There was an error in the original report. Please use this link instead. http://www.bikeleague.org/sites/lab.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/ACS_report_final_.forwebpdf.pdf
The original link on page 2 has Boulder as the top city for % of total population in the 200,000 to 499,999 but Boulder only has 101,000 people. The link above is correct and has Madison as the top city for this population range. -Michael Chronister > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:59:16 -0600 > From: Robbie Webber <[email protected]> > To: Bikies <[email protected]> > Cc: Dave Cieslewicz <[email protected]>, Tom Klein > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bikies] Madison ranks high in new LAB report > Message-ID: > <CAOT7DYy2Dc1K67j=jdi_-SM=Qt89gvcdZ7GwmHBHZf7p=ha...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Madison friends - > > The League of American Bicyclists just issued a report on bike commuting in > US cities. I've always felt that Madison didn't get its due because we were > not one of the largest 50 (or 70) cities, so we get left off the list of > "top cities." > > But the new report shows how well we do in a number of categories: > > 11th overall in the shear number of bike commuters. Pretty impressive, > considering we are 92nd in size in the US. > > By percent of commuters: > #1 in the Midwest > #1 in cities over 200,000 (Take that Portland and Minneapolis, who are > always ranked # 1 and 2 in most surveys.) > #1 for coldest cities > #1 for snowiest cities > #9 overall by bike share - and all above us are smaller, and all are > college communities > > We are also way, way ahead of any other city our size - 200k - 300k. In > Madison 6.23 percent of people get to work by bike. The next closest is > Boise, ID with 2.78 percent. > > However, we should not be resting on our laurels, because we do NOT rank > anywhere in the 50 cities where bike commuting is growing the fastest. > Wisconsin is also # 13 as a state in percent of bike commuters, bested by > some other very rural and also cold-winter states. Wisconsin also isn't > seeing big gains in the percent of people biking to work. Tennessee had > more than a 100% increase 2005-2012. (Of course, if you start low, it's > easier to make gains.) > > Great job to everyone who has worked so hard to make biking easier, safer, > and more fun. But let's not let up on doing even better. We don't want to > slip in the rankings! > > Full report here: > http://www.bikeleague.org/sites/lab.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/ACS_report_forweb.pdf > > > Robbie Webber > Transportation Policy Analyst > State Smart Transportation Initiative > www.ssti.us > 608-263-9984 (o) > [email protected] > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.danenet.org/private.cgi/bikies-danenet.org/attachments/20131119/31a61730/attachment-0001.htm> > > ************************************** _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
