Thanks for posting. I want to make a comment on using count data. One thing to remember about transportation modes is that current use, and hence counts, can be severely artificially depressed or limited by a lack of infrastructure (e.g. Atwood Avenue) or a lack of perceived safety on what may be thought of as adequate infrastructure (e.g. the wide, but not buffered or protected, bike lanes E. Washington Avenue). I am ambivalent about gathering or using current bike counts unless they are thoughtfully and productively used.
An easy way to demonstrate this is with transit: if you don't have a bus route somewhere and you measure current transit use in that corridor, you are going to get a bus count of zero. That has no predictive value of whether or not adding a bus route in that corridor would be a good investment or not. I do believe that bicycle mode should be measured- as a current baseline measure where until we are at a reasonable mode share, we are striving for more people riding bikes on all routes. -India Co-Founder & Instructor, We Are All Mechanics <http://www.WeAreAllMechanics.com> *Madison's premier bicycle maintenance courses since 2003* WeAreAllMechanics.com [email protected] Follow WAAM on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/We.Are.All.Mechanics> Founding Board Member, Madison Bikes <http://www.madisonbikes.org/> *...envisioning a city where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably, year round.* MadisonBikes.org <http://www.MadisonBikes.org> [email protected] Follow Madison Bikes on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/MBIIC/> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Chuck Strawser via Bikies < [email protected]> wrote: > The excuses for not counting bikes and pedestrians, and incorporating that > information into long range transportation planning, are dwindling. 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