Arrive at Airport Cycle to City Centre
I met David Kroodsma when I was on a lecture tour in the States. He was on the Climate Ride from NY to DC this year.
David is a Hopenhagen Ambassador and has just arrived in Copenhagen to blog for The Huffington Post.
Above is his first reportage from Copenhagen, where he assembled his bike at Kastrup Airport and rode it into the city to his hotel. Looking like a kid in a candy store with a platinum credit card.
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This isn't his exact route, but it gives you an idea.
I'll be hooking up with David in the coming days. Welcome to Copenhagen, David!
8 thinking out louds:
You'll have to work on that foam hat he's wearing Mike!!
I second BikeFriendlyTowns...:) & he's clearly never been to NL ;-p
And with a surname of Dutch origin, too :-)
It must be the genes.
He's so absolutely enthusiatic about the bike path to the airport! :-))
I am the Norse God of Sustainability and Anti-Irony! Anyone who takes INTERNAL EU flights to Copenhagen shall feel my wrath.
The Philadelphia Airport is probably the most bike accessible of any airport in a major US city. Bike lanes for most of the route too!
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia blogs about it here:
http://blog.bicyclecoalition.org/2009/12/bike-and-fly-phl.html
Seeing the wonderful cycling infrastructure in Copenhagen as well as all the other groovilicious people-not-in-cars stuff in person is important, but perhaps is best done - with all due respect - in a manner similar to Muslims and the Mecca Pilgrimage: Try to do it once in your life if you have the means.
A round trip by airplane from the U.S. to the Danish capital creates/uses about as much nasty stuff as driving a car for a year.
You cannot offset this in its trendy version, but - taking the Hajj as a model - you can in the more traditional sense: I suggest getting a one-year pledge from a Dane to be owned-car carfree, and when this is secured you can visit.
- from the mortal representative of the Norse God of S and A-I.
I also often cycle to the Schiphol Airport at Amsterdam, it takes some 50 minutes on nice bike paths. The craziest infrastructure is this tunnel system of twenty lanes under a runway, two of which is for bikes (two other is a bus road).
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