Hi everybody !
I've so much to tell you guys about the lifestyle of Danish people, that I'll organized my demonstration in a few articles.


Before everything, the Danish area total almost 43 000 square kilometers, with a total population of more than 5.5 millions. And actually, why am I telling you that ? To show you that, compared to France, Denmark have less inhabitants for its surface area. And we can see consequences of that in their ressources consuption. I'm talking about all kind of ressources/energy : space, electricity, human ressources...

First of all, space. Contrary to France, it's obvious that Danish utilisation of space was though for a little population. We were in the third town of Denmark in terms of surface area, and there were a few buildings with more than 2 floors. It's noticeable because, when you see one building with like 3, 4 or 5 floors, or a Danish "skycraper", it's a lot bigger than other buildings, and you can't actually miss it. In addition, most of Danish buildings had been built by typically Danish red bricks, and hopefully, this facts give so much charm to Danish cities ! (I'm particularly talking about Ahrrus, Oldense, Copenhagen and Aalborg, which are so original cities). But that's just for vertical space uses.
Overmore, they have a different means to think about road network, particularly in cities. And I can't deal with road network without talking about bike lanes, because  this is so Danish. In Denmark, you can actually compare the number of pedestrians and cyclists. Approximately 2/5 of the road is dedicated for bike lanes. There's a little step to protect cyclists from cars, and you can ride side by side with an other bike. Actually, I stoped to count how many time two cyclists arriving from behind and chating feared me.

Traffic lights are adapted to cyclists and pedestrians (and blind pedestrians). There's constantly a little sound advising on which step of the circulation traffic lights are. By the way, traffic lights for cars are a bit more developed. For instance, when you're at the red light, waiting for the green, the orange one start to shine just before to go to the green one. Psychologically, it allows to people to be advise on the traffic light progress. That could prevent people to cross over during the red light.
There're lights for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, and each one have his own stage on the traffic light progress. Typically, when you're at a crossroad, you could get the bike lane and pedestrian lane mixed up, and get surprised by a cyclist coming from behind, because the different lanes bump sometimes into each other. To conclude, I'd say that this is safer to ride a bike in Denmark than in France. Sometimes in France, you just feel the wind generated by a car passing at 10 cm from you.
In Denmark, you just don't care about cars.

Matthias.