Redfin Celebrates Bike to Work Week by Honoring Cities Where Safe
and Convenient Bicycle Commutes Are a Priority
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In honor of Bike to Work Week, Redfin (www.redfin.com),
the next-generation real estate brokerage, and Walk Score®, a Redfin
company, today released a ranking of the 10 most bikeable downtowns in
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the nation among cities with populations over 500,000. Redfin analysts
asked local real estate agents and city officials to weigh in on
bikeability as an increasingly common consideration of residents and
homebuyers.
With a Bike Score of 96.4, Center City West in Philadelphia is the most
10. The
Loop, Chicago, Ill. - 84.2
City leaders in Philadelphia have worked over recent years to increase
the number of bike lanes running through downtown and expand the city’s
Indego bike share program. As the bike network grows, safety continues
to be a concern as well as an increasing priority for bicyclists and
governments in Philadelphia and elsewhere across the country.
Bike fatalities decreased by 25 percent in Philadelphia from 2010 to
2014, and education has been a big part of that, according to Clarena
Tolson, Philadelphia’s Deputy Managing Director for Transportation and
Infrastructure.
“One of the keys to bicyclist safety has been greater education and
appreciation for bicyclists as people who deserve to share the road, so
we’ve made that a focus,” said Tolson.
According to Redfin livability analyst Eric Scharnhorst, when cities
build invitations for bicycling, the Bike Score will go up and more
people will use their bikes for everyday transportation.
“Inviting people to travel to work, dinner, school or the hardware store
on a bike requires providing a safe network of bicycle infrastructure.
If you build it, they will bike,” Scharnhorst said. “And you can still
keep your car.”
Methodology
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
To read the full report, click or paste the following link: https://www.redfin.com/blog/2016/05/top-10-most-bikeable-downtowns.html
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