Zaandam has the WEIRDEST Transit-Oriented Development I have ever seen!

[@PatrickGrimbergen]

You can rent tourist bikes at any bike store, including the one in the train station. The ov-fiets system is intended for commuters, so you don't have to wait for the tourists filling in rental forms ;)

[@DerekSmit]

Also basically everyone in the Netherlands has a bike, so the ov fiets is more for the "last mile" solution after you get of the train.

[@theanarchist2746]

@@DerekSmit Exactly, however Dutch people still find it expensive. €10 is more expensive than taking the bus.

[@JaydenEricBeaudoin]

Putting a grocery store under the highway is a fantastic idea. The underside of so many highways in my home country Canada (like the Don Valley in Toronto) is unused. By incorporating this idea we could have more functional and beautiful spaces in our cities!

[@steemlenn8797]

I prefer the school under the bikepath ;)

[@JaydenEricBeaudoin]

The school under the bike path is triple A infrastructure!

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Did someone say school under bike path? Utrecht episode in the works!

[@Kai_075]

The supermarket under the A8 highway is in Koog aan de zaan not Zaandam

[@timmaQlate]

Under the same highway crossing there is a bike shop and a skate terrain. I do my shopping there. All though I prefer living in beautiful Canada.

[@dikkiedik53]

About the AH supermarket under the A8 highway. I live there since my birth in 1953. Where the supermarket is now, there was a natural ice-staking ring. During summer we used it as a sportfield. Also there was a soccer/voetbal club. All was gone when the highway was built in the 1960's . There was a parking area under the highway. Sadly enough the owner of this supermarkt bought a building with a very old wooden kindergarden building, my great grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and my uncle went to it . Not hindered by any historical knowledge this owner demolished this historical monument for parking space... last week the local authorities blocked it for use as parking space because it was illegally created. It's nice to see the houses that stood where the highway is now and that were moved to the Zaanse Schans. Now you know where the houses came from. By the way my grandfater has built the present church tower next to the supermarket, in 1920 after a fire. All the industry you filmed was food industry. I enjoyed to see my living environment.

[@sevendam9070]

Many old buildings are protected by laws to save them from being demolished. Did it happen that this owner ignored such laws and why it was illegally created?

[@FHRider-o1m]

That's fascinating, and heartfelt, your comment deserves pride of place at the top of the list, would love more people to see it. x

[@BingBongFYaLife]

Sent here by NotJustBikes, he’s right the editing is nice. Great host too

[@nvwest]

Me too. Editing is nice but it’s a little confusing to see what’s where when you don’t already know the station. Some drone shots or just simple maps to show how things really connect to each other and how things are laid out would have been a nice addition

[@mds3697]

@@nvwest try done flying in the EU without getting shot by the police for it (metaphorically)

[@FiraDeviant]

It should really be said he isn't JUST in Zaandam. He explores all of Zaanstad with is the overal county but uncludes the towns of Zaandijk, Koog aan de Zaan en a few more.

[@FiraDeviant]

@Hassan jas an As a Zaandijk residence I can tell you you are plainly wrong. koog and de zaan and zaandijk are towns on their own collected into zaanstad just like wormerveer. They are not naighborhoods like poelenburg.

[@lucasrem1870]

Or Amsterdam

[@martijnvangammeren1868]

@@FiraDeviant I grew up in Pelderveld, Zaandam. Great city and still when visiting my mother we like to just ride somewhere on bicycle for the fun of it. Mostly to the Zaansche schans for pancakes.

[@lordjace]

fun fact: the grocery store under the ‘highway’ is an Albert Heijn. In the town with the windmills, they put up the first Albert Heijn store in the Zaanse Schans, next to the windmills.

[@ronswart6029]

Albert Heijn grocery store/ shop started in 1887.

[@stefanroos6718]

The very first Albert Heijn comes from Oostzaan. It was moved to the Zaanse Schans later.

[@theanarchist2746]

This is all wrong, as a Zaanse Schans guide myself which is born and raised in Zaanstad, I must tell you that Albert Heijn museumstore is NOT the first original Albert Heijn store building. They are also not advertising it as the first Albert Heijn, they simply call it “the museumstore of Albert Heijn”. Mensen dit is echt waar, het is gewoon een ander oud Zaans gebouwtje waar een totaal andere winkel in zat.

