Lime reports 840,000 km rider travel during the Milan Winter Olympics
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Since the Italian city hosted 1.3 million visitors to the global sporting event from 6 to 22 February, the LEVA-EU member recorded over 433,000 trips on its shared e-bikes and e-scooters in the city, averaging at over 25,000 daily trips.
When summarising its findings of 840,000 km travelled by Lime users during the busy period, the global operator believes it demonstrates how shared micromobility can help cities cope with peak demand levels while holding large global events.
Lime’s Global Communications Lead, Emily Peykar, advocates that the key learning from the event is that users are more likely to choose micromobility options when it is integrated into the wider transportation network of cities, with strong operational support, and close cooperation with local authorities.
“By focusing on creating a reliable service, supportive infrastructure and seamless first and-last mile connections, cities can convert event driven ridership into sustained everyday use,” stated Peykar.
Milan facilitating increased micromobility use
Lime has also shared that trips on Milan bike lanes had risen to 124% during its Olympics, when compared with the same 2025 time period, demonstrating the positive results of Milan’s cycling infrastructure investment. Over four years from 2020, Milan expanded its bike lane network by 47%, to 332 kilometres. As part of its “Cambio” bicycle plan, it is aiming to keep this expansion going, with the target of having 750 km of cycle lanes by the year 2035.
Meanwhile, the sporting event saw a rise of 126% in users adopting Lime shared mobility services for the first time.
To prepare for the Winter Olympics, Lime temporarily posted an additional 1,000 electric bikes in Milan, which were to remain in operation during the Winter Paralympics from 6-15 March. It also increased its staff to meet increased demand, such as deploying an additional 30% of bike mechanics at its Milan warehouse and boosting its in-field operations team responsible for maintenance and vehicle redistribution by 50%.
Milan’s public transport integration with shared micromobility
Lime has revealed the activity of its vehicles surrounding Milan’s transport hubs, with its most popular trip starting points all being metro stations: San Babila, Cadorna FN, Porta Genova, Cairoli and Centrale FS. The most popular trip end points were San Babila, Centrale FS, Cairoli and Cadorna stations, followed by the Olympic and Paralympic Village.
Based on its findings, San Babila metro station was confirmed as the leading micromobility centre, with approximately 3,000 trips starting or ending there during the Olympics.
The overlap of the same start and end locations highlights the role of micromobility as both a first- and last-mile public transportation connection mode.
Lime demonstrates key management during peak city demand
Lime implemented designated parking pins close to key access points to ensure management around the Winter Olympics venues. Almost 70,000 trips started or finished within parking zones of large events, as 10,700 trips ended within 800 meters of a Games venue.
Lime’s latest results of its vehicles being used for a large sporting event follow the shared micromobility operator’s successful involvement in the summer 2024 Olympic Games in the city of Paris. With the event being much larger than the Winter Olympics, Lime confirmed that its fleet of 15,000 e-bikes was used for over 3.4 million trips.
In other news, Lime shared that it has been acknowledged as a 2025 Leader in Sustainability by Call2Recycle / Appel à Recycler Canada. The company stated that the recognition reflects its ongoing commitment to ensuring responsible battery recycling and the role its team plays in supporting Canada’s circular economy.