Number Of Bikes Exceeds Cars In Copenhagen For First Time

The level of cycling may be slowly increasing in a few of Britain’s major cities, but we’re still lagging a long way behind some of our European neighbours, with Copenhagen now recording more bikes than cars in its city centre.

The city authorities have been measuring traffic entering the city centre, with 252,600 cars entering the area compared to 265,700 bikes, up by 35,080 since last year. This is the first time that there have been more bikes than cars in the city centre since the city started counting in 1970.

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