Oakland town hall: "How Copenhagen Became a Cycling City"


	Oakland town hall: "How Copenhagen Became a Cycling City"

Lexica

9-21-2009 2:35 PM

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oakland, bikes, bicycling, copenhagen

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Check back for blog entries on each of the delegates attending in addition to Niels – a recognized leader in bicycle planning and development throughout the world.

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Huge public demonstrations in the early 1980s resulted in significant changes in the city’s transportation infrastructure. Since that time, Copenhagen has become of one the world’s preeminent cycling cities. How did this transformation happen? What changes in policy and design made Copenhagen such a pro-cycling city? 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