Tag: bicycle count

October 13, 2020

The WA bicycle and pedestrian count has resumed + How you can help

Details from Maimoona Rahim at Cascade Bicycle Club: After a short break, the Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Count is back! It’s happening this fall on October 20, 21 and 22 at a street or trail near you. To sign up today, head to: bikepedcount.wsdot.wa.gov Every year hundreds of volunteers across the state get up…
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tagged: bicycle count, cascade bicycle club, maimoona rahim
September 22, 2015

Help count people biking and walking in King County next week

How many people are actually out biking and walking in Washington State? We don’t really know. But believe it or not, the state tries to get a handle on this number by getting a bunch of volunteers to hang out in the same locations every year and count people as they bike by. Eyeballs, paper…
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tagged: andrea clinkscales, bicycle count, cascade bicycle club, wsdot
September 11, 2012

Volunteers still needed for Wednesday Seattle bike count, statewide counts in late Sept

As of Monday, the city still needed seven volunteers to help with the final volunteer-run citywide bike count. The city is moving to a more modern, camera-based counting system that will provide more data and won’t require big volunteer call-outs (can you imagine if the city asked motor vehicle users to sit outside in the…
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tagged: bicycle count, cascade bicycle club
August 20, 2012

Biking in Seattle appears to grow, but SDOT bike count results are confusing

The number of people biking in Seattle in May 2012 grew a stunning 63 percent over May 2011. Maybe. The same count also showed a 40 percent decline in July 2012 compared to July 2011. SDOT recently released bike count data comparing the beginning of 2012 to data collected in 2011, the first year the…
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tagged: bicycle count, bike counter, sdot
October 21, 2011

Biking in Seattle is not declining

A recent story in the PI shows that Seattle’s city-wide bike count showed a 15 percent decline in the number of people biking in 2010 compared to 2008, according to SDOT’s city-wide bike count data. But, as Scott Gutierrez points out in the story, the numbers from that particular count tell a rather murky story.…
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tagged: bicycle count, commuting, scott gutierrez, seattle pi
September 27, 2011

Census: Seattle bike commuting rises 22% in 1 year, city claims #2 spot in US

Seattle rose to the number two spot among major US cities in terms of the number of people commuting to work by bike in 2010. The percentage of people using a bicycle as their primary mode of getting to work in Seattle increased 22 percent between 2009 and 2010, according to the annual American Communities…
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tagged: american communities survey, bicycle count, census, commuting