this is What Rush Hour looks as if In Copenhagen

At 8 a.m. in Copenhagen—when around half a million folks bike to work—traffic jams seem to be a bit of totally different.

here’s a regular intersection on a bridge resulting in the town center. for every car, there are dozens of bikes.

“Our aim, to be trustworthy, was simply to show the sheer, impressive quantity of the spectacle,” says Jim Slade, who made the video for a motorcycle store referred to as Larry vs. Harry.

Slade filmed from the fourth flooring above the save. “It shows cyclists on their morning commute from the residential house of Nørrebro into town middle, and is no doubt one of the most busiest intersections in Copenhagen, but this exodus is mirrored in other areas of the city,” he says.

here is every other side road in 2011, filmed by means of Mikhail Colville-Andersen from Copenhagenize:

while bike commuting might be rising in different cities, it can be nonetheless an absolutely different expertise in a place like Copenhagen or Amsterdam. Slade just lately moved from London, where he used to trip round 25 to 30 miles a day to and from work. “There are very few other places in Europe, and almost certainly within the States, where which you could pull up to a traffic gentle and have three cyclists on either facet of you,” he says.

town has no separate spandex-clad bike culture. “You shouldn’t have ‘cyclists,’ just folks using bikes as a result of it’s the quickest, most effective method of transport,” Slade says.