guilty to keep saying that but its true we can only hope that the lessons and the decades it took will be a example for other places. Keep in mind every day they keep working on it and i would argue we see more bicycle infrastructure in netherlands now than any decade before.

​​​​​@@dutchbicyclerides-ss1ko Why do you say Youtrecht ? Utrecht is fine , don't you think ..? (It is more polite to use 'U' 😉 !)

Yeah i even find it tricky the more videos i watch, almost feels unfair to show what we have but i guess its the only way to show the rest of the world how it can be done if you just take 50 years to work on a problem slowly.

cars cost a fortune upfront and long term not really worth it

@@scruf153 Here is the funny part as a kid i was a trained and licensed car mechanic (my dad used to work for a car company for 50+ years) i later moved into electronics but i never even got my drivers license and never owned a car myself. The amount of money people spend on cars is crazy. Now not having a car is not possible all over the world but its very doable for some people.

Pity hope this will change at some point but it has taken decades over here. I am not sure if i would use the bicycle myself in most places in the uk i visited so fully understand where you are coming from. I have no fix but hope many other places at some point will see a better mix between all modes of transport is the way forward.

Nope but i just checked its about a hour ride both ways i will look for some nice weather and try to make it happen.

I don't have a drivers license even if am/was a licensed car mechanic (yeah its weird). So i am not sure how many of these concepts we have in the netherlands. I do know more people are using some car sharing more and more and don't own a car in biggest cities at all.

Thanks i was still learning and i think this years videos will be getting better including a few i made and will make of the inner city.

I used to live 10+ years in the area very close to the tram stop between one of the furniture shops so know the area well. I won't consider it dangerous but as with other areas at times there are groups where you need to pay attention if you see them it has always been this way from the 1970's till now just moves from area to area i guess.

I think many cities even in the states but esp. in the rest of the world are following but you have to deal with the simple fact we started to rebalance the car vs rest in the 1970's so we are simply way ahead and have already reach a tipping point. In many dutch cities local bicycle/shops/shoppers on foot have more cloud than car drivers within politics so it becomes less of a fight. Being against bicycle improvements in a city is not a winning way in local government its that simple. Not much the netherlands can do except showing a possible future and wish you well in the fight.