canyoneagle

I'm in Salt Lake City for now, so I guess I'll call it "my city"

SLC is better than average to excellent the closer one gets to the city center. Many streets and avenues have dedicated bike lanes, the buses have bike racks, and the city's transit hub has a full bike shop / bike parking/storage. The city publishes a map showing bike-oriented route info.

I lived in Calgary for two years, and the Bow/Elbow river pathway system is excellent. however, some areas of the city lack any bike-oriented considerations, but it is not difficult to plan a route to just about anywhere you might want to ride.

Knoxville, TN had a few roads with wide shoulders, but nothing really remarkable as far as designated bike routes/infrastructure is concerned. I lived there in '01-'03 so things may have changed.

I lived near Margaretville, NY for a couple of years (central Catskills), which was a popular area for recreational cyclists. Most roads had shoulders and signage warning motorists of shared use. There were some stunning cycling routes along the Delaware river and the reservoirs that it feeds.

Las Vegas was surprisingly easy to navigate by bicycle, particularly west of I-15. Bike-specific considerations were average, but I had little difficulty getting around.

Andy_K 

I'm generally underwhelmed by my city's support for bicycling. A year or so ago, after much debate, they restriped a street to add bike lanes and remove street parking. That was a very big deal.

My county, on the other hand, and particularly the regional parks and rec department, do a pretty good job of providing support for cycling. There's a very ambitious plan to connect a series of MUP through local parks criss-crossing the county and I actually see progress on it every year. The county is also reasonably responsive to my complaints about bike lane conditions and traffic sensors. Of course, living next to Portland it's hard not to be a little jealous.

FWIW, Beaverton, in addition to being the least romantic city in the U.S. is a League of American Bicyclists Bronze-level community. I don't think we deserve it.

fietsbob

Shared MUP along the river, got planked in between the trolley tracks
on the trestles.

and they don't bust cyclists using the sidewalk
when there is no decent riding space on 4 lane Marine drive/OR 30..

that doesn't help the pedestrian hit by a driver, in town , saturday.
but amongst the guys next of Kin is the owner of an auto dealership..

erg79

Those League of American Bicyclists awards can be pretty dubious. Cyclists in the places that they award bronze level (saying something nice about valuing bicyclists seems to be good enough for a bronze) to don't seem to have their opinions weighted for much, and the token award allows the city to point to the recognition as if they're making a big difference.

Cassave

City of Los Angeles;

https://planning.lacity.org/cwd/gnlpl...icyclePlan.htm

Mostly just new class 2 paths in the doorzone.

zoltani

Surprisingly commuting in knoxville has grown quite a bit since then, though there haven't been that many infrastructure improvements. The greenway system is alright to get from downtown to bearden.

nashcommguy

My 21.1 one way commute starts out w/6.5 miles on the Natchez Trace Parkway into Leiper's Fork, TN. From 7 miles of beautiful, almost car free cycling to NO SHOUlDER for 2 miles. Fortunately, the speed limit is 30 mph and I pass through there around 5:45AM, so the traffic's pretty minimal.

The rest of the route has a 12-18" shoulder/stone zone that I ride in for the most part. It's a 45 mph road w/plenty of blind curves, but it's the only game in town, so I just deal with it. The city of Franklin has put in some bike lanes, but they're nowhere near my commute route.

So, no they haven't done anything, really. Except there is a '3 ft' law now. But, it's a state law.

FunkyStickman

I will be honest, I am shocked at how much infrastructure they are putting in around N.O. After having lived there for 10 years (Westwego, Gentilly, and Algiers) we moved back to the country, and now that I'm back into cycling, it makes me wonder what it would be like. Not enough to go back, mind you, but it would be nice!

We are fighting to even be recognized as people out here in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish.

zephyr

My city has been incorporated for only 20 years, and most of the streets and neighborhoods were built post 1970. Overall, a fairly new city. Luckily when the development began in this area the main through streets were all laid out with a generous width on the right shoulder. In the past few decades, all of these wide shoulders became bike lanes, and curbside parking along the main streets is generally illegal. This makes the bike lanes very good routes for general transportation. I don't know why this city is not on the list of LAB Bike Friendly cities, but there are not many places I've been that are actually more bike friendly.

The other good thing my city does is run a fleet of street sweepers on a regular basis. The real reason they do this is to try to minimize trash getting into the storm drains (to prevent pollution runoff into the ocean). The side benefit is the bike lanes stay fairly clear of junk accumulation.

