Photo by LeRoy Armstead

One week into Metro’s SafeTrack maintenance effort, and Capital Bikeshare already broke records.

The bike sharing system saw nearly 90,000 users last week, besting the previous record (set during last year’s Bike to Work Week) by 6 percent, according to figures released by the District Department of Transportation.

As in Arlington, where bike counters have been showing ridership increases between 40 and 90 percent, D.C. trails and bike lanes are similarly seeing a significant increase in trips. According to DDOT, ridership is up 31 percent on the 15th Street cycle track, 40 percent on the Metropolitan Branch Trail, 59 percent higher on Eye Street SW, and 42 percent across the Key Bridge.

As part of efforts to mitigate the number of people driving or cramming on to Metro, Capital Bikeshare has added temporary stations, expanded capacity, and installed new downtown corrals. They also added a new singe-trip fare, where users can pay $2 for a trip that lasts less than 30 minutes (previously one-time riders had to pay $8 for a day-long membership). Since launching the option in early June, Bikeshare is up to more than 1,300 single trips a day.

With Metro’s next surge promises to be a doozy—with two stations closed entirely—we can only expect more records on the horizon. Bikeshare has already moved to expand capacity at the Eastern Market Metro station and at the Department of Employment Services at Minnesota Avenue NE.