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Indianapolis Cultural Trail & White River Route

Distance: 11 Miles

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Yellowwood Lake Loop - Family and Kid Friendly

Distance: 11 Miles

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Ride to Ft Harrison

Distance: 16 Miles

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2024’s Most Improved Cities for Biking

July 24th, 2024

Each year, PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings program evaluates thousands of communities worldwide on the quality of their low-stress bike networks through our Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA). Over time, we’ve seen many cities across the U.S. improve their City Ratings scores. While all score improvements ...

From Bloomington, Indiana to Portland, Oregon (pictured above), protected bike lanes of all shapes and sizes transformed U.S. communities in 2022. (Photo Credit: David Evans and Associates, Inc.)

The Best New U.S. Bike Lanes

January 27th, 2023

With more protected bike lanes and low-stress bike networks being built across the country than ever before, we had a tough time picking this past year’s best new bike lanes. While numerous projects deserve recognition, we rounded up the top nine projects worth emulating.  ...

Two bikers use Capitol Bike Share in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo credit: Sam Kittner/Kittner.com, courtesy of Arlington County Commuter Services.)

Good Networks Make Better Bike Cities

June 3rd, 2021

A focus on safe, connected bike networks helped boost these medium-sized cities to top spots in our 2021 City Ratings. ...

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Pedaling Through The Pandemic: Staff Rides

April 15th, 2020

While we’re working from home, PeopleForBikes staff members have found a multitude of ways to stay mentally and physically active. We’ve done puzzles, walked our dogs, walked our dogs again, started doing at-home yoga classes, learned new recipes — did we mention puzzles? Despite all of the day-to-d ...

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22 States Now Follow the Three Class E-bike System, Doubling Total in Six Months

July 19th, 2019

2019 started with 11 states using the model three-class e-bike definitions. As of June 19, 22 states now define e-bikes within the three classes, effectively doubling the total in just six months. These eleven new states are: Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklah ...

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Mobility for All

December 11th, 2018

Most Americans drive cars to work only to sit at a desk all day with little activity required. No wonder we don’t get enough exercise. This has been true for a long time, but there is a solution, and it’s linked to infrastructure. Instead of trying to figure out when and how to get to the gym more o ...

Crested Butte, Colo., population 1,604, got the nation’s No. 5 score for cities under 100,000 in the new PlacesForBikes City Ratings.

America’s Five Best Small Cities for Biking

May 3rd, 2018

Could a bunch of the country’s best cities for biking be towns that most Americans have never heard of? ...

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A new future for bicycling in Indianapolis

August 5th, 2015

Why is the city best known as the home of the biggest car race in the country investing in bicycling? Hmmm. We’ll make this multiple choice: ...

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Indy celebrates a bikeshare win

April 24th, 2014

In the business world, it’s called “first mover advantage.” It’s the head start Apple got in the smartphone market because it invented the device. ...

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Young people in Indianapolis want low-car lifestyles almost as much as young people in NYC

April 14th, 2014

In the business world, it’s called “first mover advantage.” It’s the head start Apple got in the smartphone market because it invented the device. ...

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Pacers Bikeshare launches in Indianapolis this week

April 14th, 2014

This Tuesday, Indianapolis officially joins urban meccas like Paris, New York and Chicago as a leading city with bikeshare. ...

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Indianapolis becomes first city to get NBA-backed bikeshare

April 7th, 2014

How stoked would you be if someone told you that you were going to get 250 new bikes? Well, that’s exactly what just happened in Indianapolis! Last Friday, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Inc. announced exciting details about a new bikeshare program coming to Indianapolis in a few weeks.  ...

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Indianapolis' GOP mayor on bikes and the 'great revival' of US cities

March 27th, 2014

The mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard, sounds like the Republican he is when he makes the case for urban bike infrastructure. ...