Originally Posted by GriddleCakes

Copenhageners take more trips than by bike than by car, with a 36% modal share for cycling compared to 26% for cars. That's only one out of every four trips taken by car, so I'd say that they're doing pretty good.



Um, because cars take up three to four times as much space as bikes? Bikes don't need a lot of space. Besides, according to this modal census, of the four cities with equal or lower modal shares for cars as Copenhagen (Bern, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Zurich), none have a cycling modal share higher than 11%. What they have instead is a high modal share for public transport, so if American cities wish to reduce the number of cars on the road maybe they should be improving bus and light rail service and infrastructure, instead of building bike boulevards.