BTS: Docked Bikeshare Trips Fell 3.5% in September; Los Angeles Down 22.1%
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released docked bikeshare data for July through September 2026 on November 4. In September, docked bikeshare trips starting and ending at a docking station on nine of the largest systems fell 3.5% from September 2025, after increases of 3.7% in August and 3.6% in July.
By system, New York's CitiBike recorded the most September trips at 4,959,415 (down 5.8%), followed by Boston Metro's Blue Bikes at 551,735 (down 5.5%), the Washington, DC Metro's Capital Bikeshare at 503,902 (up 5.0%), Chicago's Divvy at 498,100 (up 8.1%), San Francisco's Bay Wheels at 451,629 (up 6.5%), Philadelphia's Indego at 182,198 (up 8.4%), Jersey City's CitiBike at 106,099 (down 8.0%), and Pittsburgh's POGOH at 83,455 (down 13.1%). Los Angeles' Metro Bike Share logged 35,221 trips, down 22.1%, the largest drop among the nine systems; it was the only system to decline in all three months of the third quarter.
BTS also reported that total national expenditures on bicycles rose 0.3% (adjusted for inflation) from August 2025 to August 2026, the latest data available. Data for additional systems and interactive charts are on the bureau's Bikeshare and E-scooters page.
(Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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Photo: 图：纽约 Citi Bike 有桩共享单车站点。Tdorante10 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A Citi Bike docked bikeshare station in New York. Photo by Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
