The channels "not just bikes" and "bicycle Dutch" provide great background info on Dutch bicycle infrastructure.

Amsterdam is not unique in infrastructure in The Netherlands at all. That whole country is one giant bike path. It's mindblowing.

sepperated bike lanes are mostly used in high volume roads. When roads are not very busy or in neighbourhoods the modes of transport are often combined in the streets. And dutch law is also that drivers are always at fault in case of an accident, so drivers (who are often also cyclists) are extra cautious not to hit someone.

Amusing that you managed to find basically the ONE rural N-road that does NOT have a separate bike facility. Also, if you want really rural, then you need to look at the north part of the country.

I bought a €35 bike and rode for 5 hours around Noord Holand. Amazing experience. What a paradise.

The sandy areas are deserts! Not because they are dry, but because of low nutrient soil, old pure sand. Surface can get extremely hot when the sun shines. And the wind plays with the sand and creates shifting dunes, even in winter, when you can see beautiful patterns of white and beige snow where it's mixed with sand. There are hiking routes through these areas. P.S. there are mountain bike trails as well through these dunes.

Riding everywhere will be a challenge. There is at least 35.000km bicycle roads at least. There are indeed some hills around Arnhem. Top is just over 100 meters high. On racing bike you are able to ride 100km and make 1000 hight meters if you combine the hills. Mostly not so steep. You are welcome to come over 👍 in the south of Netherlands there are higher hills up to 300 meters. The bike roads in the natural Parcs are getting more and more concrete. So now its also interesting to do on racing bike. But not during weekend. Then they are to crowded for racing bike. You showed a lot of "parallel roads" in this video. They are not biking paths. They can be used for local traffic or maybe farmers. But those are quite enough for a easy bike ride.

The cow is a Scottish Highlander they use them to maintain the nature.

One major difference is the actual traffic law. In the Netherlands, we have decided that if there is an accident between unequal vehicles, the one where it's oprerator is least vulnerable gets the blame unless he can show that there was a situation of force majeure... So what does this mean: Well, if the incident is between a car and a semi, then usually the semi gets the blame initially. If the accident is between a car and a motorcyclist, the car gets the blame and so on. Which means that if there is an accident between a car and a bicycle rider, the car driver gets the full blame and it's insurance company has to pay at least half the costs resulting from the accident. Unless the car driver can prove that the bicycle driver did something clearly illegal like running a red light.

If it's a max 80km of faster road there is always a separated cycle path. When it is 60kmh there is usually a 'suggestion' bike lane with different color asphalt. Many small roads have no bike lane at all. They are just made more difficult, slower for cars with speed bumps, keeping them narrow etc so that there is no reason for people to drive on that road except if you live there. And those roads are actually where you go for a leisure bike ride. And not on a cycle path along a busy main road. So when people from abroad ask where to go cycling, it is anywhere where there are no cycle paths or bike lanes!

Glad to see another walkability youtuber! 💪🔥

The reason why the infrastructure in the Netherlands is so exceptional is because it is designed for humans. Great video👍🏻

Not just Amsterdam but all over the Netherlands ! Drivers in the Netherlands are also riding a bicycle .

The purple flower is heather.

Dutchy here. I'm going to make it easy for you. You can literally cycle throughout the whole of the Netherlands on bicycle paths. So, done haha ​​Have a nice day buddy. It might be interesting to say that we also have bike paths where you can drive your car as a guest. As a motorist, you are a guest on a bicycle path. You have to slow down or stop if you meet someone on a bicycle. Cyclists always have priority there.

"It looks like sidewalk - I guess you could bike on it" quickest way to get killed in the Netherlands.

That was not a traintrack,but a tramtrack!😄 A train through Amsterdam like that,imagine that..

Around 9:00, that's a rural 2 way street... It's so low traffic that it's just a street.... It isn't on a connecting route so it's enough...

