Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) III
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Morning rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle! More information in this blog post: http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/when-a-video-goes-viral/ This is an ordinary Wednesday morning in April 2010 at around 8.30 am. Original time was 8 minutes that were compressed into 2 minutes, so everything is 4 times faster than in reality. The sound is original. This is one of the busiest junctions in Utrecht a city with a population of 300,000. No less than 22,000 bicycles and 2,500 buses pass here every day. And yet Google Street View missed it. Because private motorized traffic is restricted here. These cyclists cross a one way bus lane (also used by taxis and municipal vehicles), two light rail tracks and then a one way street that can be used by private vehicles. Behind the camera is a railway (you can hear the squeaking sounds of the trains passing) and the main railway station is very close too. A number of rental bikes from the station pass and many of the cyclists will have come by train for the first part of their commute. For those who frown upon the total absence of bike helmets in this video, consider these findings from a US study: "Cycling in the Netherlands is much safer than in the USA. The Netherlands has the lowest non-fatal injury rate as well as the lowest fatality rate, while the USA has the highest non-fatal injury rate as well as the highest fatality rate. Indeed, the non-fatal injury rate for the USA is about 30 times higher than for the Netherlands. Injury rate per million km cycled: USA 37.5; NL 1.4 Fatality rate per 100 million km cycled: USA 5.8; NL 1.1" From: Pucher, John and Buehler, Ralph (2008) 'Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany'. http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/Irresistible.pdf
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transito de bike kkkk curitiba brasil
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these people are so fit
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.. and this isnt even the busiest place with cyclists in utrecht !
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This spot, unrecognizable today.
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best people around the world
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In the UK we have hills. Narrow roads. And £1 per head spent on cycle routes. Plus backward thinking. It will NEVER happen in Britain hence great helmet and hi via sales to compensate our neglect and narrow mindedness.
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Trains, buses, and bikes outnumber the private vehicles by like 100:1. Fucking paradise.
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No one wears a helmet?
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This video has inspired us to a create a similar one in Rotterdam!
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lol that's insane! :)
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Do you guys have annoying bike cops who write tickets for speeding or anything like that?
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I wish every city in America were like this. There wouldn't be so many fatties clogging up the roads and polluting the air.
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Ben en France, on a du boulot!!!!!!!!!!!!
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utrecht i knew nothing about the city but a football team weak one
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Everyone is in such a hurry, no time for begroeting.
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Really amazing that foreign people are so surprised by this video. For me it's such a normal situation xD.
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just a pipedream for me here in the UK . The capital of the world for cyclist haters :(
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ПО ХОДУ НА МОПЕДЕ ,ТО НАВЕРНОЕ ИХНИЙ МАЖОР ПОЕХАЛ))))
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They proposed it in LA California but so many opposed to it. The way California cities designed, it's not fitted for bicycles or pedestrian commute. Too much of an urban sprawl.
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