GOING GREEN Denmark's Green Keys

摘要

While other cities struggle to become more bicycle- friendly, Copenhagen, Denmark has already arrived. Thirty-two percent of this eco-centric city's commuters travel on two wheels, probably the highest percentage in any industrialized urban center. Only 30 percent drive, and the rest walk (five percent), take the train (13 percent) or the bus (20 percent). Street corners in Copenhagen are magnets for parked bicycles, and some of them are municipally owned under the innovative City Bike Scheme. There are some 2,500 bicycles stashed on 125 racks around the city, complete with built-in maps. Insert a 20-kroner ($3.40) coin and the bike is released. When you return the bike, you get the full deposit back.