Best Cycling Cities 2024: PeopleForBikes Weighs In
From GearJunkie.com
Written by Andrew McLemore
The nonprofit PeopleForBikes rates American cities for “bikeability” every year. This report also include 89 cities from the United Kingdom and 44 cities from Australia.
Ready for some good news? America is becoming a better place to ride your bike.
That’s one of the main thrusts of PeopleForBike’s annual report on the most bike-friendly cities in the United States. The 2024 ranking of cities by “bikeability” again gives Davis, Calif., and Minneapolis, the top spots for medium and large cities, respectively. But last year’s winner in the small town category (Provincetown, Mass.) was edged out by the equally photogenic Mackinac Island, Mich.
If you love your bike, you’ll enjoy perusing this list to see how your town stacks up. PeopleForBikes adds more cities to its rankings every year, with more than 2,300 U.S. cities included this go-round. That’s a big leap from the 1,484 cities rated for the Best Biking Cities of 2023.
But perhaps most encouraging is simply watching the uptick of cities that have leveled up their biking infrastructure. In 2019, just 33 cities received a score of 50 or higher (on a scale of 0 to 100). This year, the number of cities in that category reached 183.
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According to the nonprofit, a city with a score of at least 50 is a great place to bike. The nonprofit’s researchers also look at six factors represented by the acronym SPRINT: safe speeds, protected bike lanes, reallocated space for biking and walking, intersection treatments, network connections, and trusted data.
