Bicycle Cities
By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S
One of the given conditions is that the bigger a city is, the more dense people are living, and the higher share cycling should be able to represent.
Copenhagen, in close cooperation with its closest neighbor municipality Frederiksberg, has a very high share of cycling. Odense is second to that despite the lack of real congestion troubles like in the capital. Ã…rhus has high ambitions of improving the current situation for cyclists. Copenhagen, Ã…rhus, Assens, and Frederikshavn have free city bicycle schemes while others are planned.
Cities like Frederikshavn, Viborg, and Silkeborg have joined together in a Nordic cycle project. A long number of medium-sized Danish cities are expected to follow the line of cycle-friendly cities – well stimulated by national economic funding starting year 2009.
Many Danish cities are not recognized as specifically cycle-friendly, even though lots of cycle paths and traffic calming schemes have actually been improving the conditions remarkably during 10 – 20 years. These cities mainly need improving of missing links, handling of black spots, better cycle parking facilities, and cycle promotion events.
(I am attaching pictures of Danish people on cycles.)
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6By Troels Andersen, COWI A/S
One of the given conditions is that the bigger a city is, the more dense people are living, and the higher share cycling should be able to represent.
Copenhagen, in close cooperation with its closest neighbor municipality Frederiksberg, has a very high share of cycling. Odense is second to that despite the lack of real congestion troubles like in the capital. Ã…rhus has high ambitions of improving the current situation for cyclists. Copenhagen, Ã…rhus, Assens, and Frederikshavn have free city bicycle schemes while others are planned.
Cities like Frederikshavn, Viborg, and Silkeborg have joined together in a Nordic cycle project. A long number of medium-sized Danish cities are expected to follow the line of cycle-friendly cities – well stimulated by national economic funding starting year 2009.
Many Danish cities are not recognized as specifically cycle-friendly, even though lots of cycle paths and traffic calming schemes have actually been improving the conditions remarkably during 10 – 20 years. These cities mainly need improving of missing links, handling of black spots, better cycle parking facilities, and cycle promotion events.
(I am attaching pictures of Danish people on cycles.)
From India, Visakhapatnam
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