2013 US Bike Score Rankings

[fflint]

From the folks who brought you Walk Score comes this year's 2013 list of top ten bicycling cities (with over 500,000 people).

Click on the city name to go to Bike Score's series of maps showing overall score, bike lane density, hills, attractions and bike commuters.

Top 10 Most Bikeable Large U.S. Cities

1. Portland (Bike Score: 70.3)

2. San Francisco (Bike Score: 70.0)

3. Denver (Bike Score: 69.5)

4. Philadelphia (Bike Score: 68.4)

5. Boston (Bike Score: 67.8)

6. Washington D.C. (Bike Score: 65.3)

7. Seattle (Bike Score: 64.1)

8. Tucson (Bike Score: 64.1)

9. New York (Bike Score: 62.3)

10. Chicago (Bike Score: 61.5)

This is the first year they imposed a 500,000 population cutoff. Last year, Minneapolis (score: 79) topped this list.

You can also look up the rest of the 100 cities they have scored on their main page.

[Hayward]

The heat maps are helpful and confirm my suspicions about Chicago where the South and far West sides really don't have all that many lanes. All it would take is lanes on those major E-W roads to boost the city score quite a bit. I did a double check with the city bike map, and it's true although lanes are proposed. It certainly doesn't help boost ridership down there when no lanes exist on those busy roads.

Look at Cambridge though! They got their sh!t together!

[TwasBrillig]

Great info. Thanks!

[mrnyc]

well nyc is going to jump right to the top of that list after memorial day when the city bikeshare bikes come online.

[antinimby]

^ I noticed they added all those racks seemingly overnight, some on crowded narrow streets that couldn't afford to lose any bit of space.

Sometimes you have to wonder about the people planning these things.

[fflint]

^Street space wasn't "lost," it was reallocated.