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Originally Posted by electricron
Population of Denmark = 5,590,000
Area of Denmark = 16,562 sq miles
Population of Canada = 34,880,000
Area of Canada = 3,855,000 sq miles
Keeping it simple, Canada's population is 6 times more, it's area is 232 times more.
16,500 sq miles can be thought as a 100 mile by 165 mile rectangle. 3,855,000 sq miles is equivalent to a 100 mile by 38,550 mile rectangle.
Putting those numbers into perspective; A professional cyclist could and often bike 165 miles in one day. Averaging 30 mph, they could do so in less than 6 hours. It would take the same cyclist more than 1283 hours to bike 38,550 miles, without resting.
Canada is a much larger country than Denmark. It's vastness doesn't make bicycles a preferred method of transport.
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What? Really? The bicycle friendliness has nothing to do with the size of the country. Of course Canada is a very large country and nobody is going to traverse it by bicycle, but neither somebody would do that in Denmark. Even as Denmark is a small sized county, it is still large enough to discourage the use of bicycle as a mean of intercity transportation. If you want to go from Copenhagen to Odense (third largest city) it is more than 150 km away, To Aarhaus (second largest), it is 300 km and to Aalborg (fourth) it is like 400 km.
If you talk about bicycles as method of transportation it is within cities, not countries (with countries you talk about trains vs airplanes, for example)
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Originally Posted by Wizened Variations
I whole heartedly agree. Outside of NYC which, after all, is NYC, the US public transit friendless can truly stink.
I would rank the most auto dedicated countries something like this:
1. The US
2. Saudi Arabia (they now are working hard to improve public transit).
3. New Zealand
4. Australia
5. Canada
6. Argentina
7. Brazil (Sao Paulo being the exception)
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A better comparison would be between Denmark, and, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (~33,500 sq km or about 13,000 sq miles) with a population of 8.76 million.
Denmark has an area of 43,094 square km or 16,663 sq mi, with a population of 5.6 million.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
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Argentina is not more autocentric than Spain. In Latinamerica, Venezuela is much more car centric than Argentina.
In Buenos Aires, there is an extensive network of commuter trains, subway and urban buses, that you can use even late at night. The vast majority of apartments buildings don't have a single parking space. Most of the ones that do have parking, don't have one for each unit. Only a very small percentage of apartment buildings have one or more parking spaces for unit.
Even in the suburban areas, many houses don't have parking either, and most of the ones that do have, have only one per unit.
In large or median cities outside of Buenos Aires, the situation is similar, only that they don't have subway nor commuter rail, but they do have an extensive urban bus network, with high frecuencies.