Hello City of Bikes (aka Copenhagen)

Standard width for one way cycle tracks in Copenhagen is 11'! So that two people can cycle next to each other and a third can pass.

Rebecca and I left our Malmö apartment on Wednesday and moved over to Copenhagen to prepare for the University of Oregon's 2022 Bicycle/Transit Study Abroad course. For the next four weeks, we'll be guiding 17 students and 6 transportation professionals across Denmark and The Netherlands, exploring how other countries and cities design their transportation systems. I'm particularly excited to be back in Copenhagen, a city that I love dearly for it's grittiness, social culture, and bike-ability. Over 60 percent of people in the city of 800,000 bike to work or school every day of the year. There is one bridge in particular that has over 40,000 bike trips per day!

The class kicks off at 15:30 local time tomorrow, Monday, 20 June where everyone will meet each other for the first time in person (due to COVID). I'll be sharing a link to the professional's blogs, which I'm excited about this year because we have representatives from city, regional, state and federal jurisdictions, as well as staff person from a transit agency. We'll be in Copenhagen for about a week before heading west to smaller Danish cities and then onto The Netherlands on 4 July. I participated on the trip back in 2019 and blogged during that trip. Feel free to visit Campo2Copenhagen to see that trip.

If you have any questions, thoughts, comments or things you'd like to see, feel free to drop them in the comments below!