Comments on Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design: 60 km to Christmas and Back

oboe: You are perfectly right that outside of the ...

2012-01-03T09:01:57.452+01:00

oboe: You are perfectly right that outside of the larger cities and towns, things get a lot more problematic. In some places, traffic is very light, and the roads so narrow that cars can't go very fast (they try to, sometimes anyway) - in others, fast traffic, narrow shoulders, no parrallel routes. Small wonder that many kids in the countryside are brought to school by car (schools that are ever fewer and often far away from home). Cycling in the countryside is a lot more dangerous than in the urban areas. 1/3 of all bicycle accidents happen out there, in spite of a lot less of the total cycling.

Oh, one last comment. I do about 60km round-trip ...

2012-01-02T19:21:40.022+01:00

Oh, one last comment. I do about 60km round-trip twice a week to get to work outside the city. Most of it is on segregated cycle (MUT) paths.

Since I don't have the luxury of dawdling I wear (*gasp*) cycling-specific clothing.

Roughly 20 km roundtrip, btw. In one night. Came...

2012-01-01T17:17:24.500+01:00

Roughly 20 km roundtrip, btw. In one night. Camel hair and wide-wale trousers. Wife in fancy red dress and lovely wool coat.

http://g.co/maps/gjhav

You guys are spoiled. :)

Couple of thoughts: Wide, protected cycle trac...

2012-01-01T17:12:13.060+01:00
Couple of thoughts:

Wide, protected cycle tracks. I might as well just say now that there were protected cycle tracks on the ENTIRE route. Every single centimetre of it.

I'm quite jealous. But I would note that looking at the map route you generated, it's pretty much a straight shot. What's the cycling infrastructure like if you were to ride to, say, Gadstrup?

Also, that's one dead-flat route. My wife and I rode to a New Years Eve celebration last night from NE Washington to Columbia Heights. Decent cycling infrastructure the entire way).

She wasn't very appreciative of the 10% grade up 13th Street, though, or the prospect of sweating through her fancy duds.

I did it! ...well almost. As far as Trekroner (app...

2011-12-29T18:53:30.674+01:00
I did it! ...well almost. As far as Trekroner (approx. 3km outside of Roskilde town centre).
Fierce westerly wind slowed down the outward journey, but it blew me back home.

Thanks for the cycle diary. I would have hopped on a train otherwise. It's great to see these journeys written about - if only to increase awareness that cycling on good cycle lanes outside of Copenhagen is very accessible.

I would love to see more of these sorts of posts, ...

2011-12-28T18:29:41.950+01:00
I would love to see more of these sorts of posts, to help us see what Danish cycling looks like outside the city core of Copenhagen, and perhaps understand what some of the challenges and successes are outside the city core - clearly, there are lots of successes shown in the photos, but that painted bike lane into the roundabout looks rather unprotected compared to the rest of the infrastructure shown.

Ha, so familiar. So Dutch :-). (the code word for...

2011-12-28T15:49:45.318+01:00
Ha, so familiar. So Dutch :-).

(the code word for this message is a rather sinister "abortor" = I will be aborted; how fitting)

Riding home for Christmas. Like it.

2011-12-28T11:00:44.242+01:00
Riding home for Christmas. Like it.

Thanks for sharing your route. If I could ride bet...

2011-12-28T08:25:38.568+01:00
Thanks for sharing your route. If I could ride between towns on cycle-tracks (at least along the highways), it would make longer trips so much easier. We can dream, right?

This is what needs to be included in your presenta...

2011-12-27T20:44:42.251+01:00
This is what needs to be included in your presentations about cycling in Copenhagen! Even out in Big Box-land (Taastrup's City2 and Denmark's first IKEA) the bicycle is accommodated, and for not that much additional cost.

Fancy a trip to Hillerød, Hundested or Helsingør some time? IIRC you will find similar bicycle facilities all the way to those cities as well.

Loved the cycle diary! Will definitely give that r...

2011-12-27T15:29:28.881+01:00
Loved the cycle diary! Will definitely give that route a whirl some fine day.