Tag: fremont

August 6, 2014

Required painting project will close Fremont Bridge sidewalk

In order to keep the Fremont Bridge in good shape and corrosion-free, the city needs to repaint it every once in a while. That is no easy task, since the historic steel structure has all kinds of moving parts and needs to open and close periodically to allow boat travel in addition to moving tens…
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August 4, 2014

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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tagged: bike counter, fremont, fremont bridge, mike logsdon
July 18, 2014

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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June 23, 2014

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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June 19, 2014

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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June 12, 2014

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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tagged: A statistical analysis of biking on the Fremont Bridge, bike counter, fremont, fremont bridge, mike logsdon