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
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
Count dates
Webinars
Monday, May 25
Project Lead Amanda Dunn at SFU’s Cities, Health & Active Transportation Research Lab will be leading a second webinar on this year’s count on Monday, May 25 at 7pm Eastern to go into how to participate and to learn how to identify different types of devices.
Attendance is not required to participate in the count but is a great option if you want learn more and ask your questions.
Recording from May 6 webinar with CapaCITY/É
Amanda explained the development of a new micromobility count for the 2026 edition of Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo. Amanda will presented 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.
Report on development process
Wonder why and how we have arrived at this new count for Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo? Check out this new report that goes into all the details.
Paper count sheet
Not comfortable or able to count via the web app? That’s okay! 📄 Here’s a paper count sheet you can print and use.
Contact us
Ideas, questions, corrections for this year’s count? Reach out to Amanda at [email protected].
2026 project partners
2025 count results and analysis
The 2025 count captured 49,114 people on bikes across Canada in a mode share count which included pedestrians, personal vehicles and large vehicles. These results have been synthesized into community-specific and national-level infographics and data tables to support evidence-based planning and advocacy. We invite you to view, download, and share these results.
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.
Count results from previous years
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.