Grad school cities? How cycle friendly are they?

[Geonz]

Check out our fearless U of Illinois down here in Champaign-Urbana. It's got a teeny fraction of Chicago's traffic and lots of folks on bikes and the weather is a tad better, tho' compared to florida I'm not sure you'd notice. Now, our U is having some issues and scandals with admissions (that special "I" list if you knew somebody who knew somebody so your actual qualifications didn't quite matter as much) and the prez just quit - to become faculty at 300K ... but when I looked at grad schools I went "to the library" on the Internet to see which professors wrote stuff I liked in the journals and landed in South Carolina.
Commuting here is easy if you pick where you live -- there are a couple of areas where it's only trafficky roads to get to the U, but anywhere else there are nice residential options. We're also putting together a pretty good plan for the future - seems the powers that be are slowly grokking that it really, honestly is cheaper to humor that eccentric bunch of cyclists since fewer cars on campus has gawdzillions of advantages.