Revitalisation of Norrebrogade, an inner city main street in Copenhagen, Denmark

Norrebrogade is a busy main street serving two functions – the first one, as a major commercial centre with over 300 shops, cafes and restaurants the second one – as a major traffic artery. Neither function had been catered satisfactorily. The street was revitalised by widening the pavements and bike paths and extending the length of

No Booga is a busy main street serving two functions the first as a major commercial center with over 300 shots cafes and restaurants second as a major traffic artery every 24 hours 17,000 cars drive along now Booga compared to 33,000 cyclists 30,000 bus passengers and 27,000 pedestrians who

Travel along Nura Burger and spend time there to solve the problem the city of Copenhagen decided to develop a plan to revitalize Naropa the overriding goal was to make the surrounding streets and space is more functional to meeting the needs of the various parties with a priority on Waukee cycling and public

Transport when we work a lot with campaigning for bicycles especially the past years in the first many years we didn’t campaign that much we build the infrastructure and then hoped people reduce it but but for the past four or five years we’ve been campaigning more and more but mainly with the bikes the

Total plan was implemented in stages according to budget allocation the first stage which was finalized in 2010 included initiatives to reduce the volume of car traffic by 50% to free up space for pedestrians cyclists and buses and also included the creation of bus only lanes and better facilities for

Pedestrians to sit and spend time in the area among other things a permanent green traffic light was installed for cyclists riding their bikes at a certain speed during the implementation car traffic was reduced on individual routes on Naropa by between 30 and 80 percent with a lot of discussion in the media

But we also made make some measuring about what was the norm people in opal there think about this project and there are seven 67% said that it was a good project and I want the project to be permanent the reduction of car traffic and Muruga cut down travel time for buses

Considerably the 27,000 passengers who use the buses every day on the stretch of road between Queen Louise’s bridge and nura below station reach their destination more quickly than when bus has shared the road with cars this equaled in annual savings of around four hundred and three thousand euros

Although it was an extensive process the dialogue with residents that was carried out during the first stage of the project will be extended into the next stage that will also include another part of this important thoroughfare you