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Most Bike - Friendly Cities on the Planet

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Bicycle-friendly policies and practices help some people feel more comfortable about traveling by bicycle with other traffic. The level of bicycle-friendliness of an environment can be influenced by many factors resulting from town planning and cycling infrastructure decisions.

Bicycling is often used as an alternative to travel by car. Automobile travel provides increased mobility and convenience for travelers, but also has high costs associated with taxes, insurance, fuel, maintenance, road construction and repair, and contributes to air pollution. When infrastructure is built to allow consumers to choose between automobile and other forms of travel, it reduces a community's automobile dependency and allows for more efficient land usage.

Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists. This includes the same network of roads and streets used by motorists, except those roads from which cyclists have been banned, plus additional bikeways that are not available to motor vehicles, such as bike paths, bike lanes, cycle tracks and, where permitted, sidewalks, plus amenities like bike racks for parking and specialized traffic signs and signals.

A bikeway is a lane, route, way or path which in some manner is specifically designed and /or designated for bicycle travel. Bike lanes demarcated by a painted marking are quite common in many cities. Cycle tracks demarcated by barriers, bollards or boulevards are quite common in some European countries.

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Rank	Cities	Country	Description
1	COPENHAGEN	Denmark	With a huge leap in the percentage of residents biking and continued investment in smart infrastructure, Copenhagen is back in the number one slot after a few years in second place.
2	AMSTERDAM	Netherlands	The Dutch capital is still one of the world's best cycling cities, but suffers from its insistence on maintaining a status quo, rather than trying to improve, think modern, and take things to the next level.
3	UTRECHT	Netherlands	Voorstraat Street Central in Utrecht.
4	STRASBOURG	France	What this French city has achieved is the result of a generation of planners who insisted on cycling as transport. Cycling in Strasbourg is a pleasant affair and, as it should be, the quickest way from A to B.
5	EINDHOVEN	Netherlands	Cycling in the city is steady and strong. The Floating Roundabout captured our imagination and we are looking forward to what else the city can produce that is functional and iconic.
6	MALMÖ	Sweden	The main city in Sweden's most bicycle-friendly region-Skane-Malmo has been insistents on reestablishing the bicycle on the urban landscape. A highlight since 2013 was the opening of a bicycle parking facility at the train station that makes even Copenhagen look awkward.
7	NANTES	France	The French city is investing in infrastructure,but is also dedicated to traffic calming, which only serves to make cycling a more attractive option. The main boulevard is now virtually car-free for through traffic and the city has put in a demonstrative cycle track down the middle.
8	BORDEAUX	France	The city continues to take bicycle transport seriously. Its investment in tram lines has helped boost cycling by providing a traffic calming effect. The VCub bike share system rolls on and Bordeaux is still focused on marketing cycling to the mainstream through effective advocacy.
9	ANTWERP	Belgium	Clear influences from across the border in the Netherlands have given the Belgian city an impressive modal share for bicycles and the bicycle as transport is embraced by all ages and wages. There are ample parking facilities around the city and the train station parking remains one of the best in Europe.
10	SEVILLE	Spain	Once the poster child of the cycling world, the Spanish city slips to a respectable tenth place from a lofty fourth. Simply because the status quo that seems to affect all manner of cities seems to have slowed the development pace.
11	BARCELONA	Catalonia	The city has employed a mixture of traffic calming measures and infrastructure to make it great to choose a bicycle for transport. It is one of the cities in the world with the largest swathe of 30 km/h zones, and while the bicycle infrastructure network is far from complete, it is usable and frequented.
12	BERLIN	Germany	Berlin as a bicycle city is like Berlin as an everything else city. It’s a bit rough around the edges, it could be much better, but people get on with it. The cycling population is mainstream, with few visible sub-cultures and a healthy gender split. A high city-wide modal share is punctuated with neighborhoods that exceed 20 percent.
13	LJUBLJANA	Slovenia	The Slovenian capital’s journey started in the late 60s and early 70s when 25 miles of Copenhagen-style cycle tracks were built across the city. It maintained a respectable level of cycling for decades. Chosen as the European Green Capital in 2016, it’s once again placing focus on increasing cycling levels making itself a more livable city.
14	BUENOS AIRES	Argentina	In a shockingly short amount of time, the Argentine capital has succeeded in modernizing itself to include bicycles as transport. In the past three years, over 87 miles of bicycle infrastructure has been implemented—much of it protected—along with a bike share program.
15	DUBLIN	Ireland	What the Irish city has achieved over the past few years is fantastic. The perfect cocktail of politicians who get it, investment in infrastructure and facilities, traffic calming measures, and an epic bike share system accelerated the city’s journey to urban modernization.
16	VIENNA	Austria	The Austrian capital featured in the Top 20 in 2011 and bounced out in 2013. It's back with a vengeance this time round. Outside the traffic-calmed center, there are cycle tracks and facilities that put many other cities around the world to shame. The competition is tougher in Europe.
17	PARIS	France	For all the talk of cities like Seville and Dublin, the transformation of Paris is an exciting one. Not least because cities like London and New York take notice when their equals do things differently. Traffic calming like 30 km/h zones and removing last-century car infrastructure helped continue the charge.
18	MINNEAPOLIS	USA	Minnesota's largest metropolis boasts 120 miles of what it calls “on-street bikeways” and 90 miles of off-street lanes. It's quickly becoming the go-to city in the US for building infrastructure. An impressive modal share helped push it onto the Index, and we like the political will coming out of City Hall.
19	HAMBURG	Germany	The city is no slouch on the global scale, but it is as though it’s reluctant to modernize its infrastructure. It gets bonus points for traffic calming with its plans to make the center car-free in the coming years, which helped it stay on the list. As far as modal share goes, there are few cities outside Europe that can compete.
20	MONTRÉAL	Canada	The city continues to impress, despite slipping in the rankings. A strong gender split—unusual for North America—and stretches of decent infrastructure with impressive numbers of cyclists using them each day keep Montréal’s baseline firm. A great bike share system and consistent advocacy adds to the cocktail.

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