Oneway street and electric counters streamline Bicycle Master Plan
Cyclists commuters, skaters, walkers, and pedestrians alike may have an extra glimmer in their eyes these last few weeks since SDOT has made strides in making Ballard and all of Seattle more cyclist and pedestrian-minded.
Most recently, SDOT announced that electrical sensors would be placed in numerous locations throughout trail systems and greenways of Seattle in order to count the number of pedestrians and cyclists using the routes.
SDOT says the data will provide information that will facilitate measurement and ways to better serve a growing population of pedestrians and cyclists.
Already on the Fremont Bridge, another counter will be placed at Northwest 58th Street at 22nd Avenue Northwest in Ballard, and six other locations around the city.
SDOT stated, “The counters will help create a ridership baseline in 2014 that can be used to assess and measure ridership in the future and help reach the goal of quadrupling ridership by 2030.”
“No one has really methodically counted trail users,” said Kevin Carrabine, one of the original founders of the Friends of the Burke-Gilman Trail (BGT) and daily bicycle commuter.