8.1.1. Transports

8.1.1. Transports

First of all, let’s talk about the transport idea that they got. As recalled, Ørestad is over connected to Copenhagen and the main ways to Sweden. Four kinds of transports are accessible from Ørestad:

 Motorway  Train  Metro  Airport Obviously, the main idea was to connect the new economic centre of Copenhagen to the rest of Europe. As we can see below, the metro is going all of the lengths of Ørestad. You come to work, from Copenhagen, then you just have to take the metro and you will stop at the foot of the building, you come only for couple of weeks to work, then you’re just 15 minutes from hotels and companies, you are tired of transportations to go work every morning, then you can even live in Ørestad residential housing, etc. By exaggerated, it is in this way that Ørestad has been thinking. “In under three minutes you can be on the motorway, the Metro, the Øresund train or the buses. In under six minutes, you can be at Copenhagen Airport or the Øresund Bridge, where journey time to Sweden is under half an hour, while getting to Copenhagen city centre and the main station takes just 10 minutes.” (BY&HAVN, s.d.)

Figure 7: Main crossroads and transportation ways, (BY&HAVN, s.d.)