Copenhagen Tops List of the 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities

2015-06-02T18:19:00-04:00

The bicycle makes sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around on two wheels proves time and again that it can offer results [...] With each edition, the Copenhagenize Design Company’s Index of the most bike-friendly cities in the world evolves...This year, we considered cities with a regional population over 600,000 (with a few exceptions because of their political and regional importance, and to keep things interesting).

Copenhagenize is a design consultancy based in Copenhagen, Zurich, Brussels and Amsterdam that advises cities on how to become more bike-friendly, often through implementing strategies developed in the Danish capital (which consistently tops the list). These strategies are both infrastructural, for example creating dedicated and protected one-way bike lanes, as well as social, involving advocacy to increase social acceptance of bicycle culture.

This year, Copenhagen regained the top place from Amsterdam:

Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Utrecht
Strasbourg
Eindhoven
Malmö
Nantes
Bordeaux
Antwerp
Seville
Barcelona
Berlin
Ljubljana
Buenos Aires
Dublin
Vienna
Paris
Minneapolis
Hamburg
Montreal

Why a bike city? Why not a mix of biking and transit?

2014-08-14T14:20:00-04:00

I see nothing wrong with replacing the hegemony of cars with the hegemony I am proposing, of bikes. Those who need buses would be no worse off than they are now. But a problem would come if a city like Amsterdam had a bike modal share of 90 percent, as could achieved if end-of-trip strategies were built into all buildings to eliminate the problem of bike theft, and if shelter removed the inequity of cycling being the one mode remaining where people get wet.

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Copenhagen Tops List of the 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities

Why a bike city? Why not a mix of biking and transit?