Cambridge Recognized as One of the Country’s Best Cities to Bike

PeopleforBikes conducts annual City Ratings scores to celebrate cities that have dedicated work in recent years to make biking better in their communities. According to their latest ratings,

Cambridge ranked #2 out of 604 medium-sized U.S. cities (50K to 300K) for bicycling, behind only Davis, California.

According to PeopleforBikes, “The city of Cambridge saw one of the largest improvements in City Ratings scores in recent years. In 2019, Cambridge passed the Cycling Safety Ordinance (CSO), one of the strongest Complete Streets mandates in the nation, to require the creation of safe biking routes. In 2020, the city set a timeline to have 25 miles of those routes completed by 2026. By relying on quick-build projects, using bollards and flex posts to create separated bike infrastructure, Cambridge has made substantial progress on the goals outlined in the CSO.”

This is not the first time Cambridge has been on the map for PeopleForBikes. In 2023, the redesign of Inman Square was recognized by the organization as one of the Best New Bikes Lanes in the country. In 2015, Western Avenue was named #1 in America’s 10 best new bike lanes. According to their site, if ever rebuilt street in the United States looked like Western, we’d be on our way to making biking so good that almost every American would choose to do it regularly.”