Germany's "Green" City (with more bikes than cars!)

I love grassy tram tracks too.

So beautiful! Love Germany! I want to go back someday!

Hi! Love this video so much, brings back good childhood memories, thank you for making it, great filming & editing! Cheers!
I used to live north of Freiburg in Reute (Oberreute, between Emmendingen and Freiburg) which is 12 Km (15 Min. by car) away from Freiburg's City Center... lived there between 1980 thru 1984, I was 10-14 years old back then..! 🥰
Thanks, yet again for this and much love from my shitty city of İstanbul..! 😆 Take care!

Whoa!!!!!

Those suburbs look so much like dutch suburbs!

i wanna cry its so lovely there.

Since you love grassy tram tracks, you should check out footage of the new light rail line 15 of Helsinki and Espoo, Finland. This new line, opened last Saturday, operates on the outskirts of the capital city for 25 kilometres and mainly uses dedicated, grassy lines with no other traffic.

Welcome to my Hood! Been living here all my life and at 26 now I've never felt the need to get a driver's license.

Earlier this year me and my family decided to move out of the USA. We looked at the Netherlands, Ireland, and eventually decided on Germany. Wolter's World and Asthon's videos helped us understand Freiburg and I applied for a job. I was nervous interviewing in July. Nervous it was the right decision for my family and our future. Stepping off the plane in Frankfurt then taking a train to Freiburg didn't ease my anxiety. As soon as I stepped off the train and saw all of the bikes near Hauptbahnhof I felt home.

We've been living in Herdern since August and are staying in Freiburg for a long time! Glad to see you made it to Freiburg and to see the comparisons with Vauban. I plan on visiting Amsterdam soon!

Here for the grassy tram track porn.

In German we have a well-describing saying for developments like Freiburg. „Grün wirkt“, which basically means „Green works“.

As a geography student that lives near and in Freiburg my whole life I was immediately hyped to see you visited Freiburg!

I'm really glad to live in a city where I don't need a car, because I haven't driven for years and now I'm afraid of driving such monstums of vehicles and also don't see the need for it.

A few months ago I had american friends come to visit and I showed them also the Schauinslandbahn (cable car) just to show them the very well infrastructure and how fast you can get out of the crowded inner city and into the nature. They too loved it.

Thanks for the video!

As a German, if I had to decide where to move and live - Freiburg would be my top 1 by far. The proximity to the mountains, the intact nature, the good rail connections to Switzerland, France and Italy, the beautiful city centre. Freiburg ticks a lot of boxes!

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Thank you, amazing city!

Interesting point about "cities that retained their trams have better urbanism". East Berlin retained their Tram network while West Berlin didn't and now former West Berlin is infested with 6 Lane Highways and annoyingly long wait times at cross walks...

As a Dutch person living in Delft that's in Rotterdam fairly often: Freiburg went the right way where Rotterdam went the wrong way after being destroyed in WWII.

How do we make our cities here like this? There's so many car dependent people here that I can't imagine them ever changing their minds :(

European train manufacturers need to come together and form the Train and Good Planning Lobby.

Why can't my city be like Freiburg?