Ranking high on anyone’s list of most livable cities, Copenhagen comes up with another reason to love it. They’ve installed a cyclist counter in front of city hall displaying two numbers. One displays the total number of passing cyclists for the day. The other shows the total number of passing cyclists for the year. In hopes of encouraging more people to get on their bikes, Copenhagen is giving away a sweet Biomega Bike to the 500,000th cyclist. We wonder if people will post up around the counter with their bikes as the number approaches 500,000!

Copenhagenize reports on how the counter system works: “There is a ‘sensor line’ in the asphalt on the bike lane a few metres in front of the counter which registers the cyclists. There is a SIM-card in the counters so the information is automatically sent to the City of Copenhagen’s Center for Traffic. The counter only registers cyclists on this side of the street, not the far side, so you can double the numbers up to see how many cyclists use both directions.” (via Treehugger.) Click Read More for additional information and photos.

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