Mapping Bike Culture: Philly Scores High, More Data on the Way

by Joe Petrucci, Flying Kite

Among our nation's largest 10 cities, Philadelphia easily has the most people riding their bicycles to work, a known fact spread by local bicycle advocates for a few months now. There's even a really useful map, put together by University of Oregon Environmental Studies Master's student Kory Northrop, which the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia blogged about earlier this week.

The map, using American Community Survey data from 2004-2009, also says we've got more people bicycling to work than all American cities except for Portland, and rank ninth nationally according to percentage (2.16 percent). We're one of only three East Coast cities (Boston and D.C. are the others) on the list.

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