The past few days I've had a tough time finding a spot to park my bike at work. The large bike corral at Dunsmuir and Seymour seems to be jam packed every morning by 9 am. This anecdotal evidence makes me think cycling is on the rise downtown, but the data nerd in me needs to see some hard numbers. Consequently, the City of Vancouver recently published the bike lane counts from the separated lanes on Dunsmuir, Hornby, and the Burrard Bridge. It's a fascinating data set to analyze and the trends are encouraging, but before I go too deep into the numbers here's a few quick highlights: The Burrard Bridge has seen over 1 million bikes pass over it in the past year (1,020,216) The Dunsmuir separated bike lane saw year-over-year increases of 17% in July and a whopping 43% in August There were more cycling trips over the Burrard Bridge on July 9 than cyclists who rode the GranFondo to Whistler (7619 vs 7000)