Copenhagen's Bicycle Butlers

[krebs303]

Copenhagen's Bicycle Butlers
The City of Copenhagen has been on a 'charm offensive' since April 2010. The goal is to get more people to use the bike racks around the city's Metro stations, instead of leaning them up against everything else.

Here's the simple trick. If you park your bicycle illegally, the City will move it over to the bike racks. Instead of finger-wagging, they will then oil your chain, pump your tires and leave a little note on your bicycle asking to kindly use the bike racks in the future.

How brilliant is that? And the great thing is that the initiative has worked.

 

[RedheadDane]

That is just brilliant! Maybe they should do the same in Århus...
+ of course be better informing that the upper rows on the bridge are for males (some of us just can't get our bikes up there...)

 

[Spare Tyre]

Copenhagen's Bicycle Butlers
The City of Copenhagen has been on a 'charm offensive' since April 2010. The goal is to get more people to use the bike racks around the city's Metro stations, instead of leaning them up against everything else.

Here's the simple trick. If you park your bicycle illegally, the City will move it over to the bike racks. Instead of finger-wagging, they will then oil your chain, pump your tires and leave a little note on your bicycle asking to kindly use the bike racks in the future.

How brilliant is that? And the great thing is that the initiative has worked.

That's cool. It reminds me of Bogota's traffic mimes.

 

[the student]

wow they certainly dont do that here but they would have to cut my lock for moving it too the racks though because i always lock it to a pole / fence or something like that