{"id":7748,"date":"2014-01-20T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?page_id=7748"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:11:49","slug":"june-2003-santa-cruz-1-bike-city-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/june-2003-santa-cruz-1-bike-city-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2003: Santa Cruz #1 Bike City in USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following appeared in June 2003 on the Santa Cruz Bike mailing list:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As what is the smallest multi city county in the state of CA, San Francisco is a city and a\u00a0county, Santa Cruz has, most arguably, the most intense concentration of bicycle activity than\u00a0anywhere in the world. As per the Santa Cruz Bike Scene<\/a><\/strong>,<\/p>\n

Santa Cruz has:<\/p>\n

– More bike shops (11) per capita (52,000) than anywhere in US
\n– More national bike businesses (13) than any city in the US
\n– Full time city bike coordinator
\n– More Miles of bike lanes per mile \u00a0of road than anywhere in US
\n– Most beautiful bike roads in the world within minutes
\n– County sponsored electric bike program
\n– Home to largest electric assisted bike store in the US! Electric Sierra Cycles
\n– 2nd largest Bike to Work program<\/a><\/strong> in the US
\n– Home to many bike celebrities
\n– Active bicycle email list
\n– Home of National Bicycle Greenway<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(now in\u00a0San Francisco and Castlebar, Ireland)
\n– Home of Santa Cruz Hub<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0which includes: People Power (model bike
\nadvocacy group) Bike Church (model volunteer run bike repair) Ped Ex (model bicycle
\ndelivery service)
\n– Virtual Tour of Santa Cruz<\/a><\/strong>
\n– Most miles of mountain biking trails per mile of road than anywhere in the US
\n– Home of largest Greenway festival in the US – the Santa Cruz NBG Bike Fest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is there any disagreement to the above contention?? If you don’t want to answer in this forum, my<\/p>\n

email is NBG@REMOVETHISbikeroute.com<\/p>\n

MARTIN KRIEG: “Awake Again” Author c\/o BikeRoute.com 79 & 86 TransAms, nonprofit Nat. Bicycle<\/em>
\n Greenway CEO Ever wanted anything so bad U were willing to die for it? Really die? By moving thru<\/em>
\n clinical death and reversing paralysis, *I saw God* when I answered that question.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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