Great Review, always welcome to bike here 🇳🇱

Drenthe is THE biking province in my eyes, although the entire Netherlands is great on bike. Did you know you can take your bike on our trains too? Helps with not having to cycle besides the freeways ;-) (I do think you need a bike ticket though, for the train)

While there might be short gaps and it's not always the shortest route, you can find ongoing bike lanes from the Swedish city of Malmö (Sweden usually only has bike lanes within the cities) through Denmark, Northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium into the French city of Lille (where it drops to only slightly better than American standard). Also the quality may vary - Denmark loves these edge lanes and smaller towns in Germany and Belgium may force you on crappy sidewalks.

Check the bike lanes in Almere, city next to Amsterdam. Cars, bikes, buses all have separate lanes. All over the place, unique even in Holland.

on the less busy rural lanes the bike paths are not amazing but the cars know and respect bicycles here so it automatically safer

Nice video! I love how you just go and explore. And you did pretty okay with the pronunciation, 😉 well, I understood everything you mentioned. I just want to correct you on a small detail. We never have mixed bicycles with pedestrians infrastructure in cities in the Netherlands. A sidewalk is strictly for pedestrians.

This is the first video on your channel I'm watching (and it's not new) you might already know some of the things I mentioned. (Just a little side note: one of the things I noticed you kept saying Amsterdam instead of the Netherlands. Which is kind of annoying in some ways because Amsterdam isn't known in the Netherlands as anything close to the best when it comes to bike infrastructure. A jury would place it pretty high on a list. But the average person in this country would not agree) 3:27 / 4:51 it's because it's probably not meant to drive there. Their are other roads to handle that traffic. It's probably meant to be a 'large street' or something similar. To understand road design in the Netherlands I would recommend the channel: Not Just Bikes. Specifically the video to start with: Stroads. And then the video: The Best Country in the World for Drivers. Which will hopefully make it very clear: bikes do not dominate: bikes, cars, walking, public transit are meant to be pretty much equals. As you said at 6:38 Those 2 combines give a starter on the philosophy of urban planning, specifically road/street design/bike infrastructure, etc. If you don't want to understand the how and why of the Netherlands (yet?), you might want to check out the channel: 'Bicycle Dutch' to watch some videos on for example Utrecht 7:33 notice how the part for cars is narrow, people can drive faster when their is no other traffic, but as soon as their is other traffic they will have to slow down to share the road. That's a safety feature. 7:43 this is a highway and as you mentioned, the bike all the way to the right is not on the same infrastructure, both are separated. I'm surprised they are on the same route. Lots of times, their are on different routes as well. 8:46 this is probably one of the most dangerous type of road for cyclists as it gets. 11:22 might be interesting to know why it's fairly flat: it's a river delta, most of it used to be sea. And at some point during the ice ages large ice sheets flattened the land as well. 12:28 pretty much every driver in the Netherlands was a cyclist in some part of their life. For example going to school or during other parts of day. So they understand cyclists. An important part of this story is: in the Netherlands, bicycles are very much used as a form of transport, many many upright bikes for regular people. Which means: for sport cycling it can be annoying to have that many slower cyclists on the road. The highways in western Europe have a designation 'A' I believe (A1, etc.), at least in the Netherlands for certain. The F+number are actually 'bicycle highways' (F for 'fiets' aka bicycle, maybe also A for 'auto' aka car, but I think probably just A for being the biggest part of the infrastructure and thus first in the alphabet), those might be a great choice for riding your bike between cities. They are bicycle 'through roads', just like a large road or highway is a sort of 'through road'. Anyway, I hope you didn't see it as critique, but you got some useful information from this comment. And hopefully you'll get a better understanding on the why. A good video on how things turned out this way is: "How the Dutch got their cycle paths" (Bicycle Dutch)

A roads in the Netherlands are highways, they are just about the only roads that don't really support bike lanes, although there might be. N roads do almost always have a bike lane next to it and most of the times they will be separated. Inside cities and villages there will not always be bike lanes, you share the road with cars, but there will be traffic calming, which can be not just narrower roads, but speed bumps and just the fact that the street will not be usable as a route through, but blocked at some point, so all car traffic will be destination traffic, but bikes can pass through any barriers then sidewalks and bike lanes, they will never be combined within a city or town, it may not be very visible on Google Street view, but there will always be some sort of line or small level change between them.

