The City Traffic Engineer has posted the Annual Traffic Volume Report for 2009. The link follows:
http://www.cityofmadison.com/trafficEngineering/documents/Reports-Studies/20 09VR.pdf The trend for diminished traffic in the isthmus and near west and near east side continues. In the years 2000 - 2004, traffic in the central part of the city peaked and has been diminishing each year since that peak. I speculate that less traffic in the central part of the city is a reflection of less jobs and less commercial sites that generate traffic. Traffic on the perimeter of the city continues to increase, suggesting that people are travelling around the city rather than to the city. Surprisingly, the bike numbers are also down in 2009. However, bike monitoring is confined to the North Shore/John Nolen Drive Corridor. It would be helpful if the bike numbers for the SW, University, and East Isthmus Path (Capital City Trail) were included. We discussed volunteers conducting bike counts on this listserve before but some folks were concerned that this would somehow manifest a subordination of bikes to cars. Perhaps we should revisit this issue.
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