Street films fans about here Copenhagen
I was last out here four years ago for
the Velo City Conference wait so film
met up with mikail Cavell Anderson at
that event and he's going to take her on
a personal tour to see some of the cool
innovations that Copenhagen come up with
since i Plaquemine lots of stuff has
happened since you were here last over
Copenhagen eyes design company team
those of us that are in town on the
summer holidays are going to take you
around show you all the stuff that the
city of Copenhagen has been doing to
really push the city into the next stage
of bicycle friendliness
so last time you were here clearance of
the world's busiest bicycle Street was
just north of the city center but this
is change since you've been here right
now it's this this section here this
bridge called Knievel's bridge which is
now technically the world's busiest
bicycle street they've registered 41,000
bicycle users a day going over the
bridge which is great because they're
coming from a completely different part
of town so that means in cycling is
increasing we've seen the modal share in
Copenhagen go from 36% to 41% after
years of stagnation 5% increase in only
one year the reason is simply that there
are 17 metro stations being constructed
all at once car traffic is paralyzed in
the city so what do people do they find
a faster way to get around and that in
many cases is the bike public transport
usage is up also car driving is down
only 12% of Copenhagen errs are driving
their cars about seven years ago I
suggested to the city of Copenhagen that
they they put garbage cans tilted
towards the cyclist because the existing
ones we have are really really hard to
use so I'm really happy that this is
their design they designed this but you
see these all over the city now
oh this is the snake this is the snake
this is the snake this the whole reason
in Denmark this is sucrose lung and
Danish it's the same word in Danish as
bicycle tube as bicycle snake so in
English has just become the bicycle
snake but man this opened one month ago
and it is absolutely fantastic everybody
in Copenhagen no matter how jaded they
are they're excited about the about the
snake
it's classic Danish design it has a
functional and practical value so the
city of Copenhagen they had a missing
link people came over the harbor on the
on the white bridge and then they hit
some stairs to get up to the railway
bridge over the railway or they have to
go around the shopping centre so the
city put out a tender saying listen we
need a solution for this and here's the
budget one company showed up and they
said this is our idea but it costs four
times the amount it was basically the
most fantastic idea on the table and the
city found the extra money so this cost
about thirty million Danish kroner six
million dollars and they found the extra
money to create this fantastic iconic
but incredibly important logistical
mobility link and everybody in copening
is really excited about it I love it I
feel like it's we're kind of like
floating in the air so yeah I love I
didn't think out something like it but
it's perfect I think it's a real through
urban experience that u-turn u-turn and
finally you discover all the harbour and
the other bridge it's like magical I
like the snake bridge because it reminds
me of Snake Plissken
escape from New York and you're escaping
from your daily troubles when you ride
over it
I will explain to you what's the
Greenway dis concepted by prioritizing
the cyclists over the car drivers
especially the commuters from the
suburbs to the city centre to work and
the cycle every day a lot so they don't
want to stop all the time to the traffic
light so that why the municipality have
created the Green Wave because when you
cycle at 20 km/h you will catch all the
green lights so you can see this green
LED light it means that if you see them
you will catch the green light if you
cycle at 20 kilometres per hours but if
you don't cycle at 20 kilometers per
hour xeni more and you see the green
light disappearing it means yes routes
you have to speed up a little bit to
catch the green I get it
so what you see here is a super simple
detail of the city of Copenhagen
developed last year we have all these
cobblestone streets and they retain them
because it's part of the city's heritage
so there are real paint to ride a
bicycle on so the city has put in
certain sections of it here on this
street along the curve other streets
down the middle that are smooth
cobblestones sort of newer cobblestones
that are much more comfortable to ride
on a tiny little detail that makes
riding a bicycle on this street a little
bit better so one of the most exciting
things in Copenhagen now is the fact
that the city is investing in six new
bicycle and pedestrian bridges over the
harbour not two not four but six and
this one here on the main harbour it's
going to be the granddaddy of them all
there's going to be 11 thousand people a
day on bicycles using this bridge it's
going to be an important mobility
connection it's going to really change
the way that we move around Copenhagen
because right now there's three bridges
and this is going to add a fantastic
added value to to getting around the
city farther down the harbour here
there's going to be three small bridges
so this is four of them right here it's
going to connect all these small islands
because at the moment we have to do a
big detour to get to the island so down
this street this is going to be the
important part of the link over the
harbour so the city has already made the
the one-way cycle track nice and wide
it's about three and a half meters but
that cycle track will lead right to the
bridge over the harbour and to the
southern suburbs
okay if you think you have the best
bicycling city then here's the litmus
test has your local movie theater change
but of silhouettes of Darth Vader the
alien Indiana Jones and Superman riding
bicycles so the small boat up there is
really typical from Copenhagen it's all
made in just a piece of wood and people
put some journey and every year since
the Harbor Development has been has been
going on for now for about 10-15 years
you really see like more and more every
year one more people using the water
which it's been a bit of a slow start I
don't know why but now you see a lot of
stuff you got the picnic boat you got
like some bizarre hybrid of a Viking
ship and a gondola there and a lot of
kayaking it's just really exploding the
way that people are using the harbour