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On the eve of Bike to Work Day comes Walk Score’s annual ranking of the most bikeable cities in the country. So where did D.C. fall this year? Well, it looks like we—gasp!—dropped in the rankings of the most bikeable cities in the country!
According to this year’s rankings, via Redfin, D.C. is the seventh-most bikeable city in the country. Per usual, the company has a unique way of measuring such a score. They explain:
Bike Score measures whether a location is good and safe for biking on a scale from 0 – 100 based on four equally weighted components:
- Bike lanes
- Hills
- Destinations and road connectivity
- Share of local workers’ commutes traveled by bicycle
This put’s D.C.’s bike score at 69. This actually considerably higher than in years past (in 2013, D.C.’s bike score was at 65.3), but as the District becomes more bike-friendly, so are other cities, which makes the competition stuff. According to Walk Score, “the Capital Bike Share [sic] program is great, with miles of bike routes, and the city’s topography is bicycle friendly.”
Meanwhile, cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Boston, and, uh, San Francisco (with all those hills? Really?) remain the top six most bikeable cities in the country.