Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Copenhagen

A center-running bike lane in DC. Photo by Ole Kassow. All other photos by the author except where indicated

A Deep Dive Into Center-Running Bike Lanes, a Known Infrastructure Failure

By Mikael Colville-Andersen | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.

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My Conversation with the Bing Chatbot

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 7, 2023 | No Comments

Here's a story about why we no longer fear artificial intelligence, and, indeed, hope it will someday be running the country.

California High-Speed Rail construction underway on the San Joaquin River Viaduct in North Fresno, March 2018. Photo by CAHSRA

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Q&A: How to Keep Rail Project Costs Under Control

By Roger Rudick | Jun 8, 2021 | No Comments

Our ongoing series looks at how California can build mega projects effectively in the new era

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Supe Kim, SFMTA Get Tips From Copenhagen on Creating a Bikeable City

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 5, 2015 | 31 Comments

Supervisor Jane Kim and SFMTA officials took a trip last month to learn about best practices from two leading bike-friendly cities: Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. “I’d assumed that [Copenhagen] always had a bike culture,” Kim told Streetsblog. “I was surprised to learn that they also had a cars-first culture through the 60s and 90s. They’ve actually […]

Where Cyclists Have the Power to Ride Straight Past Turning Motorists

By Ben Fried | Aug 14, 2014 | No Comments

Hey, so it turns out the all-powerful @BicycleLobby didn’t actually scale the Brooklyn Bridge and plant white American flags at the top. That was two all-powerful German artists. But courtesy of Clarence Eckerson Jr., here’s some footage of raw bicyclist power in Copenhagen, where turning drivers defer to people on bikes at intersections. I guess […]

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Journey Around Copenhagen’s Latest Bicycle Innovations

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 5, 2014 | No Comments

Copenhagen just keeps finding fun ways to make it easier and more convenient to bike. On a tour with Mikael Collville-Andersen, CEO of Copenhagenize Design Co, I was able to tour some new innovations that have been implemented since I was last in Copenhagen four years ago. First: If you’ve seen my Streetfilm from the VeloCity Conference 2010 […]

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