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With the upper West Seattle Bridge closed, bike trips across the low bridge are higher than non-outbreak years

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

As we already saw in our previous post, the covid-19 pandemic has totally scrambled the typical ridership data collected by Seattle’s 24/7 bike counters. On the Fremont Bridge, for example, total ridership is down about 20% compared to the 2013-19 … Continue reading →

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Bike counters show weekend and trail rides are up as much as 70% since the outbreak began

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of bike trips across the Fremont Bridge in February was 47% higher than the February average from 2013-19, continuing a trend of strong year-over-year bike trip growth in recent years. But then March happened, and employers shut down … Continue reading →

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Seattle’s 2019 bike boom in 6 charts + Where should Seattle’s next bike counters go? – UPDATED

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Tom Fucoloro

UPDATE: I have updated some of the data in this post with official numbers from SDOT. An earlier version of this post had data from data.seattle.gov that for some reason didn’t match with SDOT’s official numbers. As of this update, … Continue reading →

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Watch: Fremont Bridge nears 1 million 2019 bike trips 1 month early

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

UPDATE: Cascade Bicycle Club, Queen Anne Greenways and Ballard-Fremont Greenways will host a celebration 3–5 p.m. Saturday, October 19. Details here. Video transcript (.txt) As we reported previously, 2019 bike trips across the Fremont Bridge are set to break one … Continue reading →

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Biking boom: Fremont Bridge biking is on track to reach 1 million 2019 trips a whole month early

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

When the Fremont Bridge bike counter started ticking away in 2012, the big question was: How many years before it measures 1 million trips in a calendar year? It barely hit 1 million in 2014, though that year was a … Continue reading →

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2018 bike counts up 32 percent on 2nd Ave downtown after bike lane, bike share expansion

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Tom Fucoloro

The final counts are in, and 2018 is officially a new high water mark for biking in Seattle. Looking at the real-time bike counter data from around town, biking was up significantly in Fremont and across the lower West Seattle … Continue reading →

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Biking on 2nd Ave downtown is up 37% as bike share and bike lanes expand

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of people biking on 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle is up an average of 19 percent year-over-year since the July 2017 launch of private bike share services. And the trend appears to have accelerated as SDOT opened a … Continue reading →

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Bike trips from West Seattle spike 80 percent Monday, crushing record

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Tom Fucoloro

On the first Monday commute since the Alaskan Way Viaduct closed, bike trips across the Spokane Street swing bridge to West Seattle went through the roof. Compared to average weekdays in recent months, Monday’s bike count was up an unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Commute Seattle will install bike counter display on 2nd Ave

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

Downtown Seattle will get its first live-updated bike counter display soon thanks to Commute Seattle. Located on 2nd Ave between Madison and Marion Streets, the counter will tick away daily and annual totals as people bike by. As we’ve seen … Continue reading →

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2015 Fremont Bridge bike counts have broken records every month so far

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

The number of bicycle trips across the Fremont Bridge continues to climb year-over-year. In fact, a mild winter has helped to break all-time monthly bike count records every month so far in 2015. In fact, bike counts have increased 14 … Continue reading →

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Bellevue installs its first bike counters + First look at the data

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Tom Fucoloro

The City of Bellevue and WSDOT have installed the city’s first ever electronic bike counters to track hour-by-hour usage of the I-90 and 520 Trails. As we’ve seen with Seattle’s counters (the oldest being the Fremont Bridge counter), having daily … Continue reading →

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Cue the balloon drop! One million Fremont Bridge bike trips in 2014! – UPDATED 1/1/15

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

@seabikeblog Hey, count made it to 645 on the 28th (7:36pm) pic.twitter.com/nSP4Fkgt45 — Jay Talbot (@JayTalbot2) December 29, 2014 We did it! One million bike trips over the Fremont Bridge in 2014! And reader Jay Talbot got a photo of … Continue reading →

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All I want for Christmas is 1 million Fremont bike trips – UPDATED 12/28

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

UPDATE 12/28: It could happen today! Rider number 645 on Sunday will be number one million for 2014. However, if bike trip levels today are like Saturday, the one millionth trip will happen Monday morning. UPDATE 12/26: I have updated … Continue reading →

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Update on journey to 1 million annual Fremont bike trips: We did it! (sort of)

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

We did it! One million bike trips across the Fremont Bridge in one year! Actually, as commenter Doug Ollerenshaw pointed out on our previous Fremont bike counter story, we did it back on September 29. That was the first day … Continue reading →

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Will we reach 1 million 2014 bike trips over the Fremont Bridge? It’s gonna be close

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

Despite work on the Fremont Bridge that has at times restricted access to sidewalks in recent months, the city is still on track to reach one million bike trips across the bridge in 2014. But it will likely come down … Continue reading →

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July sets another Fremont Bridge bike count record

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

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 … Continue reading →

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Do neighborhood greenways increase cycling? Oh yes.

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

If you were wondering whether the city’s investments in neighborhood greenways are effective, here’s your answer: A resounding yes. The city wisely gathered bike use data on a couple proposed neighborhood greenway routes before work began. They then compared those … Continue reading →

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Fremont Bridge bike counts continue big year-over-year rise

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

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 … Continue reading →

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CHS: Broadway Bikeway ridership on the rise despite north end closure

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Tom Fucoloro

Biking on Broadway with the new two-way protected bike lane is night-and-day compared to the previous road design, which required people on bikes to mix with busy traffic on one of the city’s busiest commercial streets. But use has been … Continue reading →

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A statistical analysis of biking on the Fremont Bridge, Part 4: Are more people biking?

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Mike Logsdon

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 … Continue reading →

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