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Building Better Communities Spotlight: Ryan Johnson + Culdesac

By: Kimberly Huntress Inskeep, contributing writer
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The Benefits of Great Places to Ride

By: Martina Haggerty, vice president of infrastructure
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PeopleForBikes City Ratings: What’s New for 2025

By: Jack Foersterling, editorial content manager
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2024’s Best New U.S. Bikeways

With amazing new bike infrastructure being built across the U.S., PeopleForBikes collected some of the best bike projects built in the last year to celebrate how all kinds of communities are benefiting from safe, fun, and connected places to bike.

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Supporting Better Biking in Chicago With the Active Transportation Alliance

PeopleForBikes is supporting the nonprofit advocacy organization’s efforts to transform Chicago streets by making biking safer and more accessible for everyone.

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Boost Your City Ratings Score With These Four Policies

Explore top policy approaches to accelerate the construction of bike infrastructure to help your community climb the ranks of PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings program.

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2024’s Most Improved Cities for Biking

Through City Ratings, PeopleForBikes evaluates the progression of bike networks in thousands of U.S. cities. Discover which cities improved the most over the past four years and how they did it.

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Utrecht's Constant Commitment to Make Biking Better

Explore a first-hand account of what it’s like to travel around one of the best cities for biking in the world.

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Bikeable Hometowns: PeopleForBikes Staff Celebrate Their City Ratings Scores

Using the popular Strava Art method, eight PeopleForBikes staffers share what it’s like to bike where they live.

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These Midwest College Towns Are Making Big Strides for Better Biking

We’re celebrating Ames, Iowa; Madison, Wisconsin; and Ann Arbor, Michigan as Cities on the Rise as part of PeopleForBikes’ 2024 City Ratings.

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Great Biking Isn’t Just for Big Cities

The top 10 small cities in PeopleForBikes’ 2024 City Ratings scored an average of 89 out of a possible 100, showing that great places to bike come in all shapes and sizes.

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Investments in Infrastructure and Community Make Salt Lake City a Great Place to Bike

One of our 2024 Cities on the Rise, the Utah capital city raised its City Ratings score from 46 in 2020 to 52 in 2024.

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How Pro-Bike Policies Transformed Cambridge, Massachusetts, Into a Top City for Biking

As one of our 2024 Cities on the Rise, building better bike infrastructure isn’t just the norm in Cambridge, it's the law.

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This Michigan Tourist Destination is the Best Place to Bike in the U.S.

New this year, Mackinac Island ranked #1 overall in our 2024 City Ratings.

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Bicycling Is Improving in Cities Across the U.S.

With seven years of City Ratings results, dive into the data and explore how bicycling has changed in cities nationwide since 2018.

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2024’s Best Places to Bike

This year’s City Ratings results feature some new and familiar faces across our top small, medium, large, and international cities for biking.

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Why is Bike Infrastructure Important?

When people have safe and accessible places to bike, communities become safer and more sustainable, residents enjoy better physical and mental health, and the local economy thrives.

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What Makes a Good Bike Network?

PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings program measures six factors found in good bike networks captured by the acronym SPRINT.