Riding in Passaic

Ring by ring

The survey drops 12 evenly spaced points on each ring around the town centre and keeps the ones that land near a road. The middle column is how many points that was on the e-bike network — the sample size behind the shares beside it, so a thin ring is visible rather than hidden in an average.

Reach counts a point as reached when a legal route exists inside the survey’s horizon and is not wildly indirect. A ring can read lower than the ring outside it — the legal network is fragmented, so distance and reach are not the same question.

The legal network Passaic sits on

New Jersey’s roads that a low-speed 50cc scooter may legally use break into 13,308 disconnected pieces. Passaic’s centre attaches to one carrying 136 municipalities and about 3.65M people — the largest in the state. What a scooter or an e-bike may ride is set by state rules rather than by this survey; those are laid out on the New Jersey rules page.

See Passaic on the map

Both links open the live map centred on the town and draw everything reachable within 10 miles of riding — the outermost survey ring — on that vehicle’s network.

Nearest towns with a page

The closest municipalities in this pilot, by distance between town centres. Neighbouring towns often sit on different legal networks, so the numbers can diverge sharply over a few miles.

All 46 towns in the pilot — a first set, selected by rule from the 419 municipalities whose survey rings carry enough road points to publish. More follow.

Questions about riding in Passaic

The short versions of what's above, answered from this town's own survey numbers.

How far can a 50cc scooter ride from Passaic?

Of the surveyed points on rings 2, 5 and 10 miles out, a low-speed 50cc scooter can legally reach 65% of the ones that land on a road — against a statewide median of 16%. That is a measure of the legal network's shape around Passaic, not of distance a scooter can travel: the limit is which roads connect, not the tank.

Is an e-bike a better way to get around Passaic?

By reach, yes: a pedal-assist e-bike reaches 100% of the same points, because it may use paths and the faster roads New Jersey's low-speed-scooter rules keep off. Statewide the median town goes from 16% on a scooter to 98% on an e-bike.

How quiet are the e-bike routes around Passaic?

When the router is told to prefer the lowest-speed roads and paths, 66% of the resulting route miles from Passaic stay on them, against a statewide median of 60%. It is a low-speed measure of the routing available — never a scenic, road-condition or comfort rating.

What legal network is Passaic connected to?

Passaic's town centre attaches to a connected component of legal low-speed roads covering 136 municipalities and about 3.65M people — the largest such network in the state. New Jersey's legal low-speed network is split into thousands of pieces, so which piece a town sits on decides how far a ride can go without leaving it.

Where the numbers come from

This page is generated from the committed statewide survey behind the dead-zone atlas — a frozen, reproducible snapshot rather than a live feed. It measures legality and low-speed routing only, never road condition, scenery or comfort.

metric versions

ring-survey/v1.0 · ring-survey-ebike/v1.0 · ride-quality-ebike/v1.0

scooter graph build

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e-bike graph build

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data commit

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road topology

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boundaries + population

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