Copenhagen's bicycle triumph: how the Danes defeated traffic jams and transferred to bicycles

It will seem incredible, but the Danish capital, with its not the most comfortable climate among European cities, managed to transfer residents to bicycles. This city has more cyclists than anywhere else in Europe. And if, for example, in China, love for bicycles as the most affordable way to move is sometimes due to economic reasons, then the Danes love two-wheeled transport for its environmental friendliness, the possibility of morning training on the way to work, and also as a way to join the popular community of cyclists, the number of which is growing rapidly. All this became possible thanks to a competent program that promotes the replacement of a car with a bicycle.

In Copenhagen, they pay incredible attention to cyclists and their comfortable stay on the road, in every way encouraging the Danes to change their car to bicycle. Especially for them, a whole network of bicycle paths and bicycle parking lots, high-quality and wide, allowing you to easily get to almost any part of the city, has been laid throughout the city. The total length of bicycle lanes for traffic in Copenhagen is about 400 kilometers. In addition, there are special cars for passengers with bicycles in the subway. And in the central part of the city there are quite a lot of streets where it is forbidden to call by car, all for the same reasons as traffic jams, exhausts, cramped spaces and lack of parking places, but for cyclists there are tracks and parking lots made. A network of rental and service centers is operating throughout the city, serving owners of two-wheeled vehicles. According to statistics, about 50% of the inhabitants of the Danish capital use a bicycle as a transport to get to work. In addition to traditional bicycles, family freight bicycles, stroller bicycles, bicycles with trolleys for food delivery staff, and even cops in Copenhagen ride bicycles.

Of course, the Danes are encouraged to transfer to a bicycle, and with the help of economic measures, the country has quite high taxes on owning a personal car.