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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Bikes Seven Up-and-Coming Bike Cities that Aren't Portland

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:59 PM

MmmMiami. 70 degrees and bikey.
  • MmmMiami. 70 degrees and bikey.
You know how I'm always yammering about how Portland will fall behind other cities in bike-friendliness if we don't pony up significantly more money for bike infrastructure projects?

Good magazine has a cool article about seven North American burgeoning bike cities—basically a run down of the places that are going to snag Portland's "Best Bike City in America!" crown if we don't watch our back.

Though Portland leads the nation on bike commuting per capita, Good points out that other cities have their own bikey strengths, like Albuquerque's nearly 400 miles of bike lanes/trails, Austin's 80 annual alley cats and the Twin Cities' awesome-sounding Stupor Bowl.

H/T to axoplasm

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