Earlier this year, biking around Copenhagen, I took a break at Mikkeller & Friends in Nørrebro. Not content to just sit outside with an excellent spontaneously-fermented beer, I found myself counting bikes as they rode by… which turned into a comparison of bikes and cars, and then an excuse to idly tabulate anything different about the bikes…
One lost notebook returned by a bartender in Sweden a few days later (long story), and I had this quasi-scientific summary of 30 minutes of traffic:
Cars: 60
Bikes: 263 (about one every 6 seconds)
Men cycling: 127, women: 136
Bikes with a front basket: 97
Wearing a shoulder bag: 52
Kid or kid seat: 22
Riding “fast” (with visible effort): just 19
Helmet: only 7
Texting while riding: 3
Panniers and rack: 2
Carrying a pizza: 1
one part of a livable city…
