This section quantifies the overall Bike Share Toronto network size in terms of infrastructure (stations and bikes) and demand (bike share ridership, or trips taken). This is shown per year.
The observed bike share ridership (taken as departures from stations), number of stations used in trips and number of bikes used in trips per year are shown below
Ridership
- Among North American bike share systems, Toronto (4.6 million trips) ranked third in 2022 ridership behind only New York (CitiBike, 30 million) and Chicago (Divvy Bike Share, 5.6 million) and was ahead of bike share systems in other large North American cities including Boston (Blue Bikes, approximately 3.5 million trips), Washington, DC (Capital Bike Share, 3.4 million) and San Francisco (Lyft, 2.4 million). Strong year-over-year growth has been consistently observed in total ridership across the Bike Share Toronto network.
Bike Share Infrastructure
- Except for a two-year period of 2020 and 2021, the network infrastructure in terms of available stations and bikes that were used in bike share ridership has been showing strong year-over-year growth. Growth was again observed in 2022 and future expansion plans are in place to increase pre-2020 network expansion rates in 2023, which will bring bike share to previously unserved neighborhoods within the city.
🔆 Key Insights
These large ridership numbers and expanding network footprint in 2023 provide an opportunity for MCU to greatly increase awareness in their programs by advertising to this audience of bike share users now.