Originally Posted by
gerv
I'm sure there's some different way they calculated all this...
They may have been right about Des Moines, though... it wasn't on the list. On Friday it was raining hard with a good 40mph wind. The only other non-car commuter was a guy running up the MUP with only swimming trunks on. He probably thought I was nuts,too..
One thing I notice about the list in the OP is that many of those places are college towns. So while Des Moines isn't on the list, both Ames and Iowa City are. And at the top of the list are several communities that are completely dominated by their universities. Stanford, obviously, Isla Vista is basically off-campus housing for UC Santa Barbara, and UC Davis is a huge presence in Davis. For these college towns, the figures will depend a great deal on whether you count students biking to the campus as commuters.