The Danish government released this video via The News Market ahead of the COP15 talks on global warming in Copenhagen
copenhagen is one of the best bicycle cities in the world more than 38 of the commuting traffic through the city is on bike you can go by bike anywhere and i really enjoy that the different districts of the city are connected by more than 25 kilometers of green bicycle lanes this means that the bike lanes are separated from the car traffic which makes it safer to ride through the city by making it easier to cross the city in a safe way the amount of bikes are increasing and this means less cars and a greener city in the long run one of the good things about being a cyclist in copenhagen is that the the cycling area is parted from uh from the lane where the vehicles just that’s that’s a nice thing to be secure copenhagen is now planning all its new urban districts with integrated bicycle traffic and parking as part of the plan a new bridge has for instance been made across the water to connect two new districts of the city and make the distance for bikers and pedestrians much shorter personally i i have a feeling my freedom is much bigger using my bike because i do not have any obstacles in going from one place to the other so the city is getting smaller everyone is closer so in this kind of a sense it gives me a better freedom several places around the city a bike counter has been put up to show how many bikes are passing each day the goal of the city is that in 2015 50 percent of the commuting traffic has to be on bikes which also means to lower the co2 emission with 80 000 ton
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@paulsviplist People in Denmark are western, too. So it is perfectly safe for you to come here. They might tend to think that they are better than you though, but when you get to talk to people I believe that will go away quickly – other than that I have heard that we are not as social when walking on the street and seem cold.
Feel free to come anyway 🙂