Capital Bikeshare celebrates Pride month. Image by Joe Flood licensed under Creative Commons.

Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) broke the all-time monthly ridership record in May 2024, recording 515,394 trips across the Washington, DC, metro area. Annual ridership is up 31.3% through May 2024, as the record-setting month takes the regional network to 2,000,128 trips this calendar year. The CaBi system has now seen year-over-year monthly increases in ridership for 29 consecutive months.

Data from Capital Bikeshare. Image by the author.

E-bikes remain popular amongst riders, as 46.4% of trips were taken on the quicker (albeit more expensive) option. As is consistent with monthly ridership, CaBi’s annual members made up a majority of rides in May with 65.2% of trips. Although a CaBi membership includes free 45-minute rides on classic red bikes, 47.5% of members chose to ride e-bikes.

Data from Capital Bikeshare. Image by the author.

On Bike to Work Day (May 17), CaBi had a cameo with another type of member… a member of Congress. Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following video in which several members of her commuting bike squad chose CaBi:

Last year’s annual ridership data revealed Capital Bikeshare as the third-busiest bike sharing network in the US, following the Chicago and the New York City metro areas. Through May 2024, CaBi leads Chicago’s DIVVY Bikes in annual ridership by over 300K trips. Learn more in this month’s Pedal Medals:

Data from Capital Bikeshare. Image by the author.

What did we miss? Reach out to editor@ggwash.org and let us know what you’d like to see in our monthly breakdowns, ideas for the future of CaBi, missed pun opportunities, or lighthearted Pedal Medals to award.

Since its inception in September 2010, Capital BikeShare has moved millions of riders around the Greater Washington metro area and is an affordable and efficient mode of transportation for residents and tourists alike. CaBi publishes its system data online each month, providing insights into ridership for the month prior and highlighting the rapid growth in user engagement around the city. All dissemination of this information by Greater Greater Washington is in good-faith compliance with the Capital Bikeshare Data License Agreement.

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Samuel Littauer is a resident of the Woodley Park neighborhood in Washington, DC, and is endlessly curious about the way people engage with their natural and built environments. He is passionate about environmental protection, transit, urban planning, community development, and pestering his pals into moving to the District.