How do you get more people to ride their bikes in the city? – you simply design the streets so they reflect how you would like the traffic to flow. This picture above is from Store Kongensgade – a street which will take you straight to the very center of Copenhagen (Kongens Nytorv)… nothing interesting about that! But take a closer look at the dividing white line on the pavement. Busses and bikes co-exist in the wide lane where as the cars have to settle with just one narrow lane… which is probably the reason why it’s much faster to get around Copenhagen by bike than by car… now you know!
The new bike lane in front of the Normann Copenhagen flagship store – same width as the car-lane.
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