{"id":274997,"date":"2026-06-23T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:11:39","slug":"brooklyn-ranked-no-1-for-bike-network-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274997\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn ranked No. 1 for bike network connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 BROOKLYN HAS BEEN RANKED the top \u201clarge city\u201d in the U.S. in terms of bike network connectivity, according to Zag Daily in an <a href=\"https:\/\/zagdaily.com\/micromobility\/brooklyn-ranks-as-top-large-us-city-for-connected-bike-networks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">analysis<\/a> of rankings by the nonprofit PeopleForBikes. The organization evaluated more than 3,000 communities across the country this year. Minneapolis came in second and Seattle was third. A \u201clarge\u201d city was set as having a population of more than 300,000.<\/p>\n<p>PeopleForBikes told Zag that the <a href=\"https:\/\/cityratings.peopleforbikes.org\/ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">top-ranking large cities<\/a> have several characteristics: \u201cLow residential speed limits, dozens of miles of protected bike lanes and off-street paths and a focus on connecting people to jobs, schools and other daily destinations by bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 BROOKLYN HAS BEEN RANKED the top \u201clarge city\u201d in the U.S. in terms of bike network&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[76641,105765,3302,98,100,99,9,24,5325,63,105766],"class_list":["post-274997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bicycles-bikes","tag-bicycling-biking","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-paywall","tag-nyc","tag-zag-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}