Top 25 Cities For Bicycling Named
The website "Walk Score" recently announced its top 25 cities for bicycling and there were some surprises this year. And yes, there
is a Washington city in the top 15.
The cities are scored on four factors: bike lanes, hills, destinations and road connectivity, and bike commuting mode share.
Here's the top ranking cities.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
I have always been awed by these surveys that try to compare cities in different categories, is it really like comparing apples to apples or more like comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah, for instance, I found it interesting that 'hills' are listed as one of the criteria cities are ranked on. When I looked up more info on the criteria though, it didn't say whether 'hilliness' (that word was actually used in the description) is a good or bad thing.
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