Tag: bike counter

May 14, 2014

Fremont Bridge smashes bike count record (for real this time) + Bike use rises all over town

The Fremont Bridge bike counter is back up and running after getting a little ahead of itself late last month due to a malfunction. But even without the erroneous counts, the now-repaired bike counter is showing astounding bike volumes over the classic draw bridge. Five days in recent weeks smashed last year’s record (5,121 on…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont bridge
April 29, 2014

Monday appears to smash Fremont Bridge bike counter record – UPDATE: Probably not

If Monday’s bike numbers hold up, this year’s bike boom in Seattle could surprise even the most optimistic bike advocates in town. Seattle’s already steadily-growing bike numbers apparently spiked through the roof Monday, smashing a bike count record on the Fremont Bridge that was set June 4 last year, when an impressive people biked 5,121…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont
February 13, 2014

First month of neighborhood greenway, trail use data is now in

The city’s new bike counters at various points along neighborhood greenways and trails across the city have dropped their first sets of data, and the numbers are interesting. Notably, as NE Seattle Greenways pointed out, the Ballard neighborhood greenway on NW 58th is already seeing bike count number around 25 percent as high as those…
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tagged: bike counter, sdot
February 4, 2014

A lot of you biked to a Super Bowl party, and there’s data to prove it

A lot of you biked to a Super Bowl party Sunday, and the Fremont Bridge bike counter captured the data to prove it. It also looks like a bunch of you hung around for a little post-game partying and high-fiving, too. SDOT posted the graph above on their blog, which shows above-average bike trip rates…
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tagged: bike counter, downtown, fremont, parades, seahawks, super bowl
January 10, 2014

Real-time bike counters now installed in 9 locations around the city

You no longer have to bike all the way to Fremont to get counted. The city — with support from the Rails to Trails Conservancy and the Mark and Susan Torrance Foundation — has installed seven new real-time bike counters around the city. This brings the city’s total to nine. The new counters do not…
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tagged: bike counter, mark & susan torrance foundation, rails to trails, sdot
January 7, 2014

People biked over the Fremont Bridge 926,025 times in 2013 + cycling rates up 17-20% year-over-year

On average, 106 people biked across the Fremont Bridge every hour in 2013, and so far the trend keeps climbing year-over-year. We didn’t make it to 1 million trips in 2013, but we got close: 926,025. And at the current rate of growth in bike trips, it might not be too long before we get…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont