- Bicycling Magazine
Bicycling Magazine has boosted Portland back up to the top of its “Bike Friendly City” list, after we came out at number two in 2010 (the last time the magazine ranked ’em). The article touts Portland’s Go By Bike valet service, bike boxes, and miles of bike lanes and off-road trails. Take that, Minneapolis!
Minneapolis (the previous top runner) places second this year, followed by Boulder, Washington D.C., and Chicago. Eugene squeezes in at ninth place, making Oregon the only state with two cities in the top ten list.
While it’s nice to reclaim the gold in their rankings, we really can’t whine about 2010’s blip. Aside from that second-place year, Portland has graced the top of the list since the magazine’s first rundown in 1995.
The news may come with a little less fanfare, as it’s on the heels of last week’s fatal bicycle collision with a semi downtown. Nonetheless, the recognition is a huge plus, as national applause occasionally triggers local bike-centric funding and improvement.
PROOFREAD
doesn’t seem so friendly to the mass amount of bike riders that crash on the newly laid street car tracks. in a city this rainy one might think the engineers could come up with a way to not have steel tracks in the ground that get slick as fuck.
Be more careful, idiot. Need someone to chew your food so that you don’t choke, too?
@2 quit whining and learn how to ride your bike. i’ve been biking to work, through downtown and the south waterfront, for 4 years. i cross the streetcar tracks numerous times a day and have never once fallen.
take that, minneapolis!
in your face, minneapolis!
Wow the least religious and most bike friendly, Portland is my kinda place! (Also, way to be assholes fellow bikers @ 4 and 3.)
READING COMPREHENSION
When angry Bikers attack….each other! With lame insults. This could be a good show. Well more interesting than ….”drone” bike lanes…….Top Bike City…’drone” Sam Adams….U Lock…passive aggresive. Off to phone me agent