{"id":134,"date":"2013-08-09T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:40:23","slug":"spin-cycle-copenhagens-rise-fall-and-rise-again-to-cycling-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Spin cycle: Copenhagen\u2019s rise, fall, and rise again to cycling supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/copenhagen-snow-bikes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135 alignleft\" alt=\"copenhagen-snow-bikes\" src=\"http:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/copenhagen-snow-bikes.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Copenhagen city planners have set out to get fully half of the citizenry to cycle by 2015 \u2014 a goal that will require an additional 55,000 people to ride rather than drive. (Encouraging cycling is also a part of official Danish health policy: The city estimates that biking already saves about $300 million annually in health costs.)<\/p>\n<p>On Queen Louise\u2019s Bridge, the city has installed a bike counter that ticks off the number of cyclists that have passed each day, giving riders a sense that they\u2019re part of a movement, not just lost in the crowd. At many intersections, the city has installed footrests for cyclists waiting at red lights emblazoned with friendly messages like, \u201cHi, cyclist! Rest your foot here \u2026 and thank you for cycling in the city.\u201d But the most innovative of all is the \u201cbike butler\u201d program: brightly clad city workers who tidy up the bike parking areas, and will even do minor repairs while the owners of said bikes are away.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"original article\" href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/spin-cycle-copenhagens-rise-fall-and-rise-again-to-cycling-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/spin-cycle-copenhagens-rise-fall-and-rise-again-to-cycling-supremacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen city planners have set out to get fully half of the citizenry to cycle by 2015 \u2014 a goal that will require an additional 55,000 people to ride rather than drive. (Encouraging cycling is also a part of official &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/?p=134\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spin cycle: Copenhagen\u2019s rise, fall, and rise again to cycling supremacy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,6],"tags":[33,29,14],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-goodnews","category-spcnews","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpropelledcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}