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title: U.S. Bicycling Trends 2021 Update
description: "See the 2021 bicycling trends in America’s top 100 metro areas: which cities are losing bike ridership since pandemic year 2020, which are holding ground, and why."
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# COVID TRENDS EBOOK

## U.S. Bicycling Trends 2021 Update

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Now, 18 months into the pandemic, we used StreetLight InSight® to measure bicycling in America’s top 100 metropolitan areas, mapped the results in an easy-to-peruse heatmap format, and extrapolated the causes of ridership trends nationwide to help city planners support their citizens' newfound habit.

*U.S. Bicycling Trends 2021* provides key cycling stats for all 100 metros and includes the following:

- Top 100 national rankings based on percent change in ridership since pre-pandemic
- Data-based POV on “the why” behind cities gaining and losing ridership
- A local data spotlight, zooming in on ridership in central Seattle
- Easy-to-use location-data tools to help you analyze your own locality for bike activity on all streets, not just the few with physical counters

**Download the eBook** for the first national dataset of its kind, and use our granular 2021 cycling insights to inform *your* investments in bike infrastructure.

 

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