Bicycling is San Francisco’s fastest growing mode of transportation and help the city reduce congestion, reduce pollution and create more capacity on Muni.

Notable numbers from the SFMTA 2015 Bicycle Count Report,  include:

• There are an estimated 82,000 bicycle trips in San Francisco per day.
• Bicycling increased 184 percent from 2006 to 2015 at the same 19 intersections.
• 15 automated bicycle counters found that weekday bike trips in San Francisco increased by 8.5 percent from 2014 to 2015 (an increase of 200,000 bike trips, from 2.438 million to 2.644 million.)
• 2015 was the first year San Francisco’s bike counter on Market Street reached 1 million bike trips logged, a 25 percent increase over 2014.
• 85 percent of bicycle improvements made in 2010 – 2014 are located in neighborhoods that have grown to have more than the citywide 4.4 percent bicycle commute mode share.
• In 2015, October had the highest daily bike ridership with approximately 322,000 bikes logged at the 15 locations monitored by automated bicycle counters, with events like the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival contributing to the spike in biking.
• According to the American Community Survey, bicycle mode share for commute trips made within San Francisco reached 4.4 percent in 2014, up from 2.3 percent in 2006.

More Than 1,000,000 Trips Logged on Market Street

More People Are Biking to Work

Morning Commutes Spike, Evening is Spread Out

200,000 More Weekday bike Trips in 2015

What Are the New Major Bike Projects in SF?

In 2016 SF plans to break ground on three major streetscape projects that will increase safety on Polk, Masonic and 2nd Street, and make 22 miles of bike engineering improvements across the city, from green bike lanes to fully separated bikeways.