Friday fun in the form of a mapping challenge from the Washington Post's Wonkblog.
Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham follow up on a post from earlier in the week that put bike infrastructure gaps in perspective by showing maps of bike routes removed from the filler of the auto-oriented street grid.
The original post included maps of the bike lane networks in Washington, D.C., Boston, Miami, and Seattle. A few intrepid bike and map enthusiasts even made more versions of cities around the world.
Then for a bit of fun, Badger and Ingraham transformed the map post into a pop quiz, of sorts, to challenge our mental maps. With the benefit of having read the post earlier this week and having most of this post written when I took the quiz, I scored 11 out of 11, earning myself a "Wow A+++!"
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