Tag: fremont
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July sets another Fremont Bridge bike count record
Bike volumes on the Fremont Bridge continue to break records this year, far outpacing 2013 by nearly every measure. July was the bikiest month yet recorded, with 120,669 trips measured over the bridge. That is 2.8 percent higher than July 2013, which set a record for that year. And while that is a slower growth…
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Fremont Bridge bike counts continue big year-over-year rise
Bike counts over the Fremont Bridge continue to significantly outpace 2013, with June counts up more than 14 percent year-over-year. In the first half of the year, people made 486,798 bike trips across the bridge. That puts us on pace to break one million bike trips over the bridge in 2014, since fall bike ridership…
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Welcome summer! Great weather greets another amazing Solstice bike ride (NSFW)
It was another amazing year for Seattle’s most creative bike ride. Wonderful weather greeted the hundreds and maybe more than 1,000 people who stripped down, painted up and biked ahead of the annual Fremont Solstice Parade Saturday. This ride is notoriously difficult to count, and as far as I can tell, there is no official…
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The legendary Fremont Solstice naked/painted bike ride is Saturday
2013 was likely the largest Solstice bike ride ever (see our NSFW report here). And if the weather forecast holds up, there’s no reason to believe Saturday’s ride won’t be just as big. Commonly referred to as the “naked bike ride,” people participate in all levels of dress and body paint. Be creative! The tradition…
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A statistical analysis of biking on the Fremont Bridge, Part 4: Are more people biking?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final post in a four-part series of posts this week by statistician Mike Logsdon. Mike bikes across the Fremont Bridge every day, and put together this analysis of the bike counter data “mostly for the amusement of friends and coworkers.” Are More Seattleites Bicycling Across the Fremont Bridge? The short…
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A statistical analysis of biking on the Fremont Bridge, Part 3: Bike Month
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a four-part series of posts this week by statistician Mike Logsdon. Mike bikes across the Fremont Bridge every day, and put together this analysis of the bike counter data “mostly for the amusement of friends and coworkers.” Note that at the time Mike did this analysis, the 2014…
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