Tired of the lack of bicycle lanes and feeling like Seattle is not moving fast enough towards being a bicycle friendly city that is can be? The city of Seattle needs your help to keep moving that agenda forward.
On Wednesday, Sept. 15 from 6:30 to 9 a.m., the city will be performing its annual bicycle counts, and they need volunteers. Counts will be conducted at 62 locations, and 20 more volunteers are needed.
Annual bike counts are essential to show the growing numbers of bicyclists on the streets. We all know the numbers are growing, but hard data — not just day-to-day observations — is what the city needs to make better plans and decisions. As the number of bicyclists increase, the more our governing officials will be compelled to dedicate more funding to bicycle infrastructure which help move us to being that bicycle friendly city we all dream about. All you have to do today is to sign up!
If you are willing to help, please contact Gina Coffman via via email or phone at 206-684-3902. Let her know:
1) Top two count location preferences from the table to the right. Each location needs one volunteer.
2) Mailing address
3) Telephone number
All volunteers will receive a packet with full instructions and counting forms. Results will be used to monitor progress toward increasing the number of bicycle trips as called for in the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan.
It’s unlikely that the bike count forms will include a column for fuzzy puppets, pigs or frogs, but check back to let us know the most interesting thing you saw during your count shift.
Thanks for helping make Seattle a better city for bicycling!
Now I’m not complaining – but I do wonder why the locations and times of these studies are so widely known.
Not complaining either, but looks like I won’t be counted on my route from the Central District to downtown. Are there other countin locations, and these are just those that need volunteers?
@Nate, the locations in the table are just the ones still in need of volunteers. There are 62 locations total throughout Seattle.
@Ross, while it would be great to see masses of people take to the streets to be counted, we also prefer to see a “normal” count rather than a false spike. We’re not promoting “ride your bike past stops to be counted as many times as possible.” YMMV.