Washington Area Bicycle Facts: According to the Commuter Connections 2007 State of the Commute Survey: 17% of all commuters live less than five miles from work The average bike commute is 6 miles each way Mean days per week for bicyclists is 3.2

According to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' 2007-2008 Household Travel Survey:

• 1% of work trips in the region are by bicycle, up from 0.7% in 1994.
• The District of Columbia has the highest bike commute share at 3.3%, followed by Alexandria at 2.7%.
• 30% of bike trips in the Washington region are to and from work.
• There are more than 30,000 work-related bike trips in the Washington region everyday.

Bike to Work Day May 2007 Washington Region Event Survey

• The Bike to Work Day event increases bicycle commuting- 21% of survey respondents
  said they never commuted by bicycle before participating in the annual event.
• The Bike to Work Day event expands the frequency of bicycle commuting- 12% of survey
  respondents who commuted by bicycle previous to the event, said they started
  bicycling even more after particpating in the event.

Video Counts

Memorial Bridge usage 699 bicycles; 14th Street Bridge intersection 2,990 bicycles.
Conducted by VDOT in 2008 (12 hour counts).