[@kasperkrajewski6239]

At 1:48 I don't think calling it a highway is accurate, it's more like a wide road which is way safer for city centers than stroads or highways. The other one later on with the grocery store is an actual highway though.

[@quinta4276]

You’re right! This is the ‘Provincialeweg’ in Zaandam, one of the most important roads in Zaanstad (=the township of Zaandam). It connects other villages and neighbourhoods with Zaandam.

[@AlbertZonneveld]

It is wat you would call a stroad in North America

[@kasperkrajewski6239]

@@AlbertZonneveld No it is not, it is simply a large/wide road. Later on, about two buildings farther from where the camera shot was taken, it becomes clear that it is a calm road and if you want to go to one of the many houses or something om the side of it, you leavr the road to a street that runs paralel with the road. It's a way safer design, takes about as much space in as a stroad and is generally much more enjoyable. If this explanation isn't too clear you can always watch Not Just Bike's video about stroads.

[@micheldehoogh1404]

Helemaal mee eens

[@MaartenOosterbaan]

I think he was referring to the bike highway but made a mistake, because it is the continuation of the bike highway he mentions later with the blue dots.

[@tehbertl7926]

Really cool vid. The description of the Zaandam area around the station as a post-modern Disney Land is one I've never heard, but it feels so accurate!

[@georgeintraffic]

Waiting for Mickey mouse to pop out any moment...

[@mbos14]

@@georgeintraffic plz no when ever i think of meeting mickey i always think of the south park one.

[@Kai_075]

Trust me i live here and it's not a fun city to live in at all allot of trash on the streets rude af ppl here allot of factory's nearby so no clean air drugs hobo's and i can go on listing things like this

[@jsb7975]

@ thebertle Yet it's a slapp in the face of Dutch architecture. Sorry 🤮

[@jsb7975]

@@Kai_075 SO ?

[@MegaMarkiboy]

Hey, that's my hometown! On the spot of the parkinglot on 1:52 there were plans to build a cultural centre attached to the station but unfortunately the plans were canceled so thats why its still empty

[@stefanroos6718]

Fun fact. The very first European McDonalds was located in Zaandam. :)

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Omg was dat vergeten

[@lucasrem1870]

Located above the Highway, on the elevated walk over it, to give passengers a save enter and exit for the station.

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Excellent fun fact!

[@koene2276]

Only the front part of the station is new; the canopy with the trusses and the platforms are from 1983. Because they couldn't get the new part low enough due to the catenary wires, there's now an annoying little staircase in the station building.

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Cool! Didn't know that but now we do :)

[@JasperJanssen]

Ah, that explains it, those trusses looked very Duivendrecht to me.

[@bomcabedal]

@@JasperJanssen Yes, it's from the same generation as Duivendrecht and Sloterdijk (possibly the worst train station in the NL).

[@lucasrem1870]

@@JasperJanssen Zaandam, it's only the platforms, the cheap roof from 1980, they never did build a station. Hemtunnel, needed more tracks, so they trashed the old station for that.

[@JasperJanssen]

@@bomcabedal enh. I commuted to Sloterdijk daily for half a decade, and it’s… fine? I mean, it’s not *good*, but it’s not that terrible. The design at the rear is weird, though.

[@sanderjansen5187]

As Zaandam is my home town I was wondering what the dots mean on the bike path I ride regular to work. Great editing. The yellow on the drawbridge is to make sure that there are no people on the bridge when it is going to draw.

[@nathandeleeuw9558]

yes like the uwlbrug 2016 incident

[@timdettmann4067]

If you make more videos I would watch them. This was a great video, keep up the good work!

[@yvonnewinters9699]

An ov fiets is a form of bike rental, only available with an ov chip card, ment as a healthy way continuing your travels to your destination… ov = openbaar vervoer = public transport.

