{
  "id": "downtown-bike-counts",
  "geography": "Downtown Victoria (CRD bike counters)",
  "scope": "city",
  "period": "Jan–Jun 2026 (year to date)",
  "period_start": "2026-01-01",
  "period_end": "2026-06-28",
  "refresh_frequency": "Quarterly (City economic dashboard)",
  "category": "Downtown",
  "title": "Bike trips past downtown counters",
  "levels": [
    "People and businesses",
    "Municipal (streets, City facilities)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many bike trips did the CRD’s downtown counters record from January to the latest quarter, compared with the same months a year earlier?",
  "value": 1088691,
  "display_value": "1,088,691",
  "unit": "counted bike trips, Jan–Jun 2026",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
    "previous_value": 1033131,
    "change_percent": 5.4
  },
  "trend": "improving",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More counted trips means more people are cycling downtown.",
  "trend_basis": "1,088,691 from January to June 2026 against 1,033,131 in the same months of 2025 (+5.4%), adding the quarterly totals in the City’s economic dashboards (Q1: 2025 350,049, 2026 369,597 (dashboard Q1 2026); Q2: 2025 683,082, 2026 719,094 (dashboard Q2 2026)).",
  "since_text": "Latest quarter (Q2): 719,094 against 683,082 a year earlier.",
  "caveats": [
    "Counts from the Capital Regional District’s automatic bike counters downtown, as added up in the City’s economic dashboard (“Total, all downtown bike counters”, source: CRD). The same rider is counted at each counter passed.",
    "Weather moves bike counts a lot, so year-to-date totals are compared with the same months a year earlier.",
    "The City began its quarterly dashboard in 2026, so a full 12 months is not yet available."
  ],
  "calc_steps": [
    "Q1: 2025 350,049, 2026 369,597 (dashboard Q1 2026)",
    "Q2: 2025 683,082, 2026 719,094 (dashboard Q2 2026)"
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
      "value": 1033131
    },
    {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2026",
      "value": 1088691
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
    "dashboards": [
      {
        "quarter": "Q1 2026",
        "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q1-2026-finalpdf",
        "reads": "2025: 350,049; 2026: 369,597"
      },
      {
        "quarter": "Q2 2026",
        "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026",
        "reads": "2025: 683,082; 2026: 719,094"
      }
    ],
    "locator": "City economic dashboards Q1 2026 and Q2 2026, “Downtown bicycle counts: Total, all downtown bike counters” (SOURCE: CRD) (each gives the quarter and the same quarter a year earlier)",
    "reads": "Q1 2026 dashboard: 2025: 350,049; 2026: 369,597; Q2 2026 dashboard: 2025: 683,082; 2026: 719,094",
    "page_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/ec-dev-data-report-q2-2026#page=3",
    "page": 3,
    "publisher_page": "https://www.victoria.ca/building-business/economic-development"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "2025: 350,049; 2026: 369,597",
    "2025: 683,082; 2026: 719,094"
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-08-21",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:28:00Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "activity",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 5.4% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Jan–Jun 2025",
      "value": 1033131,
      "text": "vs Jan–Jun 2025: +5.4%"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "better",
    "label": "Better",
    "arrow": "▲",
    "rel": 5.4,
    "delta": null,
    "vs": "Jan–Jun 2025",
    "cur": "Jan–Jun 2026 (year to date)",
    "why": "The change is 5.4% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "5.4%",
    "one_year": "+5.4%",
    "long_why": "The series starts in Jan–Jun 2025, so there is no reading longer than one year yet."
  },
  "data_published_basis": "file dated",
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 4,
    "rung_name": "Context measure: no target expected",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "context",
        "label": "Context measure: no target expected",
        "area": null,
        "source": null,
        "documents_checked": null,
        "text": "Context measure: no target expected. A count from bike counters, shown as activity. The share of trips by bike is on the walk, bike and bus page, against the regional target."
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "no_target_expected": "A count from bike counters, shown as activity. The share of trips by bike is on the walk, bike and bus page, against the regional target.",
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": null,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "COV",
      "name": "City of Victoria Council",
      "decides": "Owns and manages the City’s streets, including bike lanes.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "cc35",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 35",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_03#section35"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "People decide how they travel."
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "City of Victoria Council",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "better",
    "label": "Better"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 7,
    "text": "No target expected",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": "A count from bike counters, shown as activity. The share of trips by bike is on the walk, bike and bus page, against the regional target."
  }
}