Boston stalled many bicycle safety projects in 2025 and crashes increased substantially, erasing progress made over the past decade

Percent change in bicycle ridership and crashes involving bicycles compared to 2016 baseline

Bicycle Ridership: Boston maintains a bicycle count dashboard. To ensure comparability to other municipalities, who use different approaches to counting and have different overall volume, this analysis uses the percent change in the municipality's ridership compared to the earliest available baseline year (2016 for Boston). Crashes Involving Bicycles: This analysis used the percent change in bicycle crashes sourced from MassDOT compared to the municipality's baseline (2016 for Boston).
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