Quote Originally Posted by kfergos View Post
5. What else? What other factors contribute to your thinking of a ride as good rather than bad?
there!
Law enforcement behavior to cyclists. Do the cops understand the cycling laws? Locally, we have cops that don't give us the required 3 feet on the road and in one city we have cops that state we have no right to be on the road if we can't ride the speed limit. (yes, that is in #2 ranked Wisconsin).

I think the survey that drove the rankings did cover things like having a vehicular homicide law, but what about the response of the DA's on a bicycle/car collision? Hand slap? Or reasonable charges? Again, we had a rider doored in Madison and the cyclist was charged with failure to yield 3 feet, but the car was not charged with obstructing traffic.