{"id":5675,"date":"2012-07-09T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/09\/the-city-with-most-bike-lanes-top-50-best-bike-cities\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:26","slug":"the-city-with-most-bike-lanes-top-50-best-bike-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/09\/the-city-with-most-bike-lanes-top-50-best-bike-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The City with Most Bike Lanes &amp; Top 50 Best Bike Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inline image 1\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&#038;ik=22ede273a4&#038;view=att&#038;th=1386bdd41feab334&#038;attid=0.1&#038;disp=emb&#038;realattid=ii_1386b81a180b2f82&#038;zw&#038;atsh=1\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/07\/06\/bicycling-in-chicago-city_n_1654983.html#slide=1002578\"><b><span>HERE<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0to see a slide show of America&#8217;s top 50\u00a0<span>bike<\/span>\u00a0friendliest cities. The slide show is at the bottom of the page, below the short two minute video about Chicago\u00a0<span>biking<\/span>\u00a0(which is ranked 5th).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Readers of my book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/awake-again-all-way-back-from\/id493218199?mt=11&#038;ign-mpt=uo%3D4%2522%2520target%253D%2522itunes_store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awake Again<\/a>, will recall all the trouble I had\u00a0<span>biking<\/span>\u00a0in Washington DC (pictured above), where my ride ended back in 1979. Now it is the 4th best\u00a0<span>biking<\/span>\u00a0city in the Nation<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the slide show, you will also learn that Tucson (12th ranked), at 620 miles worth, has the most\u00a0<span>bike<\/span>\u00a0<span>lanes<\/span>\u00a0in the Nation.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0THX 4 all of U!!\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click\u00a0HERE\u00a0to see a slide show of America&#8217;s top 50\u00a0bike\u00a0friendliest cities. The slide show is at the bottom of the page,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/09\/the-city-with-most-bike-lanes-top-50-best-bike-cities\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,78,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-nbggrabbag","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1tx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9057,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/02\/09\/bike-shops-and-attractions-now-on-most-nbg-biking-city-maps-including-our-ca-mayors-ride-cities\/","url_meta":{"origin":5675,"position":0},"title":"Bike Shops and Attractions now on most NBG Biking City Maps including our CA Mayors\u2019 Ride cities","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"February 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"If you visit our SF to DC map at BikeRoute.com, and click on any of the NBG Biking Cities <link> you see there, a quick menu will come up that takes you to the map that connects that city to the previous city on the map with a bike route.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Indianapolis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Indianapolis","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/indianapolis\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screen shot 2015-02-09 at 12.42.17 PM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-09-at-12.42.17-PM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15509,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/08\/25\/nbg-biking-report-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":5675,"position":1},"title":"NBG Biking Report Cards","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Power of Our Biking Report Cards\u00a0 Biking Report Card The most important component in this annually revised document (our NBG Biking City's profile) is each city\u2019s Biking Report Card. 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