[@NathanMandjes]

I am from Zaandam and I also happen to work in the city hall, which is directly behind you (at the right to the big clock) in the first opening seconds. Underneath that big clock is the balcony for marriages. You forgot to mention that there is a huge bus station and deposit of the city archives, directly beneath the city hall. And no parking lot. The parking is beneath the cinemas. (Which is well under sea level). A fun fact is that the canal in the main shopping street, is called the ‘Gedempte Gracht’, which translates to ‘filled’. Well before the 1900’s, the original canal was filled and paved. In recent years, with the complete overhaul of the city centre, they opened it up again. It’s very good to have the canal back. (But they can’t change the street name, so it’s a bit of a paradox’). :) Fun to see another perspective form the centre, I’m completely used to it, so thanks for the reminder that this is indeed something special. :) Cheers!

[@NathanMandjes]

@Hassan jas an It is a very expensive city hall indeed, but that also accounts for the make over of the complete city centre. Take a look at the city around the year 2000.. that was a disgrace. Also, it isn’t corruption. They used their own budget, government loans and residents that indirectly payed via their taxes (that had no significant increase in tax pricing). Corruption is something different.

[@markovermeer1394]

Yes, for the OV (-public transport) bike rentals you need an OV card. Then it works really easy: 5 out of 5, because all regular Dutch train/bus travellers will have such a card. Are you evaluating the cities for the rare tourist or for people who live in the country?

[@steefant]

there are more individual tourists (per year) than citizens though :) and the ov-card binding to a national bank account is really infuriating because it is so unnecessary. it would be trivial to expand that to at least all eu citizens.

[@markovermeer1394]

@@steefant Many tourists maybe, but by far most trips are made by locals. The city cannot help it that the national OV-Chip company has no nice solution for tourists.

[@RusNad]

@@steefant On sunny days it's already hard to get an OV fiets in major cities. I don't think making tourists rent a bike for 8€ a day is making life hell for them or anything.

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

I think it is 5 out of 5 at most NS stations if you have a Dutch bank account, but gotta be fair to tourists...

[@timpauwels3734]

I don’t know why you all seem to think you need a Dutch bank account for the OV card. I just have a basic one that isn’t bound to my identity and doesn’t automatically top up. It’s like the basic Oyster card in London. These cards are bought simply from a machine. Any tourist making more than one ov journey will have such a card.

[@Brutuz62]

The description of the Zaandam main station area as a post-modern Disney Land is accuarate: city hall is located there too, including some goofy people working there ;-)

[@annekekramer3835]

Historically, it would be more accurate to say that Disney land looks like Zaandam ;-)

[@prankster1590]

@@annekekramer3835 That title goes to the Efteling in Kaatsheuvel. Which was a big inspiration for Walt and still is the better themepark. Maybe the best one in the world.

[@applehelpproductions]

The grocery store was actually voted the nicest in the Netherlands. I tend to agree as I do my groceries there every day! Funny to see someone being impressed by it on the internet.

[@cajum24]

LOL at his happiness at seeing the bridge open.. that's what everyone hates haha

[@lucasrem1870]

on this Zaandam track, they even let the trains wait for boats!

[@lkruijsw]

Also Amsterdam is world's biggest cacao harbor, with lot of chocolade processing in Zaandam.

[@natportnoy.official]

That explains the constant cacao smell during summer, which is actually a highlight of Zaandam :)

[@lucasrem1870]

cocoa De Zaan I was born there, the MARS company is their biggest client, Koos aan de Zaan. The most famous company in Zaandam is the company that did the taste indexing for the process industry, that index is still in use at every food prosing company all over the world. The building is renovated some years ago!

[@gcason2]

This is great! I really appreciate this shorter-form video! Keep it up!

[@puikepuck]

0:15 If that's a "giant train station" I wonder how you classify Utrecht Central 😂

[@DataStorm1]

for the size of the village... it probably is...

[@luxembourger]

I was there yesterday. I would say Utrecht Central has no train station-building at all. It are a bunch of platforms and a shopping center "forced upon" one. Awful place and even more ugly developed enviroment around. Utrecht has a cute little historical center though, is worth the 10 minutes walk. But I noticed the very most travelers did not take much notice and just use Utrecht as a hub to switch trains.

