Ride the City: safe bike routes made easy

Welcome to Ride the City, a website that helps you find the safest bike routes in cities.

Like MapQuest, Google Maps, and other mapping applications, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points, with a difference. First, RTC avoids roads that aren't meant for biking, like highways and busy arterial streets. Second, RTC tries to steer cyclists toward routes that maximize the use of bike lanes, bike paths, greenways, and other bike-friendly streets.

Remember that Ride the City is in its beta testing phase. Click the feedback link in the menu bar to send us your route suggestions and it will make the site even better.

Who made Ride the City?

Ride the City was launched by Vaidila Kungys (@vaidila) and Jordan Anderson (@jordan_anderson), friends who met while enrolled in New York University's urban planning program.

Ride the City would not have been possible without: Josh Steinbauer, who designed our logo and the site's initial layout; AnnMarie Harris, our favorite writer, editor, and marketer; and all of the good people of New York, Chicago, Austin, and other cities who have provided data and feedback to help us expand the service and improve the quality of the routes.

Copy the link in the box below, and then paste it into an email message.

Enter your cell phone number, choose your carrier, and click Send. (No, we don't keep your phone number. And yes, your carrier's normal SMS charges may apply.)

Send

This will soon include a wizard that generates html for a Ride the City widget. For now, just copy the iframe code html below and paste it in your website. You can use virtually any width greater than 270 pixels and any height greater than about 300 pixels (though it will be more usable if it's bigger, of course).

Based on what you know about biking in the city, please rate the route using the options below.

Excellent—just what I would have done
Pretty good—close to the best possible route
OK, but it took a few unusual turns
Pretty bad—it was more wrong than it was right
Terrible from start to finish

In the box below, please let us know what you liked or disliked about this route (or about Ride the City in general). If you include your email address, we can respond when we fix the problem you identify -- or clarify the problem.

In the box below, please let us know what you like or dislike about Ride the City.

If you include your email address, we can respond when we fix the problem you identify -- or just email you to say thanks for your input.

Submit feedback

Welcome to the to the alpha version of Ride the City v2.0. Feel free to take the site for a spin and let us know what works (and especially what doesn't).

You can submit comments and suggestions for improvement via the feedback link on the menu bar.

Thanks for stopping by,
Jordan & Vaidila
(info@ridethecity.com)

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Welcome to Ride the City! We'll help you find a safe bike route.

Enter your starting and ending address (or drag the cyclist and stop sign icons to the map). We'll take it from there.

start where_from

Please enter your starting address or intersection in the text box above. (Or drag the green cyclist icon around the map.)

stop where_to

Please enter your destination address or intersection in the text box above. (Or drag the stop sign icon around the map.)

You've selected the most direct route. Ride the City makes no attempt to steer you toward safer streets with this option. Please ride with care.