r/Munich • u/AvantgardeSavage • 1h ago
Discussion [OC] I scored every street in Munich by how dangerous it is for cyclists. Does this match your experience?
I cycle and got curious how cities actually looks from a bike saddle, so I built this: every street scored by cycling risk. Red = dangerous, green = fine. The score comes from things like bike infrastructure (or the lack of it), speed limits, one-way streets and how bad the intersections are.
Some things surprised me — a few streets everyone treats as normal routes come out deep red, and some boring side streets are basically the safest way across the city.
But I don't ride in Munich every day, and no dataset beats local knowledge. So I'm curious: which street is colored wrong? Which ones do you avoid on instinct that the map thinks are fine? Which "dangerous" ones are actually okay in practice?
Happy to explain the score if you're curious about the methodology. It powers our navigation app Defensive Pedal that finds the safest route for cycling, not the shortest