[@puikepuck]

@@luxembourger I guess you can't post links in comments so search for Utrecht Central, it definitely has a pretty big station hall. Sure, it has some shops inside, as do all larger railway stations, but the actual shopping centre is next to the central station (Hoog Catharijne), the station itself is closed by barriers and can only be accessed with a valid ticket (this is common in the Netherlands). Most people use Utrecht Central for transfer indeed as it is the largest railway station in the Netherlands.

[@lucasrem1870]

Zaandam Station was only a Roof, they trashed the station in 1980 ish, needing more tracks for the Hemtunnel.

[@luxembourger]

@@puikepuck I am a big fan of public transport and exploring the Netherlands. Not only on paper, but really traveling and interviewing fellow passengers. There is a hall, but the the main focus is too much in broad commerce and not on the commuter function. But okay, the good thing is Utrecht is extremely well connected with a sorts of public transport and bicycling. Groningen f.e. has a much more beautiful train station, but not that well connected in some directions, bicycling infrastructure also very good. The modern Rotterdam CS is in a different way also very beautiful, not really big, but looking cool, feeling pleasant and well connected. Public transport in the south of the country is mostly terrible as I had to experience myself looking at the time tables and connections, probably still a more car-centric approach.

[@natportnoy.official]

Getting to the platform in Zaandam station is tricky, in most NL cities you enter the platform "from the street". Here you need to take an elevator that rarely works, then walks a quite long time, and if you need a ticket gotta move to the other end of the station than the platforms, then walk back to the entry, get to another elevator, and finally you are at the platform (missing your train lol). So from the moment of being at the station building to getting to the platform 5-6 minutes which is... Strange and almost as if you suppose to waste time.

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Agree

[@jacklageweg1438]

You sound lazy

[@natportnoy.official]

​@@jacklageweg1438 You sound like you have issues with reading comprehension. It's not a gym, being lazy or not doesn't matter, it's not about the effort, but about wasted TIME while circulating around the station stupidly, missing the train. If you compare the time spent accessing the platform in places like Amsterdam Central (which is much bigger so theoretically should be taking longer) and Zaandam, the latter takes 4x longer, now imagine for folks with disabilities (or older, or ill, or mums with toddlers) it takes ages, and it's a pain, especially when the only escalator and elevator are broken 80% of the time. It's just bad architecture.

[@JulesStoop]

@6:19 We’ll do anything to keep those dangerous tourists off our bike paths! ;)

[@Word187]

As a "Zaankanter" born and raised I can say most of us hate the "Disney Facade " to...

[@boobooiron1154]

omdat zaankanters altijd zeiken....beurs zijn ze...niet leuk. bah!!!

[@Word187]

@@boobooiron1154 Klopt XD

[@lucasrem1870]

Who you call us, you and mum? it was nothing, now all people love the intersection/station area, the Halo of it!

[@Word187]

@@lucasrem1870 Hoe je het went of keert het is super kitsch. Ergo goedkoop en lelijk

[@DominoLarry]

Well, OV fiets is not made for tourists but for commuters... so 2/5 if you're a tourist (maybe even 0/5) but for actual people living there it is 5/5 (or I should say 4/5 because mostly only four bikes are available there)

[@rahnomi4592]

Great video!! Looking forward to seeing more

[@dustinbranham9746]

I love this new format for your show, giving cities a human mobility score at the end. Very nice work.

[@tobin6767]

Great video, is this sort of unique design for a station something that is found across the Netherlands or is Zaandam special in that regard?

[@georgeintraffic]

There's some cool designs in Netherlands but I'd say it's definitely special :)

[@Pfooh]

The area around zaandam is well known for some very old wooden houses with a typical design and green color scheme (which has, along with the many windmills there, become a tourist attraction). The area around the train station is inspired by that design, and would be absurd in any other dutch city.

[@xFD2x]

@@Pfooh Still, most dutch cities and ProRail try to build something special when they build new stations. To name a few: Rotterdam, Delft and Houten.

[@jannetteberends8730]

The central station of Utrecht is inside a shopping mall. It’s my favorite station.

