Tag: bike counter

April 29, 2013

Last week was the busiest ever recorded by the Fremont Bike Counter – Can we top 1M trips in 2013?

Last week, 22,052 people cycled across the Fremont Bridge, the highest number recorded since the electronic counter was installed in October. The count makes it clear that Seattle has a chance to break 1 million trips across the bridge in 2013, but it’s going to be close. To get there, we have to average 19,231…
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March 22, 2013

Graphing trends in Fremont bike trips by the hour and in the rain – UPDATED

It’s a kick to watch the Fremont Bridge Bike Counter tick up one notch as you pedal past it on your way across the Ship Canal. But the counter is also a source of never-before-seen real-time bicycle travel data in Seattle. A gift of Cascade Bicycle Club and the Mark & Susan Torrance Foundation, the…
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December 7, 2012

The Fremont bike counter hits 100,000 rider mark

The Fremont bike counter has reached the 100,000 mark in less than two months. That’s a lot of bikes!
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October 12, 2012

What number are you? Fremont Bridge starts counting people on bikes

The city, Cascade Bicycle Club and the Mark & Susan Torrance Foundation celebrated the launch of the Fremont Bridge bicycle counter Thursday. The first bike across the sensor was a Madsen carrying two smiling people, the first of what will likely be over 1 million bikes counted by this time next year. You can track…
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October 10, 2012

Fremont Bridge bike counter gets plugged-in Thursday

Delayed a week due to a technical issue, the Fremont Bridge bike counter is scheduled to start tallying people on bikes Thursday. Cascade Bicycle Club and the city will debut the counter during an 11 a.m. press event. People who want to be among the first to be counted will line up on the west…
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October 3, 2012

Fremont Bridge bike counter will start ticking away Thursday – UPDATE: Delayed

Fremont Bridge bike counter! #SEAbikes twitter.com/familyride/sta… — familyride (@familyride) October 2, 2012 Update: The counter has been delayed another week, says Cascade: I got the call this morning that the display isn’t working properly. SDOT engineers were testing it yesterday, and happily reported that it was counting accurately and displaying each bike trip over the…
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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, fremont, fremont bridge