The author captured pretty much everything I would have said if I had written that piece. I think a bike/pedestrian only city would be simply fantastic. I love biking to school every day, but it would be so much better without cars.

From this article, it sounds like all of the opposition have never cycled to work in their lives. Bikes can coast through without endangering anyone.

But only receive 1.2% of federal funding.

davereed:

“The bicycle highway — no red lights, no cars — is every cyclist’s fantasy. There are now signs that infrastructure is catching up with the dream. In October 2008, an association of U.S. state-highway officials approved the concept of a national Bicycle Routes Corridor Plan — the first step in potential American bike Interstates. But this amounts to little more than a go-ahead for states to put bike-route signs on existing roads.

“Copenhagen, however, began last month to create the real thing: a system of as many as 15 extra-wide, segregated bike routes connecting the suburbs to the center of the city. These are not bucolic touring paths; Copenhagen’s bike highways are meant to move traffic. Nearly 40 percent of Copenhagen rides a bike to work. On Norrebrogade, a two-mile street in the center of the city, 36,000 cyclists clog the bike lane every day.”

WIN

I need to move to Copenhagen

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