A record number of tourists and D.C. area residents rented a bike ride through Capital Bikeshare Saturday, as the city’s plans to add 54 new stations have regained ground after a series of delays.

The city logged 9,669 bike rides in one day during Easter weekend, and for the first time since Capital Bikeshare launched in 2010, mostly day-trippers instead of annual members rented the bikes, the Washington Post reported.

The program’s director told the Post that he expects the number to break 10,000 this weekend – which a National Mall and Memorial Parks representative predicted would mark the peak of the cherry blossom season.

City officials revealed plans for an expansion of Capital Bikeshare in 2012 and promised the project’s completion by the end of the year, but the city faced delays to obtain necessary equipment.

District officials then announced in December that the system would jump from 146 to 200 stations by the end of March, but the city has only installed six because of weather and technical problems. Capital Bikeshare’s director Chris Holben told the Post that the D.C. Department of Transportation plans to open four more stations by the end of the week and eight to ten each week after.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray included plans for funding 10 additional stations by fiscal year 2014 in his budget proposal announced last week. Capital Bikeshare is the largest program of its kind in the country – with 22,000 annual members and 265,000 day users since it launched three years ago – and has 202 stations around the Beltway.