Tip 1 Practice first before you make a post , and know the Dutch traffic laws. Bikes have priority over cars full stop, and cars must give way in any situation. Red tarmac = bike lane All traffic in urban areas gives way to the right - so a car or cyclist entering a road from a side turning will have priority so long as they are not turning left across the traffic The "red prairie" is heather in bloom Most shared roads have 20 mph limit . From my house there are perfect cycle paths all the way to AMS which is 120km away Rijk is pronounced Rye-k it has 2 meanings : rich, or "an area" Dutch cyclists do predominately not use helmets Bikes can easily be taken on all trains - in case you are too tired to cycle back

we seperated the bikes from normal traffic, but we also made streets more complex and narrow. by adding turns and narrowing streets and having obstacles to navigate, you slow down car traffic automaticly without even needing to put up a sign. all of it combined makes it actually safer and more enjoyable to drive or bike around, if don't feel like you want to drive or bike you can also take public transport to within 5 minutes walking distance of were you want to go witch is super reliable and you are able to get on every 5 minutes or up to 10 minutes like clockwork. you will not see many people in the netherlands bike around wearing a helmet tho, here nobody wears a helmet on a bicycle unless it's a motorbike.

Amsterdam hasn't such a great bicycle infrastructure compared to most Dutch cities.

Another thing to consider is that in NL, Google's distinction about which streets are "bicycle-friendly" and which ones aren't is often very arbitrary, and sometimes even plain wrong. Pretty much all residential streets and smaller rural roads are bikeable by default even though there's no dotted green line on the (obviously US-made) map. Contrarily, Google sometimes shows green lines on footpaths in parks, inner-city pedestrian areas or on motorways, all of which in fact explicitly _ban_ bicycles.

Check also the east side of the netherlands. The fast cycle lanes are great! I live naarby the F73. Named to the auto highway A73.

At 9:06 not only is it a road, but I suspect it's two-way traffic. Lots of English roads are barely wide enough for cars and have passing places every so often; probably the same in the Netherlands and most of Europe.

Let’s go!

You dont need a special bicyclelane map like on Google maps to plan your bike route from A to B in the Netherlands . Bikepaths are literaly everywhere anyway except from highways. Highways are the only place bike’s arent alowed.

@10:10 those are actually post-glacial drifting sand marshes, they are extremely rare worldwide, basicly hills of loose sand left at the glacial line (around utrecht) , geography wise; Holland/Zeeland = swampland, mid = sandhills , south east = foothills of the alps, north (groningen etc) = coastal planes Your pronounciation is pretty good tho the way you say "rijks" is a bit old fashioned (riks as in riksdaalder, but otherwise fine) , if you want the best bike paths you have to refer to the bike-map, a lot of lanes are just that but some are designed to take you along the most pleasant places

What is that foreigners think that The Netherlands equals Amsterdam. Does the US equals New York or the UK London?

We don't have much hills but we do have A LOT of wind (because it's flat?) Funny enough, old cities like Amsterdam have crappier bikelanes because roads are often narrow because the buildings and roads have been there for hundreds of years (generally speaking). If you look at newer cities like Almere, that have been build from scratch a few decades ago, you'll find much better bike infrastructure because it was part of the planning from the beginning. The older cities are slowly being converted/adapted to modern standards but it's sometimes harder to find the space. And because biking is a part of our culture, motorized vehicles automatically are more considered to bicycles and pedestrians. They are used to sharing the road in cities.

cool stuff i love to play with maps too haha

2:20 interesting that you found the one street in Amsterdam where the separate bike lane (to the right of the parked cars, where you said you ‘could’ bike) got sacrificed on the altar of tourism to become all sidewalk. To be clear: in the Netherlands only very small kids are allowed to bike on the sidewalk, all others get a ticket (or a haymaker from a pedestrian). Now the bikes have to share that narrow road with cars, which isn’t that much of a problem as it got turned into a 30km/20m per hour road.

