Every other entry to the Metro has an open area for bikes.
The home we stayed in the first 2 nights (and the family's bicycles.
Rush hour over a canal.
Bike lanes have a short raised curb to distinguish them from auto lanes and often border bus lanes on busy roads. At intersections (as on the left) the lanes are at street level.
Bike lanes are clearly striped with blue at intersections.
A highway off-ramp and a bike lane intersect.
Bikelanes in a roundabout.
Instead of stop signs, Danes use a line of triangles.
Bike-friendly staircase at a Metro station.
Or you can take your bike down to the Metro on the elevator.
Taking a bike into the Metro.
A reflective light well over a Metro stop.
A bike trailer.
One of many creative cargo designs.
Bikes like this with storage on the front are common. This one is outfitted for two children to sit, complete with windows.
The Danish version of the minivan.
Outside a major department store.
All but one of these bikes are locked.
Most Danish bikes use this type of lock to prevent it from rolling, rather then locking the bike to another object.
On the Stroget, the world's longest continuous pedestrian street.
The Cow Parade is visiting Copenhagen this summer.
One of Copenhagen's free bikes.
Free bikes have maps with the more popular destinations marked.
Deposit a 20 Kroner coin (less than $4).
When you're done with your free bike, you lock it back at one of the many bike hubs like this and get your 20Kr back.
A Copenhagen Jazz Festival site.
Nyhavn.
Pedestrian only zones (such as this plaza) are clearly marked.
The Pedersen Bike.
Bike lockers at the train station.
An urban grocery.
A bike lane next to housing designed by King Christian IV, Denmark's city planner-king.
Maps are ubiquitous in central Copenhagen.
Nyhavn (New Harbor), the central harbor.
Parents taking their children to the park by bike.
One of the many stages set up for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival throughout the city for the first week of July. Families and their bikes.
Dressed up for a ride.
People of ALL AGES ride bikes in Denmark.
Danes have to purchase their own parking clocks and pay at a streetside machine.
Copenhagen's skyline from Rundtarn (Round Tower), which has a continues ramp walkway to the top.
Denmark is one of the world's leaders in wind power.
There are several canals through central Copenhagen (but it's not like Amsterdam or Venice).
A bike locker in a Metro station.
Streets are lined with many courtyards.
Most hotels provide free bicycles for their guests.
A new design for a folding bike.
A poster promoting biking on a bus shelter (?)
Blankets and heaters at lunchtime in July.
A two-level bike locker at a busy train station.
Outside the bike garage at the train station.
Unicycles! (Apparently Danish teens' version of noncomformity & rebellion).
A stop light for pedestrians!
On busy urban bike lanes, they have a special signal for the bikes (below). Also, signals have a yellow light between red and green turns, which allows bicycle riders to get ready.
They've even got bike lanes in the suburbs!
A bike path through a nature preserve.
Beautiful views in the nature preserve north of Copenhagen. On a clear day you can see Sweden in the distance.
We rode on both "rail to trail" and "rail WITH trail" paths.
Traffic calming on a residential street.
Suburban traffic calming with room for bicycles.
A green roof.
Pedestrian street in the port town of Helsingor. Service/delivery trucks are allowed access.
Pedestian streets in green --the small city of Helsingor.
Bike lane next to an active rail line.
A map of Kronenborg Castle (which Shakespeare chose as the setting for Hamlet).
A view of Sweden near the narrowest point at Kronenborg Castle.
"Hamlet's castle"...really a fortress for collecting taxes from ships.
More traffic calming and signage.
Urban recycling bin.
Recycling in a rural village.
Using his bike to haul cargo on a rural road (no bike lanes).
Extra safety measures on a bike path next to a rural school. The international program called Safe Routes to School started in Denmark. Dayton is now applying to fund a Safe Routes program.
Traffic calming by the entrance to a school.
An improvised rural speed bump (one of many).
An entrance boulevard to the old viking city of Roskilde is nicely landscaped with bike/ped lanes on each side.
Viking ship
A bike lane emerges out of a large pedestrian-only plaza.
One of many busy plazas.
Danes bike in their everyday clothes, sportcoats and all. It's rare to see them biking in 'exercise clothes.'
New housing along the railroad on the way to the airport.
