The Copenhagen Approach To "Traffic" Could Transform Your City!
Brent Toderian's picture    Some key insights from Niels' talk:
Mike Lydon's picture  Great Post!  Thanks for the great post
Brent, and I am glad you all will be taking bicycling seriously
up there in Vancouver.  I think the key aspects of your post
relate to the incremental nature of progress in Copenhagen.
Indeed, it doesn't happen over night. However, the slow and
steady transformation, along with the "traffic trials" are
essential in proving that conventional traffic engineering dogma
can be revealed as just that, dogma, when tested physically in
the built environment.  Helmets for Cyclists  I received a lot
of criticism for suggesting in a 2007 Vancouver Sun story that
by making cycling safer, riders might not have to wear helmets.
So I am delighted to read in this story support for this concept
by the Danish. As an aside, most of the people who disagreed
with me gave me tales of how a helmet saved their life when ridi