Seattle, WA
Seattle is no longer the #1 bike friendly city in the nation
Though Seattle was knocked off its pedestal, so to talk, we’re nonetheless one of many prime ten bike-friendly cities within the nation in keeping with WalletHub and Anytime Estimate. Our regional rival (coined by Axios), Portland ranks No. 2 and No. 1 accordingly.
So what makes Seattle such a bikeable metropolis? In accordance with Axios, Wallethub appears to be like at these particular parameters which embrace, “geographic traversability, variety of biking commuters, and entry to trails and bicycle retailers.”
Seattle scored a 71 out of 100 whole factors, which locations us at No. 8 general.
Katerina Winge manages Wheel Enjoyable Leases on Alki Seashore and tells KIRO NewsRadio, she’s not stunned we’re within the prime 10.
“It’s really fairly cool. The place I work, Alki, is unquestionably like an enormous heavy metropolis, and it doesn’t shock me one bit,” Winge stated.
She goes on to inform us that biking has turn out to be part of our tradition and its actually cool that we stored getting ranked within the prime ten.
One other state value mentioning is California as a result of it had probably the most cities on the bike-friendly listing with San Francisco coming in at No. 6.
Bureau bike gross sales sky rocketed through the pandemic, in keeping with the U.S. Census, and extra folks rode bikes to work and elsewhere to socially distance themselves from different folks.