"Newly christened Mayor Zohran Mamdani will have lots of maneuverability when it comes to building bike lanes, thanks to an ongoing cycling boom that has seen New Yorkers take nearly four million more bike trips in 2024 compared to just two years earlier at the dawn of the Adams administration. The increase amounts to 33 percent more trips between 2022 and last year, a boom that"
"Individual bike counters are also hitting impressive milestones: In 2024, two of the East River bridges topped more than two million riders in the same year for the first time ever, with the Williamsburg Bridge recording 2,395,213 crossings and the Queensboro Bride racking up 2,115,228 trips last year. The Williamsburg Bridge has passed the two million trip threshold this year and the Queensboro is on pace to do the same."
Cycling in New York increased 33 percent between 2022 and 2024, rising from 11,557,592 rides to 15,355,798. Year-to-date trips are about 2 percent higher than the same period last year. Major crossings saw record use: the Williamsburg Bridge recorded 2,395,213 crossings and the Queensboro Bridge 2,115,228 in 2024. Kent Avenue and Pulaski Bridge counters each surpassed one million rides in 2024 and repeated the milestone in 2025. The Eighth Avenue and 50th Street counter is on pace for over one million rides. Willis Avenue average daily ridership rose 21 percent to 2,569 in 2025. Citi Bike grew from 1,024,053 January rides in 2022 to 2,123,801 in January 2025.
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