Bicycle friendly cities....(a cities rated map) (credit, neighborhoods)

[brubaker]

League of American Bicyclists * Bicycle Friendly America

"The League's Bicycle Friendly America family of programs recognize states, communities and businesses for their efforts to promote bicycling and provide roadmaps to improve.

Click on any state on the map to find: The state's ranking, with comments; information about any Bicycle Friendly Communities within that state (starred on map); and, coming soon, any Bicycle Friendly Businesses headquartered in that state."

[Synopsis]

Interesting. Great link.

[dpgtfc]

Be very, very cool if they implement a map view of the communities bike paths.

[mike0421]

Very interesting link, thanks.

Some observations: the northeast is VERY unfriendly when it comes to cycling. There were no awards for either platinum or gold for any cities in the northeast. Also, cities west of the Mississippi River, and especially the Rockies, predominate.

[radraja]

I think the Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, etc. cities need to be taken with a grain of salt. They're good for biking - if you can take the altitude. It makes a difference.

[tijlover]

Doesn't any city at night become bicycle friendly? I work graveyard shift, and on my three nights off, I ride all over the city, in the urban areas and residential neighborhoods, and even crossing major arteries, I hardly have to turn my neck in either direction to cross the street. It's so peaceful and quiet at night, between midnite and sunrise, and oh so safe! You'll never catch me riding my bike during the daytime here in Las Vegas, at least, it's too dangerous.

And if I lived anywhere else, I'd be doing the same.

[Coolhand68]

Originally Posted by mike0421

Very interesting link, thanks.

Some observations: the northeast is VERY unfriendly when it comes to cycling. There were no awards for either platinum or gold for any cities in the northeast. Also, cities west of the Mississippi River, and especially the Rockies, predominate.

I think that's because of the harsh winters and frequent rain. They don't invest all that much into accomodating bikers as the sunny states. We're lucky they even pave roads of fix potholes in the NE, so it doesn't surprise me that they don't go out of their way to create bike trails and paths. I will give credit to Massachusetts though, there are several dedicated bike paths and trails here, as well as bike lanes. We just don't get to enjoy the outdoors as many days in a year as the folks out west.