Bikeshare Roars Back From the Pandemic
The shared micromobility market has been resilient even as commuting patterns have shifted. But electric scooters have struggled — and costs are up for riders.
A Citi Bike station in Manhattan in 2022, which saw the municipal bikesharing system set new ridership records.
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Ridership of shared micromobility has almost completely bounced back from a dip during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new report, even as prices have risen and user patterns have changed.
An analysis of usage trends for vehicles like e-scooters and docked bikes in 2020 and 2021 from the National Association of City Transportation Officials, released today, shows that after a deep decline across all modes of travel in 2020, the number of micromobility trips taken nearly doubled in 2021, to 112 million. Since the dawn of the tiny vehicle revolution in 2010, US ridership has reached half a billion total rides.