Over 2,300 trips taken on Biketown bike share in first 24 hours

People are warming up to bike share in Portland.
(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland)

It hasn’t taken long for Portland to embrace bike share. Just 24 hours after it launched yesterday Biketown is already getting lots of praise from users on social media and in the streets. And the initial statistics back up the enthusiasm.

Not everyone is a fan of course, but I’ve visited a few dozen stations already and everyone I’ve talked to has had a positive reaction. Now we have our first glimpse of data to see how the system is doing.

According to numbers released by Biketown’s operator Motivate Inc. today (at our request), there have been 2,366 trips taken on the system since it was launched yesterday at 11:30 am.

Here are the daily numbers in more detail (as of 11:00 am or so) along with some other fun stats:

7/19/2015 (launch day, system went live at 11:30 am)
Trips taken: 1853
Trips per bike: 1.92
Average Trip Length: 1.64 miles
Average Trip Duration: 22 minutes
Miles traveled: 3,041 miles
Annual memberships sold: 1,234
Casual memberships sold: 907

7/20/2015
Trips taken: 513
Miles traveled: 679 miles
Annual memberships sold: 18
Casual memberships sold: 118

It’s still very early and the numbers will get more useful once we’ve got a full month of data — but we can’t resist doing a bit of comparison.

So far Portland’s system gets more rides per day than Minneapolis’ Nice Ride system got after five years in service. Nice ride, which has much lower station density that Portland, got 1,118 trips per day on average in 2014 (source: NACTO). On the other end of the scale, Chicago’s bike share system and Citibike in New York City get over 6,700 and 24,300 daily trips respectively.

From a membership perspective, Biketown seems to be doing quite well. 1,252 annual memberships have been sold since they went on sale June 14th. Contrast that with Seattle’s bike share system which had 1,154 members at the end of its first full month post-launch.

How is Biketown treating you? We’re following many different bike share story threads and we’d love to hear your feedback. Feel free to email, Tweet, text or whatever else to share your thoughts. And follow our ongoing Biketown coverage here and on Twitter @BikePortland.

— Jonathan Maus, (503) 706-8804 – jonathan@bikeportland.org

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