Rural bike lanes would be awesome here for Germany, especially if you live in a village or visit your relatives there. It would be an easy way to get to the nearest train station and continue on from there to the city. No car would be needed.

You should also take a look at Flanders (Northen Belgium) and Denmark

Great video, but i am frustrated by the general (not uniquely your video) focus on Amsterdam as a biking city, instead of the Netherlands as a biking country. It undermines the effort of other cities who do much more for cyclists compared to amsterdam. It also underappreciates the scale of cyling infra which runs totally everywhere in the county and connects all the cities. Amsterdam is not a dominant city like Copenhagen in Denmark or London in England, so a focus on just Amsterdam makes Amsterdam seem more unique than it actually is: (barely) the most populous city in the Netherlands with decent bike infra.

Funny that I do the same thing, I keep looking at the street view and imagining how wonderful it would be to live in the Netherlands, imagining my Curitiba being like that. Unfortunately I can only dream, but I'm glad I'm not the only crazy person thinking and imagining this. Hahaha If I knew how to edit video I would make videos like yours to demonstrate what.

8:00 Actually no, that's not a bike path. The "A" roads are highways where bikes are not allowed. That area is for stopping if you need to for whatever reason. The US also has buffer regions.

The most hilly area in the Netherlands is around the South of Limburg, but even there they have quite good biking infrastructure.

@2:25 take into account that we also have shared lanes where the primary user is bikes but cars may enter be it fairly slow and taken into account peds and bikes have right of way... amsterdam is one of the worse places in our bike infra, we have a national network zo you can bike from any point to any point (with leeway for water that gets in the way)

Clicks on any part of the map and finds bike paths "do you get the gist yet"

There are quite some dedicated bike lanes (alongside general roads) and dedicated bike roads (not associated with a general road) in this part of Europe, including Britain. Those bike roads may be created on former railway lines. Liège (B) features some great bike roads diving under bridges across the river, but otherwise (like if you missed an entry to these) cycling there is no fun. The Netherlands do feature some steep hills in the very South, like south of Sittard. During weekends with "good" weather, packs of bike racers can be quite a nuisance there (and in adjacent Belgium). And steep gradients can be found in Germany, from the very border on. Like on the German side of national park "de Meinweg" the "Overschlagbahn". From memory: that's an asphalt bike road that turns into an unpaved forest road. There is a subtle yet important difference between cycling in the Netherlands and Belgium on the one hand and in Germany on the other: in the former, cyclists are considered "slow traffic", in Germany "fast pedestrians". In Germany, cyclists may be directed to the sidewalks. In Amsterdam, I know a place (south side of lake Sloterplas) where cyclists would "all" use the sidewalk (the inside track) and "all" pedestrians (notably joggers) would use the bike lane. Some narrow roads may really be dangerous. Like the Poppendammergouw in the rural North of Amsterdam. The asphalt is just wide enough for the milk trucks (it's cattle country) or the tractors with their mowing add-on or hay trailer. The drivers all seem to suffer from cramp in their right foot, so you better step aside. (Here on KZfaq, I'm subscribed to the channels of some people in the excavating business in the USA. My, how they drive their "low boy" or similar truck through the area! That's what I mean.) If you go cycling and need navigation: cycling here hasn't made it to Apple Maps yet. One time, it had reset my vehicle to "car", and had me try to enter a motorway to cross a major river. The second time, I insisted on being a pedestrian. It led me to a path into a former shooting range with live munition lying around. Do use Google Maps.

