The 2009 American Community Survey (the annual Census estimate) is out.
In Madison, the number of bike commuters is up 40 percent compared to the
2006-8
period, from 4,867 to 6,826.
That raised the share of commuters using bikes from 4.0 percent to 5.1 percent.
(The share increase was less than 40 percent due to higher numbers of total
commuters in 2009.)
Walking to work increased from 9.6 percent to 11.6 percent. Transit went up
from
8.3 percent to 9.3 percent.
Bike-walk-transit total share went up from 21.2 percent to 26.0 percent.
Drive alone went down, from 66.7 percent to 64.8 percent, and carpooling
declined from 10.7 percent to 8.0 percent.
For comparison with other cities that aspire to multimodalism, in Portland,
bike
share in 2009 was 6.2 percent and bike-walk-transit was 24.4 percent. In
Minneapolis, bike was 4.0 percent and bike-walk-transit was 24.5 percent.
Note that you may see slightly different numbers elswhere, because I removed
"work at home" from the pool of commuters, to calculate the share of those who
actually traveled.
Note also that because the single year ACS has a high margin of error, the
change in biking from 2006-8 to 2009 is within the MOE, so we need to see
whether next year's survey confirms a trend. And finally note that MOE works
both ways -- the increase in biking could have been much greater than 40
percent. In any case, it's the best estimate we have, for the moment, so three
cheers for us.
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