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March 13, 2006
The best bicycling city in the U.S.? It's Portland, Oregon
The Rose City takes the title for 2006, as awarded by Bicycling magazine in its March issue.
The magazine said that the reason was not the city's abundance of bike paths nor its bicycle–friendly police (they give out free lights rather than tickets to lightless night riders — imagine that).
Bicycling wrote that cycling's popularity there has passed the "tipping point" such that the underlying attitude is now one of bicycle friendliness.
Must be nice.
For cities with populations between 200,000 and 500,000, Madison, Wisconsin came first followed by Tucson and Albuquerque.
Portland, named the best cycling city among those with a population between 500,000 and a million, was followed by Denver and Seattle.
For cities with populations over a million, San Diego came first followed by Chicago and New York.
The worst?
Atlanta, Boston and Houston.
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Let's face it, here in Atlanta, a wheeled contrivance of any form is in serious peril. Not to mention adult pedestrians, children and ambulatory infants cut loose from their handlers, and of course dogs, cats, etc. It's terrifying on these mean streets. You might as well be in Rome. (Italy.)
There are places where bicyclers ride, apparently in relative safety. I've seen it with my own eyes. But my advice to anyone coming to this city? Stay off the streets. Period. Don't drive, don't walk, don't bike. The automobile drivers are insane. They don't know how to handle the vehicles they operate, they don't know/follow the rules of the road, they freak when they have to drive in snow or ice, or for that matter, over a wet leaf. And their numbers are growing, and growing....
Posted by: Flutist | Mar 13, 2006 3:09:00 PM
