Harbour Tunnel or a Better City?
Updated: 2012-11-29 21:56:00
: 29 November 2012 Harbour Tunnel or a Better City Fellini's 8 1 2 was a comedy . Kind of like Copenhagen City Hall at the . moment Yep , it's the early 1950s at Copenhagen City Hall . Tonight , politicians voted yes to a harbour tunnel that will cost our city a whopping 27 BILLION kroner . 4.5 billion Despite the fact that the only damned thing we know from a century of traffic engineering is that when you create more space for cars , more cars . appear See a vision of City Hall's tunnel . here Lars Barfred , who writes here on the site , has done some rational calculations . For about the same price as a ridiculous harbour tunnel , we could have things we ACTUALLY . NEED Lars has calculated that we could have : instead 2.5 billion : 250 km of high-class bicycle infrastructure along all
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: 28 November 2012 The 15th Percentile Survival of the Fittest Robert Doisneau running pedestrians in Paris We recently covered the disturbing and archaeic 85th percentile method and how it is applied for and by vehicles . If you thought THAT was fun , you might also enjoy The 15th Percentile . It is frequently used to determine the time between the WALK and DON'T WALK crossing signals in other words , how much time the engineers computer models allow for human beings to cross streets . It's not as rooted as a standard as The 85th Percentile , but it is still . widespread In a nutshell , we should be paying more attention to pedestrian crossings , when you consider statistics that say that 40 of accidents involving pedestrians occur at these intersections In Europe , one in four
This is going to take some getting used to: The 2013 Amgen Tour of California is routed from Escondido to Santa Rosa — south to north — when it rolls out from May 12 to 19. Hard lessons along the Pacific Coast many years ago taught me that north to south is the preferred direction … Continue reading »
: 27 November 2012 Cargo Bike History Svajere in Copenhagen Here are some historical photos of a cargo bike life in Copenhagen . Above , King Christian X on one of his daily rides through the streets during the Second World War occupation . He always rode without official guards through the streets and was much loved for it . Here , however , he was guarded by the bicycle messengers from the company . Achilleus Here is a link to an earlier post about the Svajere or cargo bike messengers of . Copenhagen The bicycle messengers at the headquarters of the Post Telegraf service in 1917. Dressed splendidly . The bike messengers or Svajere in official service were usually uniformed until the end of the 1940s , when casual wear became the . norm The bicycle messengers for Illum department store in
Restring your fiddle and prepare your taste buds for spicy Creole cuisine. The popular Cycle Zydeco bicycle tour of southern Louisiana is returning in 2013 after a one-year hiatus. Presented by the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Bureau for 10 years, the bike tour will be promoted and managed in 2013 by the nonprofit Transportation Recreation … Continue reading »
When the Christian Science Monitor newspaper highlighted eight innovative philanthropists this past weekend, it first profiled World Bicycle Relief and its founder F.K. Day. The executive vice president of bike component maker SRAM is cited as a prime example of the new style of humanitarian who does more than just open his wallet for a … Continue reading »
: 19 November 2012 Now and Then You Get Surprised Erik Griswold one of our team members here at Copenhagenize , found some retro photos of Copenhagen . More specifically , Frederiksberg . Even more specifically , my front . door I promptly went out and took photos from the same angle . The couple of steps at the bottom right of the 1960s photo , below , are the main door to my building . Interesting to learn that back then I would have had the penthouse flat , because since then someone added some . floors What I find most interesting is the comparison of the two photos . While it is certainly true that road space and parking for cars were removed in Copenhagen to reestablish the bicycle infrastructure back in the early 1980s , it's plain to see that space on certain streets was reclaimed
: 18 November 2012 30 km h Zones An Analysis for Sharing Copenhagen's Lord Mayor , Frank Le Corbusier Jensen continues his fight for a car-centric Copenhagen that would make the 1950s . proud What makes matters worse is that the Robert Moses Fan Club that is the Danish Congestion Commission Trængselskommission are also using a time machine to travel back to the congested past at the . moment A colleague told us very recently that they are seriously discussing widening the motorways leading into Copenhagen because of the traffic jams . Can you believe that With all the available knowledge , with all the moves away from motorways around the world , these clowns are tying us to their back bumpers and dragging us into that previous century that exists in their . heads The subject of 30 km h
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: 17 November 2012 City Plan Vest and Søringen 1958-1974 Copenhagen A couple of twists of fate and this location in Copenhagen would have been a 12 lane . motorway When looking back over the last century of cities infatuated with Car Culture , it's not hard to see how stupid we were or almost . were In the 1940s the so-called Finger Plan was developed for Copenhagen By and large an interesting concept and the foundation for the expansion of . Copenhagen The Finger Plan has , however , some dark secrets . Among them are two connected projects . City Plan Vest City Plan West and Søringen The Lake Ring The City Plan Vest , in 1958, proposed that Copenhagen be equipped with a Lake Ring . The 19 motorway from the north would continue over Hans Knudsens Plads in a tunnel to Vibenshus Runddel and
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: 17 November 2012 Pedicabs the Latest Victim of Copenhagen's Anti-Cycling Militia The latest target for Copenhagen City Hall's anti-cycling militia is the city's pedicabs . Instead of embracing a transport form that doesn't pollute but rather creates jobs and adds an extra feature to the tourism experience in Copenhagen , City Hall is just going to make some laws and regulate them . Restricting a historical and tradtional feature on the Copenhagen . cityscape As it is now , pedicabs can gather where the customers are and earn a living based on the market . At times , in the peak months , there are a few too many parked together in certain busy areas . I can't see that this is a problem . It creates life on the streets . It's not like they're blocking the entrance to a hospital or anything
