will a car park be built underneath Dantes Plads?
/It looks as if the construction of a new underground car park at Dantes Plads is going ahead despite objections.
Dantes Plads is a trapezium-shaped open public space between HC Andersens Boulevard and Vester Voldgade and is immediately opposite Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
A section of the display at the new Museum of Copenhagen about the development of this area - laid out after the banks and ditches here of the old city defences were removed in the late 19th century - suggests that the square was created to appease Carl Jacobsen who was unhappy about the prospective outlook from the entrance to his new museum.
Vester Voldgade is now an important and increasingly well-used cycle route running down from the square in front of the city hall to the new Lille Langebro bicycle and pedestrian bridge that crosses the harbour to Christianshavn. The entrance and exit to the ramp down into a new underground car park will be on the Vester Voldgade side of the square so all cars will have to cross over that bicycle lane entering and leaving.
It seems curious to be constructing a new car park in the centre of the city when the general policy is moving towards reducing the number of cars in the historic centre and a large new underground car park at BLOX - less than 300 metres to the south - seems under used. Some residents will be able to move their cars off the square but that hardly seems to justify the size of car park proposed.
