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Stockholm: Congestion Charging is Likely to Continue

By Aaron Naparstek | | 15 Comments
Last month residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted in a citywide referendum to continue that city’s experiment with congestion charging. By charging motorists a fee to drive into the city center, congestion charging had successfully reduced the amount of time Stockholm motorists spent waiting in traffic by 30 to 50 percent while significantly reducing air pollution and providing […]

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | | 8 Comments
After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Eyes on the Street: German Bike Parking

By Nick Grossman | | 14 Comments
Copenhagen is getting all the attention lately, but it’s not the only livable European city with great cycling facilities. Last week, I visited Munich for work, and found that the cycling culture there is strong, particularly as measured by the excellent bike parking facilities.  They seem to be in all the right places: Outside the subway: Instead […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | | 20 Comments
Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]
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