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Copenhagen has fairly decent public transportation and biking is quite common.

Bikes are allowed basicly everywhere: https://dinoffentligetransport.dk/en/how-to-travel/bicycles-...

Caveat: Bikes are not allowed in the Metro during rush hours 07:00-09:00 and 15:30-17:30. But it is allowed the rest of the time and has 24H service.

You should also know that the greater Copenhagen area is covered by "S-Trains" which are running on dedicated (not mainline) tracks. So metro-ish.

The S-Trains have dedicated space for bikes: https://youtu.be/hgfOxNRAktI

So even bumblebees can fly if you let them.

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Actually taking a bike on the Copenhagen metro is rare, in my experience, except very late at night when it's empty anyway.

It is almost as annoying to others as taking a bike on a bus.

Many US buses have a bike rack on the front that can hold 2 or 3 bikes which allows for easy bike-bus travel. I don’t think bringing the bike inside the bus is an option anywhere.

I've never seen these in Europe. I suspect they are incompatible with the much stricter pedestrian safety rules.

In Copenhagen if someone needs a bike at both ends of their journey (not very common) they might own two, and leave one at the station.

Here’s an image of a typical rack:

https://www.sportworks.com/product/apexplus-3

You missed the point.

The bike is for biking. Of course it is annoying when people bring it on the bus. Or park it in front of my door.

The bike on the metro is not rare because it is annoying. People do simply not have that much tact. It is more rare because people bike those distances and you pay extra on the metro. It is free on the S-Train which also covers longer distances - hence more bikes.

I find bikes annoying in general as well. But that is because they are usually attached to a human.

The point was that it can actually work.

It is not all of nothing. It is an integrated system which actually works.

This was a reply to a comment which claimed that bikes could not work in a large city with a lot of bikes and public transportation.

The same people often argue that bikes cannot work in cold weather.

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