Whenever I mention to Americans that I have worked in Copenhagen, I’m invariably asked (after an alarmingly large number confuse the Danes with the Dutch) about the bikes. For good reason. Yes, the ...
An unusual bubbling landscape has appeared in Copenhagen, with sections of it appearing to lift up off the ground in a way that’s almost — but not quite — organic. This arrangement of circles is ...
Among planners and bike advocates, Copenhagen is often held up as the apotheosis of a cycling city; a place that “gets it” when it comes to bicycling more than any other city in the world. But, if an ...
This elevated track is the city’s latest attempt at creating a cyclist’s heaven. When Copenhagen started building a new network of separated bike lanes in the early 1980s, it quickly became a model of ...
The city is full of bikes. They are parked by the hundreds along main thoroughfares. They roll in orderly fashion up and down the streets, their riders attentive to the miniature traffic lights ...
A new book coming from Copenhagen titled, City of Bicycles will take an in-depth look at that famous bike city’s culture. I’m really looking forward to this because most of what I know about ...
Copenhagen is regularly near the top of lists touting the best cities for biking in the world. Now the city has a bikeshare system to match its sterling cycling reputation. High-tech doesn't often ...
Every day, one-third of the people of Copenhagen ride their bikes to work or school. Collectively, they cycle more than 750,000 miles daily, enough to make it to the moon and back. And city officials ...
Bikes outnumbered cars in Denmark’s capital of Copenhagen for the first time in 2016 – a huge win for the environment. But all those bikes have led to two-wheel traffic jams that needed fixing. So the ...
Much of Copenhagen’s bike- and pedestrian-centric infrastructure seems wild to us folks on the outside, but the new Copenhagen Gate is wild no matter where you see it from. It’s a pedestrian bridge ...
Cities are getting more congested. In the US, the average commuter spends 42 hours stuck in traffic every year, according to a report by the Texas Transportation Institute. But US cities aren't even ...