Colin O'Keefe (@colinokeefe.bsky.social)

For the first time since the pandemic, Fremont Bridge bike trips topped 1 million in 2025 and are on pace for a new record People took more than one million bike and scooter trips across the Fremont Bridge in 2025, the first calendar year to top the million mark since the COVID pandemic. But perhaps even more interesting is that 2026 is off the best start ever, recording more trips in January through March than any other year including the outlier high water mark set in 2019. The Fremont Bridge is a key pinch point for several cross-city bike routes, which is why it is probably the city's best location for sampling biking trends. There are few other places in the city where riders are funneled across a single counting point. https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/04/30/for-the-first-time-since-the-pandemic-fremont-bridge-bike-trips-topped-1-million-in-2025-and-are-on-pace-for-a-new-record/