In Uptown: Bike Traffic On Fourth and Fifth Avenues up by an Average of 346% Since 2012

In late 2012 SANDAG, the region’s planning agency, installed bike counters around the entire county. The question to answer was: how many people were actually riding in the region?

According to the count data obtained from SDSU’s Active Transportation Research, the bike traffic in Uptown has gone up – by an average of 346% since 2012.

And it looks like the biggest jump in bike ridership happened after the buffered bike lanes were striped on Fourth and Fifth Avenues in 2014.

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Build the bike lanes, and ridership comes. Data from Active Transportation Research

 

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Bike lanes solve the vehicle congestion problem and make people happy. Win! Win!

 

Even in car-centric San Diego, if you build the bike lanes, people will ride.

Edit: An earlier version of this post stated that the increase was 71%. That is incorrect as the increase is 346%. 

Edit 2: Here is the raw data.