I checked my Canadian city and it was decently green, much better than your American examples, but not quite as good as Amsterdam. It has some bike lanes that go past the city borders one reaches a nearby town, one almost does, and the nearby towns are thick with green bike paths

So the thumbnail shows the Amersfoortseweg near Apeldoorn, but the video doesn’t?

@4:54 You’re on to something here. If you want to make the streets safer, you have to force the more protected road users (cars etc) to be more cautious by designing the infrastructure so that they have to do that. So no wide open 6 lane stroads as you have in the US. ;) But actually, Amsterdam doesn’t have the best bicycle infrastructure in The Netherlands. Foreigners tend to think it does, but that’s only because when they think of The Netherlands, they think of Amsterdam. But Groningen and Utrecht are actually better I think. Maybe check out which cities have been awarded “cycling city” in The Netherlands (yes that’s a thing).

Looks interesting. Could see using for recreation, but wouldn’t see much practical applicability in my area. E.g. besides for exercise or leisure, there’d pretty much be no reason to use it over a car, esp when weather is factored in.

USA has made major road design and town planning mistakes since the advent of private motorised combustion engine vehicles. Europe, too, but in a less gung-ho manner. And in Europe some nations saw the best way forward for better living very early (50's, 60's, 70's...) on. Now there we are witnessing close to sea change in the attitude to better living, particularly in urban environments. The USA is lagging way behind.

The N833 has a dedicated yet not seperated but still mandatory bikelane in your video. Indicated by the continous white line and a painted bicycle on the lane at every crossing. Cars are not allowed to cross the white lines unless at crossings or driveways where the line is intermittend. This design has been abandoned and is very rare now. There even used to be a variant with a continous line on the cycle-side and intermittend on the car side: it allowed cars to pass but still made it mandatory for cyclist. There is another type of bikelane with only intermittend striping. That is not dedicated but still mandatory for cylists, indicated by signs and now mainly used in urban areas. Cars are allowed to cross the line. And yet another type has intermittend lines (or only red ) but no signs at all, called a 'cycle-suggestion' lane. Not mandatory, but yet kind of is because you have to drive on the right side of the road. Used on low-traffic rural roads with max speed of 60.

A lot of the "rural " bike lanes are farmer roads that are used by hikers bikers etc . These tiny street are all over europe . i live in germany and it's the exact same set up . so they aren't dedicated bikes as such but are perfect for safe biking

You missed the sand roads with a separate cycling path. Believe me, they exist and most of them are old. The cycling path usually is in better condition than the road, but they are very narrow, 30 cm.

7:18 is a dedicated bike lane; Notice the double lines. Cars can't use it. If a car breaks down, they're supposed to go over the bike lane and park on the shoulder, NOT on the red part. 8:42 is a non-dedicated bike lane; The dotted line indicating that cars CAN use it when required. For example to pass oncoming traffic. But still if a car breaks down in that area, you're not supposed to park on it. (Unless there just isn't a shoulder, obviously)

There are no train in the city, only streetcars, and please the place you show in the beginning is the center of Amsterdam ( no trains there) Rokin. Central station is close by.

It's literally easier and less expensive to build for bikes than for cars. It boggles the mind why even new developments in the US are still car centric.

10:00 Those things are dune areas. They are caused by the reclaiming of the sea. Normally the salt of the sea keeps dunes barren. But if you push the sea back then dunes start to become fertile. However without human intervention it still takes over a century for a dune to become a inland forest. So dune areas are kind of a transition. From a barren sand dune to a regular forest. The salt concentration in the soil is still high and the nutrient concentration is still low which keeps most plants away, however certain plants can handle it. These plants overtime cause the dunes to flatten out because they stop the formation of sand hills. Meaning the wind makes the hills go away but the plants prevent new hills from forming. There were calls several times to speed up the process but many people ended up quite liking the dune areas. They add topographic diversity from the forests and wetlands. They are not unique to the Netherlands. Denmark has them as well.

