How Micromobility Took Hold in San Francisco
[MICROMOBILITY PRO]Shared bike and scooter trips in San Francisco grew by 110% in two years, transforming micromobility into an increasingly important part of daily urban travel.
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Contents
Introduction
Chart: Shared Mobility Trips in San Francisco
The City Behind the Numbers
Two Systems, One Street
How Bay Wheels Grew
Chart: Monthly San Francisco Bay Wheels Bike Share Trips
The Contract that Runs through 2032
Where the Scooters Fit
Chart: Shared Scooter Trips in San Francisco
The Parking Question
Chart: E-Scooter Complaints in San Francisco
Easier City to Move Through
Introduction
San Francisco has a reputation for steep hills and heavy fog, neither of which sounds like an obvious fit for cycling, and yet over the past two years the city has quietly become one of the busiest places in the country for shared bikes and scooters.
The shift is easiest to see in the numbers. Bay Wheels, the bikeshare system that covers San Francisco and several neighboring cities, carried 4.4m trips across the region in 2025, enough that it would rank among the seven largest transit operators in the Bay Area if it were counted as one. Within San Francisco, its trips rose from 1.9m in 2023 to 3.7m in 2025, and the city’s own count of shared bike and scooter trips climbed 110% over the same period. Scooter ridership grew at a similar pace, with Lime, the larger of the two scooter operators, reporting that its San Francisco trips more than doubled between 2024 and 2025.
