This is very interesting data. Thanks for sharing. Could you be more specific about how long the period of time was in which you counted 1394 cyclists and 3260 pedestrian crossings?
Thanks, Chuck Strawser Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner Commuter Solutions Transportation Services UW-Madison Room 124 WARF 610 Walnut St Madison WI 53726 608-263-2969 www.wisc.edu/trans From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fortkendall tds.net Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bikies] Fwd: Where are not more crashes at University and Park? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Schimpff, Jeff A - DNR <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM Subject: RE: [Bikies] Where are not more crashes at University and Park? To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Robbie Webber <[email protected]>; Bikies <[email protected]> Being a late volunteer for the bike-ped count, I was assigned to the "Gulag" site at Park and University that was abandoned at the last minute by two other would-be volunteers. Placing myself upwind and ten feet above most of the machines that formed a major portion of the transportation mash-up here, it was in most ways very enjoyable to witness this cavalcade of youthful and in cases erudite optimism, energy and everything else streaming by on the sidewalks and bike lanes. Despite some occasional honking, impatience, wrong-way pedaling, and other bursts of chaos, the only near-accident occurred when one cyclist swerved abruptly in front of another in the counter-flow lane, to cross north on Park. In the same period that Robbie would have been able to have a personal conversation with every cyclist who came by, at the Park & U intersection during that same two-hour period, there were approximately: 1,394 bicyclists 3,260 pedestrian crossings (people who made 90 degree crossings were counted twice - there was no way to keep track of that) 21 skate boarders Zero dog walkers The sad part was the creeping motor traffic along University for the first hour and 15 minutes or so, wherein very few personal autos contained more than one person, and the persons in those autos vastly outnumbered the cyclists and pedestrians. Cycling was the far superior way to go at that time, as most people on the list know. A little later that evening, one of our local TV news station reporters referred to an increase in gasoline prices over the past two weeks of 6 cents per gallon in terms of "pain at the pump." Obviously, most people in Dane County are pumped full of anesthetic... -- Jeff Schimpff & Theresa Stabo
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