Asphalt out, green in; intersection reconstruction in the Netherlands

The true first world country

There is no excuse as to why other developed countries with money can’t have intelligent infrastructure like this.

As a dutchman, this is weird to watch cause it's so normal

In my city in the USA, we’re celebrating that some new paint laid out out a bike lane on a bumpy old street, and as an extra, we even got some plastic bollard sticks to “protect us”. Woohoo! Oh wait, the land ends at each intersection and dead ends at a curb near an old RR crossing. And it was planned for years (seriously), and the biking community is celebrating at breweries each night this week in that neighborhood (also seriously). If we got an intersection like in this video, well, I don’t even know if we’d know what to do with such joy.

This is too advanced for German politicians. I am once again jealous of the Netherlands

I've never heard of pedestrian lights like that. Brilliant!

I really love how the bike path system is also such a help for disabled persons. Your electric wheelchair would never fit in a stroad.

Again a crossing in my neighbourhood that I use very often! We do have a great city council, dont we? Love the content keep up the great video's.

Wow... even that unfished intersection with the greenery that grew by itself looks way better then most finished intersections here in Canada. Still somehow looks natural before the trees!

🇳🇱 Lo es todo para mi, un país que vive en el año 2050 ahora mismo. Groeten uit Lima Perú 🇵🇪 nederlandse honderd procent 🇳🇱

in many areas in the USA, pedestrians (and bicyclists) must press a button at a crosswalk to get a 30 second green light to cross. If they don't press it, they will never get a green light and will never be able to cross traffic.

Love the Netherlands. Great people and country.

I also live near Den Bosch and can remember what a hassle this crossing used to be when using the bus. It improved with better software for the traffic lights and a separate buslane. The solar powered lights aren't exactly new for Den Bosch though, before the summer in Rosmalen (west) at the first exit of the A50 from the A2, they also added these lights. They work well there too. This intersection is probably one of the busiest, even if it doesn't look that way. Its one of the major roads heading towards the train station, because the inner city is separated by water, so a bridge follows this road quickly. But most people still ride a bike there and they've added parking spaces on the other side of the city where most cars now go to.

Thank you for sharing this amazing video 👍

What truly astonishes me about this project, is that it was done in only a couple of months! I'm not sure what the planning cycle is for these things, as they seem to have a lot of details, but construction on this intersection would have easily taken a couple of years in the US.

Les Pays Bas, sont quand même leader des pistes cyclables en Europe 🇪🇺 ! 👍👏🎩

I am dreaming of a day when the Russians feel the same way that most of the Dutch do. Bike lanes are the best-case scenario for me as I live in a small town with no need to use a car. Regrettably, but there are too many people who are against this, among car-drivers in particular. Better hope, the Dutch approach elevates their thinking.

Great work! It must have taken some time to film all that.

Great work!

Having had a girlfriend live at the aartshertogenlaan and myself coming in each weekend with the train from the north on the country and biking from the main station to her house, I remember how busy that intersection was. But to be honest, I didn’t think it was badly designed. But this redesign does look even better.