[@rozemarijnsnikkenburg6430]

The design is special for Zaandam..because that is were the area is mainly know for.the shape and collour of the houses

[@chlorophyllphile]

Not Just Bikes sent me. Nice video!

[@jantatousek]

This massive development around the station is not well connected to its surroundings for Dutch standards. But maybe it's too early to judge and this can still be fixed with some further development. The outrageous architecture kept me from checking out the city for several years, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's a place with amazing contrast between the cutest little wooden houses and massive factories existing right next to each other.

[@dl4608]

OV-fiets bikes are not “the Dutch bike rental system”. They are a last-mile extension of the Dutch *rail* system, provided by NS. If you are “not a local” then you can still very easily rent a bike through any of a number of commercial providers without any trouble at all. The point of OV-fiets is to simplify commuter transport, and that’s why it isn’t intended for tourists (as the latter are already well catered for anyway).

[@ankevandorst2650]

My home town! What a great video, thanks!

[@marco-lk3hj]

As a Dutch I tell you, with that weirdo place in Zaandam you have for sure visited a sort of a Disney land. It’s totally not representable for the Netherlands.

[@lucasrem1870]

They did build a mall on this concept too in Amsterdam, Oostpoort, Zadelhoff did. Who needs more shops?

[@marco-lk3hj]

@@lucasrem1870 Not me. And this concept is terrible. Distaste-full design. The architect should be ashamed.

[@mkgriffioen]

Nice vlog about my town. But Zaandam is only part of the municipality of Zaanstad. It consists of the original 7 historic villages along the Zaanriver. And the tributary that's the Delft. These are Zaandam, Koog aan de Zaan, Zaandijk, Westzaan, Wormerveer, Krommenie and Assendelft. And together have almost 160,000 inhabitants, making it the 16th municipality in the Netherlands. Nice is that every part of Zaanstad, the different villages still have their own character. But you do feel the Zaanfeeling everywhere. And it is part of the Zaan region, with its own dialect. A unique region due to its diversity from city to polders. The windmills of the Zaanse schans, and the Zaans museum. plenty to discover, when you tired of Amsterdam for a day?

[@zennymatias905]

I live in Zaandam,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻you make a5/5 video of Zaandam,awesome…tnx

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Zaandam station as person who uses it: 3/5. You cant park for free and it takes you 5-7 min walking from you bike to the station. I dont find it that accessible. Maybe bc i live as close to the station as i live to Amsterdam. I rarely use the train.

[@lucasrem1870]

You hate it there, you bike to Amsterdam every day? i like the Zaandam station, it's all so small, easy to do a transverse, not willing to do that in CS, too big, within walking distance to the old center and the new mall/ the reopend gedemte gracht

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

@@lucasrem1870 I’m in Amsterdam almost everyday so yea i know central station in Amsterdam kind of sucks

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

@@lucasrem1870 that mall had almost nothing to offer tho. As a person who lives in Zaandam, our city is quite boring

[@lucasrem1870]

@@TaYLoRBReaKouT i was born there only, left as soon as i could leave it, 3 days?

[@Paradajz50]

I lived in Zaandam 3 years. For a tourist it is very nice and romantic, but... I worked from 6:00am, and in the direction of my working place was no public transport before 6:30. In Westport area there is a lot of companies where people works in 3 shifts, and you don't have a choice if you live in Zaandam. You have to ride a bike even when is 120km/h winter wind. Ferryboat is every 20 minutes, which in practice means if you miss the ferry for one minute, you wait the next 20 minutes. Another thing is that the price of public transport is extremely high. It cost like a single ride a car! There are some kinds of modest discounts, and only if you use one year contract discount tickets. Also, oil, parking and car registration are expensive. All system do not give you cycling as a choice but forced solution.

[@lucasrem1870]

Westport, i only bike there, Hempont, locals all use bikes. The workers, crew of the ships, they always walk to amsterdam, not even needing the nearby 24 serviced Duivendrecht station.

[@frankunknown9973]

that bycicle bridge is unfinished, due to the building at the end being inhabittat by bats. Which are a protected species and therefor the building could not be demolished for the bridge to be finished according to plan.

