Copenhagen has decent public transport, as long as you don’t mind the trains being old and half the signaling systems not working. The modal share is quite low for cars because Copenhagen is flat (and compact enough) that you can basically bike anywhere within 30 minutes (as long as you live in Copenhagen). This is also changing however, as property prices have been skyrocketing since 2008 (but really kicked into overdrive in 2020) and people are slowly being priced out of living within reasonable biking distance. Thus, biking to work has now taken on a class characteristic, which nobody in this place is talking about.
Also, there is supposed to be some new tramlines being openened in early 2025, which I’m looking forward to.
It now has one of the lowest shares of journey by car in the world and this –
Copenhagen has decent public transport, as long as you don’t mind the trains being old and half the signaling systems not working. The modal share is quite low for cars because Copenhagen is flat (and compact enough) that you can basically bike anywhere within 30 minutes (as long as you live in Copenhagen). This is also changing however, as property prices have been skyrocketing since 2008 (but really kicked into overdrive in 2020) and people are slowly being priced out of living within reasonable biking distance. Thus, biking to work has now taken on a class characteristic, which nobody in this place is talking about.
Also, there is supposed to be some new tramlines being openened in early 2025, which I’m looking forward to.
It’s just weird for /c/urbanism to be dunking on Copenhagen. Are we gonna dunk on Rotterdam too?
Sure Copenhagen is slightly less than perfect, but it should be a model to all the Delhis and Austins of the world.
We should actually critique things for not being good, even if other things are worse.
Random shot at Delhi wtf
Delhi metro is apparently really good but anti-Indian is necessary, I guess
A standard metro system?
I haven’t been able to find the modal mix of the greater Copenhagen urban or metropolitan areas, not the 10 km by 10 km (in area) municipality
With a bit more than 500 cars per 1000 persons and 42 billion km driven by cars in 2023, I’m not sure where Danes are driving that ~12,000 km a year
Nascar, they just love it