There are (somewhat awkward, but English) statistics for Berlin at
https://www.berlin.de/sen/uvk/verkehr/verkehrsplanung/radver... (No way to link to configured maps, unfortunately).
Some numbers. These are total monthly counts of riders observed at the same 17 measurement points:
2019 2020
Sep 1,670,000 2,387,000. + 43 %
Dec 900,000 1,100,000. + 22 %
That's quite an increase year-over-year! The December number are lower, but possibly more impressive considering it was rather lockdown-ish and general mobility fell somewhat.
It's also a good datapoint to counter concerns about the weather.
It's interesting that there's an effect going on here that's somewhat close to a Giffen good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good): People avoid public transport and any single one might opt for a car instead. But because road capacity is fixed (that's income in the analogy), more of it needs to be devoted to the most efficient option, i. e. bikes. So the city converted car to bike lanes, and car traffic is actually down.
Some numbers. These are total monthly counts of riders observed at the same 17 measurement points:
That's quite an increase year-over-year! The December number are lower, but possibly more impressive considering it was rather lockdown-ish and general mobility fell somewhat.It's also a good datapoint to counter concerns about the weather.
It's interesting that there's an effect going on here that's somewhat close to a Giffen good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good): People avoid public transport and any single one might opt for a car instead. But because road capacity is fixed (that's income in the analogy), more of it needs to be devoted to the most efficient option, i. e. bikes. So the city converted car to bike lanes, and car traffic is actually down.