DW Planet A

Inside the world's best cycling city

The city of Utrecht beat Copenhagen on the Copenhagenization Index– a competition to be the best at biking and urban mobility. We visit the city to steal the cheat codes to the top (so other cities can get back in the race). #PlanetA #Cycling #Utrecht Credits: Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus Camera: Henning Goll Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Read more:  The city's vision for 2040: https://healthyurbanliving.utrecht.nl/our-vision-for-utrecht-in-2040 Original video of Utrecht from 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndp4-HLYrig Dutch Cycling: Quantifying the Health and Related Economic Benefits: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4504332/ The Dutch Approach to Bicycle Mobility: Retrofitting Street Design for Cycling: https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/chap04.cfm The Economic Case for Cycling/cost-benefit analysis: https://itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC_MAKING-THE-ECONOMIC-CASE-FOR-CYCLING-2022_JUNE11.pdf and https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle#:~:text=If%20the%20costs,every%20kilometre%20cycled. Persistent pedestrianism: urban walking in motor age America, 1920s–1960s: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/abs/persistent-pedestrianism-urban-walking-in-motor-age-america-1920s1960s/8241AC5118CD01C7B1F2AF9D8E8965F9 Dutch cycling blog: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/future-fast-cycle-route-utrecht-amersfoort/ We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planet 00:00 Intro 00:35 The transformation of Utrecht 03:31 The biking city 05:32 Looking back to look forward 07:40 Can this work elsewhere? / The cheat codes 10:12 Conclusion / Another crisis and opportunity