A Few Surprises in New Bike ScoresRichard Florida and Sara Johnson | Dec 19, 2012

The website Walk Score http://www.walkscore.com/ announced Tuesday the extension of its "Bike Score" rankings for neighborhoods and places to 25 cities. (See The Atlantic's initial coverage of the launchhttp://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/05/walk-score-launches-bike-score/1994/.)

The cities are scored on a 100-point scalehttp://www.walkscore.com/bike-score-methodology.shtmlbased on four factors: bike lanes, hills, destinations and road connectivity, and bike commuting mode share. It was developed in collaboration with researchers at Simon Fraser University and The University of British Columbia. Here's how the scoringhttp://blog.walkscore.com/2012/12/bike-score-expands-to-25-cities/breaks down.

*Read the article here*: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/12/few-surprises-new-bik...

**Canadian cities** – surprisingly, and rather oddly, the scores fall in the lowest category of "somewhat bikeable", even for Montreal and Vancouver, but maybe it's a function of the data provided by these municipalities (and there's no score for Winnipeg, boo! we'd do really well on the hills rating):

- Toronto http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/ON/Toronto - Vancouver http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/BC/Vancouver - Montreal http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/QC/Montreal - Calgary http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/AB/Calgary - Ottawa http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/ON/Ottawa - Halifax http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/NS/Halifax - Victoria http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/BC/Victoria - Saskatoon http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/SK/Saskatoon - Charlottetown http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/PE/Charlottetown - St. John's http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/NL/St_Johns - Moncton http://www.walkscore.com/bike/Canada/NB/Moncton