REDMOND, WA — The Seattle-Bellevue area is home to tens of thousands of cyclists, miles of bike lanes, and who knows how many Lime and Uber rideshare bikes — but that doesn't mean the region is a biker's paradise.

The nonprofit group PeopleForBikes published its 2019 nationwide city ratings this week, and every Puget Sound city on the list earn middle to low ratings. The group used a scoring system to evaluate cities based on five key areas: ridership, safety, network, acceleration and reach. Each city was ranked on a scale of five stars. In Puget Sound, Seattle scored the highest with 2.3 stars overall. Seattle also had the highest score for bike ridership, but it scored pretty low for "acceleration," which is a measure of how quickly the city is building bike infrastructure. Seattle did get a relatively high rating for the existing bike network, however.

In March, Seattle announced that it would not include bike lanes along a rebuilt 35th Avenue Northeast, a major artery connecting Lake City, Wedgwood, and the University District. Meanwhile, SDOT build just over 2 miles of bike lanes in 2018, the lowest amount in three years. Bellevue, meanwhile, is looking to expand its downtown bikeway, a project that is technically still in the pilot phase. In Redmond, work is underway on a "Spine Network" of bike infrastructure, but the project will only be about half done by 2030.

Here's the breakdown for each city in the region that made PeopleForBikes' list. Seattle (2.3 stars)

Ridership: 3.2

Safety: 2.1

Network: 3.1

Reach: 2.3

Acceleration: 0.7 Bellevue (1.6 stars)

Ridership: 1.7

Safety: 2.3

Network: 2.1

Reach: 1.4

Acceleration: 0.5 Redmond (1.7 stars)

Ridership: 1.8

Safety: 2.2

Network: 2.3

Reach: 2

Acceleration: 0.6 Kent ranked the lowest of the 12 Washington cities on the list with 1.3 stars overall. Kent was also one of the lowest rated in the nation, falling just behind Oklahoma City and Trenton, N.J. Colorado is home to the two best cities for biking, the report found. With scores of 3.74 and 3.64 out of five, Boulder and Fort Collins outpaced the rest of the country. Here are the 10 best cities for biking and their scores: