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Top 10 Bicycle-Friendly Design Elements in Copenhagen

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[br]Chapter 03: Intermodality

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The bicycle should be able to be taken with you from the moment you step out of your front door of your home,

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wherever that may be, in Copenhagen or the greater Copenhagen sprawl.

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and be at your side or underneath you of course preferably the entire day.

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Without any hitches, without any difficulties or user unfriendliness.

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We have a lot of different areas that require attention, when we are trying integrate the bicycle into intermodality.

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Its very important to consider accessibility, how do bicycles can work together

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with all the different public transport options, that many cities have. So ? consider first and last mile transport.

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And of course, making it accessible to park your bike, is one of the very important keys

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to creating this healthy intermodal society.

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bicycle + metro

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You can use the bicycle of course to get around the entire city on the network of protected cycle tracks.

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You can also take the bicycle with you on the metro, because, a bit extra,

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but the bicycle is allowed with you everywhere you go.

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bicycle + boat

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Our bus system here also has a very old system (?) of sailing up and down the harbor

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and creating an important link in the infrastructure there,

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and of course, you can take your bicycle with you on the boats, without any problems.

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bicycle + train

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The local trains here in Copenhagen have been really visionary over the past few years about the accessibility for bicycles.

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Before, the have cost 10-11 Kronen, but then, they made it free, a couple of years ago.

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Completly free to take bicycle with you on all the local trains.

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Another great thing that the Danish State Railway is doing is, they have a bicycle parking.

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There are many up around Copenhagen now from the city but they have put one right aside the central train station.

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bicycle + plane

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I think it's great to live in a city with a really well designed airport that is quite close the city center

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and I can light out their one fully separated safe bicycle infrastructure so, want take a short trip,

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an overnight trip for a couple of days and I only need to carry one bag, I ride my bicycle to Copenhagen airport.

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So the goal is to make the bicycle a part, a part of daily lives in cities.

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Make it convenient and safe to use in all the aspects of what we do and the things we do in our cities.

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Also, one of the greatest challenges remains, how to get people to consider the bicycle as transport,

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how to get them out of the cars, on the bicycles, on the public transport.

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And, as we said before here, A2B is the key, if you make the bicycle the fastest way from A2B,

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people will use it and this really is important to consider when you are trying to integrate bicycles with public transport.

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