Tag: fremont bridge

November 26, 2013

Fremont Bridge bike counter passes 1M, bike trips up 28% over last year

The Fremont Bridge bike counter tallied its one millionth bike trip early Sunday morning, a little more than 13 months after it was activated. But perhaps even more exciting, SDOT reports that bike traffic over the bridge is up 28 percent versus October and November 2012. Indeed, every weekly count since passing the one-year mark…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont bridge
September 17, 2013

7 more bike counters planned in Seattle + Update on our journey to 1M Fremont bike trips

Cascade Bicycle Club announced Tuesday that the Mark and Susan Torrance Foundation and the Rails to Trails Conservancy will help purchase seven new electronic bike counters, mostly place on trails around the city. Not all the counters will include a display keeping a live-updated tally, like the ones on the Fremont and lower West Seattle…
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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, fremont, fremont bridge, Journey to 1 Million Fremont Bike Trips, mark & susan torrance foundation, rails to trails
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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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, fremont, fremont bridge, mark & susan torrance foundation, sdot
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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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, fremont, fremont bridge, mark & susan torrance foundation
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
July 25, 2012

Trail etiquette: What do you think of Cascade’s new anti-headphone signs?

Trail etiquette. Stay to the right, use voice or bell, slow down when passing, don’t use headphones, and on and on. There are certain guidelines that make shared use trails work better, and Cascade Bicycle Club is launching a campaign to highlight some of them. In a lot of ways, our shared use spaces (like…
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tagged: ballard bridge, burke-gilman trail, cascade bicycle club, fremont bridge, headphones, trails