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Top 10 Bicycle-Friendly Design Elements in Copenhagen

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Chapter 01: The big picture

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your speed 20 km/h

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We decided at Copehagenize design Co. to make a series of films that explore all the different elements that make Copenhagen a truly bicycle-friendly city.

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Its a lot of different details involved, a lot of desing stucture details dealing with each other. but it is important to start with the big picture.

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Most cities in the world are incredibly car-centric, and have hunderds of years...

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...of failed traffic engineering and planning of cities based on car-centric mentality.

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Planners and engineers think - cars first

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and everybody else is left in the dust.

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So a modern city, here, in this new millenium is a city that prioritizes differently, that focuses on

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how to make the city a more livable place, safer place, healthier place

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and in doing that it needs to prioritize bicycles, pedestrians and public transport

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and of course, we focus on bicycle culture at Copenhagenize design Co. so

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highlihting these details of what makes Copenhagen so bicycle-friendly

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In thing what defines the big picture in bicycle planning in Copenhagen is

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the uniformity of the bicycle network.

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In Copenhagen and in Danish cities, there are four types of bicycle infrastructure:

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Number one is: where you don't have an infrastructure,

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you have a 30 km/h is on or slower

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and so bicycles meet with cars. Share-space concept.

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We do have some bi-directional infrastructure, this is largely on bicycle paths

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separated form other traffic. We don't need to have many of them in Copenhagen.

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Or, in between two towns up in the country, there is a bidirectional path up to the side.

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Number three is painted lanes. We still have them in some places in Copenhagen

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and they are of course wide enough to accomodate two cyclists riding together.

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And of course, numeber four, which is the fully separated and protected cycle tracks,

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and you see these all over the city. There is about 1000 km of protected cycle tracks.

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In the City of Copenhagen and all the surrounding municipalities that make up the great Copenhagen.

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We know, that this is the safest, whe know, that this is what makes people to want to ride a bike,

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makes the feel safe and it keeps them safe as well.

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When we only have four types of infrastructure,

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makes it incredibly uniform, makes it incredubly easy, way-finding, it's very logical

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You can take your bike on the train and go to any other Danish city

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get off the train and find bicycle infrastructure that you recognize

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and you know that it will take it you probably somewhere.

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This uniformity in the best design of the bicycle infrastructure is really one of teh key elements

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to make Copenhagen a bicycle friendly city.

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The one of the things i like the best about cycling in Copenhagen is, said, for example,

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a no point where I have to push the button like a lot of pedestrians do in other cities

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as a cyclist, to wait for a permission to cross the street,

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I think this is an indication, that bicycles are taken seriously as transport.

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I am riding in Copenhagen, riding bicycle to kindergarten, to school,

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to the supermarket, to work and what not, its a pleasant experience.

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Even in the middle of the snow storm and a 40 deg heat in the summer,

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the bicycle is the fastest way to get around the city and other cities, if you make the bicycle,

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we really work hard on what makes the bicycle the fastest mode of transport from A to B.

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Thats why people in Copenhagen ride.

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Prioritize the bicycleand they will ride. If you build it, they will come.

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I think that, maybe, what has taken 30-35 years here, slow, making mistakes, fixing the mechain

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a establishing, at the end of the day, we are really a best practice in bicycle planning.

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This is possible for other cities todo in 5-10 years.

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with the right political will

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and engineers and planners, who know how to plan for bicyles

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and are willing to think bicycle first.

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