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This page features snapshots of how BIKETOWN and e-scooters performed as a shared micromobility system in 2025. Here you will find milestones, ridership numbers, and information on all of the outreach we conducted in 2025.
2025 Highlights
Portlanders took over 2.1 million trips on shared bike and e-scooters in 2025, which is an overall 17% increase of bike and e-scooter share rides compared to the year prior. This is wholly due to the increase of e-scooter share rides. Find more data about both systems on PBOT's interactive micromobility dashboard. These snapshots provide an overview of program changes and updates throughout the year.
Similar to 2024, BIKETOWN 2025 ridership decreased in comparison to 2024. We saw a 32% (!) increase in e-scooter ridership year over year.
There are many factors that could contribute to the decrease in BIKETOWN ridership including an aging fleet, a reduced fleet due to theft and loss, high costs for rides, or not enough BIKETOWN stations near people. We want to understand what would help riders use bikeshare and e-scooter share more! We ran a community survey from January - mid February 2026 and will share results soon. If you were able to take it, we appreciate your input!
PBOT pursued grant funding in 2024 to update the policy to allow for e-mobility charging in the right-of-way. The team was successfully awarded a $200,000 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Innovative Mobility Program grant for policy development for curbside micromobility charging. In 2025 the PBOT team worked through fiscal challenges with the grant team and ODOT to ensure this work can get underway in 2026.
Shared Micromobility Overview
Shared micromobility refers to lightweight vehicles available for public use. In Portland, this refers to the BIKETOWN bike-share and e-scooter programs. Launched in July 2016, BIKETOWN is PBOT's bike-share program. After extensive community engagement, PBOT opened Adaptive BIKETOWN in 2017 to serve people with disabilities and others unable or uncomfortable riding a conventional two-wheeled bicycle. In 2024, PBOT launched its first permanent e-scooter program contracting with BIKETOWN (Lyft) and Lime after piloting the program since 2018.
A major difference between the shared bike and scooter systems is their reach. With the launch of the city's permanent e-scooter program in summer 2024, e-scooters operated citywide (145 square miles) with two companies—Lime and Lyft (BIKETOWN)—providing about 3,500 electric scooters between them. In contrast, BIKETOWN bikes can only be operated within a defined geographic boundary. When the bike system launched in 2016, the system covered 8 square miles in the central city with 1,000 bikes. BIKETOWN deployed 3,014 bikes in 2025 and as of the end of year, the system covered 45 square miles with over 245 stations. Importantly, much of Southwest and parts of Southeast and East Portland are not included in the current bike-share service area.
NIKE is BIKETOWN's founding program partner and title sponsor. BIKETOWN for All and Adaptive BIKETOWN is funded by the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF). PBOT contracts with Lyft to operate BIKETOWN and will contract with a new vendor to operate Adaptive BIKETOWN.
Please find the E-scooter 2025 Snapshot here.
BIKETOWN by the Numbers
- Number of bikes deployed since the beginning of the program: 3,014 e-bikes
- Service Area: 50.5 square miles (no change to the service area in 2025)
- Total Stations: 258
- New Stations in 2025: 16
- System trips in 2025: 455,000*
- All-time system trips (since July 2016): 3,894,400*
- Total equity users (BIKETOWN for All): 2,633*
- BIKETOWN for All trips in 2025: 204,072*
(*Approximate numbers)
BIKETOWN Program Updates & Trends in 2025
As mentioned above, decreasing ridership may be due to several factors including a continued struggle with theft and loss of vehicles, an aging e-bike fleet, high cost per trip, or not enough stations and bikes near people.
PBOT is working to find ways to bring more of the new generation of BIKETOWN bikes, which are more theft resistant, to the fleet. Other program trends, focuses, and updates from 2025 include:
- BIKETOWN ridership decreased by 17% compared to 2024 but was a slower decrease than from 2023 to 2024
- BIKETOWN for All equity membership increased from 2024
- The number of BIKETOWN for All equity trips made up 47% of all total BIKETOWN rides in 2025
- PBOT pursued a Request for Proposals for the new operator of Adaptive BIKETOWN
- BIKETOWN launched its first partnership with the Thorns FC and Lavendar League, giving out memberships and ride credits to Thorns fans
- 40 Students attended the BIKETOWN Youth Ambassador e-bike safety orientation, and there are over 15 applications for the BIKETOWN Youth Ambassador program for 2026
- PBOT worked with Alta on a long-range planning study to inform the future of Shared Micromobility in Portland
- Awarded a $200,000 ODOT Innovative Mobility Program grant for policy development for curbside micromobility charging
Installation of 16 new BIKETOWN stations:
- SE Spokane at SE Oaks Park Way
- SE Milwaukie at SE Bybee Blvd
- SE Market at 127th
- SE 60th at Halsey
- Oaks Park
- SE Oak at 37th (Laurelhurst Park)
- SE 27th at Ankeny
- SE 28th at Ankeny
- NE Dekum at NE 13th Ave
- NE Dekum at NE 18th Ave
- SE 28th at Schiller
- Alliance High School
- SE Division at 33rd
- SE 52nd at Holgate
- N Skidmore at Willaims
- N Killingsworth at Campbell
We received several community partner requests this year which helped our PBOT and BIKETOWN teams plan new BIKETOWN stations. If you have an idea or suggestion for a BIKETOWN station, please submit them on this form. We are eager to hear your ideas and get more stations near people!
