GIRA achieved record daily use, with more than 10,000 journeys on 23 and 25 February, in a week with an average of over 9,000 journeys.
Lisbon's shared bicycle system reached a daily usage record by surpassing 10,000 trips on February 23 and 25 (10,299 on the 23rd and 10,458 on the 25th)in a week in which the average was always above 9,000 uses.
EMEL estimates that, from September 2017 to date, more than 10 million kilometers with GIRA bikes, corresponding to more than 5.6 million trips. Data for December 2021, the last sample studied by the company, show that per month each GIRA user makes 137 minutes of travel - that's about 2.3 hours a month of pedaling. One of the characteristics of a shared system like GIRA is the rotation that each vehicle has - per day, each active bicycle in the system makes 6.8 trips on average (an active bicycle is a bicycle that makes at least one trip on the day in question). Each GIRA trip takes an average of 18 minutes.
The number of GIRA users has been growing since the service was launched at the end of 2017, first with a pilot in Parque das Nações. From 2018 to 2019, the number of active annual passes rose from around 4,800 to 19,200 - an increase of around 300%. After a slowdown in this growth in 2020 - there was a 23% decrease in annual subscriptions - GIRA gained fans again in 2021 with more than 15,000 active annual passes, currently registering around 23,000 passes (comparisons are being made between the same periods in the previous year - the month of February). The geographical expansion of the network since last year justifies this growth, since GIRA now serves new areas of the city such as Olivais, Lumiar, Cidade Universitária and Belém. Thus, between 2021 and 2022, GIRA grew by more than 50% in annual users.
As of December 2021, the GIRA stations with the most trips started or completed are Alameda (421), CC Vasco da Gama (105), Entrecampos station (446), Campo Pequeno (442), Arco do Cego (417) and Avenida Rovisco Pais, next to Técnico (420). The eight most common routes are in the Parque das Nações area, where GIRA was launched. But there are also many users taking the GIRA from Azinhaga da Torre do Fato, in Telheiras, to drop it off at the station next to the Metro, or taking the GIRA between Largo de Santos and Cais do Sodré. What's more, three of the 20 most popular GIRA routes are between Alameda and Praça da Figueira, and vice versa, and between Alameda and Martim Moniz, showing the popularity of the Almirante Reis cycle route.
In a statement, EMEL, which manages GIRA, said that "the success and importance of shared bicycles for urban mobility is a reality, proven by the number of bicycles on the city's streets every day" and that it is "an inspiration for more and more people who live, work and travel in Lisbon to opt for mico-mobility, which is more beneficial for health and more sustainable".
GIRA currently has 116 stations in operation, representing a total of 2,195 docks. Around a thousand bicycles will be in circulation.
