Santa Cruz County

Want to improve Santa Cruz County for biking?

  • Say hello to 'Rate my Routes', the exciting new feature that helps you improve your community for biking!
  • Simply 'paint' your routes with your finger on the Love to Ride app, red for where you feel unsafe and green for where you feel safe
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How it works

1 - Ride Your Bike

📱 Log your trips with the Love to Ride app

2 - Rate Your Routes

🖍️ Paint how you felt using the 4 feelings

The Feelings

  • Rate My Routes enjoyable rating Enjoyable:

    I enjoy riding here
  • Rate My Routes stressed rating Stressed:

    I feel very unsafe here
  • Rate My Routes uncomfortable rating Uncomfortable:

    I feel a little unsafe here
  • Rate My Routes comfortable rating Comfortable:

    I feel safe riding here
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See it in action

Watch how your ratings contribute to the bigger picture. Join the community of riders making a difference today!

Why rate your routes?

🎗️ Make a difference - Your ratings highlight the best and worst parts of your ride, giving a clear picture of what needs to change. Every ride you rate helps make biking better for everyone.

🧠 Give your local council insights - Your feedback helps local authorities understand how people riding bikes feel on your local roads. This helps them to make smarter investments in bike-friendly infrastructure.

😀 Be a part of the movement creating safer and happier bike riding!

Common FAQs

Some of my routes are already rated, do I need to update them?

There’s no need to rerate any of the parts of routes that you’ve already rated unless your feelings towards them have changed. If that’s the case, we’d love to know your updated feelings on the route.

Can you expand on what you mean by comfortable?

Sure, when rating we want you to consider the overall qualities of that section of the route. For example, whether the surface is safe or skiddy to ride on or, if the road is chockablock with traffic or serenely vehicle-free. Your rating should consider the section on balance and summarize your overall feeling about it.

Can I see a map with everybody's ratings on?

It’s coming soon! We’re currently building it. Help us fill the map with your ratings and encourage other people to rate their routes too!

How do you protect the privacy of people rating their routes?

We’ve taken steps to ensure our users’ privacy, safety and security throughout the design and build of the ‘Rate your Routes’ features and the aggregate route maps. Read our full Privacy Statement here.

Go to full list of Rate my Routes FAQs

Ready to Ride and Rate?

Download the Love to Ride app and start rating your routes now.

Together, let's create a better biking experience in Santa Cruz County!