Infrastructure Stories
Boost Your City Ratings Score With These Four Policies
2024’s Most Improved Cities for Biking
Utrecht's Constant Commitment to Make Biking Better
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Makes a Good Bike Network?
PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings program measures six factors found in good bike networks captured by the acronym SPRINT.
The Power of Complete Streets Mandates
Explore the crucial role of Complete Streets mandates in creating great bike networks as part of our blog series, "A Legislative Playbook to Build More Bikeable Communities.”
You Can Help Improve Road Safety Across the United States
Your voice matters in shaping federal updates that will prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users, including people who ride bikes.
Federal Grants Help Bike Projects Reconnect Communities
Bikes were a big winner in USDOT’s recent round of grant awards for the highly competitive Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Program.
Own Your Backyard: An Industry Guide to Supporting Local Bike Infrastructure
Discover how your business can help get more people on bikes more often.
Paving the Way for Complete Bike Networks: The Essential Role of State and Local Funding
While billions of dollars in federal funding is available for bike infrastructure, local and state funding still plays the biggest role in financing better bike networks.