- Local
- Community
- Journalism
Support the independent voice of Denver and help keep the future of Westword free.
B-cycle wrapped up its second season last Friday, and the official numbers are in: 202,731 total rides from when B-cycle rolled out in March until 11 p.m. on December 9. That's nearly double last year's numbers, though a teeny bit short of the bike program's goal of 206,000 rides -- something the brains at B-cycle blame on the recent snowstorms. Thanks a lot, snow. You ruin everything.
Here are some more B-cycle-related numbers:
Short-term memberships (24-hour, seven-day, thirty-day) purchased: 42,318
Annual memberships purchased: 2,659
B-cycle rides: 202,731 rides
Miles ridden: 431,817 miles
Average ride: 2.13 miles
12,954,510.9 calories burned
3,701.3 pounds lost
618,041 pounds of carbon emissions avoided
19,034.5 pounds of toxic air pollutants avoided
31,420.5 gallons of gasoline not used
$104,316 (estimate) saved on gasoline
$612,491 (estimate) saved on car parking
B-cycle will be in hibernation until March 2012. When it reopens, it will be bigger and badder. As reported in Westword's City Limits this week, two grants totaling $1.1 million will allow B-cycle to add another thirty stations and 175 bikes to the program, mostly in the areas of City Park, Capitol Hill, the Golden Triangle and Highland.
More from our Follow That Story archives: "Should Denver Zoo elephants be renamed after Toyota vehicles in light of $5.4 mil donation?"
Like Melanie Asmar on Facebook!
Keep Westword Free... Since we started Westword, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we would like to keep it that way. Offering our readers free access to incisive coverage of local news, food and culture. Producing stories on everything from political scandals to the hottest new bands, with gutsy reporting, stylish writing, and staffers who've won everything from the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing award to the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. But with local journalism's existence under siege and advertising revenue setbacks having a larger impact, it is important now more than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" membership program, allowing us to keep covering Denver with no paywalls.
