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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.
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.
E-Scooters by the Numbers
- Number of e-scooters: 3,500 e-scooters between two operators (up to 4,300 between two operators beginning April 1)
- Service Area: 145 square miles
- System trips in 2025: 1,651,740*
- All-time system trips (since 2018): 7,308,000*
(*Approximate numbers)
E-Scooter Program Updates & Milestones in 2025
- Completed first full year of Portland's permanent E-Scooter Program with Lime and BIKETOWN (Lyft)
- E-scooter ridership increased by 32%
- E-scooter riders took over 1,600,000 trips in 2025 (third year in a row for trips over 1 million!)
- Lime was granted a fleet increase in May of 2025 for an additional 250 e-scooters
- Began on-going e-scooter safety ads on social media
Conducted testing of e-scooters to ensure operators were complying with City regulations
Trip Starts Heat Map
Below are the heat maps comparing 2025 e-scooter starts and 2025 BIKETOWN bike starts. There are many differences in the programs and vehicles, including the service areas, but similar to 2024, there is a large concentration of e-scooters downtown.
2025 e-scooter starts heat map 2025 BIKETOWN bike trip start heat map
PBOT's Role & Focus on Safety
In August 2024 the E-Scooter Program became a permanent system in Portland with two operators, Lime and Lyft (BIKETOWN). The contracts include requirements for safety and geofencing for slow zones and no-parking zones. Since the introduction of e-scooters, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and e-scooter providers have been working together to implement geofences—or GPS-based geographic areas where e-scooter speeds are slowed below the 15 mph citywide limit and where parking is prohibited—to test whether this technology can help meet the city's safety goals for e-scooter operations. (Lime is allowed to have a maximum of 2,105 e-scooters, and Lyft is allowed to have a maximum of 1,700 e-scooters).
PBOT's role as regulator is to ensure operators are meeting contract requirements and implementing safe messaging to their riders. PBOT staff do not directly enforce moving violations or helmet wearing with the rider, but we do work closely with the companies on how and when they can message.
The PBOT team periodically tests e-scooters for contract compliance in areas including the accuracy of current geofences for speed governing, parking bans, and end-of-trip photo requirements. We work with the companies to find ways to meet compliance. Some of those include updating geofences, creating new no-parking zones, promoting lock-to, and implementing a safety campaign in their apps.
Anyone can report incidents with e-scooters by calling 311 or using the 311 form. These issues are automatically submitted to PBOT and the associated e-scooter companies (Lime & Lyft) for resolution. You can also email e-scooter@portlandoregon.gov with any other comments or questions.
Thank you for scooting safely and remember -- wear a helmet, don't double ride, and lock your scooter at the end of your ride!
E-Scooters in the Community and Equity Programs
We helped bring e-scooters into the community in 2024 including a huge participation in at Sunday Parkways, seated scooter options, and helmet giveaways. We are looking forward to collaborating with both operators in 2026 to increase the effectiveness of the different equity programs and opportunities to work with different communities.
In 2025, Lime gave away over 1,000 helmets to the community! PBOT staff is excited to continue a helmet giveaway in 2026 with more information to come. The team is also looking to host e-scooter riding workshops. If this is something you or your community group are interested in, please reach out to us at e-scooter@portlandoregon.gov.
Stay tuned for more information including helmet giveaways, e-scooter workshops, and more.
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. Some of our key focuses for the year include:
- Partnering with community to bring Lime & BIKETOWN e-scooters to events to introduce more riders to the program, inform on our safety rules, and host e-scooter riding workshops.
- Help reduce theft and loss of shared micromobility vehicles (i.e., e-bikes and e-scooters).
- Install more bike racks and BIKETOWN stations throughout the city with a focus on areas with less parking density, namely East and North Portland.
- 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.
- Grow ridership of the permanent program