Svajerløb 2012 - Danish Cargo Bike Championships
Last Saturday was this year's Svajerløb - Danish Cargo Bike Championships here in Copenhagen. The races were run at Carlsberg, like last year and it was fantastic day. Above are all the participants at...
View ArticleCopenhagen Bicycle Culture Infographic
It's the infographic age and it was just a matter of time before one showed up about Copenhagen's bicycle culture. This cool one is by graphic designer Emma Sivell. We were happy to help her out with...
View ArticleCopenhagen's "Strøget" Turns 50
Copenhagen's famous pedestrian street "Strøget" turns 50 on September 2, 2012. There will be festivities up and down the street in celebration.Here's a post that shows the origins of the idea can be...
View ArticleA Typical Solution in the New Copenhagen
This is a little detour from my series on congestion, but it's a typical example about how your city chooses and prioritizes more cars or bikes, as well as how even a highly-praised bicycle city still...
View ArticleEscolas de Bicicletas - Bicycle Schools - Part Three
Here's a follow-up article about Copenhagenize Consulting's Escolas de Bicicletas - Bicycle Schools programme in Sao Paulo - together with the city's Education Dept.The entire project is exciting. In...
View ArticleCopenhagen Cargo Bike IKEA
It's been a while since we've written about cycling to IKEA in Copenhagen. I headed out there with the kids yesterday to pick up a few things. Lulu on the Bullitt and Felix on his bike. Lulu clearly...
View ArticleThe State of Copenhagen Congestion - Part 2
The State of Copenhagen Congestion - Part 2by Lars Barfred (with additional info by Mikael Colville-Andersen)An unlikely authority plays an an active role in maintaining a high volume of car traffic in...
View ArticleLulu Interpreting Bicycles
So, Lulu - aged 4 (the world's youngest urbanist) - says to me, "Daddy, what should I draw?"I said, "How about a cargo bike?"Off she went.Here's her interpretation. How she regards our cargo bike and...
View ArticleThe State of Copenhagen Congestion – Part 3 – The Bright Side.
The State of Copenhagen Congestion - Part 3 - The Bright Sideby Lars Barfred(with additional info by Mikael Colville-Andersen)Read Part 1 // Read Part 2 -In this series, we are bluntly criticizing the...
View ArticleBest Magazine Cover Ever
If this isn't the most beautiful magazine cover in the world, I don't know what is. The Most Dangerous Invention in the World. The Car.It's the cover of Profil magazine, out of Austria. I picked it up...
View ArticleThe State of Copenhagen Congestion Part 4 - The Congestion Commision
Motorway 16 north of Copenhagen.The State of Copenhagen Congestion - Part 4The Congestion Commissionby Lars Barfredwith additional info by Mikael Colville-AndersenIn Denmark, during autumn 2011,...
View ArticleDutch Rationality Saves Childrens' Lives
It started with a tweet from my colleague Angela from Mobycon in the Netherlands the other day:Happy to read less and less children are injured or dead on our roads. A big 'thank you' to all who...
View ArticleCopenhagenizing Rotterdam
Earlier this year I was working in Rotterdam, a city I had never visited before. You get the impression from Dutch people in the rest of the Netherlands that Rotterdam isn't really Dutch. Generally,...
View ArticleBikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common
I'm heading to Los Angeles this week and I just remembered an article I wrote for the L.A. Times' Bottleneck section. It seems to have disappeared from their online version, but why not just chuck it...
View ArticleWorld's Coolest Bus Commercial
The Bus is Cool. It's epic cool. You may have heard it called a "Loser Cruiser" but in Denmark we see it differently. For English subtitles, press the cc button on the bottom of the YouTube panel.The...
View ArticleThe State of Copenhagen Congestion Part 5 - The 2013 Budget
Health Warnings for Cars?The State of Copenhagen Congestion - Part 5The 2013 Budgetby Lars Barfred(with Mikael Colville-Andersen) Last week we wrote about a candle in the dark for Copenhagen traffic...
View ArticleAmsterdamize/Copenhagenize
Just got home from this year's Cycle Chic Conference in Budapest and it was a wonderful coincedence that Marc from Amsterdamized was in town at the same time. Haven't seen him for a long while - we're...
View ArticleDesire Lines of 16536 Bicycle Users
Here's the cover graphic of Copenhagenize Consulting's upcoming anthropological project tracking the Desire Lines of all the bicycle users in one Copenhagen intersection over 12 hours one day in April....
View ArticleBetter Intermodal Integration to Beat the Car
One of the best initatives in Copenhagen's mass transit system for years has been to let people bring their bike on the S-train - Copenhagen's exisiting, mostly above ground metro system (not the mini...
View ArticleIf it only saves one life...
Great video. Rationality is the new black.Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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