29 March 2011

Berlin Cycle Chic

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I was in Berlin over the weekend, giving a keynote talk at VeloBerlin's Metromobile urban mobility conference. I love Berlin. I've been visiting the city for years and it's always a pleasure to show up there again. It was a great conference and it was even more great to ride around the city on Thursday evening - and paint the town red on Friday...

These three shots are from Mitte. Berlin is a fantastic cycling city. They have a modal share of 13% and in some neighbourhoods, like Mitte, it's up around 20%. The bicycle is normal. The style is impeccable. Das ist Berlin.
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Two of three girlfriends heading out on the town on rental bicycles.
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Lovely smile in the early evening.

We're doing more Berlin this week here on Cycle Chic.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Great set!

One thing I heard about Berlin is car-ownership is extremely low, well below 50% I believe.

analee said...

great photograph, and a nice city...

Anke said...

Hi!

In Berlin there are 324 cars per 1000 inhabitants (national average is 540). Only 45% of all households own a car.

Among other things that comes from low incomes, high proportion of single-person households and good public transport.

Regarding the numbers you may think "Oh, wonderful. Only few cars on the streets, no jams, relaxed biking." Wrong.

Colville-Andersen said...

Yes, car ownership is low. About the same as Manhattan, actually. In Copenhagen it's about 29%