It's the view from the University Library of Radboud University in Nijmegen .

@@lws7394 for real? i was near the uni in nijmegen 4 months ago. went there from hesse germany by bike and train to make vacation in the netherlands. just rode to uttrecht by bike to see how amazing yall infrastructure is. basically every day i wanna go back :D

roundabouts have a 75% reduction of injury crashes compared to other junctions . How many vehicles had to wait >1 minute ? none , bar the semi truck maybe.

sure buddy. terrible design. that's why it flows so wonderful

Because it will all go faster when its designed for cars alone /s

You would survive a zombie apocalypse since zombies eat brain

@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 make the cycle path go under the road

The nr. of people passing this junction in 5 minutescorresponds with over 5000 people per hour (and that is not counting the buses.). No way you have that with cars and traffic lights..

now imagine there's no cycle lanes but instead the bicyclests would all be in cars. THAT would break traffic flow

Claro que tem, mas moro na Holanda :P

What are you talking about, what is wrong? The cyclist are going in their path.

@@nishiljaiswal2216 Nothing you just built a roundabout and made it worst at what it does, at 3:25 notice what pedestrians are gonna do when the truck blocks their way vs retarded cyclists

90+ pedestrians, 240+ cyclists, 100 vehicles and 3 buses. In 5 minutes. That is 5000+ people per hour crossing an urban junction (excl the buses) . While reducing the risk of serious or fatal injury by 75%, compared to a traffic light junction !

@@ihab_7 maybe you didn't see it but the truck is on a crosswalk and infront of the crosswalk there's these shark teeth painted on the road. these signal the trucker to yield.

How is that possible ? You would have to stop for a pedestrian crossing, right ? That means drivers would have to give priority to others anyway.

@Roberto_o And even that is fast for a lot of the world lol. The Dutch use Smart Traffic Light Systems to improve things too.

@Robert traffic flow isnt increased if traffic has to permanently check traffic from 3 sides!

Typical car brained response, those red paths are all over the Netherlands as they care about cyclists which is why it is so pleasant and safe to cycle there to anywhere

​@@nishiljaiswal2216typical bike brained response. you do realize that round abouts are about optimizing traffic for cars and not for bikes? if you optimize for bikes you do not need this round about at all. cars are clogging the streets and cities , not bikes.

As a Dutch person I'll give you an explanation as to how these roundabouts work. First point to mention is that these roundabouts are located within cities/towns which have a maximum speed of 50km/h (≈31mph) which means traffic isn't very fast moving to begin with. Generally speaking the pedestrian crossing and bike lanes are slightly raised so besides being infrastructure dedicated to pedestrians and biked it doubles as a speed bump for the car traffic approaching the roundabout which makes that cars generally approach the roundabout at around 30km/h (≈18mph) which is slow enough for the car driver to access the situation for road users it has to yield to, this makes Dutch roundabouts very safe for pedestrians and cyclists. As for the blocking part you mentioned, roundabouts like this have natural flow with priority for cyclists and pedestrians (cyclists because they "carry" more people per unit of space than cars and pedestrians because they are vulnerable). Even though it may seem that sometimes a few cars are blocked relatively less people are blocked and the cars can continue the second the "blockage" has gone past. You might think intersections don't have these blockages but there traffic lights form artificial blockages which may even halt you even though there's no other interfering traffic (in the Netherlands this is still not really an issue as almost all traffic lights work with multiple sensors in the road which can read the situation on the road and prioritize the lanes with the most cars). Still, if the roads are busy roundabouts can carry way more people while simultaneously being safer than intersections.

Sorry, but there is nothing complicated about that roundabout at all. You just need to pay attention the moment you enter it. And know what the rules of the road are. Most nations do not have yield triangle to indicate how traffic is supposed to flow. That alone makes it, for the average viewer, difficult to understand.

As a Dutch person I don't know but this is how basically every single roundabout works in the Netherlands.

Nijmegen near the University library.

You think it's a horrible design because you don't see it from the Dutch perspective... Cycling is a huge part of our culture (there are more bicycles than people in the Netherlands) and it's the primary mode of transport. Therefore prioritizing cyclists and cycling infrastructure makes that more people cycle which means less cars which means less cars to clog up roads. It seems counter intuitive but prioritizing cycling infrastructure makes for a better car driving experience as there are so little cars on the road that for the most part you're never stuck in traffic jams. It might only be able to "handle half a dozen cars" but it can handle more PEOPLE than a three lane intersection with the artificial barrier of traffic lights plus it costs less to build and maintain than an intersection as well.