Riding on a Copenhagen Bike Path

[TLStriegler]

You don't HAVE to drive 20 km/t in the green zone by law, you can do it to awoid red light stop. There's no speed limit for bikes in Denmark.

[downfader2]

Cool. Do they enforce speed limits on cycle lanes there, or is it as fast as is safe?

[hunterdp]

I never heard of anyone getting a speeding ticket while on a bicycle here. My guess is the same speed limit that applies for cars applies for bikes.

[Thrym865]

Actually, the speed limit is 30km/h, same as for mopeds. In the eyes of the law, a moped is actually a bicycle (with a support engine) and all mopeds had pedals 40 years ago. Maybe the new EU regulations will lower the speed limit for mopeds down to 25km/h.

[ikramofir]

@hunterdp There is some places in Copenhagen where there is "Green Zones". In Rushhour traffic. U have to drive at leest 20 km in hour on the bikelanes.

I think its made to get the "Critical mass" to flow better together.

(Amagerbrogade) Der starter en zone ved krydset Tingvej/Amagerbrogade. 

[Dutch3DMaster]

@hunterdp : Here in the Netherlands there basically is no speed limit for bikes, allthough police officers will probably warn you when you are doing 40 in a residential area (where 30 kilometers usually is the limit for motorized traffic.)

A program about road abuse caught a Velo-bike that was doing 60 and the officers (it was a police vehicle equipped with a camera) wondered whether the thing was motorized or not, so they stopped him.

He didn't got a ticket for speeding though.