Thursday, June 25, 2009

2nd Street Bicycle Counts

This past weekend, nine intrepid individuals took time out of their day to help gather data along 2nd St. for some "BS" - that's "Before Sharrow". As of this posting, the Sharrows have been painted and in a few weeks/months another survey will be done to see if driving (both cyclist and motorist) behavior has been changed for "AS" - After Sharrow.

The surveyors stood at the corner of 2nd St/Corona from 7am Friday to 10pm Sunday and counted every bicyclist that went by.


1,252 cyclists were counted over the three days.

We had a VERY unbalanced gender ratio of 74.8% male... so all you single guys out there need to find a new way to meet ladies!

Check out this break-down of Bicycle Types:


And here is the info that we REALLY wanted - the reason for the Sharrows! An astounding 45% of riders counted this past weekend were riding IN THE DOOR ZONE!




A great deal of appreciation goes out to:
Jim Powers
Clancy Cramer
Russ Roca
Jacob Dougherty
Allyson Clark
Travis Bos
Brent Haddock
Michael Bos
April Sabucco
Posted by Dominic Dougherty at 6:04 PM

1 comments:

Al said...

What you have done is a great service to the cycling community. What a great baseline survey. I can't wait to see the After Sharrow survey.

I was on 2nd street yesterday and could already see a change in behavior - more cyclists riding where the should....in the "Green Zone."

Again - thanks for doing this - and for your service to the community.

Regards,

Allan Crawford

June 26, 2009 7:56 AM

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