Tag: bike counter

December 29, 2014

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

@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 magic number 645 Sunday evening — the one millionth trip of the year. How cool…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont, fremont bridge
December 24, 2014

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

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 the numbers in the story to reflect counts as of midnight. If cycling rates are…
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tagged: bike counter, fremont, fremont bridge, Journey to 1 Million Fremont Bike Trips
December 2, 2014

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

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 that counts for the previous 12 months totaled one million. So between 9/29/2013 and 9/29/2014,…
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tagged: bike counter, doug ollerenshaw, fremont, fremont bridge
November 6, 2014

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

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 to the wire. The bridge recorded its busiest month on record in July with 120,669…
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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 23, 2014

Do neighborhood greenways increase cycling? Oh yes.

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 numbers with bike counts after the street got the neighborhood greenway treatment, and the result…
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tagged: ballard, bike counter, delridge, neighborhood greenways, sdot, west seattle