The City of Copenhagen is currently planning to expand the existing, extensive network of bike lanes to extend farther out into the suburbs. A network of 13 high-class routes - 'bicycle superhighways' if you will - dedicated to bicycle commuters and aimed at encouraging more to cycle to work.
The new commuter routes are expected to cost roughly 250 million kroner ($47 million). A net of routes of similar length, isolated and away from the streets would cost between 1 and 1.5 billion kroner. ($200-280 million).
[Copenhagen is a city if approximately 1,2 million people. Is there any city in Canada, or comparable size or larger, prepared to spend $47 million on its bicycle infrastructure? -MH]
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