Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Copenhagen shows what can be done if you are serious about supporting cycling

The video here shows what can be done if you are serious about promoting cycling in your city.

Some of the things they have done:

  • Lots of double width cycle lanes
  • specially designed junctions to cut down serious accidents
  • LED's to warn right turning vehicles about bikes
  • traffic lights co-ordinated so bikes travelling at 20km/h never have to stop
  • bike counters to a. monitor and b. let everyone know how many bikes there are.

Such a refreshing change from the world's worst bike lanes. Hopefully, other cities will start to catch on.

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