In April a new major street is opening from my neighborhood going about 2.5 miles to connect to a main street in Irvine. That new street will include an 8 foot wide bike lane in each direction along the shoulder. And the new bike lanes will link up with existing bike lanes going in other directions on both ends of the new major street. It all adds up to making it easy to travel in any direction along almost all main streets here in Lake Forest, CA. The one exception for bike access along main streets is a two mile stretch of El Toro Road, the main commercial corridor in our city. There are no bike lanes along El Toro Rd in the main commercial corridor, but you can get to the commercial areas from other side streets in all directions.

irwin7638

I live in Kalamazoo, Mi and the cities here are bending over backwards for cycling. Not only are they putting in bike lanes whereverthey fit,they are soliciting complaints and suggestions from the bike clubs to improve road conditions and routes.

Marc

spare_wheel

my city has replaced perfectly functional bike lanes with debris strewn cycle tracks that come complete with barriers, curves, dangerous crossovers, right hook blind spots, and increased risk of being hit by kamikaze pedestrians.

AdamDZ

Well, NYC is doing a lot good stuff. With two exceptions: most outer boroughs are neglected and there is not enough education. They basically slap bike lanes everywhere hoping people will figure out how to use them. And there are still no good an safe ways to ride to Manhattan from far sides of Queens. But lots of effort and money is being put into biking infrastructure for sure.

jdswitters

Fort Collins has a bicycle planner and they are going for the platinum rating, currently gold. League of American cyclists.

Bike lanes, MUPS, training courses next year, sensors at lights for the bike lanes.

I was looking for a way to identify bicycle friendly businesses last year and found a website called https://wearebikefriendly.com/order/ recently and ordered up a few for my favorite bike friendly places, hoping to start a trend. Sometimes it takes a little personal action to get others on board a program, not everything has to be started by the city.

locolobo13 

Weirdly enuff Phoenix built me a new bicycle path. Not really but they did build a new path just before my job changed locations. The new path is better than the old one so I lucked out.

frpax

Tempe, Arizona is the home of ASU, so it is very bike friendly. Most of the main roads have bike lanes, and there are a few MUP's (which I do not use).

zephyr

I was in Portland last year and noticed some of that stuff. I was thinking, this is the world famous bicycle paradise? It looked whacked, I don't like those barriers separating the bike lane from the car traffic. In my city, the street sweeper vehicles clean off the bike lane every week or so, which keeps the debris to a minimum. In Portland, with barriers separating the "bike area" from the regular motor vehicle traffic, the street sweeper vehicles can't get into the separate bike area.

Fredmertz51

They haven't ordered their minions to beat and arrest me for being a "Radical". Yet.

tsl

Pitch a tent in the park and say you're occupying it. That'll do the trick.

Rhodabike

Saskatoon isn't bad for bike commuting, but the bike lanes and paths tend to end abruptly. I wish they would work more on connecting the loose ends of routes.

macteacher

Im in Mississauga, Ontario.....and generally I find it terrible. A few paths here and there...but it is lacking in connective routes. The problem with the suburbs is the long distances people have to travel and the only thing to see on the routes is the rows and rows of houses....just terrible post 1960's planning. Their bike plan has a 20 year schedule.

neil

Edmonton says a lot of good things. And then does a half-ass job of doing anything they said they would. There's been a recent push to install more bike lanes, but they're intermittent - turning into sharrows every few blocks, disappear or do stupid things at intersections, etc. - and don't really work. Then they're shocked that they're not well used.

But that's pretty much our motto. "If it's not half-assed, it's not Edmonton."

thomr

Supposedly my current place of residence is the largest city without public transportation, at all. None. Really surprising coming from living in big cities like Seattle, San Diego, and LA area. They did approve a "bike plan" and so far made a 3/4 mi. bike lane on a road that goes absolutely nowhere, lol! So ya, go Arlington, TX!

Doohickie

In Fort Worth, the mayor IS a bike commuter. Here's a video from a couple years ago, before she was mayor. I appear in that video at 1:16 & 1:49. Other notables that promote bicycle commuting are the city manager and the president of the local public transit service. They are in the process of installing showers in City Hall for anyone who works there that wants to bike commute.

There are several construction projects ongoing which will include separated bicycle lanes to cross some of the major physical barriers around here (the river, the rail yard). There are at least 4 new bridges being built that will include dedicated bicycle infrastructure.

Booger1

Around L.A. there helping alright,they've painted some arrows that drivers have no idea what they are and added some bike lanes in the door zone....Thanks!

The little town I live in has put up a couple bike lane signs around town and the cops haven't pulled my over for obstructing traffic in a couple months.