I commend Larry for suggesting a way to collect sorely needed data that the city has not had for far too long, and Larry and everyone else who volunteered to help.
But I would rather see the city spend the money and the staff time to collect the data on bicyclists and pedestrians consistently as part of the planning and implementing of the public transportation infrastructure of the city. The counter in Copenhagen (thanks for the link, Dipesh) would be wonderful, and although no method of counting bikes and peds is as easy, or presumably as cheap, as a hose count of motor vehicles, there are other technological methods that could work that are probably not as expensive as the one in Copenhagen. See http://www.livablestreets.com/streetswiki/pedestrian-counts for more on those other methods. If the city doesn't have the money to collect the data on bicyclists and pedestrians as well as motor vehicles before planning and spending money on transportation infrastructure, perhaps for the next several decades we should organize a group of volunteers that could provide useful data to the transportation planners and engineers on motor vehicle use, particularly regarding counts that would be of interest to the motoring community. chuck -----Original Message----- From: Dipesh Navsaria As an aside, I would *love* to see Madison put up a counter like this: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/05/bicyclists-count-in-copenhagen.html Maybe Trek or someone would sponsor a permanent installation at a couple of key locations? Perhaps someplace that's also visible to motorists? :-) -------------------- From: Larry Nelson [snip] I wonder if there are opportunities to establish a voluntary group of folks from this list that could provide useful data to the transportation planners and engineers, particularly regarding counts that would be of interest to the biking community. [snip] _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
