Lime sees very strong e-scooter share ridership in downtown Vancouver | Daily Hive

Lime e-scooter share station in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan)

Lime is reporting strong ridership numbers for its e-scooter share service on the downtown Vancouver peninsula, just two weeks after expanding its service area.

According to the micro-mobility company, total lifetime ridership in Vancouver jumped from 75,000 to 100,000 rides in the past two weeks alone — a 33 per cent increase largely driven by the recent expansion into the city centre.

Lime launched its services in downtown Vancouver on June 11, 2025, with 28 stations in the city centre — bringing the company’s total e-scooter share network size in the city to 525 devices across 98 stations.

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The surge in usage comes as no surprise, given the expansion into one of the highest-demand areas in the region, paired with the arrival of ideal summer weather conditions.

Lime recorded its first 75,000 rides in Vancouver within the Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland neighbourhoods, where the service first launched in September 2024, as well as in Strathcona and Mount Pleasant, which were added to the service area during a winter expansion. Lime intends to continue expanding its service area across Vancouver.

“Surpassing 100,000 rides in Vancouver in such a short time is a tremendous testament that riders desired more sustainable mobility options,” said Sonia Kandola, senior director of government relations at Lime Canada, in a statement today.

“We’re proud to work alongside the City of Vancouver to offer an affordable, accessible, and emissions-free way to get around. Our growth has been intentional and collaborative — partnering closely with the City, local businesses, and communities to thoughtfully plan each parking location to ensure we’re meeting Vancouverites’ needs.”

Unlike Lime’s other markets elsewhere in the world, which are based on a free-floating system where riders merely park their devices within a marked area, the custom-designed Vancouver solution of using locking docking parking stations aims to greatly improve safety and reduce the likelihood of the clutter of devices in public spaces.

Lime e-scooter share station in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood. (Kenneth Chan)

Since launching its bike and e-scooter share services in Richmond in May 2022, Lime has steadily expanded its footprint across Metro Vancouver, gaining economies of scale in its operations. The company introduced its micro-mobility services to Coquitlam in July 2023, followed by New Westminster in August 2024. Earlier this year, Lime’s contract with the City of Richmond was renewed for another three-year term, with the option for two additional one-year extensions.

However, Lime also experienced a big setback in Metro Vancouver this spring when the City of North Vancouver — responsible for managing e-bike share services across the North Shore, including the Districts of North Vancouver and West Vancouver — opted not to award the company the contract for a new permanent operator. As a result, Lime will withdraw its services from the North Shore, where it has operated since July 2021 under a municipal pilot project, before the end of this weekend. A new operator, yet to be announced, will soon take over the service.

According to Lime, since it first launched in Canada in 2018, it has recorded a total of nearly 7.3 million trips, which have shifted an estimated 1.7 million car journeys into active transportation.

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