Bike lanes in Copenhagen Inner Harbour – The Bicycle Snake: safe, fast and clean

2 cykel baner i Københavns Inderhavn:

– cykel- og gangbro “Bryggebro” og cykelbro “Cykelslangen”: sikker, hurtig og ren forbindelse mellem Vesterbro og Islands Brygge på Amager.

 

Text and photos Erik K Abrahamsen

 

 

 

Copenhagen is a Metropolis at the sea Oeresund – a belt between Denmark and Sweden. The city is more then 1000 years old founded  around 700. A.C. as a small fishing and trade port and with links to danish provinces in what today is Sweden since 1645: Skaane, Halland and Blekinge with its old cities Lund and Malmø and the big herring market in Skanør.

Today Copenhagen is an urban area on Island Sealand with 2 mill. inhabitants. Its a commercial, innovation and financial city with 100.000 students on University of Copenhagen, Danish Technical University, Copenhagen Business School and many other education institutions and schools.

 

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To make Copenhagen green, clean of pollution and sustainable the Copenhagen Municipaliy has  a policy of transportation infrastructure and has constructed fast and safe “super bike ways” between all quarters in Copenhagen:

– between Copenhagen suburbs and Copenhagen City

– between quarters in Copenhagen: Vesterbro, Østerbro, Nørrebro and Amager and Copenhagen City with Copenhagen Inner Harbour.

 

 

The Bicycle Snake:

To create a fast, safe and clean  bike corridor between Quarter Vesterbro and Quarter Islands Brygge and Island Amager with Copenhagen University sections on Amager.

 

Copenhagen Municipality has constructed:

 

Bryggebroen – a 190 meter long walk-and bike bridge from Island Brygge on Island Amager to Kalvebod Brygge as neighbor to Fisketorvet Shopping Center and

 

The Bicycle Snake Bridge – “Cykelslangen” Bro – an 230 meter long elevated orange bike lane  to connect to a walk- and bike bridge “Bryggebro” passing Copenhagen Inner Harbour to Island Brygge and Amager.

 

 

View in direction south to The Bicykle Snake Bridge in Copenhagen Inner Harbour as neighbor to Fisketorvet Shopping Center at Kalvebod Brygge:

 

 

The Bicycle Snake – an elevated orange bike lane in Copenhagen Inner Harbour:

 

 

Fisketorvet Shopping Center –  neighbor to The Bicycle Snake in Copenhagen Inner Harbour:

 

 

The Bicycle Snake Bridge  – Cykelslangen Bro seen from Quay at Havneholmen, Kalvebod Brygge to Fisketorvet Shopping Center in  direction west:

 

 

The Bicycle Snake in Copenhagen Inner Harbour:

 

 

The Bicycle Snake – at left Aller Media Domicile on quay Havneholmen – view in direction south:

 

 

View in direction north to “The Bicycle Snake” from bike-and walk brige “Bryggebro” in Copenhagen Inner Harbour:

 

 

View  from walk-and bike bridge “Bryggebro” in direction north to “The Bicycle Snake” :

 

 

The Bicycle Snake seen from walk – and bike bridge  “Bryggebro” in  direction north to Kalvebod Brygge with quarter Vesterbro in the distance:

 

 

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Elder tour on bikes with help from volunteers passing The Bicycle Snake Bridge:

 

 

Elder people on bike tour  passing “The Bicycle Snake” with volunteers:

 

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Copenhagen Inner Harbour at Fisketorvet and  Havreholm Residential Area – View in direction south to walk- and bike bridge “Bryggebro” to Island Brygge and Island Amager:

 

 

A 190 meter long walk- and bike bridge “Byggebro” in Copenhagen Inner Harbour – bike lane between Vesterbro/Kalvebod Brygge and Island Brygge on Island Amager:

 

 

View in direction west from walk-and bike bridge “Bryggebro” to Copenhagen Inner Harbour and residential Havneholmen by architect Lene Tranberg:

 

 

Copenhagen Inner Harbour – View in direction east from walk- and bike bridge “Bryggebro” to Copenhagen City and Bridge “Langebro”:

 

Byggebro  Bridge – popular place for attaching love padlocks:

 

 

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View from Quay Havneholmen, Kalvebod Brygge in direction east to Copenhagen Inner Harbour, Langebro Bridge, Knippelsbro Bridge, Royal Library “The Black Diamant”and in the distance Copenhagen Royal Opera builded 2002-04:

 

 

Links:

Dansk Arkitektur Center dac.dk

 

Relevant articles on my second homepage Erik K Abrahamsen Blog tvndk.wordpress.com :

 

” Visual environment in Copenhagen Harbour waterfront – Havneholmen by architect Lene Tranberg “, 22. february 2009, Click on link tvndk.wordpress.com and seek : “Havneholmen” and

” 3 nye gang- og cykelbroer binder Christianshavn sammen med Nyhavn og Holmen “, 12. october 2012. Click on link tvndk. wordpress.com and seek: “Christianshavn”.

 

Text and photos Copyright 2014 Erik K Abrahamsen

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Melby, North Sealand, Denmark 9. october 2014

Best wishes

Erik