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: 16 November 2012 The Copenhagenize Index 2012 is coming and we need YOU Happy Friday , Copenhagenizers My name is Meredith and I'm new here . I'm an urban planner from California , now living in Amsterdam and super excited to be working with Copenhagenize and Cycle Chic Amsterdam I am helping out with this year's Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle Friendly Cities and hoping to recruit you to help as well For those of you joining us more recently , Copenhagenize published a list of the top 20 bicycle friendly cities in the world last September . The list received loads of press and certainly spurred local bike advocates and planners into action . nbsp This year , The Index will be slightly different . We're hoping to include about twice as many cities 155 in the research and instead of only
: 16 November 2012 The 85th Percentile Folly It's not like we needed any more proof that we live in car-centric cities . When you start scratching just a little below the surface , however , you start to discover that we are not so much citizens in cities but rather a flock of reluctant characters in The . Matrix You discover that we live in cities that are controlled by bizarre and often outdated mathematical theories , models and engineering solutions” that continue to be used despite the fact that they are of little use to modern . cities One of them is called The 85th Percentile . It's a method that cities all over the planet use to determine speed limits . It's the standard . Nobody questions it . Certainly not the engineers and planners who , for decades , have been served it up and
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: 14 November 2012 The Car Industry Strikes Back Chevy Disneyland It's not going so good for Big Auto . Those pesky kids aren't bothering getting driving licences anymore . The Demotoriszation of society is in full swing . What to do . what to do . they gotta hook those kids and everyone else back to the car as former BMW designer Chris Bangle said while keeping a straight face in Melbourne But how to strike back How to sell some PEM Personal Emotional Mobility Ah Disneyworld There's the ticket We'll call it Test Track Get revved up for the exciting , re-imagined Test Track Presented by Chevrolet—the exhilarating driving experience , now designed by YOU You'll feel like you're part of the Chevrolet design studio as you create your own virtual custom-concept vehicle . Then , put your design
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: , 12 November 2012 Cars have come to stay and they are getting cleaner and cleaner , 8221 This was the quotation from the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen this past week in his defense of advocating for the building of a DKK that's the ISO code for the money used in Denmark 27 Billion tunnel running 12 kilometers 7.5 miles from northeast of the city center The North Harbor Nordhavn east through the island of Amager around to the southwest where it would join with the country's E20 motorway which heads both east to the bridge to Sweden and west to the bridge over to the island of Funen Fyn in Danish and then to Jutland YES , TWENTY-SEVEN-BILLION-WITH-A- B DANISH KRONER And the cost could be even higher Even if it is paid out using coins made with holes and or embossed hearts or bills notes
: 08 November 2012 Outrageous Harbour Tunnel for Copenhagen The old-fashioned road interests are at it again and the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen Frank Jensen , among others , are pandering to them . The insanity continues in The New . Copenhagen Now they want to build a tunnel for cars and trucks to connect the motorways that come from the north of Copenhagen and end in an area called Ryparken Hans Knuds Square to the motorway that connects the West of Zealand the island on which Copenhagen is located and the bridge to Sweden . This motorway also accesses the Copenhagen airport . What is interesting is the development that this will no longer be called the harbour tunnel but will instead be called the Eastern Bypass but that's just so that it can recieve funding from the national government .
: 06 November 2012 Parking The Bull The Price of Copenhagen Car Parking Parking The Bull and Ignoring it Completely Do we want to live on a parking lot Picture : Lars Barfred We have a choice . It's an actual choice . Do we want to live by a park or by a parking lot Judging from real estate prices , most of us prefer the first choice . We have , however , such a counterproductive urban model of society that we end up choosing the latter . Living in a parking lot . Sure , that's better than living in a sewer , but perhaps it's just a matter of time before we have merged our habitat into an integrated housing sewer and parking . facility The increasing number of parking lots and cars and , in the Danish perspective , even more frequent storms with wild amounts of precipitation like we've
: 05 November 2012 Is Bike Sharing a Universal Good Last week we wrote about the demise of the Copenhagen bike share system and the fact that the City cancelled the long-awaited replacement system . Generally , we are always in agreement with Lars Barfred , our regular columnist , on almost all issues . He has , however , a different view of a bike share system for Copenhagen . We're happy to publish his side of the . story The girl in the olive drab jacket on the second generation bike-share bike Picture : Gobike Is Bike Sharing a Universal Good by Lars Barfred Many cities has been praised over the past five years for their new bike share systems . As Mikael wrote in the obit of the Copenhagen bike-share system Bycyklen the Copenhagen system was the launch pad for this urban planning .
: 03 November 2012 Australian Cycling Levels Pre Post Helmet Law Cycling levels in Australia . As we all know , helmet promotion followed by helmet laws were a bad . thing Chris has gathered a fantastic detailed list of travel surveys in Australia over at his www.cycle-helmets.com website As though we needed more proof of the negative effect of helmet promotion and legislation , but hey . It's a great . list Put here by Mikael Colville-Andersen at 13:43 tags : australia bike helmet bike helmet hysteria bike statistics helmet laws 1 : comment TedAndCo said . It is hard to read a causative effect of helmet legislation from this graph . What I always tell my helmet nanny friends is the only strong correlation with helmet use is decrease in bicycling . It may not be the sole cause , but it is