"Rijks" means Realm's. It's kind of like how the US calls a lot of things "Federal" So a "Rijksweg" would be a federal road.

Only the southern point of the Netherlands has hills near Maastricht. The Vay LÜü weh - zome has no mountains zome.....= rim, and it has no oe as in shoe sound it, has a oo as in go sound

We have great cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands compared to other places. However there are many roads were the cycle paths are poorly maintained while the road itself is nice and smooth. The difference is smaller than in other countries, but it’s not equal.

I haven't read all the comments, so maybe someone already pointed this out: 6:45 what you're looking at there is a road dedicated to city buses. No cars allowed!

To get a little sense of the scale The somewhat zoomed-out map with the 4 cities is called the 'Randstad' or Delta metropolis of 738 km2 with 8.4 million inhabitants For comparison, New York City is 778 km², so slightly larger and with 8.8 million inhabitants, a bit more densely populated en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randstad

You can't bike on the sidewalks in the Nederlands!

Sidewalks in the Netherlands are forbidden for bikes to ride on.

You can not bike on the sidewalk. Like you can not walk on the bike lane!

Holland and Denmark made the conscious decision to incorporate the bicycle into the planning of the road infrastructure in the '70's whereas the rest of the western world embraced the ICE vehicle and planned the integration of it into society accordingly, no consideration for the cyclist to share these roads was given

The problem with using streetview, in my opinion, is that you only see the roads/streets where cars are allowed, because the camera is on a car. You're not getting a proper 'view' of the bicycle network.

this are the bike lanes. But you can bike on every other road :). Its legal as long if it is not a highway or national road (A and N road)

At 8:00 what you are looking at is a highway, you are not allowed to bike there 😅 "the bike path" is actually an emergency lane

2:26 you can bike there, if you want to pay a fine.

The ij is pronounced as in hey, ice, why, without the J sound in the end.

drenthe is EXTREME rural amsterdam

7:43 is the A2. A roads are highways and not for cycling, what you think is a bike path is actually the emergency hard shoulder. A bicycle lane is indicated with a blue sign with a bicycle, a painted white bicycle on the path or red tarmac.

Nice to see your amazement. Few comments: You ae NOT allowed to cycle on the sideways unless indicated. In the rural areas, you have show routes we never prefer for recreational cycling. There are many rural routes, and very small bike only paths that are not shows by Google. We also have a long distance network of cycle routes, mainly using rural routes but also passing big cities and the bicycle node network, which consists of thousands of nodes where you can find you way just by following the signs to adjacent nodes, though you need a (digital) map.

I love in Czech Republic, we have lots of bikers but cities are not inviting for us and drivers are very aggressive. I dont get it, Netherlands could be so inspiring for us.

@10:50 ye sand hill meadows

Google is horrible for bikelanes and cycle paths, it takes you next to big roads mostly like the ones you showed while there are way nicer routes across the countryside, connected via 'knooppunten" which are numbered interchanges between points.

@Active Towns - Profiles by John Simmerman Jason Slaughter has never ONCE given any practical advice about what to do about PRE-EXISTING towns, structures, such as massive stroads and suburban sprawl. I have lived my ENTIRE LIFE (nearly 60 years) in the ease and comfort of suburban sprawl and always have had a car. I knew intuitively my entire life that somehow our property taxes, as INSANELY high as they are (NJ), are not nearly enough to cover the massive expense of maintenance of sewer lines, water lines, roads for such a spread-out lifestyle. I have always known it to be unsustainable. Where I lived as a kid, I did walk to school, nearly up to 2 miles to our high school. Walking was perfectly fine in the suburbs, thanks to sidewalks, albeit, yes, quite long. I also biked a lot. But, yes, sometimes our parents picked us up at school, by car, but not usually. Where I live now, also suburbs, also single family home, is in a gated community. Same situation. But, due to ever accruing disabilities (multiple artificial joints due to severe rheumatoid arthritis), I cannot walk more than a block before needing to return home. And, I can not ride a bicycle any more. I tried in 2017. So, I truly need a car. For many years I tended to, let's say, praise Jeremy Rifkin's idea of decentralization. Can't say I lived by it, but it sounded good. Well, suburban sprawl is the GREATEST example of decentralization possible: be as spread out as possible. So, perhaps IDEOLOGIES/PHILOSOPHIES don't work. MATHEMATICS/LOGISTICS/PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS / REDUCTIONISM is what matters. So, for example: the philosophy/ideology of "don't destroy what has been built already: modify it or fix it etc" So, my question stands: what do we do with all the unsustainable pre-existing suburban sprawl, sewer systems, water pipes, roads, if one's philosophy/ideology is "don't destroy them: do something else with them"?

