Bike and Ped Counts

[sarahsomerville.livejournal.com]

Hi Everyone,

It’s time for bike and ped counts – please sign up and help if you can, this data is very important to us.  Information is below.

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Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, and community partners are looking for volunteers to help with the city’s Fall bike and pedestrian counting project. 

The collected data helps to identify pedestrian and bicyclist trends at 36 locations throughout Somerville. This data is incredibly important for project planning, fundraising, and identification future needs.  It only takes one hour of counting at an intersection of your choice.

The one hour of counting needs to take place between 7:15 and 8:45 a.m. or between 4:45 and 6:15 p.m. on one of the following days:

Tuesday, September 18^th

Wednesday, September 19^th

Thursday, September 20^th

Tuesday, September 25^th

Wednesday, September 26^th

Thursday, September 27^th

See the map and sign up here: 

http://www.doodle.com/quvt9cd8uatsgv3i

Make sure to include your email address when signing up.

Volunteers are able and encouraged to do more than one hour and/or day!

More information on the project, as well as past data collected and presentations on findings can be found on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Counting Program page of the City of Somerville’s website:

http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/transportation-and-infrastructure/counting-program

For questions please contact  Sarah Spicer at sspicer@somervillema.gov or 617.625.6600 ext. 2519.

Thank you for your help!

Comments

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

Thanks! How does one find out about this sort of things other than through social media? Is there a mailing list?

[sarahsomerville.livejournal.com]

Hi! This info has gone out to a few lists. Get in touch with the Somerville Bicycle Committee: www.somervillebikes.org (more info on their page) and/or join their google group: www.groups.google.com/group/sbc-vols.