[@ex0stasis72]

The architecture is so interesting. So many buildings look like giant dollhouses.

[@tahimig1]

I don't understand why you only gave OV fiets a 2/5. You literally just need a public transit card to use them, which even for visitors, is something you're almost guaranteed to have. Its way better than in the US where you have to use one of those little screens to buy the code that unlocks the bike.

[@mostlybikes]

afaik you need a personalised transit card with either an NS rail subscription or the OV-fiets subcription (free) on it, so not really something a visitor will have.

[@bomcabedal]

This won't work with just any OV Chip (public transport) card; you need to own a personal one attached to a Dutch home address.

[@dl4608]

OV-fiets is explicitly targeted to support the needs of locals, not tourists, hence the requirement for a personal OV card (which requires a local address/bank to obtain and use). But you’re right about the rating on this basis, as it ignores the fact that there are still plentiful options for bike hire that tourists certainly can access without issue at all.

[@RMTransit]

Excellent video!

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@BasPronk]

Did I miss the ferry to Amsterdam?

[@mikeowen3478]

Great video concept George. Keep ‘em coming. Perhaps rate some cities on your travels outside of NL too? (but all those minus scores might be too depressing for such an upbeat channel).

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Plot twist - ratings scale goes down to -5 points as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Starting off strong. We'll see where this goes.

[@GreenJimll]

@@UrbanCyclingInstitute In which case if you could hold off coming to most of the UK for, um, about the next 40 years whilst we catch up with the Netherlands (hopefully) that would be appreciated. ;-)

[@alcidesforever]

@@GreenJimll 40 years???, I was under the impression the UK government was going for an ultra fast transition into bike culture, with the limiting of the petrol (fuel) for cars scheme recently... (srry, just joking, couldnt help myself, hope the Brits get everything back in order soon)

[@dutchwalkingtour]

Always nice to see a foreign view on Dutch infrastructure. Not sure if you've been to Utrecht Centraal, but check out the bicycle parking there.

[@gytan2221]

That’s the town I moved to recently! Really love it here!

[@drerri]

Ive lived there most of my life - great city now! It really was a Dutch "ghetto" in the 90s and early 2000s.

[@lkruijsw]

Zaandam is the home town of Albert Heijn.

[@jannetteberends8730]

And Ahold Delhaize: Giant, Hannaford, and Stop and Shop in the USA

[@prankster1590]

True. But most people go to the Dekamarkt in Zaandam

[@user-qm9md9np1m]

great video i loved the editing ! zandaam is such an interesting and unique place!

[@Dentheman1995]

Can't wait to go there!! Oh wait.. I live here😃

[@erikthehalfabee6234]

Interesting that you start doing these kinds of videos now. Vid could have been a bit longer, covered a bit more (such as old part of Zaandam). But it's a good start i guess. What exactly is so weird about the transit-oriented development? the highway that passes under the city center and the crazy Disney-modern buildings on top of it? Oh, and you announced you would ride all the way to the ferry, but then you didn't? Good point about the train station not offering rental to people that do not have NS subscription.

[@mariooverman]

I'd like to add, that the area is under development at the moment. So the sketchy areas around the trainstation will be further developed later on

[@ozlemakdeniz50]

Groetjes uit Zaandam 🥰🤗

[@JanneWolterbeek]

First time I watch this channel, intro talk reminds me a bit of Doug DeMuro, but that is a good thing, haha! I like it, so I subbed.

[@lucasrem1870]

Zaandam, would you give it a Doug score? the crocks and features ?

[@JanneWolterbeek]

@@lucasrem1870 lol!!

[@inesalag]

Hi George! I had to take my son to the vaccines site at Zandaam, and it was horrible going from the train station (there was a bike paht but no sidewalks).

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Funny how Americans actually get excited about Zaandam😭 it can get boring sometimes living here, luckily close to Amsterdam

[@lucasrem1870]

Family people love Zaandam and the Zaan. What is it you need in Amsterdam?

[@themajestysnowbird]

Great series! Just wish there's a map with it to help visualise everything better :)

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Thanks for the tip!

