Confirmed: More People Biking During SafeTrack

@Judd 141356 wrote:

Looks like access to the data isn’t available on the website: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counting-bikes-to-plan-for-bikes/counter-dashboard-arlington/

Any chance of getting that fixed? I’d like to play with the data a bit.

User error? Where’d you get that link?

The dashboard is located here: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counting-bikes-to-plan-for-bikes/counter-dashboard/

@Steve O 141344 wrote:

Not to be nitpicky, but can we also compare May to May? Before we attribute the increase to SafeTrack it would be good to know that there was not already an increase without it. Or if, say, there were already a 30% increase before SafeTrack, we would know it had a large effect but was not the only factor.

When someone says “not to be nitpicky” doesn’t that usually mean that they are being nitpicky?

Bikeometer Counts:
May 2015: 46,394
May 2016: 35,550

So yeah, there was actually a decrease of 23% from 2015 to 2016.

Also of interest, note where the first week of SafeTrack falls in the top 20 highest ridership days at the Bikeometer:

Fri, May 20, 2016 – 2617
Tue, Jun 7, 2016 – 2390
Sat, Apr 12, 2014 – 2355
Thu, Jun 9, 2016 – 2346
Wed, Jun 8, 2016 – 2331
Mon, Jun 6, 2016 – 2325
Fri, May 15, 2015 – 2294
Mon, Jun 13, 2016 – 2258
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 – 2203
Wed, Mar 16, 2016 – 2176
Sun, Apr 13, 2014 – 2152
Fri, Jun 10, 2016 – 2145
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 – 2130
Wed, May 25, 2016 – 2083
Tue, May 24, 2016 – 2043
Tue, May 20, 2014 – 1988
Fri, Jul 4, 2014 – 1978
Wed, Jul 16, 2014 – 1952
Wed, Jun 1, 2016 – 1952
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 – 1926

Article from City Lab on this: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/06/metro-safetrack-surges-cycling/486437/

More numbers:

http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/news-events/blog/safetracks-early-surge-cycling/