A few photos I snapped while out and about of my favorite bike-friendly infrastructure.
Wide, paved, separated bike paths around the city:
A road that in many cities would be two car lanes plus some street parking. In Denmark, I’d see roads with one-way car traffic, spacious separated two-bike bike traffic, and a pedestrian sidewalk:
Out of this busy 4-lane street, two lanes for cars, two lanes dedicated for bikes (the two right lanes shown here are bikes-only– one for cyclists going straight, and one for cyclists turning left), though this was less common than the separated bike lanes between road and sidewalk:
This is a fairly small group of “cyclists waiting for a light” in a bike box for Copenhagen. At other times there could be 40-50 cyclists waiting for a light.
Bike paths had plenty of signage at turns and intersections, and the river was lined with bike/walking paths (one of the only places in the city that didn’t have separate cyclist and pedestrian paths– but I saw almost no cyclist/pedestrian contention the entire trip):
An example of what I hear is a new piece of infrastructure– a rail for cyclists to rest their right foos on while waiting for longer lights to change, to make it easier to stay on the seat and start up quickly:
You could take bikes on many trains (adorably, you bought the bike its own slightly cheaper train ticket, like a child):
There’s even a little “seat belt” hook every few seats to hold a bike in place:
Two-level retracting bike parking at a train station:
And, enclosed/monitored bike parking at the site of a long-distance train station (not actually Copenhagen– just across the border in Sweden at Malmo):
This is just a small sample of the in-city infrastructure… what a great, low-stress city to get around by bike.