[@ruben-4150]

I am going to be annoying but most places you showed is not the town of zaandam. It is part of different villages which are close to zaandam but not zaandam.

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Thanks for clarifying! Indeed - windmills are in Zaandijk

[@NathanMandjes]

Actually, the Zaanse Schans village is in Zaandam. The border between Zaandam and Zaandijk (with that little train station), is the Zaan River.

[@prankster1590]

Its all ZaanSTAD. Which is a conglomerate of Krommenie, Wormerveer, Zaandijk, Westzaan, Assendelft, West Knollendam, Zaandam and Koog aan de Zaan :)

[@deminijessen883]

@@prankster1590 and koog aan de Zaan!

[@MaartenOosterbaan]

technically I think he only showed Zaandam & Koog aan de Zaan, the Zaanse Schans as mentioned is a open air museum in Zaandam. So 'most places' would be either the majority of the places he showed or time spent on the video there and if you look at it that way...."most places you showed is not the town of zaandam" is a gross overstatement as he only shows 1 other town and it is there only a small part of the time.

[@collinyt1232]

4:25 is actually me with red t shirt en red pants. me and my friends called u a "tourist" because many tourist are making picture's of bridges and like everything.

[@collinyt1232]

4:23 *

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

We do have throwaway public transport cards, and if you're a foreigner you likely needed one to get to Zaandam.

[@drerri]

yes but u cant use them to rent an ov fiets

[@julesc6215]

Hey bud, nice little vid, only I find ur bike share score unfair as they rent bikes for cheap to the tourists at the bike station just off the gedemptegracht( the shopping canal). Also you should have mentioned the skatepark next to the supermarket under the highway.

[@c.dekker2156]

Trust me no one local “rents” bikes, every has there own, only people from not around the area rents bikes

[@JB-qe8qb]

I really enjoyed this video!

[@edgarleft]

1:39 This is not de Zaan. It is just a small side channel.

[@timo6532]

I live 30 min away from Zaandam and I’ve never bin to that. Exact place where you are 😂

[@waso778]

Schaam je.

[@Amandatb]

You should have totally filmed our skatepark under the highway, just across the road behind the Albert Heijn grocery store. Maybe next time ;-)

[@KebabWarrior1905]

that is the city i live in bruh

[@jevonkelder]

Weird to see a tour through my own hometown , great video

[@stefanvanberge5601]

My hometown thank you for this nice video✌️

[@bradley15111]

Really cool to see as a local!

[@PendelSteven]

3:58 four metres wide is the recommended width for a two lane bicycle path in the Netherlands. High due that the edges of the Netherlands actually imply this... 6:18 this actually goes for people on Texel, an island or Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, a part of the country devided by a six km wide 'river' as well. We need to cross the water to go to a trainstation in the first place. It's sort of like not living in the Netherlands, yet being Dutch. Akward!

[@LiveLNXgaming]

every square meter of the Netherlands is nicer than the United States.

[@indykatley10317]

And safer, I guess...

[@sebastiaanmartens9280]

Hahahaha i live there but did not know what those dots on the bike lane ment (always thought they where markings for tubing of gass and sorts onderground). now i know a bike high way to Amsterdam. p.s. the road under the sation is not a high way but a province way. its a 50 kph road from zaandam to zaandijk to wormerveer and further up north. but ill give you it is crowded and noisy.

[@jody024]

American pick up trucks are gaining popularity fast in the netherlands because the are quite cheap to own when registered as a business vehicle.

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Dodge Rams surprisingly popular in NL. Interesting explanation as to why. Thanks for the insight!

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Paradoxically the newer pick up trucks aren't that great for workmen and farmers, you'd have to go back to the mid 90's for that.

[@aorta538]

3:56 Hans Klok... 😂

[@georgeintraffic]

Echt???

[@aorta538]

@@georgeintraffic hij lijkt er op 😎

[@krommekachelpijp1]

Als het hem is kun je de klok erop gelijk zetten!🤔😅

[@andrehmoussa9075]

Zaandam looks very good in this video 😂

[@JPS_Originals]

This is freedom, freedom to travel in many different ways, not the so-called freedom amaericans think car-deendant society provides.

