Only about 1 to 2 percent of Edmonton's population rides bikes or uses the bike lanes.
· captured from a post · Discussed by 8 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
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
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; the number is the comment's place in the captured thread.
we are talking about huge expenditures for only 2.3% of the populations usage.
Bright Bluejay K. · comment 60
2% of constituents ride bikes! What about the other 98%?
Willow Nuthatch C. · comment 186
1 percent of population to use.
Wintry Raven B. · comment 330
500 people using the bike lanes 4 months of the year.
Bright Woodpecker B. · comment 363
The 1%
Snowy Grouse D. · comment 368
bike lanes for the .001% of the population
Sunny Sparrow M. · comment 399
The whole 1-2%
Misty Sparrow P. · comment 426
Waste of money on 1% of population
Chilly Beaver B. · comment 433