Tokyo but no Kyoto is very weird.
https://www.wired.com/story/world-best-cycling-cities-copenhagenize/
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Utretcht, Netherlands
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Strasbourg, France
- Malmö, Sweden
- Bordeaux, France
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Tokyo, Japan
- Berlin, Germany
- Barcelona, Spain
- Vienna, Austria
- Paris, France
- Seville, Spain
- Munich, Germany
- Nantes, France
- Hamburg, Germany
- Helsinki, Finland
- Oslo, Norway
- Montreal, Canada
"The world" aka Europe + tokyo, montreal.
They're building the largest bicycle parking facility in the world in Utrecht. It will house 12,500 bicycles. I'm not sure what they're going to do with the other 60,000 parked around the central station.
The first entries are ok, but then it is scraping the bottom of the barrel. As a Hamburg citizen finding my city on a bike-friendly list, I had quite a laugh. Hamburg is one of the worst cities for bicycle riders. There are some initiatives - mostly private - to pressure the mayor to invest in safer bicycle lanes, because right now it is really unsafe and most lanes are in a terrible condition. Last year there were quite a few deaths, riders got crushed under trucks.How did Wired came up with those entries?
I....I don't know, we just remember it...It's strange, even drunk most of us are able to find it between all those other bikes.👀
What the fuck there's so many bikes like
Holy hell how do you even find yours
Antwerp? It never seemed like one to me.
So the title is bullshit. If it comes to actual bike-friendliness most of the top 20 would probably be taken up by Dutch cities with lower density traffic. Small cities like Assen would beat Amsterdam or Utrecht in this category.Look at the metrics. The list is about bicycle politics, not pleasantness to use a bike in said city. The first metric is this:
And they probably find that smaller cities don't have as much influence in the world. They are also looking at stuff like bicycle sharing programs (that only make sense in big cities) and infrastructure investments (something that needed much more in big, crowded cities). In a big city you need a fancy bridge or something to bypass the mayor street, in a smaller city you might just be able to make said bike lane through a park at a fraction of the relative costs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=996Hg2GeUvoNever been to Copenhagen but seems a bit biased they're no. 1?
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On the other hand they missed Münster, which is basically THE German bike city.
I wish NYC was better, but people and their cars gotta fuck it up for us I guess.
I wish NYC was better, but people and their cars gotta fuck it up for us I guess.
Lol at trying to drive around the Arc de Triomphe.
Paris? I wouldn't drive a tank through Paris, let alone be on two wheels.
Damn, U.S. is pathetic in comparison. Fucking suburban sprawl!
Hoping Toronto eventually makes it.
Copenhagenize finds Copenhagen best city.
*triggered*
My city is called Utrecht.
It's scary driving or biking there imo. I don't think it will ever happen
Tokyo but no Kyoto is very weird.
Seriously. I was gonna mention Münster, too. Kiel and Göttingen are pretty great, too.Berlin and Munich?
WTF? I wouldn't want to ride a bike there. Especially not in Berlin.
On the other hand they missed Münster, which is basically THE German bike city.
If Munich is on that list, i fear for whatever the fuck is going down in other cities regarding bike-friendlines.
Pretty sad that there are no US cities on here. I recently spent time in Seattle and Portland, and rented a bike in both cities. It was a super fun way to get around and way easier than a car, both cities have good infrastructure for it. Also hear biking is big in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Hopefully more cities will invest in biking, it's way more efficient (both in energy use and use of space) than cars.
"The world" aka Europe + tokyo, montreal.
What's with this sarky aside, do you genuinely think places outside of western Europe, Canada and Japan would make the top 20?
The guardian had an interesting article yesterday interviewing cyclists from Germany, the US, Kenya, India and Canada
Wouldn't take it too seriously, I'm not sure the writer has ever left Europe based on this list. There is nothing in China on the list where the sheer volume of bike riders is staggering at times.
If memory serves, everywhere outside of Tokyo is a bit friendlier to cycling, thanks to looser street traffic and not being a hyper-dense megalopolis.
Shitloads of cyclists doesn't mean the cities are "bike-friendly". I bet the mortality rate for cyclists is nasty in China and that's before you consider the impact of air pollution on health.
Check out this article about the cities where exercise does more harm than good, lots of representation from China and India: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/13/tipping-point-cities-exercise-more-harm-than-good
The photo of smog in Beijing is horrible.
Is Tokyo there because fuck pedestrians? the roads are not safe to cycle on but everyone just cycles on the narrow pavements. Bloody hate it when you're walking around and it certainly isn't a 'fast' place to cycle
Is this a list about the most polluted cities or about people riding bikes?
In at least 15 cities, air pollution has now become so bad that the danger to health of just 30 minutes of cycling each way outweighs the benefits of exercise altogether, according to new research
Finding a place to park your bicycle in Amsterdam can get a bit messy.
Utrecht is a bit more structured, so it seems valid it's placed higher.
They're building the largest bicycle parking facility in the world in Utrecht. It will house 12,500 bicycles. I'm not sure what they're going to do with the other 60,000 parked around the central station.