Tag: mark & susan torrance foundation

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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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
June 5, 2013

Bike counter coming very soon to the lower West Seattle Bridge

Yesterday was the busiest day yet recorded by the Fremont Bridge bike counter. 5,121 bike trips were made across the bridge, and there are no signs that we’re anywhere near our max yet. As the Fremont Bridge travelers are just starting to hit their stride, the city is preparing to unveil its second bike counter—this…
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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, mark & susan torrance foundation, west seattle, west seattle bike connections
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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tagged: bike counter, cascade bicycle club, fremont, fremont bridge, mark & susan torrance foundation