by John Boyle | May 18, 2023 | Bike Month, Bike Share, Biking in Philly, Biking the Region, E-bikes, News, NJ, Scooters, The Circuit, Vision Zero
Every year since 2005, the Bicycle Coalition has sent our volunteers out on the streets to hand count people riding bikes. These counts along with other various data sources are consolidated into our Annual I BikePHL reports, just in time for Bike to Work or Wherever...
by John Boyle | Sep 21, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, research
Last week the Census Bureau released its 2021 1 year American Community Survey Data for geographies with a population of greater than 65,000. With no ACS data available for 2020, the 2021 ACS was the first to accurately compare where we were with transportation to...
by John Boyle | Sep 17, 2020 | News, Biking in Philly, research
The U.S. Census Bureau has just released the first 2019 update to the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is an annual survey that only samples about 3 percent of the population and supplements the better known Decennial Census. The One-Year ACS data for... by John Boyle | Oct 18, 2019 | Biking in Philly, Featured, research
2017 was a banner year for bicycling in Philadelphia. We counted a record amount of bicycle traffic on the South Street Bridge. The 2017 Census Data which was released about a year later confirmed our trend. Philadelphia was buckling the national trend of stagnated... by John Boyle | Sep 18, 2018 | Biking in Philly, Biking the Suburbs, Featured
Last week the Census Bureau released the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS),showing a bump to 2.6 percent mode share in Philadelphia. The latest ACS release showed that the number of Philadelphia bicycle commuters increased 19.3 percent from 14,397 in 2016 to 17,180...