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34 is decent, but room for improvement. I wonder where we ranked in past years?
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Bicycling's Top 50
There are many unspectacular but important things a city can do to gain our consideration for this list. Maybe you've heard of them, or maybeâ€â€given the pace of change these daysâ€â€you've already begun to enjoy them: segregated bike lanes, municipal bike racks and bike boulevards, to name a few. If you have those things in your town, cyclists probably have the ear of the local governmentâ€â€another key factor. To make our Top 50, a city must also support a vibrant and diverse bike culture. It must have smart, savvy bike shops. A few notes: We considered only cities with populations of 100,000 or more. We strove for geographical diversity, to avoid having a list dominated by California's many bike-oriented cities. If your town isn't named belowâ€â€or if it falls on our worst-cities listâ€â€then use this as an opportunity to do something about it, like cyclists in Miami did after their city earned a black mark in 2008. And if your city is one of the 50 lauded below? Go out and enjoy a ride.
1 Minneapolis 26 Boston
2 Portland, OR 27 Philadelphia
3 Boulder, CO 28 Pittsburgh
4 Seattle 29 Charleston, SC
5 Eugene, OR 30 Arlington, VA
6 San Francisco 31 Sioux Falls, SD
7 Madison, WI 32 Boise, ID
8 New York City 33 Kansas City, MO
9 Tucson, AZ 34 Columbus, OH
10 Chicago 35 Tulsa, OK
11 Austin, TX 36 Grand Rapids, MI
12 Denver 37 Billings, MT
13 Washington, DC 38 St. Louis
14 Ann Arbor, MI 39 Cleveland
15 Phoenix/Tempe, AZ 40 Greensboro, NC
16 Gainesville, FL 41 Lexington/Fayette, KY
17 Albuquerque, NM 42 Omaha, NE
18 Colorado Springs, CO 43 Salt Lake City
19 Salem, OR 44 Miami
20 Scottsdale, AZ 45 Indianapolis
21 Louisville, KY 46 Fargo, ND
22 Chattanooga, TN 47 Anchorage, AK
23 Long Beach, CA 48 Baltimore
24 Cary, NC 49 Little Rock, AR
25 Milwaukee 50 Rochester, NY
To prepare this list, we referenced the Bicycling and Walking in the United States 2010 Benchmarking Report, prepared by the Alliance for Biking and Walking; the League of American Bicyclists' Bicycle Friendly America project; data from Mediamark Research, Inc., Dun & Bradstreet and The Nielsen Company; and interviews with national and local advocates, bike shops and other experts.
Source: http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/bicyclings-top-50
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