Massachusetts

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 ...

June 21st, 2024

Bicyclists enjoy the newly redesigned Inman Square. Photo Credit: City of Cambridge ...

June 21st, 2024

Photo Credit: Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau ...

January 12th, 2024

From bustling cities to small towns, communities from coast to coast amplified their commitment to better biking with an unprecedented surge in safer, more comfortable places to ride in 2023. And, with thousands of additional projects planned across the country and more federal funding for bikes ava ...

July 19th, 2023

Even great biking cities need to constantly improve to ensure they remain at the forefront of creating better communities for bicycling. Just ask Munich, Germany, which, even with a City Ratings score of 83, strives to make its city even better for bicycling with the 2022 announcement of a new plan ...

September 21st, 2022

More and more states are realizing the benefits of electric bicycles as they seek to lower vehicle miles traveled and make progress towards climate goals. This was clearly illustrated within state legislative sessions during 2022, with an unprecedented number of new laws passed that improve the righ ...

June 1st, 2021

These four U.S. cities, all with populations under 50,000 people, scored well in the 2021 City Ratings. Here’s what they’re doing right. ...

December 18th, 2020

We can all agree, 2020 was tougher than anyone anticipated. As the year began, planning for a pandemic could only be described as a fantastical thought exercise, but by March the realities of COVID-19 reached all corners of America, dramatically changing nearly every aspect of people’s lives. ...

June 9th, 2020

Due to the constantly changing dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis, we encourage you to follow all current CDC guidelines as well as local travel advisories and recommendations. Take care of yourselves and loved ones. We’re all in this together. ...

June 12th, 2019

How can you get a more detailed picture of the bike network in your town or city? Help us help you by improving the accuracy of the The Bicycle Network Analysis. Your input aids us in making sure that the constantly evolving and improving BNA project is a useful tool that provides actionable insight ...

May 15th, 2019

“Infrastructure Week” may not be the most alluring phrase you’ll ever read, but it certainly is one of the most important. Infrastructure is the framework on which our nation operates — the networks of highways, streets and roads that connect us to jobs, businesses and our homes; the trails and path ...

May 14th, 2019

Network is the category that cities have the most direct influence on — the one where big changes can actually be made. A more complete network leads to a higher level of safety and more ridership. Building a complete low-stress network is not fast or easy work. It’s not just sharrows and paint. It’ ...

May 9th, 2019

September 13th, 2018

Our public lands are some of the best venues for children to experience the outdoors and outdoor recreation. A new program may soon be available to help more kids visit and experience our public lands — including exploration by bike. ...

July 18th, 2016

Few of the great cities of the United States have more potential for biking growth than Boston. ...

September 18th, 2015

Images from MassDOT Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide and from this slideshow. ...