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Bikeable Hometowns: PeopleForBikes Staff Celebrate Their City Ratings Scores
July 16th, 2024
PeopleForBikes’ annual City Ratings program ranks thousands of cities across the world on how well their bike networks connect people to the places they want to go. The scores provide an objective baseline to help cities progress, but the voices of individual riders are critical in identifying gaps ...
PeopleForBikes Announces 2022 Industry Community Grant Recipients
December 14th, 2022
PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization, and the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association announced its latest round of community grants totaling $92,000. The 11 projects funded in 2022 will support bicycle infrastructure and advocacy projects across the U.S. ...
The Best Places for Sightseeing by Bike
June 3rd, 2022
Have you ever driven through somewhere on a road trip that you thought was unforgettably cool, only to get home and realize you don’t remember the name of the place, or even where it was? It’s difficult to remember such awesome places when you’re moving through them so fast, which is what makes sigh ...
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. ...
Electric Mountain Bike Access in State Parks is Improving
December 3rd, 2020
Every day, individuals are discovering the many benefits of electric mountain bikes (eMTBs) — they allow more individuals to get out and ride, regardless of their age or physical or cognitive abilities. Electric mountain bikes provide a needed boost to make climbing hills easier and going longer dis ...
E-Bikes Can Now Access 200+ National Wildlife Refuges
October 23rd, 2019
On Oct. 22, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced its policy for electric bicycle (e-bike) use on National Wildlife Refuge System Lands. Director’s Order 222 is in response to the Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s Aug. 29 Secretarial Order 3376 directing the Bureau of L ...
2019 Safest Cities
May 13th, 2019
The characteristics of any sized city that scores well in Safety are people feeling safe, low fatality rates and low rates of injuries from traffic crashes. We know that more people ride — specifically more women ride — when they not only are safe, but also feel safe. Overall, a high safety score re ...
2019 City Ratings: Top Overall Cities
May 5th, 2019
We’re pleased to release the 2019 PlacesForBikes City Ratings. Overall this year we saw a much higher rate of participation in our Community Survey and City Snapshot. This means we collected better data and have an improved picture of bicycling in the United States. ...
Virginia’s Fastest-Growing County Makes Room for Bicycles
November 7th, 2018
fficially, Loudoun County’s motto, “I byde my time,” comes from the family coat of arms of John Campbell, the fourth Earl of Loudoun and a commander of British forces in North America. Until recently, it was also a fitting description of the region’s approach to bike infrastructure. ...
America’s Best Medium Cities for Biking
October 2nd, 2018
Some of the very best cities for bicycling in the nation are relatively compact —that’s one of the findings from the PlacesForBikes City Ratings, a data-driven comparison of cities based on factors such as the connectivity of their networks, cities’ investment in growing bicycling, ridership and saf ...
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February 8th, 2017