The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) sent me a heat map of bike trip data they collected through their CycleTracks Monterey Bay program. Volunteers upload trip data to CycleTracks through a website or a smartphone app for transportation planning purposes. AMBAG does transportation planning for San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties in California.

Here’s the detail of the heat map for Santa Cruz County, showing collected data from September 2013 to January 2014.

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Here’s a heatmap showing where people ride their bikes in the central part of Santa Cruz, California, as captured and processed by Raceshape. Red is more, blue is less. Click through to view larger.

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A couple of friends are cycling from the Bay Area town of Campbell, California to Santa Cruz today. After ascending to Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains, they plan to descend on the infamous Mountain Charlie Road for the first time.

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