[@tinacosta3777]

Great video👏

[@EasyLifeEntertainment]

Home town !

[@buurtfinancier1745]

Do Poelenburg Next

[@4.13.lucky.a8]

Me: randomly watching this video Also me: OMG I SEE MYSELF LMAO (2:19)

[@00wkee]

wat is je afkomst?

[@4.13.lucky.a8]

@@00wkee Moluks/Chinees

[@TaYLoRBReaKouT]

Also the pedestrian mall i give a 2/5 bc there are almost no interesting shops.

[@theanarchist2746]

Man you call that a giant highway underneath the municipality center? That’s just a provincial road on which there is a speed limit of 50 kmph 😂

[@gijsh9]

I live in zaandam

[@hanlie407]

Urban cycling: love seeing the bridge up. Me: oh man de bridge is up again grrr. 😂

[@lance-biggums]

That place looks cool as fuck

[@m.p.baldnessdyslexic88]

Thank you :)

[@ryanreynolds3398]

AYE YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO MY HOUSE MULTIPLE TIMES

[@devinschleeper68]

There is more at Zaandam then only the city

[@VN-je7rf]

Its a bit of a shame that you only mention Amsterdam and Schiphol to go to, and skip the trains to Hoorn, Alkmaar & Den Helder...

[@fosahistorica2537]

Cool video

[@kubrabenelli9117]

But tourists can buy a anonymous OV card right?!

[@UrbanCyclingInstitute]

Can’t rent bike with anonymous OV chipkaart unfortunately

[@ZeNN-Music]

@@UrbanCyclingInstitute Would a refundable deposit (say EU 50,-) work for you? The OV Card system certainly has some flaws unfortunately..

[@AnD-1999]

Just a 10 min walk and there will be bike rentals without ov card, for tourists....

[@ZeNN-Music]

@Hassan jas an You can get your money back, but you would have to physically SEND the card to the OV Chip people. I had to do this once, and it worked. Downside: you need to fill out your personal data + bankaccount nr. practically making the card non-anonymous...

[@TamaarDuintje]

everybody can get a ov cart.. it cost like 7 euro, then you could take the ov bike

[@reshad3290]

Ahaha feels weird seeing my city

[@shibainuholderwoof7899]

Zaandam doet zijn best. Als we kijken naar 20jr terug is weinig tot niets meer hetzelfde. Zelfs de heel is verplaatst en de Mac op t ankersmidplein is ook weg.

[@CrazyBambii]

They still building.. at the end it will look all the same around the train station..

[@justtimeformeh]

Bro i live their

[@mururoa7024]

We prefer tourist don't ride bicycles. They cause nothing but accidents. ;)

[@iridescentbanana839]

Zaandam is not a town, its a city. And what you called post-modern Disney is actually traditional style Zaandamse houses.

[@lucasrem1870]

That's why people call it Disneyland. You should visit it, post modern means bring the old back, using modern tech to construct it. The Disney Castle, main street, the Halloween house of horrors, same levels of fakeness....

[@ignorantcow]

at 5:29 you managed to get the pronunciation of zaandam close enough- why only that time, could’ve pronounced it that way all the other times? 😄

[@Dalenthas]

I honestly can't tell the difference between this time and every other time he says it. Maybe a slightly longer vowel on the second syllable?

[@CrazyBambii]

Lol in America there would be a whole neighborhood under the highway 😅🥲 not a parking lot lol

[@lucasrem1870]

BunnyBrikkzTV urban development under a Highway in the US? They all fall apart, guess u don't understand what's under these turnpikes?

[@CrazyBambii]

@@lucasrem1870 luister als ik in van Anaheim naar Noord Hollywood rij zie ik 36 tenten kampen onder de snelweg

[@lucasrem1870]

@@CrazyBambii sorry, nu snap ik je post. Social housing project are needed, ik zie echt geen oplossing, blijft een derde wereldland. Waar is iedereen uit de 'Detroids' naar toe gegaan? Heel veel mensen zijn nomaden geworden...

[@CrazyBambii]

@@lucasrem1870 jaaa precies dat zeg ik ook! Amerika is een 3e wereldland 😅