Tag: bicycle count
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Volunteer to help count people riding bikes in late September
It’s bike count time again. Cascade Bicycle Club and WSDOT are organizing the annual statewide bike count, and they need your help. From Cascade: Late September is your time to make bicycling count in Seattle! Do you have two hours to spare for better bicycling?
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You have to ride to work this week to get counted
This week is not the week to take a break from bike commuting. SDOT is conducting their bicycle and pedestrian counts May 10-12, according to the SDOT Blog. So if you want to get counted, you gotta ride! From SDOT: SDOT will be conducting pedestrian and bicycle volume counts at more than 50 locations across…
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SDOT needs lots of volunteers to count people walking and biking
In the past, the city has counted people walking and biking through the help of volunteers. Preliminary results of this year’s fall bike count show that the number of people biking to downtown Seattle are up! SDOT says results are coming soon. But now that the city is moving to a more official counting methodology,…
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‘One male trout, using the fish ladder, wearing a condom’
After waking up around 5 and drinking two thermoses of coffee, Kelli from Yoga For Bikers and I got a little loopy while counting bikes this morning for SDOT. We were staked out at Elliott and Denny from 6:30 until 9, tabulating bike commuters based on which direction they were headed, whether they were in…
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1 with Lycra, 2 without, 3 on cruisers… SDOT needs help counting bikes
Publicola reports that SDOT is seeking volunteers to help count the city’s bikers in the morning of Sept. 15 (6:30 – 9 a.m.). Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board Chair Blake Trask says the downtown count is what the city uses to measure progress on its Bicycle Master Plan. “Annual counts will help SDOT better chart the…
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