Copenhagen Bike Paths - An Example To All Cities
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Watch this video and see how Copenhageners flock to the streets by bike even in December, when average temperatures hover just above freezing.
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We have cycle lanes almost like that in Stockholm. The difference is that no one respects them. The pedestrians are total idiots making the cycle lanes lethal to ride on. I don't have much trouble with the cars so the road is much safer. Just some cab and bus drivers that can be dangerous.
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Thank God I don't live there. Taking car lanes away for these fucking hippies. They pamper these faggots too much.
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Always fucking Copenhagen. Like we don't bike around the rest of the country. Odense and Århus have just as great infrastructure, as well as other mid-sized cities. Getting really tired of foreigners getting the feeling that Denmark exist of one freaking city lol.
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Only if it was Like that here , that would be the Greatest thing ever
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Great to see that the Danes took the same way, and more or less at the same moment, the Dutch did in the 1970's! In the Netherlands it was started with the campaign 'Stop de kindermoord', = stop the childmurder. In 1971 400+ children age under 14 were killed in traffic, as a cyclist or pedestrian. So there were mass protests for a safer infrastructure. The protesters got 'help' from the oil crisis in 1973. To get the total information about this, watch this video: How the Dutch got their cyclepaths. Video is spoken in English
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This is amazing. It's like an utopia in Spain :c
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Ah, the idea of the flashlights at junctions to warn turning cars for approaching cycists is from Denmark! In my village in the Netherlands a cycle crossing in the 'city'ring is reconstructed in october 2015. There are these flashing lights to warn drivers as well. Denmark and the Netherlands have an (almost) equal cycle culture, so we can learn from each other....
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Ditch those foul disgusting cars and ride a bike. Wherever you live.
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I want to go there so badly!! Someone buy me a ticket! ahahah
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As a cyclist and bike commuter here in the United States, I would love to see more of this in my country. It's of course a long way from happening, but cycling is really a wonderful way to get around your town. I really wish cycling wasn't such a foreign idea to people who live in the US.
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Can I just give everybody here a piece of life saving advice? If you decide to travel to Copenhagen and you're from a less "bikey" country like, say, the US and think it looks fun, don't, for the love of God, have a go. Unless you've grown up in Denmark and know the written, and more importantly the unwritten, laws of Danish cycling, you're in for the worst, and possibly last, ride of your life. It's terrifying and unforgiving. I like to think of us as being a peaceful and gentle people, but once we get on bikes we become a nation of angry hate fuelled wankers. If you make the tiniest mistake prepare to not only start a chain reaction of aggressive braking, you'll also get to experience, to great extent, the wrath of about a hundred angry cyclists all at once.
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over reliance upon the cars only lead to physical inability and more severe problems on health as well as the environmental problems .
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yes you are so right ,education here is a must , in Scotland our government try but , we are so into cars, there up against it, we just need to look to your country.
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The problem in my country Scotland is people park in the bike lane , and car drivers don't want you on the road , and are dangerous around you,( not all) and on the pavement your not wanted there , there's not safety at all, they take your life in there hands , ?. Now cyclists , there going to fast on the canal ,and some, again ,not all. Go to fast past people pets ,and children, often going under a very narrow bit at the bridges ,(on the canal) to fast , with a ping of the bell but not going safely , and on the roads just not bothering with the laws , like lights etc. from what I see as a car driver ,a long term motorcyclist and a cyclist . We so need education , and safer Dutch style infrastructure , both sides need to act better and take more care , and responsibility for there driving/ riding. It's not all one sides fault . A lot is not taking bikes seriously .
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Another video showing how inadequate the human species is, in dealing with the truth, As somebody that's actually is intelligence, not just saying they are because it makes them look good, like 98% of the human population does.
I understand, if you all turn to pushbikes, you would still have congestion, if you all walked you would have pedestrian congestion, because the simple fact is there's too many people on this very small planet.
That is something the human species can not get its head around, or should I say, will not under any circumstances get its head around.
You live in a confined space, so you cannot just endlessly multiply into it, otherwise you will destroy it along with yourselves.
That's the truth that you lot out there can't deal with, you will deal with anything as long as it doesn't involve putting restrictions upon you, getting you to sacrifice or change your behaviour to create a better environment for you to live in.
You would rather destroy yourselves and your environment than change your selfish behaviour, what is that saying about you?
You claim the health and safety of your children is paramount, yet even in the developed countries you have children living in poverty even on the streets, you allow women who are unemployed weather with a partner or single, to have endless amount of children when they cannot even financially look after themselves. So you're a joke when you make such ridiculous statements, about how much you care about your children.
You allow the destructive element to continuously destroy society, then you ask there victims to pay for their upkeep in prison, so the decent people in society have to pay, when they are in prison and again when they are out, on an endless cycle, and you call that responsible governing?
You claim you are an intelligent species,.
Nothing intelligent would behave in such a way, that its actions would bring harm, in danger or destroy its own environment.
Nothing intelligent, would use or do something that create a problem for itself or others.
So you can't even live up to the word "INTELLIGENT" can you.
With you lot, it's anything, than let's have some constructive laws on our species to solve the problems we are infested with. so we can get rid of the destructive element permanently, where we eradicate child poverty by having women having to meet certain conditions before they can get pregnant, and it's not having the ability to drop your knickers and open your legs, Reducing your numbers down to an acceptable level, because you understand you live in a confined space, so you cannot just endlessly multiply into it.
But that will never happen, because you are not intelligent enough to understand, that you are not intelligent enough to understand. -
Main things Copenahgen needs is the protected intersection, using the Dutch model, with the advance stop line, and protective traffic island with exclusive signal phases, remove the blue paint and put in red asphalt, at least at conflict points, if not on the entire cycle track, and, add more cycle tracks, then on the side streets, make them 30 km/h zones, add red asphalted carriageway between parking bays, as in put the parking into areas where at intersections and bus stops they turn into curb extensions, and pave the parking bay in dark grey brick/tile, and a white bricked line between the parking and the main asphalt area, and narrowing roads to 4.5 metres wide. On the more main side roads, make it 6 metres wide, make the carriageway black asphalt, with 1.5-1.8 metre wide lanes for bicycles, with a dashed line, still with red asphalt under the bike lane, add bus stop bypasses, with a speed limit of 40 km/h.
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In the 1950s with few cars all bikes had mirrors. Now that traffic is most dense and dangerous WHY they do not put mirrors?
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between Copenhagen and cities in Netherlands .. say Amsterdam, which place has cycling usage both in terms of # of cycles per unit population as well as cycling miles around the city?
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that bottom counter 2.1m cyclists since 15.june 2009, thats in about 9 months :) in a city of about 1m people
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copenhagen got nothing on the netherlands
one city with some cyclists vs a whole country with more bikes than people
there is no discussion
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