The bicycle should be able to be taken with you from the moment you step out of your front
door of your home, wherever that may be in Copenhagen or the greater Copenhagen sprawl,
and be at your side or underneath you, of course, preferably the entire day, without
any hitches, without any difficulties or user unfriendliness.
There's a lot of different areas that require attention when we're trying to integrate the
bicycle in each monality.
It's very important to consider accessibility, how the bicycles can work together with all
the different public transport options that many cities have.
So it's also important to consider first and last mile transport.
And of course, making it accessible to park your bike is one of the very important keys
to creating this healthy, inter-motor society.
You can use the bicycle, of course, to get around the entire city on a network of protective
cycle tracks.
You can also take the bicycle with you on the metro.
It costs a bit extra, but the bicycle is allowed with you everywhere you go.
Our bus system here also has ferry boats that sail up and down the harbor, creating an important
link in the infrastructure there.
And of course, you can take your bicycle with you on these boats without any problem whatsoever.
The local trains here in Copenhagen have been really visionary over the past few years about
accessibility for bicycles.
Before it cost, you know, 10 kroner, 11 kroner, but then they made it free a couple years
ago, completely free to take your bicycle with you on all of the local S trains.
Another great thing that the Danish state railways is doing is that they have a bicycle pump.
There's many of them around Copenhagen now from the city, but they put one right outside
the central train station.
I think it's great to live in a city with a really well designed airport that is quite
close to the city center.
I can ride out there on fully separated, safe bicycle infrastructure.
So if I'm taking a short trip, an overnight trip or a couple of days and I only need to
carry on bag, I ride my bicycle to Copenhagen Airport.
So the goal is to make the bicycle a part of our daily lives in cities, make it convenient
and safe to use in all the aspects of what we do and the things we do in our cities.
Also one of the greatest challenges remains how to get people to consider the bicycle
as transport, how to get them out of the cars, onto bicycles, onto public transport.
And like we've said before here, A to B is the key.
If you make the bicycle the fastest way from A to B, people will use it and this really
is important to consider when you're trying to integrate bicycles with public transport.
