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You don't share space with road traffic in Copenhagen anyway, as the bike lanes are completely separate.
by YawningAngel 8y ago
You don't share space with road traffic in Copenhagen anyway, as the bike lanes are completely separate.
- Theodores 8y agoThe article asks why other cities can't have bike bridges. My point is that if people can't imagine getting out of their tin box and onto a bike then they are not going to imagine having amazing bike highways as per the article. In London a few years ago a footbridge across the Thames opened that had resonance problems that made it unsuitable for the task intended. The simple solution would have been to make it bicycles only and spend money on a new footbridge. Instead they spent a fortune upgrading a perfectly good bridge (for bikes) to make it a pedestrian bridge. The imagination was not there to just give it over to the cyclists and make it part of the cycle highway network that Ken Livingstone started (for Boris Johnston to take credit for). In Copenhagen they do have the critical mass of cyclists for imaginative cycle highways to happen, other cities where people are stuck in tin boxes lack that because people can't even imagine cycling.
- YawningAngel 8y agoLondon has more than enough cyclists to support a cycle bridge, but unfortunately you'd have to cycle along the South Bank to get to the millennium bridge, which is a non starter in any case.