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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously unless you add a denominator of trips to work in the region, this is a pointless stat. [/quote]
100% this.
A lot of bike commuters are not coming in to office as much now, so fewer trips. Also more telecommuting has resulted in generally less traffic and easier parking, so for some commuters the convenience advantage of biking has decreased.

I agree that if there is big and successful RTO push, we will see more bike commuters.[/quote]
There is nothing more full of excuses than cycling advocates force to look at data confirming that their hobby is exactly as popular as it appears to be. [/quote]

[b]a numerator without a denominator?[/b] lol.

meanwhile CaBi continues to blast through ridership records (actual objective data). https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/15/e-bikes-fueling-record-setting-local-ridership-numbers-for-capital-bikeshare/[/quote]

No. Look at the data. It's about three percent. The population of DC doesnt change very much from year to year, so you can just look at the raw numbers. 18,624 bikers in 2017. 13,376 bikers in 2023. That's a 28 percent decline. [/quote]

omg. the denominator is the number of people commuting to the office, not the number of people. or ideally the number of office commutes but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

meanwhile the best source of data (CaBi usage) just goes up and up and doesn’t seem to have a ceiling. [/quote]

yes, we should totally take the press releases of a company trying to promote its products over figures from the census bureau and the league of america bicyclists. [/quote]

Once again, the Census data is commuter only. Commutes make up about 20% of total trips. CaBi data is data for all trips. If you bike to the park, or bar or get groceries but metro to work then you don't exist in those data. Just like how no one commutes by plane, but yet there are people in the airports all the time. [/quote]

I know that I will probably use CaBi 2-3 times/week to commute if we get called back to the office full time. [/quote]

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