Watch: Fremont Bridge nears 1 million 2019 bike trips 1 month early

UPDATE: Cascade Bicycle Club, Queen Anne Greenways and Ballard-Fremont Greenways will host a celebration 3-5 p.m. Saturday, October 19. Details here.

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As we reported previously, 2019 bike trips across the Fremont Bridge are set to break one million within a week, likely this weekend or early next week.

But why read about this news when you can watch a video complete with giant graphs hovering over the city like the spaceships in Independence Day?

For real, though, this is pretty exciting. And those who did read the previous story, note that I actually cropped the peaks of some 2019 months in the month-by-month graph I posted. I have since updated it with this even more impressive (and accurate) image:

I also looked at how the average daily bike trips compare year to year, and it's pretty incredible. Since it is only mid-October, I used only data from January through September of each year:

And here's the year-over-year percent change by month between 2018 and 2019. This February's major snowfall and 2018's smokey August are the biggest outliers, but the trend is very positive across nearly the entire year so far:

All this is to say that you all are great and biking is wonderful.

Also, let me know what you think of this style of video.