Tampa Number 9 In The Country In Bike-Commuting Out of the 70 Biggest Cities

Gene Bisbee, my bicycle blog comrade from Seattle, published the top bike-commuting cities in the country. Gene contacted me because he wanted to let me know that Tampa finished NUMBER 9 out of the 70 biggest cities and experienced "the largest growth in bicycle commuting in the past year -- more than double at 121 percent."

Check out Gene's blog at www.bikingbis.com -- Gene reported:


Here are the top 20 bicycle commuting cities of the 375 cities in the report, as compiled by the League. You'll notice that most are home to large colleges or universities. We can hope it shows a trend for the future:

1. Davis, California 22.1%
2. Boulder, Colorado 9.9%
3. Eugene, Oregon 8.3%
4. Berkeley, California 8.0%
5. Cambridge, Massachusetts 6.8%
6. Santa Barbara, California 6.4%
7. Madison, Wisconsin 6.0%
8. Gainesville, Florida 6.0%
9. Portland, Oregon 6.0%
10. Iowa City, Iowa 5.6%
11. Chico, California 5.5%
12. Missoula, Montana 5.4%
13. Flagstaff, Arizona 5.1%
14. Miami Beach, Florida 5.0%
15. Pasadena, California 4.8%
16. Fort Collins, Colorado 4.4%
17. Mountain View, California 4.1%
18. Boise, Idaho 3.9%
19. Seattle, Washington 3.6%
20. Somerville, Massachusetts 3.6%

Top 10 of the 70 largest cities:

1. Portland, OR 6.0%
2. Seattle, WA 3.6%
3. San Francisco, CA 3.5%
4. Minneapolis, MN 3.5%
5. Washington, DC 3.1%
6. Tucson, AZ 3.0%
7. Sacramento, CA 2.5%
8. Denver, CO 2.2%
9. Tampa, FL 1.9%
10. Philadelphia, PA 1.8%

Interestingly, Tampa is the only city on that list of 10 that is not a (League of American Bicyclists) bicycle-friendly city. However, it experienced the largest growth in bicycle commuting in the past year -- more than double at 121%