Confirmed: More People Biking During SafeTrack

[Tim Kelley]

During SafeTrack, the Bikeometer has seen a 76% increase (that’s 1000+ more bikes each day) over last year!

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Details: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counting-bikes-to-plan-for-bikes/rosslyn-bikeometer/

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[Steve O]

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.

[KLizotte]

Unfortunately this past May was terrible weather wise so won’t be the best apples to apples comparison but may still be interesting nonetheless.

[Rod Smith]

And that doesn’t include bikes with trailers!

[Judd]

@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.

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.

[Tim Kelley]

@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/

[huskerdont]

You made the Atlantic’s CityLab.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/06/metro-safetrack-surges-cycling/486437/

[Tim Kelley]

@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

[Judd]

@Tim Kelley 141371 wrote:

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/

Nope. BikeArlington error. In text link that says “all the data” is no longer good. Screenshot is below.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[consularrider]

@Tim Kelley 141375 wrote:

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

Remember, that was Oh really Steve.

Also, I was glad to see that a couple of Bike2WorkDays are in the top 20 since the block between Ft Myer Dr and Lynn St and the Monolith gets bypassed as people head to the Rosslyn pit stop.

[americancyclo]

@Judd 141378 wrote:

Nope. BikeArlington error. In text link that says “all the data” is no longer good. Screenshot is below.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

desktop “all the data” link work from that page: http://www.bikearlington.com/pages/biking-in-arlington/counting-bikes-to-plan-for-bikes/rosslyn-bikeometer/

maybe mobile error?

[Tim Kelley]

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

[baiskeli]

@Steve O 141344 wrote:

Not to be nitpicky

Your face is nitpicky.

[Tim Kelley]

More numbers:

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

[KLizotte]

FYI: according to the counter dashboard website Joyce Street NB counter is reporting zero counts.

[bentbike33]

And from the Washington Post…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/06/15/once-again-bikeshare-capitalizes-on-metros-pain/?hpid=hp_local-news_bikeshare-1030am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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