Only about 1 to 2 percent of Edmonton's population rides bikes or uses the bike lanes.
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Checked as
This claim was checked with the question below, in this wording:
Do only about 1 to 2 percent of Edmonton's population ride a bicycle?
The public record can’t back this up — not the same as proven false.More in the methodology
Nobody can tell from the published record. No representative survey of Edmontonians has published how many of them ride a bicycle.
The question it is checked under
How many people in Edmonton cycle, and how much do the bike lanes get used?
Going ahead. One brief covers every claim under that question, and each claim still gets its own finding. The question's page carries the reason, the grouping and the other claims made about it.
Where it came from
Taken from Yegscoop post on council's 2026-08-26 bike lane decision, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this one is listed whatever became of it.
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How it was said
Every wording of this claim found in the source, quoted exactly. The names are pseudonyms, one to a person within the source.
we are talking about huge expenditures for only 2.3% of the populations usage.
Bright Bluejay K.
2% of constituents ride bikes! What about the other 98%?
Willow Nuthatch C.
1 percent of population to use.
Wintry Raven B.
500 people using the bike lanes 4 months of the year.
Bright Woodpecker B.
The 1%
Snowy Grouse D.
bike lanes for the .001% of the population
Sunny Sparrow M.
The whole 1-2%
Misty Sparrow P.
Waste of money on 1% of population
Chilly Beaver B.