Minneapolis the only US city on "The 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet" list (best city, 2015)

[Mplsite]

Hot on the heels of being ranked the best city for bikes in the nation: The 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet | WIRED

[sandlapper]

Nice!

[MplsTodd]

Impressive! I look forward to riding the trails again when I'm back in town next month.
Accolades like this can go a long way to offsetting Minnesota's predominant identity as being a "frozen tundra"

[Citizen00]

Yeah were also rated No. 1 healthiest state as well. Go us!

[Umbria]

Kudos to Mpls. Enough people have moved here from other places and have seen what a great area this is - so, our reputation is getting better and better. I'm quite surprised when reading comments on CD where cities are compared to each other and the number of times Mpls comes out ahead.

[Unsettomati]

Frankly, those U.S. cities where the weather is bike-friendly for more of the year than Minneapolis - which is to say, most U.S. cities - should be embarrassed.

The benefits of encouraging more bicycle-riding - reduced motor vehicle traffic, reduced emissions, less demand for gasoline, less wear-and-tear on roads, the resulting fitness - more than compensates for the modest costs involved. And the longer the annual bike-season, the more the benefits/costs ratio increases.

[Mplsite]

^It's also embarrassing for how cheap and highly utilitarian it is. For urban residents bikes are faster than cars or just as fast for shorter trips and for longer trips the time savings are marginal. Minneapolis is under 60 sq mi with mostly everything clustered close toward Downtown, not the outer neighborhoods.

I'm visiting a friend in Lansing and astounded by how little bike infrastructure there is. You can walk from Downtown to Old Town in 20 minutes. I would've had to wait 30 for the next bus and with bikeways you could reach any major district within a half hour: it's not even a half hour from Lansing to East Lansing. But even in a city of 100,000 you have these hostile 3 lane one ways with everyone biking on the sidewalk. Rush hour on these streets is a handful of cars, so clearly lanes could be turned over to bikes with no noticeable effect on traffic. And really, when you can cover a lot of the city by foot in a timely manner, why the insistence to drive? Biking makes so much more sense.

On a national level we've been building our streets for fringe metro commuters who don't even live in the city and pay into city infrastructure.

[StreetLegal]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

Frankly, those U.S. cities where the weather is bike-friendly for more of the year than Minneapolis - which is to say, most U.S. cities - should be embarrassed.

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Kudos to Minneapolis. The rest of the country (especially the warmer weather spots) should take note and build accordingly.

[iNviNciBL3]

Originally Posted by Mplsite

^It's also embarrassing for how cheap and highly utilitarian it is. For urban residents bikes are faster than cars or just as fast for shorter trips and for longer trips the time savings are marginal. Minneapolis is under 60 sq mi with mostly everything clustered close toward Downtown, not the outer neighborhoods.

I'm visiting a friend in Lansing and astounded by how little bike infrastructure there is. You can walk from Downtown to Old Town in 20 minutes. I would've had to wait 30 for the next bus and with bikeways you could reach any major district within a half hour: it's not even a half hour from Lansing to East Lansing. But even in a city of 100,000 you have these hostile 3 lane one ways with everyone biking on the sidewalk. Rush hour on these streets is a handful of cars, so clearly lanes could be turned over to bikes with no noticeable effect on traffic. And really, when you can cover a lot of the city by foot in a timely manner, why the insistence to drive? Biking makes so much more sense.

On a national level we've been building our streets for fringe metro commuters who don't even live in the city and pay into city infrastructure.

No they aren't.

[Mplsite]

Originally Posted by iNviNciBL3

No they aren't.

That must be why I catch up to the same cars ten or so blocks away.