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Originally Posted by GGG
When they count car traffic you may be surprised to learn that they count commuters regardless of the direction they are traveling. Cars also have two axles so when go over the counters would count twice. Provided they run the stats the same for bikes and cars it is correct.
From using the bike lanes my observation is that the counts count once per bike.
In 2017 you had 12000 cars per day on 5th st in 3 lanes. In summer you get 1400 bikes per day. So just on that street alone the bike use is 50% of the car use. This ignores all of the other roads that cars can use which they do at lower density. 1400 commuters is a significant enough volume to have a North South lane dedicated to them somewhere.
http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation...flowmap-DT.pdf |
Please ignore my real point which was the city skewing research methods (for grades) to ensure they got the result.
I’m pretty sure the stats GioforPM mentioned above speak for themselves, even if they are inflated IMO. Bike lanes getting 100 -300 individual users per day is not a great use of a traffic lane that would service IDK ~2000 people per day?
Not to mention it’s separate technology on bike lanes to count traffic than on roadways
Just saying.