In partnership with PBOT's BIKETOWN Youth Ambassador program and Safe Routes to School work, we are running a BIKETOWN Station Design Competition with Parkrose High School students. Over 15 students have submitted a custom design for the BIKETOWN station sign for the panel at the BIKETOWN station at their school. The winner will be announced in Spring 2026!
BIKETOWN 2025 Ridership
BIKETOWN riders took over 450,000 trips in 2025. Although total rides decreased for BIKETOWN, we saw Annual Membership numbers increase significantly from 2024. BIKETOWN Annual Members receive a lower per trip cost and free unlocks for an annual one-time fee. You can find more about BIKETOWN's pricing here.
Trip Starts Heat Map
Below are the trip start heat maps for 2024 and 2025.
Some notable takeaways include:
- Decrease in ridership in St. Johns, Gateway, and Russellville in 2025
- More ridership in South Portland in 2025
- Continued ridership increase in Sellwood in 2025, further emphasizing the impact of the service area expansion in 2024
Adaptive BIKETOWN
Adaptive BIKETOWN is BIKETOWN's adaptive bike rental program, formerly operated by Albertina Kerr/Kerr Bikes. The program's goal is to increase access to cycling for people with disabilities. Offering hand-powered, foot-powered, multi-person adaptive bikes and adaptive e-bikes, Adaptive BIKETOWN's shop is open and staffed from March through October. Community members may also arrange to rent adaptive bicycles during Portland's cooler and wetter months. For the most up-to-date hours, visit the Adaptive BIKETOWN website.
At the end of September in 2025, PBOT's contract with Albertina Kerr ended after nearly eight years of partnership. Not only did Albertina Kerr offer Adaptive BIKETOWN quality support through Kerr Bikes, it has allowed Portland to serve as an example to other cities world-wide of what an adaptive bike program can look like connected to a city's bike-share program. PBOT and the adaptive community appreciates and acknowledges Albertina Kerr's partnerships as a key to this program's success.
Still, Adaptive BIKETOWN had a great last season with Albertina Kerr for 2025. With qualifying participants continuing to receive free one-hour rentals, we were able to get lots of folks on adaptive cycles with a total of 395 rentals this season. This is a slight decrease from the 2024 Adaptive season due to the rental season being cut short in September given Albertina Kerr's needs to pull back from the program.
PBOT staff attended three Sunday Parkways events including an Adaptive-led group ride in the Cully neighborhood where Adaptive BIKETOWN, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Adaptive Sports Northwest came together at the June Sunday Parkways for a massive adaptive group ride. Adaptive BIKETOWN attended Parks and Recreation's Adaptive Resource Fair at the East Portland Community Center and got to do test rides with over 15 different people to try out the Adaptive bikes in a safe, car-free location. The PBOT team also attended TriMet Paratransit's 35th Anniversary of ADA Celebration where we provided information about Adaptive BIKETOWN and met more community partners.
To close out an Adaptive BIKETOWN win for 2025, we are excited to announce that PBOT conducted a Request for Proposal for the new operator of Adaptive BIKETOWN and was successful in finding a new partner. We are enthused that the new operator will be able to start in time for riding season in March and look forward to announcing who that will be soon.
Sign up here to receive the Adaptive BIKETOWN Newsletter where you will be the first to learn about the announcement for the new Adaptive BIKETOWN Operator.
While Adaptive "2.0" gets up and running, you can always find other Adaptive Recreation resources at some of the links below:
- Adaptive Sports NW has regularly scheduled events and is sometimes able to facilitate longer rental periods.
- TomCat Cycles is a local shop that has also been well known for having affordable used options and sometimes tricycles are on the menu there. It's worth a call to see if they might have something that meets the needs as the online inventory can sometimes be out of date.
- Recumbent PDX, not only has a great online video library of their fleet, they also have a great relationship with their neighbors so you can go on test rides in a car free location. They are a business, so they have a focus on selling bikes but if you are in the market to possibly purchase your own adaptive bike this is a great spot.
- Nomad Cycles is another great shop that offers test rides and can talk about adaptive bikes for days!
