Victoria indicatorsBike trips past downtown counters
1,088,691 counted trips, year to date
No target expected. This is a context measure. 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. Targets and comparisons
Up 5.4% in a year.
Source: City of Victoria (CRD counters). We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
Jan–Jun 2026 Counted trips, year to date, by period
- 1,088,691 counted trips, year to date
Targets and comparisons
Context measure: no target expected
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.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| Jan–Jun 2026 | 1,088,691 |
| Jan–Jun 2025 | 1,033,131 |
Who decides
City of Victoria Council. Owns and manages the City’s streets, including bike lanes. Community Charter, s. 35
Show the law and the dates
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| City of Victoria Council | Owns and manages the City’s streets, including bike lanes. | Community Charter, s. 35 |
No government decides this directly. People decide how they travel.
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52.
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- 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.
One more limit
- Weather moves bike counts a lot, so year-to-date totals are compared with the same months a year earlier.
In plain words
Bike trips recorded by the Capital Regional District’s automatic counters downtown from January to the latest quarter, added up in the City’s quarterly economic dashboard.
How we decide “Better”
The change is 5.4% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.
More counted trips means more people are cycling downtown. 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)).
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. It shows how much the downtown bike network is used.
- 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.
Which places
Area: Downtown Victoria
The City of Victoria’s Downtown neighbourhood only.
Included
- The Downtown neighbourhood as drawn on the City of Victoria’s official neighbourhood map
Not included
- Every other City neighbourhood (for example James Bay, Fairfield, North Park and Burnside)
- All other municipalities
Official definition
How the agency describes it: Downtown Victoria (CRD bike counters).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Quarterly (City economic dashboard); latest release Aug 21, 2026 (date of the agency’s file)
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:28 PM B.C. time
Source: City of Victoria, Victoria's Economic Dashboard, Q2 2026. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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