Makes me want to pack up and move to Copenhagen – City’s biking infrastructure explored thru American eyes
Awesome work by the Streetfilms crew (Clarence Eckerson).. No wonder people in Copenhagen look healthy and physically fit.. Such an infrastructure can single handedly challenge the American obesity epidemic that’s haunting many American cities (and of course, resulting in huge health care $$ savings).. At least, it is not too late to start now..
While Streetfilms was in Copenhagen for the Velo-City 2010 conference, of course we wanted to showcase its biking greatness. But we were also looking to take a different perspective then all the myriad other videos out there. Since there were an abundance of advocates, planners, and city transportation officials attending from the U.S. and Canada, we thought it’d be awesome to get their reactions to the city’s built environment and compare to bicycling conditions in their own cities.
If you’ve never seen footage of the Copenhagen people riding bikes during rush hour – get ready – it’s quite a site, as nearly 38% of all transportation trips in Copenhagen are done by bike. With plenty of safe, bicycle infrastructure (including hundreds of miles of physically separated cycletracks) its no wonder that you see all kinds of people on bikes everywhere. 55% of all riders are female, and you see kids as young as 3 or 4 riding with packs of adults.
