About 2 percent of all trips in Edmonton are made by bicycle.
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This claim was checked with the question below, in this wording:
Are about 2 percent of all trips in Edmonton made by bicycle?
The evidence affirmatively establishes it.More in the methodology
Yes, roughly. Edmonton residents made 1.7 per cent of their weekday trips by bicycle in the City's 2015 travel survey, which is the most recent one published.
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.
*2% of trips are done by bicycle, although it's higher in neighborhoods with bike infrastructure.
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transportation that includes >2% of trips
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considering 2% of all trips are by bicycle
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stats Canada document titled "Main mode of commuting for the 10 largest census metropolitan areas"
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the 2% figure is corroborated by "2015 Edmonton and Region Household Travel Survey".
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