There was a record low number of traffic fatalities in Copenhagen in 2009. Five people lost their lives, compared to 16 in 2008. Right off the bat I'll say that apart from being wonderful news, such s...

I rode past the new bicycle counter - cykelbarometer - last Sunday. I blogged about it on the first day it was set up. Fun to see how the numbers grow.Cyclist number 500,000 gets a free bike.Contrary ...

We all sense that cycling is booming again. Apparently they were of the same impression back in 1933, in Birmingham, 'the hub of the cycle industry'.Ironically, the area went on to become the hub of t...

It's a pleasure for Copenhagenize to publish an article by one of Denmark's great thinkers regarding bicycle culture. Thomas Krag has a Masters degree in Chemistry but for many years he has been close...

Go Dublin.The new bike share programme in Dublin kicked off yesterday on a lovely sunny day. Dublinbikes is the name.The Irish Times reports that;"Hundreds took advantage of the good weather to try...

I hadn't really thought about the concept of greenwashing... bicycles... before. Wifealiciousness showed me a Danish bicycle in a fashion magazine - Eurowoman. One I had never heard of before. The tex...

I was put onto this brilliant urban sticker campaign by a reader in Ireland. It's a couple of months old now, but brilliant none the less. JC Decaux won the contract for providing Dublin with Vélib' s...

The European Green City Index is out, sponsored by Siemens and developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Yet another index. This one determines which European cities are the greenest, using a slou...

A snowstorm tends to thin out of the number of cyclists a bit. Just a bit.There was an item on the news tonight about Copenhagen's new environmental laws requiring trucks to have particle filters inst...