6/25: Hello readers and friends. I recently had my second (of two) total knee replacement surgeries so I'll be out of commission for a bit while I recover. Please be patient while I get back to full health. I hope to be back to posting as soon as I can. I look forward to getting back out there. 🙏. - Jonathan Maus, BikePortland Publisher and Editor
The stories below are from a reporting trip taken by Jonathan Maus in May and June of 2013. Jonathan spent a week in Copenhagen and then joined a Bikes Belong/Green Lane Project-funded study tour through several cities in the Netherlands including Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam and others.
Special thanks to Pro Photo Supply in Portland for their support with camera equipment. Check out the BikePortland Photo Gallery for images from the trip.
Riding in Copenhagen is so nice it’s even romantic.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) One thing I’ve learned on this trip is that it’s possible to vastly improve the cycling experience without spending millions on big and fancy projects. As I go through my photos and notes from each day, I’ve started a list of all the … Read more
We have highways for driving, why not have highways for biking?(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) I’ve seen lots of cycle tracks in city centers; but yesterday I was curious what would happen if I just kept on riding all the way out to the suburbs. Just how far do Copenhagen’s famous cycle tracks go? After getting … Read more
A bike lane on both sides but just one regular lane in the center — even with two-way traffic permitted.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Welcome to special edition of People on Bikes from Copenhagen. Please join me in thanking Pro Photo Supply for their support of BikePortland. They’re a great local business and I would be a mess without their help. As you can imagine, in a city where 36% of the trips are made by bicycle, it wasn’t … Read more
Life is very good on Blågårdsgade, a carfree street in the heart of Nørrebro in Copenhagen.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)
Bikes are everywhere on the streets of Copenhagen.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) I just wrapped up my first full day exploring Copenhagen (remember, it’s nine hours ahead of Portland over here). From a bicycling perspective it’s simply remarkable. They have a 36% bicycle mode share and in some parts of the central city it’s over 50%. … Read more
Portland on the left, Copenhagen on the right.(Images © J. Maus/BikePortland and the City of Copenhagen) Tomorrow at this time I’ll be on a plane flying to Copenhagen. Today I punched “Copenhagen” into a search of all my Front Page stories and the earliest instance I found was over seven years ago. It was a … Read more
I hope to see this magnificent, suspended bicycle path in Eindhoven (as seen in this month’s National Geographic!). Finally. After years of covering bike projects and policies, I’m going to Europe to observe, research, and document the world’s leading bicycle-friendly cities. At the end of this month I leave for a two-week trip that will … Read more