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City Riding

PeopleForBikes makes city riding better by securing funding for more, better and well-connected bike infrastructure and advocating for legislation that improves road safety for all users, including bicyclists. We know that in order to get more people riding more often, those people need places to ride that are comfortable and safe. We work with elected officials at the local, state and federal level to fund the creation of well-connected bike networks that get people where they need to go and advocate for policies that make streets safer for all who use them.

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New Study Highlights Recent Decline in Pedestrian Deaths, But More Work to Be Done

August 29th, 2025

A new report from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) — Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2024 Preliminary Data — shows that pedestrian deaths in the U.S. declined for the second straight year, but the findings still deliver a stark reminder: there is still work to be done to make ...

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2025 City Ratings' Top New Cities for Biking

August 5th, 2025

In 2025, our City Ratings program ranked nearly 3,000 cities across the U.S. and around the world on how good they are for biking. This year, our U.S. ratings include 185 new small cities, 51 new medium cities, and five new large cities as a result of splitting New York City into its different borou ...

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Wisconsin: A Great State for Biking

August 5th, 2025

Pedaling through Wisconsin's capital, Madison, which received a City Ratings score of 61 for 2025. ...

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Building Better Communities: Paradise Valley’s Transformation From Aging Mall to Bikeable Community

July 31st, 2025

Community members gather in Paradise Valley’s Central Park for Sunday Sweat. Photo courtesy: RED Development ...

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Six Things Any City Can Do to Improve Bicycling

July 16th, 2025

2025 marks the eighth year of PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings, our annual program ranking the quality of bike networks in thousands of cities across the U.S. and around the world. With nearly a decade of data, we’ve used historical results and improvements made to City Ratings scores over time to ident ...

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Meet the U.S. Cities Creating Great Places to Ride

July 7th, 2025

For the first time, PeopleForBikes’ 2025 City Ratings include thousands of bike projects across the U.S., making the critical connection between the creation of safe and connected places to ride and becoming a great city for biking. ...