Episode 02 - The Green Wave for Cyclists - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle Culture

In Episode 02, Copenhagenize Design Co's Pedro Madruga speaks about The Green Wave for cyclists in Copenhagen as one of our Top 10 Design Elements in a bicycle-friendly Copenhagen.

The Green Wave is coordinated traffic lights for cyclists. Ride 20 km/h and you won't put a foot down on your journey into the city centre in the morning and home again in the afternoon.

On Nørrebrogade, the first street to feature the Green Wave, the number of cyclists increased by 15%. Traffic flow in the intense morning bicycle rush hour was improved, providing Citizen Cyclists with a smoother, more efficient journey.

Now, several major arteries leading to the city centre in Copenhagen feature the Green Wave for cyclists.

Think bicycle first and you're on your way to a more bicycle-friendly city.

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Top 10 Bicycle-Friendly Design Elements in Copenhagen

Chapter 02: The Green Wave

The green wave is one the best things along accompanied with bicycle culture

because it's beautifully cyclist oriented, it leaves the car to the second place and thinks about cyclists.

Green wave, monday-friday, 7-19h, 20km/h

This signing in 2007 in Nørrebrogade was such a big success that it expanded to a total of four streets in Copenhagen.

Most of what I've experienced green wawes for cars. The idea is exactly the same, but just cycles are at the top of the chain, instead.

It's very simple, the cycle at 20 km/h will get green lights along the cycletrack.

But the green wave works in the rush hours, so in morning rush hour we have green wave towards the city center,

whereas is the afternoon rush hour we have the opposite way.

The greenwave is securated, in encourages faster cyclists to go slower and also encourages slower cyclists to move a little bit faster.

If you're a part of group, then you get green lights all over the cycletrack, with their part of green wave, you're cycling at the right speed.

In the speed, that you not engaging anyone else by cycling faster.

The CDS provided two other measures to complement the green wave. One of them is the radar sign, where the cyclist can know his own speed.

CDS has also provided the lights on the ground, where you know that you're, actually, in the green wave or not.

One of my favourite parts of this measure is, that you do not spend a lot of money, there is no specific gadgets that cyclists need to have with them.

It's just a basic principle, that gives flow to the cyclists that want to go from A to B and don't want to stop and don't want to be interrupted and just want to go.

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