We are excited to announce the release of the I Bike PHL Fall 2024 Report. The report focuses on our Philadelphia bike counts, but also highlights new infrastructure across the 9-county region, census data, the status of micromobility and how better bike lanes can save lives of bicyclists and pedestrians.
In February, we did a preliminary analysis of our bike count results that showed a 7% decrease in bike traffic over the Schuylkill River (Spring Garden to South St.) compared to the previous year, alongside a surprising 20% drop in e-scooter usage but scooters still represented 12% of micromobility traffic over the bridges. We also reported that Indego bike share ridership grew by 17%, with over 1.2 million trips taken in 2024, the highest recorded in their ten-year history.
Our bike counts are only a snapshot of a much more complicated picture, taken at fixed locations during peak traffic hours. Besides Indego, other data sources from DVRPC, the Center City District (CCD) and Strava Metro show increases in bike and micromobility traffic. Remarkably, in CCD’s Cycling in Center City report, data obtained from Replica (an activity-based travel model) shows a 67% increase in Center City bicycle trips since 2019.
Many thanks to our Policy Intern Elva Bofang Jiang for managing the 2024 bike count program and to all the volunteers who stood at a corner for 90 minutes with a clipboard and counted bikes by hand.
StoryMap Link – https://tinyurl.com/i-bike-phl-fall-2024