Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 October 1939 — Many Residents of Copenhagen Are Bicycle Enthusiasts [ARTICLE]

Many Residents of Copenhagen Are Bicycle Enthusiasts

Copenhagen has a bicycle for every one and one-half inhabitants. And since many of the machines are tandems and young Danish mothers usually have a baby-carry-ing contraption rigged on the handlebars, the city could easily go cycling en masse and simultaneously As it is, Copenhagen does practically take to wheel in a body on every summer Sunday. The holiday exodus takes place so rapidly that there are roads where 3C.000 bicycles pass a given point in an

hour. Few accidents are reported. Traffic troubles are eliminated by having a system of cycle roads from which both motor vehicles and pedestrians are barred. The Danish mode of road travel has some advantages over oui method of going places. It is free from gas fumes, and it is silent family parties, squadrons of club groups, couples side-by-side with arms around each others’ shoulders drift along with no sound excepi that of conversation and laughtet and song.