Hundreds of Lime e-bikes and scooters staged in a parking lot in the Pioneer Square neighborhood during the FIFA World Cup match between USA and Australia in Seattle this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Lime riders in Seattle have already outpaced last year’s entire ridership numbers, logging more than 10.5 million trips through October — surpassing the city’s 2025 full-year total a full two months ahead of schedule.
Powered by a massive surge during the summer’s FIFA World Cup matches in Seattle and a record-breaking Seahawks Super Bowl parade, the milestone highlights how deeply e-bikes and scooters have embedded themselves into Seattle’s daily commute and transit network.
The summer soccer tournament alone accounted for more than 1.7 million trips, headlined by an all-time single-day high of 83,000 rides on June 19 for the USA vs. Australia match — a record notably boosted by Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch joining the “march to the match.”
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That single-day mark shattered the previous high-water mark of nearly 60,000 rides set during the Seahawks parade in February. Four of Lime’s top five all-time ridership days in Seattle occurred during the World Cup stretch.
“We’re extremely proud of our partners at SDOT, who have spent years building a program and infrastructure that compelled our CEO to call Seattle ‘the next micromobility-first city,’” Lime’s Hayden Harvey, a regional director of government relations, said in a statement. “We’re also grateful to our riders, the Seattleites who choose day in and day out; rain or shine, two wheeled transportation instead of four.”
The record-setting volume reflects Lime’s position as the only game in town. After rival operators exited the market, Lime became the exclusive vendor in the City of Seattle’s micromobility share program .
Lime has since scaled its footprint to 15,000 active devices that are serviced and staged out of a sprawling warehouse south of downtown in Georgetown.
Beyond fleet expansion, Lime is leaning into affordability to convert event riders into daily commuters. Alongside its existing LimeAccess program for low-income riders and its $5.99 monthly LimePrime subscription — which now counts more than 38,000 monthly subscribers in Seattle — the company rolled out a new commuter-hours pricing pilot this week that lowers per-minute rates during daytime travel windows.
