Walk or Ride Next Week: You're Being Counted
Coming up next week is the third annual Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project.
Cascade Bicycle Club and the Washington State Department of Transportation are calling for volunteers to help count bicyclists and pedestrians at specified locations throughout the state.
The counts will be focused on certain cities, including Bellevue, Bellingham, Bothell, Bremerton, Burien, Duvall, Ellensburg, Everett, Ferndale, Issaquah, Kelso, Kent, Kirkland, Longview, Lynden, Mercer Island, Mountlake Terrace, Oak Harbor, Olympia, Redmond, Richland, Seattle, Shoreline, Spokane, Tacoma, Tukwila, Vancouver, Walla Walla, Wenatchee and Yakima.
Counting will take place between 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. on October 5, 6 and 7. According to WSDOT’s website, bike counts help estimate demand, measure the benefits of investments, design future projects and target future safety and mobility projects.
(What we’re saying is, these would be choice dates to leave your car at home.)
Sign up for a volunteer shift here.
Read more here.
Filed under: Transportation, Walkable Tacoma, Biking, Get Involved
3 comments
D dONOVAN September 28, 2010
Can you update the cascade link to information about the bike count?
S scott October 3, 2010
so what your actually saying is you encourage skewing the results of a study that will affect everybody in the state? I truely hope that this study is not taken seriously… tainted information = poor policy decisions = ineffecient allocation of resources..
D dolly varden October 3, 2010
Our whole transportation system is rigged in favor of single occupancy vehicles. If it takes a little pre-planning/skewing to get things in better balance, so be it.