Chart of the Day: Biking (Ethnicity) in Memphis

[Note: this post is best read while listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DFu7oWit0.]

An interesting chart from the Strong Towns blog showing biking rates in Memphis, Tennessee classified by ethnicity.

bike commuting race

Race and bicycling is an interesting topic of conversation that happens too rarely, and brings into focus all kinds of often hidden assumptions about transportation, equity, geography, visibility, and feelings of security.

Bill Lindeke

About Bill Lindeke

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Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.