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Philly Named Fourth-Best Bicycling City in America
Don't tell Stu Bykofsky, but the folks at Walk Score have named Philly the fourth-most bikable city in America.
The city ranked behind Portland—damn those hipsters!—San Francisco, and Denver, with Philly garnering a total "bike score" of 68.4—"bikeable," according to the site's rankings, but just short of "very bikeable." In other words: We're the fourth-best biking city in the country, but we're not that great. The score combines several factors: The number of bike lanes, the hilliness of the terrain, the number of other bikers on the street, and the number of destinations that are easy to ride to.
Here's Walk Score's
Philly Bikeshare Won’t Be Docked on Sidewalks OR Streets
At a forum in Philly last week, a representative from D.C's Capital Bikeshare described the phenomenon of being "dockblocked," in which one shows up to park a bike and all the dock spaces have been filled. Especially at night, in high-traffic areas like Dupont Circle, any Washingtonian can attest that this is a common phenomenon. Well in Philly, the docks themselves are getting dockblocked.
Today, Inga Saffron reports that Philly's forthcoming bikeshare program will include docking stations neither on sidewalks nor on streets themselves. Verdant parks like Rittenhouse Square will probably be off-limits too. All of which raises the question: Where

















