Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo
Canada's national bicycle count
Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo is an annual community-science project engaging hundreds of volunteers across Canada as they count road and path users to evaluate the state of cycling in our communities, get a “snapshot” of what cycling looks like in communities across Canada, and build the case for more and better infrastructure.
Several focus communities across Canada
Multiple count locations in each focus community
Five two-hour counting shifts at each count location
Locations categorized by safey and comfort
Data supports cycling advocacy in your community
2025 count results and analysis
The results from the 2025 counts have been analyzed and are available as a series of tables, infographics and charts for each focus community and all of Canada. You are welcome to view, download and share your community’s results. In 2024, 47,064 people on bicycles were counted by volunteers across Canada. Since 2021, 205,328 people on bicycles have been counte5!
2025 project partners
Pedal Poll 2026: Micromobility count
June 2-7, 2026
Canadian communities are seeing a surge in micromobility, creating both opportunities and challenges for planners, governments, industry and users. To capture a snapshot of these diverse travel modes, we are launching a new micromobility count taking place over five days between June 2nd and 7th, 2026.
Bikes
Cargo bikes
E-bikes and
e-scooters
Bike share and scooter share
E-motos
Other micromobility devices
Pedestrians
Support this year's count
Sign up here to be added to the list and be notified as soon as counting shifts are available to be claimed in your community.
Webinar: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Join MSc student Amanda Dunn, who will discuss the development of a new micromobility count for the 2026 edition of Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo. Amanda will present an overview of previous studies, legislation and community feedback that guided the development of the new categories, how volunteers can identify different types of micromobility devices, and how the results will support advocacy in Canada.
2026 project partners
Academic publications
Bonsma-Fisher, M., Zanotto, M., Walker, K. L., Benoit, S., Kirk, S. F. L., & Winters, M. Cycling rate trends from Canada’s national volunteer cycling count. Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research 7, March 2026, 100100.
Winters, M., Beairsto, J., Mitra, R., Walker, K. L., Zanotto, M., Laberee, K., Soucy, A., Swanson, A., Mahmoud, H., Pincott, B., Firth, C. L., & Kirk, S. F. L. . Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2021: A community science project on who cycles in Canada. Journal of Transport & Health. Vol 30, May 2023 101606.
Past count results and analysis
Credits
Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo is a project of Vélo Canada Bikes, funded in part by the Government of Canada through the Active Transportation Fund administered by Infrastructure Canada in 2023 to 2025, by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2021 and the Mobilizing Justice Partnership at the University of Toronto in 2025. The project has also received in-kind support from local cycling advocacy organizations, the CounterPoint app team, hundreds of community volunteers and the Cities, Health & Active Transportation Research Lab at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC and the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. Data for 2022 to 2025 were analyzed by Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher.