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Edmonton's bike lanes carry little or no bicycle traffic when residents observe them.

· captured from a post · Discussed by 10 people

The question it is checked under

How many people in Edmonton cycle, and how much do the bike lanes get used?

This claim is checked as part of that question. One brief covers every claim under it, and each claim still gets its own finding.

The investigation's outcomeGoing ahead

City counters, census commute data and trip surveys can show how often Edmonton’s bike lanes are used and why counts, riders and trip shares are different measures.

The same claim as bike-lanes-nobody-rides, in different words. It is checked there, so it is not checked twice.

Raised in extraction by flash, haiku, luna

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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.

Facebook post · captured · 621 comments

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Every wording of this claim found in the source, quoted exactly. The names are pseudonyms, one to a person within the source; the number is the comment's place in the captured thread.

  • when out I see very few bikes on these very expensive bike lanes.

    Rustic Hare L. · comment 21

  • i have seen bike lanes summer and winter with little or no bike traffic on them.

    Hardy Grouse D. · comment 35

  • These are for a few people while the major don't bike

    Snowy Crow C. · comment 75

  • I drive daily all over this city and hardly ever see bikers and sure don't see them in winter.

    Snowy Crow C. · comment 80

  • We have had one for the last year on 119 ave and no one uses it. In a week there may be 1 rider on the lane.

    Chilly Squirrel O. · comment 320

  • there are almost no pedestrian or cyclists using it.

    Boreal Chickadee M. · comment 383

  • Driving over to whyte ave, peak bike season time mid August, not one bike to be seen

    Misty Jackrabbit D. · comment 403

  • I see a cyclist very rarely.

    Quiet Marmot J. · comment 415

  • They aren’t even that busy.

    Granite Bluejay B. · comment 430

  • The vast majority of cyclists don't even use the lanes still

    Sunny Grebe K. · comment 440

  • Thousands of vehicles vs 10 bikes maybe.

    Icy Bluejay C. · comment 589