If you are a biker in the Twin Cities you already know that the biking trails available in the metro area are fantastic, but how do we stack up against other cities?
Walk Score/Bike Score is a website that measures whether a location is good for biking on a scale from 0 - 100.
Bike Score is based on bike lanes and trails,
hills, destinations and road connectivity, and the number of bicycle
commuters. The new service comes four months after Walk Score raised $2 million
from a group of Seattle angels that included former Amazon.com CTO Shel
Kaphan, former Facebook general counsel Rudy Gadre, entrepreneur Edward
Yim and others. The new Bike Score functionality is available in 10 cities in the U.S.
and 10 in Canada. As part of their introduction, Bike Score rated each
of those 20 cities. Those with scores of 70 or higher are considered “very
bikeable,” while scores of 50 to 69 are “bikeable.” Here is how all the U.S. cities faired:
1. Minneapolis (Bike Score: 79)
2. Portland (Bike Score: 70)
3. San Francisco (Bike Score: 70)
4. Boston (Bike Score: 68)
5. Madison (Bike Score: 67)
6. Washington, D.C. (Bike Score: 65)
7. Seattle (Bike Score: 64)
8. Tucson (Bike Score: 64)
9. New York (Bike Score: 62)
10. Chicago (Bike Score: 62)