Why would they blow your mind???? They look perfectly normal to me actually... Seen those all my life.. In your country bikes fly???

Google maps doesn't paint the whole picture. Every single road, street or lane in the country is at least bike-friendly with the ONLY exception being the motorway (the A2 that you landed on around 8:00 minutes in), or alleyways that are simply too narrow for cyclists, but those are rare and actually exclusive to cities such as Amsterdam. Almost all of the roads that google maps left blank are bikable. Google simply forgot, or didn't go through the hassle to mark them. The road I used to bike to school to has a designated bike lane, seperated from the main road and Google left it blank. Other unmarked streets and roads include residential areas where cars are going very slowly anyway, they are all bike friendly too. The most hilly area is in the absolute southern point in the panhandle of Limburg (places like Epen, Camerig, Slenaken, Vaals), road design is no different and people bike just as much.

Are you aware of the separate road signs for cyclists bij the ANWB. At 12:28 you can actually see them. A famous thing are the so called mushroom direction signs. Search for "paddestoel ANWB"

Nope you can NEVER bike on a sidewalk, that would be insane...

I am like number 522

Do street vieuw in the centre of NYC...lol what do you see??? Potholes....lol in the middle of a big city...potholes... like manhatten doesn't have any money..

" It will Blow you helmet off" :-D Can I cite that?

Only foreigners wear helmets in the Netherlands. And it is not Amsterdam that's unique, it is the whole of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is merely an expat enclave and considered an American amusement park sadly.

Most of the bike lanes aren't even on google maps.

Nice that you are enthousiastic about dutch cycling , but .... Amsterdam ≠ Netherlands ! So when you are in the meadows of 'rural Amsterdam ' you are effectively in ' rural Netherlands' . Otherwise you sound really silly. I mean, Palm Springs is not 'rural LA' , right ?! And Cottswolds is not 'rural London' @ 7:25. How did you find that road?! 🤔😅. I did not know these existed in NL ! That is what at 'not just bikes ' is called a bike lane gutter. A painted bike line one a high speed multilane road. This is off limits nowadays in NL. A 'rijksweg' (state road) will have a speed of 80kmh and higher. It is really a no go to have painted lanes here. It should be a fully separate bike path! The painted lanes are only for

Thats what taxes should actually pay for .... instead of military and murder

Most of the a roads are highways and strictly forbidden for cyclists therefore no bikelane on the a2 in this video

Why would you want to mix car traffic bike traffic, and pedestrians???? That would be really stupid.. Cars in a 500 year old city with infrastructure build for horses and carts, and boats, isn't that just a little stupid???

Amsterdam is not the Netherlands. We have bicycle infrastructure everywhere. The are plenty of towns and cities better than Amsterdam.

HELLO EXPAT

Helmet?

You did pick about the worse bike paths there are in the Netherlands 🤣🤣

Yes''The Netherlands are flat its in the name. You should take a look at the east of the country butyfull and vlue for your mony.

There is no point to clic on a map off the Netherlands and seeking bike lanes,because it is the same in the whole country!!Everywhere are bike lanes!!I am a Dutch man,so i know..