Category Archives: Statistics
Madison 5th Best Cycling City in US … so far
According to the new site Bike Score, Madison is ranked the 5th most “bikeable” city in the US. Announced during bike to work week, the new rankings comes from the creators the creators of Walk Score and Transit Score. Bike Score launched the new site with rankings for ten major (populations more than 200,000) U.S. cities: To request Bike [...]
Maggie Grabow–The Female Wizard of Oz
In the past eight months–since I’ve started my blog–I have had the pleasure of interviewing so many amazing people in the cycling community. In the beginning, I was actually concerned that I would run out of material. I quickly realized that instead, more avenues presented themselves to me than I ever could have imagined. For [...]
Bicycle Commuting up in Wisconsin Cities
Just over 6% of Madison residents biked to work in 2010, a 20% increase over 2009 according to the latest American Community Survey results released late yesterday morning by the US Census Bureau. That puts Madison in a tie with Portland, OR, which also has 6% of commuters going by bicycle. As a state, .75% of [...]
Wisconsin Slips to #3: Explained
As Tom Held reported in his Off the Couch blog, the League of American Bicyclists released the 2011 ranking of Bicycle Friendly States and Wisconsin has dropped from #2 to #3. Washington remains at the top, but Maine edged past us into second place. The complete list is at the bottom of this post for reference. The League [...]
Women In Motion: New Women Riders Reflect on NYC Cycling
In earlier posts, I have discussed the disparity in numbers of women who ride bikes for transportation both nationally and locally. This issue has been getting a lot more attention lately. Planners have realized that if they can get women biking they have really done something right. New York City is doing a lot of things [...]
Survey Says…
With 131 responses in to the survey I decided to post the results. I can’t say that I am able to draw any amazing conclusions from this survey to determine why women in Milwaukee bike to work in disproportionate numbers compared to other cities. The main reasons women surveyed don’t bike more appear to be [...]
Truth-o-meter for Tom Held’s readers
This is the first reader comment under Tom Held’s recent column about the bike tax in Maine: “Biking is a recreational activity akin to skiing, tennis and golf. It’s a luxury that only a few people choose to partake in.” That comment may represent the perception of a loud, conservative minority, but how true is it? I’ll [...]