http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Infrastructure Copenhagen Voyes - Recent Posts en Mon, 18 May 2026 07:42:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-223517 Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:57:14 +0000 unhurt 223517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@rosie - nor me! I have been known to argue with people who think councillors going to look at how another council has done infrastructure / street design is a "jolly". </p> <p>(I'm currently a pedestrian on physio's orders and keep catching myself walking in the cycle side on the Meadows and up MMW because that's where I'm usually moving.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-223486 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 23:36:39 +0000 Jester 223486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was in Copenhagen last week and was amazed by the level of cycle use and the provision of infrastructure for cyclists.<br /> If you were to design a city from a blank start point, Copenhagen would be a great place to base it on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222965 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:32:37 +0000 Rosie 222965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have no problems with politicians going off to see how other countries do things, whether it's literacy or transport.</p> <p>I was impressed by Copenhagen, though I was constantly having to stop my sister walking in the cycle lane. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222957 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:11:24 +0000 unhurt 222957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know people get upset about politicians going on "jollies" but I think it might actually help to have more of them experience first hand that yes, cities CAN be different. I feel like a lot of what we face is a lack of any real belief than things could be other than they are - so, some tinkering around the edges to make things very slightly nicer but no <em>conviction</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222831 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:04:11 +0000 Roibeard 222831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IwratS - ta for the education, as I'd just heard it and parroted it (a lot!) in Denmark.</p> <p>"Unsch-coo", but to know that as "unskilled" makes so much sense!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222829 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:42:07 +0000 Stickman 222829@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good article. Hopefully won't attract the same abuse as her last one. </p> <p>I visited Copenhagen about 10 years ago (before I started cycling) and loved it. I remember at the time thinking "yes, I could quite easily live here". </p> <p>Maybe, just maybe, more things like this might start to make a small impression in the minds of the SNP? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222828 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:30:49 +0000 I were right about that saddle 222828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's good, and good that the National has tumbled to active travel as a way of moving our country in the right direction. </p> <p>Vonny's an arts journalist and she's got a good descriptive article out of her holidays. The question we need to ask is; 'What political structure(s) allowed Danish road policy to follow the citizens' needs rather than the motor manufacturers' fantasies?'</p> <p>What would happen if Ms Sturgeon started cycling to meetings on a customised tartan Paper Bike? Would that change anything?</p> <p>(Delighted to learn that 'unskilled' is Danish for 'sorry!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222826 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 07:54:05 +0000 shuggiet 222826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Really good article to appear in the National.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16526#post-222825 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:49:32 +0000 HankChief 222825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.thenational.scot/comment/vonny-moyes-city-cycling-utopia-does-exist-yet-we-lag-behind.18690">http://www.thenational.scot/comment/vonny-moyes-city-cycling-utopia-does-exist-yet-we-lag-behind.18690</a></p> <p>Excellent Article </p>