Monday, August 25, 5 P.M. Rozengracht. Twenty minutes of filming at an ordinary city artery for trams, buses, cars, motorbikes, mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians, just before rush hour. I didn’t add a soundtrack, didn’t perform any alterations, except that I cut all recorded scenes to 3 seconds, in the correct time sequence, so all lineair. This way it gives the viewer a good sense of what’s considered normal in Amsterdam.
All of Amsterdam’s streets either have a bike lane, a segregated bike lane or just general access to cyclists (sharing the road) where there’s no need for bicycle infrastructure (like along the canals).
So on this particular street there is a painted bike lane, in between parked cars, the main road and the tram/bus lane. Rozengracht is basically about ‘give a little, take a little’ and generally everybody knows that, so you’ll see lots of ‘intermingling’ going on, as Marie put it.
One last perspective: most people consider Rozengracht the least bicycle-friendly street in Amsterdam…
Watch ‘Critical Mass’, or go to Amsterdamize Bicycle TV to watch this and every other video posted on Amsterdamize, for your viewing pleasure!
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