Tag: bike counter

January 3, 2019

2018 bike counts up 32 percent on 2nd Ave downtown after bike lane, bike share expansion

The final counts are in, and 2018 is officially a new high water mark for biking in Seattle. Looking at the real-time bike counter data from around town, biking was up significantly in Fremont and across the lower West Seattle Bridge. But the real eye-catcher was 2nd Ave downtown, which saw a 32 percent jump…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bike counter, fremont bridge, lower west seattle bridge
June 14, 2018

Biking on 2nd Ave downtown is up 37% as bike share and bike lanes expand

The number of people biking on 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle is up an average of 19 percent year-over-year since the July 2017 launch of private bike share services. And the trend appears to have accelerated as SDOT opened a vital extension of the 2nd Ave bike lane through Belltown in January and companies added…
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tagged: 2nd ave, basic bike network, bike counter, downtown, fremont bridge, jenny durkan
May 3, 2016

Bike trips from West Seattle spike 80 percent Monday, crushing record

On the first Monday commute since the Alaskan Way Viaduct closed, bike trips across the Spokane Street swing bridge to West Seattle went through the roof. Compared to average weekdays in recent months, Monday’s bike count was up an unprecedented 80 percent, adding more than 1,000 trips compared to average weekdays in April. And as…
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tagged: bike counter, bike month 2016, viadoom, west seattle, west seattle blog
November 24, 2015

Commute Seattle will install bike counter display on 2nd Ave

Downtown Seattle will get its first live-updated bike counter display soon thanks to Commute Seattle. Located on 2nd Ave between Madison and Marion Streets, the counter will tick away daily and annual totals as people bike by. As we’ve seen with existing counter displays on the Fremont and Spokane St Bridges, it’s a fun way…
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tagged: 2nd ave, bike counter, commute seattle
April 10, 2015

2015 Fremont Bridge bike counts have broken records every month so far

The number of bicycle trips across the Fremont Bridge continues to climb year-over-year. In fact, a mild winter has helped to break all-time monthly bike count records every month so far in 2015. In fact, bike counts have increased 14 of the 17 months for which we have year-over-year data. February saw a giant, 25…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont, fremont bridge
March 17, 2015

Bellevue installs its first bike counters + First look at the data

The City of Bellevue and WSDOT have installed the city’s first ever electronic bike counters to track hour-by-hour usage of the I-90 and 520 Trails. As we’ve seen with Seattle’s counters (the oldest being the Fremont Bridge counter), having daily and hourly data gives a much more clear insight into actual bike use. Previously, the…
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tagged: 520 trail, bellevue, bike counter, I-90 trail, kevin mcdonald, wsdot