These Suburbs Have Incredible Untapped Potential for Cycling

With its lower densities and longer distances, is suburbia inherently incompatible with cycling for transportation, or could high-quality protected bike infrastructure make this environment comfortable and practical to bike in? While not all suburbs are created equal, you might be surprised at how much potential there is.

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Data & Analysis:

The data analysis was done in R, using the 'osmdata' package to pull data from OpenStreetMap and using 'cancensus' and 'tidycensus' to access Canadian and American population data.

References:

Median commute in different parts of the Los Angeles metro area: https://scag.ca.gov/sites/main/files/...