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Love Handles and Blogging the City
So, slapped up a Copenhagenize Love Handle in Amsterdam last week, when I was speaking at the brilliant Blogging the City conference. As I promised the audience. Maybe it's still there. Maybe it's not....
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Can you improve bicycle Infrastructure and the city space for free?
The key is to question the status quo, every time a street needs surface renovation. A quick assessment of traffic numbers by modality, and speed of cars, the nature of the street in the traffic system...
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Frederiksberg Fail
In the previous post, Lars highlighted some infrastructure solutions in the city of Frederiksberg. The city is an municipal island surrounded by Copenhagen and with its 90,000 residents, it is...
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The Danish Police's Abuse of Power & Influence
Mogens Knudsen, Operativ leder i færdelspolitiet ved Københavns PolitiThere's a man in Copenhagen named Mogens. Mogens Knudsen. What's interesting about this man is that virtually every single day he...
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Cobblestone Addiction -a not so smooth ride in Copenhagen
A Bicycle Infrastructure Photo OdysseyThere's nothing like smooth, new asphalt and, for some reason, I always admire when the city makes smooth transitions at intersections between our often...
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Danish 180% Tax on Cars is Rather Irrelevant
Much is said and reblogged/tweeted about the famous 180% on cars in Denmark. Back when rationality was fashionable, this series of taxes was put into place to try and discourage people from driving but...
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The Kickstand Sessions Need Your Help!
Our Kickstand Sessions are heading back to North America next week. These masterclasses for planners, engineers and other professionals will provide insight into bicycle policy and planning from both a...
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Goodbye Bycyklen
Goodbye, Bycyklen. After 17 years, Copenhagen's renowned bike share system is being pulled off the streets of the city for the winter - and it ain't coming back.As we all know, La Rochelle, France was...
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Car Culture Rules This Bicycle Street
I was standing down on Dronning Louise's Bridge this morning, in the midst of the rush hour. I was waiting for a film crew to arrive to shoot a little clip for the Danish Architecture Center. They were...
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Visiting the Unused Motorway Tunnel in Zurich and Proposing a Monument
On my recent trip to Zurich to speak at TEDxZurich I was arranging an interview with a journalist for the Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger. I had heard about the motorway tunnel built 20 years ago under the...
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Australian Cycling Levels Pre/Post Helmet Law
Cycling levels in Australia. As we all know, helmet promotion followed by helmet laws were a bad thing.Chris has gathered a fantastic detailed list of travel surveys in Australia over at his...
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Is Bike Sharing a Universal Good?
Last week we wrote about the demise of the Copenhagen bike share system and the fact that the City cancelled the long-awaited replacement system. Generally, we are always in agreement with Lars...
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Dear Politicians
Dear Politicians, wherever you may be,Contrary to what you seem to think, building massive infrastructure projects for cars - here in 2012 - will NOT increase your penis size or your bra size. Nor will...
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Parking The Bull - The Price of Copenhagen Car Parking
Parking The Bull - and Ignoring it CompletelyDo we want to live on a parking lot?Picture: Lars BarfredWe have a choice. It's an actual choice. Do we want to live by a park or by a parking lot?Judging...
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Outrageous Harbour Tunnel for Copenhagen
The old-fashioned road interests are at it again and the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen, among others, are pandering to them. The insanity continues in The New Copenhagen.Now they want to build...
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“Cars have come to stay and they are getting cleaner and cleaner,”
This was the quotation from the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen this past week in his defense of advocating for the building of a DKK (that's the ISO code for the money used in Denmark) 27 Billion tunnel...
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External Airbags on Cars - Update
Here's another update about the Dutch external airbags on cars to protect cyclists and pedestrians. Informative little film. Looks like the project we've written about previously is coming along...
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Lord Mayor of Car-penhagen
Welcome to the New Copenhagen.Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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The Car Industry Strikes Back - Chevy & Disneyland
It's not going so good for Big Auto. Those pesky kids aren't bothering getting driving licences anymore. The Demotoriszation of society is in full swing. What to do... what to do... they gotta hook...
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The 85th Percentile Folly
It's not like we needed any more proof that we live in car-centric cities. When you start scratching just a little below the surface, however, you start to discover that we are not so much citizens in...
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