Bicycle Rush Hour in Copenhagen

Enjoy an hour of rush hour in Copenhagen. From 08:30-09:30. Speeded up. The loveliest ebb and flow in transport.
63% of Copenhageners cycle each day.

[@MSTS33]

Incerdible how motorists actually apply the highway code...by waiting if they know they won't be able to cross the junction without blocking it ! Not the same thing in Paris, forcing cylists and buses to literally fight their way through intersections...

[@RD-mm5fk]

They get fined around 200 usd if not more for violating that rule and the police are actually enforcing that... But Danes are pretty disciplined when it comes to rules like these in general - you'll notice pedestrians will not cross a red light regardless of whether a car is coming or not..

[@RamNaima]

*[Danish pride intensifies]*

[@robertmoore512]

Cars outnumbered. Great! Sensible Danes.

[@klaasdeboer8106]

As an inhabitant of Amsterdam I would feel completely at home!

[@how2what4]

I like this intersetion so much, I tend to bike through it, even though it extends the commute route

[@borisstarosta7823]

Oh my God, you mean there doesn't have to be such a cycling traffic jam here? Cyclists come here just for the pleasure of queuing up at a traffic light? It sounds like cycling's Times Square (of old)!

[@michaelgade2990]

Ah yes..... the bike highway in copnhagen. Pro tip; The streetlights are matched for riding 20 km/h, but they match up at higher speeds too ;) And there is no feeling like going from Bellahøj to Nørreport in about 12 minutes. So thats a travel tip for you. (but you will need a decent bike to do it, forget the crappy rentals).

[@markstos]

Also a great illustration of cyclists using a "Copenhagen Left". In the lower right hand corner, it also appears that cyclists are entering a contra-flow bike lane or cycle track.

[@ZucMac]

Well done, bravo to city and citizens of Copenhagen !!

[@maurelp]

Great video, thanks for sharing. It's a great angle - wonder if it's wall mounted camera outdoor or inside an apartment. Whatever is the case, you have a great network of friends and aquaintances

[@howispov1937]

Very nice

[@93lornamae]

And look. Less cars on the road. What a coincidence

[@borisstarosta7823]

Copenhagen is supposed to be the most bike friendly city in the world. I see nothing bike friendly here. The cyclists are outnumbering the motorists by a factor of ten to one, yet are given only 1/3 of the road to use. Of course, law prohibits the cyclists from taking any part of the road other than the bike lane, let alone the whole road (which would be fair). Each change of the light, most of the few waiting motorists get to go through the light, while apparently hundreds of cyclists must wait their turn in the queue, which at the peak takes more than one cycle of the light for anyone arriving from across the river by bicycle... This video shows an absurd, upside-down situation - the result of segregating cyclists using the infamous "separate but equal" doctrine!

[@fex144]

calm down guy, sure it isn't perfect, but it is still pretty good.

[@16nine]

You sound like one of the weird Vehicular Cyclists - the one's with the wacky, unproven theories. I wrote about them in my book Copenhagenize - but here's an article: www.copenhagenize.com/2010/07/vehicular-cyclists-secret-sect.html

[@borisstarosta7823]

@@16nine In my message above, I'm not advocating any theories at all, let alone unproven. I'm pointing out an unfair situation that is plainly visible in the video. Most of the infrastructure is constructed to benefit a teensy tiny minority of privileged users: motorists. It's upside down, on the face of it. Thanks for linking your piece on Vehicular Cycling, I read it. I think the problem with Vehicular Cycling is a critical mass problem, and a problem of motorcar worship by the infrastructure designers/planners. If all these riders, shown in this video, would simply take the lane(s), there would be no need to fear collision with a motor vehicle. The small minority which is motor vehicles would be slowed to the speed of the cyclists, which would be all over the place. As you know, speed kills; with motorists thus slowed to the pace of cyclists, injuries and deaths from collisions would be reduced. (Okay, so there is a theory for you!) Here's an article about how Copenhagen "separate but equal" cyclists most commonly get hit by motorists (nominally, because they are not cycling as vehicles in traffic). But Copenhagen is making improvements: www.copenhagenize.com/2008/07/117-safer-intersections-in-copenhagen.html

[@93lornamae]

And look. Less cars on the road. What a coincidence