If you follow Ride the City's twitter feed, you may have noticed that we hit 100,000 bike routes generated since the new version of the website launched in May. That's an average of more than 1,200 routes a day!
I thought I'd throw up some stats to help tell the story. Since May, Ride the City generated 85,500 bike routes for New York City, 13,100 routes for Chicago (launched June 1), and about 4,000 routes for Austin (launched July 1).
As you can see in the pie chart, about two-thirds of routes used the safer route (the default option on Ride the City), 18 percent used the safe route, and 16 percent used the direct route.
I've also included a graph below that shows the trend in all bike routes generated by day. (The mid-June dip in bike routes generated was during an especially rainy period in both New York and Chicago.)
If we can keep up this level of activity (and grow it a little more), we're on track to hit 500,000 bikes routes generated by May 2010. That's a challenging goal given the long winter between now and then. But we're working on some new cities, new functionality, and new partnerships that will hopefully keep you coming back for more!
