Reckless riders in cycle capital Copenhagen could jeopardise plans to get more people on bikes

Many European states have a liberated policy towards cycling. Even more so than UK. It quite a strange story to hear as most European cyclists are actually quite well behaved.

Maybe a sickness from the UK has caught hold in Coppenhagen?

Frankly looks disdainful of those individuals who think they're experts at the steering wheel or a bicycle to afford Recklessness.

I think this is a reasonably fair story, I may not like all of the content but I wouldn't shoot the messenger. I don't think Road CC is sensationalising here in the headline as demonstrated by the following content;

"The cyclists aren't very good at sticking to the rules. They typically go into pedestrian areas," Mogens Knudsen, operations leader of the Copenhagen police's traffic unit, told the Global Post.
"If you walk down pedestrian shopping street Stroeget, you will see cyclists zigzagging between the people, and they do so at a high speed," he added.

The headline does its job of getting you to read the story andwhen you read the story you decide what you think.

That isn't sensationalist Daily Mail type reporting (where the headline does its job and the story then tells you what to think!)

They just need to do cycling infrastructure like the Spanish!

P9271664.jpg by Jamie_MacDonald, on Flickr

P9271659.jpg by Jamie_MacDonald, on Flickr

(Slight shame that after 5km it ended abruptly at a ravine!)

We see these articles all the time in the Danish press... Lots of motorists feel victimized here because of the space that is dedicated to bicyclists. And on some level, I sympathize, driving a car in Copenhagen is awful! That is why so many people ride, not because they are political cyclists, but because it's easier/more convenient.

But the fact is that while a lot of space is dedicated to cycling, it is still a smaller percentage than space dedicated to motorized traffic, especially wrt. parking. Cycle parking in Copenhagen is a nightmare! Even worse if you want to lock your bike to something and not just to itself.

but if you want positive ideas about urban utility bicycling, see here: http://www.copenhagenize.com/

Come on people,

It's the off season, no-one racing, falling off, winning , loosing or doing drugs. News is always slow at this time of year.

Yes the site has to make money, but if they don't post new stuff then we all will get bored and wander off.

We just thought you'd like to know that these things are being said. you know, because it's news about cycling. and we do news about cycling. We try to be fairly neutral about it, I wouldn't say we're perfect at that. You don't have to agree with everything that's written here. I don't.

I've read through it a couple of times to try and find the reactionary bit, but it just seems to be a report about some stuff that was said in the press over the water. Next week someone might unveil a grand plan to massively increase the capacity of the cycle network in Copenhagen to give cycling there a further boost. And if they do, we'll report on that too.

Road rage has never been used as a stick with which to beat motorists, so I don't know why road.cc is trying to fan flames with this kind of reactionary reporting...

Bully Pedestrians in Kingston Upon Thames!

Ever since Clarence Street was closed to motorised vehicles, there has been a worrying increase in pedestrians on the now pedestrianized street.

“It used to be that just a few hundred people walked down this street, now there are thousands!” One idiot was quoted.

“This pedestrianized street programme has been a victim of its own success. Lots of people are now walking on a street that is designed to be walked on. But some people walk too slowly, some people get in the way, and who benefits? THE SHOPS. Big business is cashing in while the motorist loses out AGAIN.” Another halfwit said.

/Satire

I think this is the last time I will visit this web site, it has become nothing but rubbish reporting. Goodbye Road CC, and goodbye to all your advertisers too.

And how long before this kind of report "see, cyclists are boorish even when they mostly get their own way" is used as a reason for not making improvements in this country?

Is road.cc turning into the Daily Mail of cycling?

Another minor news item with a nice headline grabbing "Reckless cyclists..."

To summarise ;

1. Copenhagen has seen massive cycle growth
2. Copenhagen Cycle capacity needs to be increased
3. Some people are sometimes not nice to other people
4. One man, aged 22, makes amazing revelation "some cyclists aren't thoughtful"
5. Police note increase in cycling related incidents (see 1.)

Pull your socks up road.cc, these articles are getting a bit tedious.

The crowds of pedestrians on Oxford Street often annoy me. I find them bullying obstructive and aggressive.

Maybe we could ban them too?