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Bicycles (and related transportation such as electric scooters) are a really good mode of transportation between 0.5 km and 5 km; a lot of cities could benifit

by chvid 7y ago

Bicycles (and related transportation such as electric scooters) are a really good mode of transportation between 0.5 km and 5 km; a lot of cities could benifit being more bicycle-friendly. Copenhagen is not car-unfriendly given its size and history. Parking in the inner part of the city is expensive and getting around in car is slow because the city is not built for it (circa ++100 years ago). The newer parts of Copenhagen accommodates cars as any other modern city. Another thing worth noting is that Copenhagen got is its metro quite recently (some 15 years ago) and it is not fully expanded. So the public transport alternative was busses and some trains.

ptr 7y ago
Maybe the metro explains why there are so many more cyclists in Copenhagen than Stockholm: the daily ridership of the Copenhagen metro is 200k while the one in Stockholm has 1200k.
- erk__ 7y ago
  There is also around 350k that takes the S-train every day. I belive they think they will more than double the amount of passengers when the new line "city ringen" opens in the end of next month as well.
adrianN 7y ago
I'd argue that any mode of transportation is good for trips that take between 5 and 40 minutes. For a bike that's distances between 1.5 and 15km or so. An electric bike a little more. That covers about two thirds of all car trips Americans take. The average urban car trip in the US is only 14km long.[1] Bikes are often just as fast or even faster than cars during rush hour traffic. [1] http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php
erk__ 7y ago
You should try and read up on the Finger plan [0] it was made in the late 40s for how to develop the Copenhagen area. It is called the Finger plan because at the time they made 5 train lines go out from Copenhagen so you could live outside the city and commute in. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan
- chvid 7y ago
  That was very much a vision of creating nice neighbourhoods for families with a car.

by chvid 7y ago

ptr 7y ago

Maybe the metro explains why there are so many more cyclists in Copenhagen than Stockholm: the daily ridership of the Copenhagen metro is 200k while the one in Stockholm has 1200k.

erk__ 7y ago
There is also around 350k that takes the S-train every day. I belive they think they will more than double the amount of passengers when the new line "city ringen" opens in the end of next month as well.

adrianN 7y ago

I'd argue that any mode of transportation is good for trips that take between 5 and 40 minutes. For a bike that's distances between 1.5 and 15km or so. An electric bike a little more. That covers about two thirds of all car trips Americans take. The average urban car trip in the US is only 14km long.[1] Bikes are often just as fast or even faster than cars during rush hour traffic. [1] http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php http://www.solarjourneyusa.com/EVdistanceAnalysis7.php

erk__ 7y ago

You should try and read up on the Finger plan [0] it was made in the late 40s for how to develop the Copenhagen area. It is called the Finger plan because at the time they made 5 train lines go out from Copenhagen so you could live outside the city and commute in. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan

chvid 7y ago
That was very much a vision of creating nice neighbourhoods for families with a car.