With 3.67 million bike trips counted across Auckland by 28 regional and city centre counters, Auckland Transport (AT) cycle counters showed that cycling continued to grow in 2017.
On average, this is 10,055 bike trips per day and means almost 7200 trips that could have been taken by car were instead taken by bike.
AT’s Walking, Cycling and Road Safety Manager Kathryn King says the extra 220,000 trips can be attributed to new cycling infrastructure, better cycling network connections, and more people discovering how easy and enjoyable trips by bike can be.
“It’s not just people riding for exercise. There are more parents riding with their children in bike seats on their way to school, people commuting by ebike in their work clothes and more women and older people on cycleways.”
Tuesday 21 November 2017 was the busiest day for the network with 17,529 trips recorded. Tuesdays took out the top nine busiest days for the counters.
“We’re really pleased with the year-on-year growth we’re seeing across Auckland and we expect to see the growth continue over 2018 as we continue delivery of a safe cycling network,” says King.
In 2017, AT’s Active Modes research showed that 35% of Aucklanders cycled, up from 31% in 2016.
41% of those riders were cycling for key point-to-point journeys, such as to the shops, work, places of study and to get to public transport.
www.at.govt.nz/cycling-walking/cycling-walking-monitoring/monthly-cycle-monitoring