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Host: George Liu
Producer/Editor: Jedwin Mok
EIT Team: Malaurie Chokoualé Datou
Gautam Rao
Antoine Berwart
Outro: Carrie Jia
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25 Comments
Copenhagen is the bicycle capital of the world
Dutch: meh, 4/5
Dutch cycling may be more relaxed, but people in Amsterdam are more afraid of cycling than Copenhageners are – and with good reason – as its more dangerous to ride in Amsterdam than in Copenhagen.
Maybe I'm spoiled, as I am from the Netherlands, where everyone has their own bike. But giving the same weight to the score for the bikeshare, as to the cycling experience, seems a little off to me.
Being a cyclist in Copenhagen I completely agree with the score. Many things work well, but some of the bridges and bridge entrances/exits are really odd. I don't care much for bikesharing as most people here have their own bikes, but point taken.
Great video! Copenhagen is a lovely city. Been there 3 times, and the last time we biked around the city, all the way to Dragør (close to the international airport).
Copenhagen definitely has a lot of good infrastructure, but it's also lacking a lot of things. Too many painted unprotected bike lanes next to busy roads, and they are not always marked very well. It's hard to find places to park bikes. Some lanes are too narrow, others are really wide. And what's up with those scary intersections? They really made me feel uncomfortable. There are also sooooo many cars, especially in the heart of the city. Crazy!
I would say it's probably one of the better cities for bikers, but Dutch cities are definitely steps ahead for sure. I always thought Copenhagen was a green city with a lot of trees, until I watched this video.
I actually cycled on the super wide lane because just down the bridge is a bike rental. But because it goes from a narrow lane into this insanely wide ‘cyling only’ lane we kind of panicked because we thought we took the wrong turn into the car lane section 😂. At the mall side of the bridge the super wide lane turns into a super narrow lane with a side lane towards the snake bridge. It’s all a bit confusing if you’re a “first user”.
Dutch payed….
Great video as usual, George! Copenhagen is great …
Waiting for the enraged Kopenhagen city marketeer…
your cinematography is insane!
There is the most beautifull bridge in the Netherlands close to where I live, nesciobridge Amsterdam. which has a serous flaw in an important detail: the slope varies wildly during the climb, so that you can't ride it in one gear, and the steepest parts are way steeper then necessary. It is a very nice bridge for running training though, and as preparation for cycling abroad, I have ridden circles with this bridge and another one with my saddle bags full of bricks.
I have allso combined training with utility by transporting several metric tonnes of sea clay from the Diemerpark where they had dredged a ditch, to my garden which was way too sandy after renovation.
Copenhagen was our first cycling experience outside of North American. With that perspective 4 out 5 seems pretty great to me. Come to Lakewood Colorado and rate our mobility score. I would be surprised if we were to score 4 out of 20 on urban mobility. Cheers.
Do Amsterdam next!
You have not seen all the underground bicycle parking halls located at the Metro and S-train stations
There are two types of bus stops, and there are same number of each type:
1) bus stop next to a cycle path, where cyclists must give way to intersecting bus passengers.
2) bus stop with sidewalk on both sides of the cycle path, where on the other hand bus passengers must give way to cyclists.
Too wide cycle road? Do you want a bridge that expands depending on how many cyclists there are? Have you thought about rush hour. More trees? In a city where you can't bike more than 5 minutes without meeting a park or common green area?
I find that it is a very shallow report you made.
Nuce video, thanks!
I think you'd very much trash Aarhus, DK if you made a review there.
But bureaucracy and sad political scene makes Denmark worse and worse at cycling.
Been there and its lovely but i only would price the public tranform because cycling is very dangerous there ame as walking but yes i survived Ishoj ;p
"Would you like biking down an airplane runway?"
Me, who visited the Tempelhof airport in Berlin: Already done that. lol
Taipei Score🤔
Transit 3
Cycling 1
Walking 1
Bike-share 4
Total 9
😰😡😮💨🤧🥺😭
Need to visit Copenhagen – greetings from Poland
Having trees on a bridge may not be the brightest idea, from the trees point of view? And though wide, it may be full during rush-hours?
Friend. Familiarize yourself with our bicycle rules before you choose to criticize them. When a bus stops and there is no space in between the sidewalk and the Bus, for passengers to stand on or off, cyclists have to stop. Allowing passengers on and off.
Locals know this. Been to North America several times. Don't think that you get to attack our Biking Culture. You basically have none, corresponding to Europe. The problem with cycling tourists in Copenhagen is that they don't want to spend five minutes learning the traffic code and rules. Copenhagen is NOT the place to learn Cycling, if you don't know how to👎!
Sorry Dude, but we expect Tourist to know the rules, before getting on a bike and setting out into the City! Otherwise they risk getting yelled at, getting injured/killed or fined.
Pedestrians first. Cyclists second, motorists third! If I get hit on my way into or out of a Bus, by a Cyclist. He/she is gonna have a really bad day! Just saying…😌
Cycling for us is not for fun. its a practical way of getting back and forth. The city of CPH knows there's a problem with Cycle "parking" and planning for better options in the future. Apart from that. CPH can date its History back to the 8th century. There are limits to what we´re gonna and can do to our City, to please Cyclist 😊 !
I know your not a bad person, trashing my City.., but you do lack context! 😊! 5-7 different "bike-share" options here: Most of them being E-bikes. An electric scooter here requires a helmet, which the companies won't pay for.., so…. !
Context dude.., Context!
How to bike in CPH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H42KjIkO8SA
Don't know how you will get your bike out?? I have been biking all my life (I am 63), it has never been a problem. Wake up! Have you ever been biking?
You forgot a transportation method. The Regional trains, they are actually very important. Each 20 min to Sweden, North to Helsingør, South to Næstved and Vest to Kalundborg. These trains transport thousands of people each day, to and from school and work, they are actually a cornerstone in Copenhagen transport. It is the same train that brings you from the airport to Copenhagen Central Station in no time.
As a Dutch person who wrote his thesis on Copenhagen's bicycle infrastructure, i recognize all the points made in this video. Copenhagen has some cool high-profile projects but the overall design and coherence was lacking. For example like you showed, the snake bridge is very nice looking, but ends in a 90 degree turn on slick-when-wet pavement. Not a great design when people come barreling down that bridge slope. The rule-following difference with the Netherlands struck me also! And in absence of rules, weird things start happening in denmark – with no parking racks present people just plopped bikes down willy nilly, while in the netherlands people will on an empty square often create somewhat orderly lines of parked bikes because they have internalized a bike logic instead of relying on enforcement. Also the engineered chaos in the netherlands (bidirectional lanes etc) creates more skilled riders – never in my life have i been bumped into from behind while waiting at a traffic light in the netherlands, whereas this happened to me twice in 6 months in denmark. Some stuff they did well was the bike zones at the front of traffic lights, green waves for cyclists etc. What i would wish for denmark is that they standardize form and make of infrastructure, such as the dutch red asphalt and slanted curb bounds. And they focus their means on high average level instead of flashy projects, although those served their purpose in city branding and legitimizing bicycles as something serious and even 'city chique' in copenhagen. Could write for hours about this stuff XD
4:00 The design of the snake bridge is horrible. I wonder what they were thinking. The upcoming Enghave bridge also looks problematic.