Otherwise, we'll see you at the Adaptive BIKETOWN barn in the Spring!
The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) continues to support Adaptive BIKETOWN through 2029. This program is one of many initiatives under the Climate Investment Plan, PCEF's five-year roadmap to guide investment in community-led projects that reduce climate emissions and cultivate shared prosperity. They are also leading the E-bike Rebate Program that will include adaptive e-bikes, so we recommend signing up for their updates as they release more information and open up applications.
BIKETOWN for All
BIKETOWN for All offers an affordable, accessible, and fun transportation option for everyone, regardless of income. Our equity program allows those who qualify for certain state or federal assistance programs to sign up and receive a discounted BIKETOWN membership. BIKETOWN for All is led by PBOT in partnership with Nike and Lyft and in 2024, also received PCEF dollars to continue its mission to bring e-bikes to more people.
This year 2,633 people enrolled in the BIKETOWN for All program taking a total of 204,072trips! We saw an increase in folks signing up for a BIKETOWN for All membership this year and are excited to continue to expand the program.
This was the first full year after the City made some changes to the BIKETOWN for All program in June 2024. The change was made in response to rising costs that threatened the financial stability of the program. These changes to the program likely led to the 31% decrease for BIKETOWN for All trips in 2025 compared to 2024 as all trips in the system had a 17% decrease overall in 2025 compared to 2024.
Program highlights for this year include:
- The BIKETOWN for All team attending and supporting over 35 events including: Community group rides, BIKETOWN for All tabling and sign-ups,
- Gave out over 80 helmets
- Signed up over 235 people for BIKETOWN for All in person
- BIKETOWN for All information and paper resources sent to over 25 partners across Portland
- Partnered with over 20 different community organizations, 15 of them being brand new to the BIKETOWN partnership
- Partnered with high schools for the BIKETOWN Youth Ambassador program
BIKETOWN in the Community
BIKETOWN supported over 35 events in 2025, mostly focused on sign-up support and group rides for BIKETOWN for All.
Support for the community included bike drop-offs for community rides, providing promotional codes, leading group rides, handing out over 80 free helmets to BIKETOWN for All members, and setting up pop-ups to connect people to Adaptive BIKETOWN or to help folks sign up for BIKETOWN for All in person.
The 2025 outreach team focused their work on PBOT programming, including Sunday Parkways, disability community resource fairs for Adaptive BIKETOWN, Bike Fairs, High School Transportation Academy, Multnomah County REACH group rides, Community Cycling Center Center–led events, and Parkrose Pedal. Group ride support also included the Pedal Palooza Kick-off Ride and Bikeloud Bike Buddy support.
If you are interested in our full list of partners or you would like to join that list, please email sharedmicromobility@portlandoregon.gov.
Planning for the Future Shared Micromobility System
In Summer 2025, PBOT partnered with Alta Planning and Consulting to think through the next iteration of bike- and scooter-share for the city. The long-term business planning is focused on opportunities to better support long-term sustainability, accessibility, and equity. Through these planning efforts, PBOT and Alta will develop a set of recommendations to inform the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Portland's SMM system beyond 2028. These recommendations are created from existing condition analysis, peer cities best practices, and integration of program goals. We also released a community survey asking Portlanders about what they prioritize in a shared micromobility system. The survey is open through February 15, 2026, and participants will be entered in a raffle to win a $50 visa gift card. We are compiling information from research and engagement to create final recommendations for PBOT to consider as we write the RFP for release in 2027, prior to when BIKETOWN's current contract expires in 2028. We will share a summary of the project with the public at the end of the study in Spring 2026, where we will detail next steps and what we expect for the future of bike- and scooter-share.
Looking Forward to 2026
We are excited to continue to work closely with the whole BIKETOWN team, Lyft, Lime, and all our community partners to increase ridership for all.
July 2026 is the TEN-YEAR Anniversary of BIKETOWN. We have big plans that we will announce soon to celebrate ten years of BIKETOWN.
Some of our other key focuses for the year include:
- Partnering with community to bring BIKETOWN to events to introduce more riders to the program.
- Finalize a long-range planning study on the future of Shared Micromobility in Portland and develop recommendations for strategies that incorporate program goals
- Find ways to bring more new bikes to the BIKETOWN fleet.
- Help reduce theft and loss of shared micromobility vehicles (i.e., e-bikes and e-scooters).
- Install more BIKETOWN stations throughout the city with a focus on areas with less station density, namely East and North Portland.
- Ensure the new Adaptive BIKETOWN operator is set up for success for their first season running Adaptive 2.0!
- Given budget challenges TriMet announced in July 2025, we want bikeshare and e-scooter share to help fill those missing gaps and complement public transportation.
- Partner with the Portland Trail Blazers for a BIKETOWN night at the Blazers game this Spring.