Since 2010, BeyondDC has counted every bikesharing station in America once per year, and ranked every city with a bikesharing network in order of most stations.
| All annual reports | |||
| Year | Report link | Largest city overall | Largest new city |
| 2016 | Report link | New York (645 stations) | Topeka or Philadelphia (it’s complicated) |
| 2015 | No report | ||
| 2014 | Report link | Washington (347 stations) | San Diego (117 stations) |
| 2013 | Report link | New York (330 stations) | New York (330 stations) |
| 2012 | Report link | Washington (191 stations) | Chattanooga (30 stations) |
| 2011 | Report link | Washington (140 stations) | Miami Beach (70 stations) |
| 2010 | Report link | Washington (114 stations) | Washington (114 stations) |
| Largest systems for the most current year Click here for the complete nationwide list |
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| Rank | City | Stations | |
| 1 | New York | 645 | |
| 2 | Chicago | 581 | |
| 3 | Washington | 437 | |
| 4 | Minneapolis | 197 | |
| 5 | Boston | 184 | |
| 6 | Miami | 147 | |
| 7 | Topeka | 138 | |
| 8 | Philadelphia | 105 | |
| 9 | Portland | 100 | |
| 10 | San Diego | 95 | |
Notes: Systems marked with a * are hub-based networks, in which each bike contains a lock and can be docked anywhere. Comparing “hubs” and “stations” can exaggerate the size of hub-based systems. For example, Topeka operates a hub-based network with 138 hubs, but it has fewer than 100 actual bicycles, making it much smaller in practice than Philadelphia’s 105-station network.
Counting the number of bikes rather than stations would be a more accurate way to rank systems, but that information is more difficult and time-consuming to obtain.
Systems covering multiple jurisdictions are counted either together or separately depending on how they choose to represent themselves. Thus Bay Area Bikeshare is counted as a single system, while Denver B-Cycle and Boulder B-Cycle are counted separately.
January 6th, 2014 | Permalink
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