Website: www.vejpark.kk.dk/byenstrafik/cyklernesby/uk/cykelpolitik_uk.htm
Synopsis
Copenhagen is known far and wide as the "City of Cyclists". This is due to its longstanding and lively cycling tradition - and in recent years, its City Bikes. Despite the fact that many people bought cars in the 60s and 70s, Copenhageners continued to cycle. Currently bicycle traffic accounts for a significant proportion of Copenhagen traffic - comparable to public transport and private cars. One out of three Copenhageners cycle to work. The Copenhagen cycle track network consists of cycle tracks on both sides of the major roads with a total cycle track length of over 300 km. Normally cycle tracks are wider than 2m across. Copenhagen bicycle traffic is thus considered a distinct traffic category with its own separate road area - on a part with motor traffic and pedestrian traffic. Bicycle traffic in Copenhagen has grown in recent years. This has occurred in spite of the fact that the national trend is that people cycle less. A sustained effort on the part of the city is prerequisite for maintaining the level of bicycle traffic and an even greater effort is necessary to increase the number of cyclists.
In the Copenhagen Traffic Improvement Plan of 2000-2005, cycle policies were formulated as sub-section and hereby approved as the basis for municipal efforts in the field of cycling. In 2002, for the first time, the City of Copenhagen published a cycle policy, the purpose of which is to draw attention to the fact that cycling is an environmentally desirable and effective mode of transport and also to coordinate initiatives for improvements of cycling conditions. Municipal Cycle Policy takes as its starting point the Traffic and Environment Plan whose prime objective is that the increase in number of kilometres travelled per person per day shall be addressed by increased public transport and the increased practice of cycling.
Target groups: all citizens
Fields: cycling - urban planning
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Kobenhavns Kommune (City of Copenhagen) Roads and Parks Department