Posts Tagged ‘ Copenhagen ’

Here in the North East, the Newcastle Cycling Campaign is gearing up to help the City Council get serious about a cycling network. The mantra you’ll most often hear is “Build it and they will come” when we speak about this sort of stuff. Experience from elsewhere in the world seems to validate this: Controversially though, I...
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Icy conditions can make it treacherous for those on two wheels. In Copenhagen when it snows, they know that clearing up for cyclists has to take top priority: In the Netherlands, even when it’s cold enough to freeze the canals & rivers, they make sure that their cycle routes are clear and safe: Meanwhile on this side of the...
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Watch this Streetfilms video about Copenhagen, and think about where you live: Hat-tip to Katja at the Newcastle Cycling Campaign for the link to this . . . as part of our response to Newcastle’s planning consultation.
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Bikehugger raises an interesting difference between places where they have a culture of riding bikes and the rest of the world. Quoting Copenhagenize , he says, "There are stamp collectors who love everything about stamps and there is the rest of us who just lick ‘em and slap ‘em on envelopes because...
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So there’s a whole lot of to and fro about this: Richard at Cyclelicio.us pointed out that the obvious answer that was missing was "because it’s fun", which seemed to get the Good People Of Copenhagen all vexed - to the point of wanting to get off the metaphorical bus: I got off the...
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The ideological, swivel-eyed, lunatic fringe are just as convinced that "It is a global Marxist mantra that is going to be used to beat people around the head, tax us to the hilt, smash nations and impose a one-world government." A very vocal minority will try to convince you over the next two weeks that...
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Over the last week or so there’s been a few videos of historical traffic situations posted - from Portland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam . So I thought it would be interesting to see what the UK looked like in a similar period. What I found on YouTube was this fantastic video, which I think is from...
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