{"id":348,"date":"2013-07-17T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:57:22","slug":"bike-counter-or-random-number-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/bike-counter-or-random-number-generator.html","title":{"rendered":"Bike Counter or Random Number Generator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that hard data can be helpful for planning.\u00a0 Seattle has had a bike counter in Fremont for a while now and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlebikeblog.com\/2013\/06\/21\/west-seattle-bike-counter-now-operational\/\">recently added one on the West Seattle Bridge<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed that, since the West Seattle Bike Counter was finally deemed operational, when I crossed it, it either didn&#8217;t count me or it counted me multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I stopped to determine whether this was something unique to my big fat Dutch Bike, or if this thing is actually a random number generator.\u00a0 Conclusion: It does seem to respond to bikes, but it only does so every now and then and adds another number or two.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that this counts as hard data.\u00a0 In fact, seeing low numbers on this clunker may actually hurt the case for improving bicycling infrastructure.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got this counter now&#8230;\u00a0 let&#8217;s make sure it actually counts.<\/p>\n<p>Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1802.mov\">IMG_1802<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that hard data can be helpful for planning.\u00a0 Seattle has had a bike counter in Fremont for a while now and recently added one on the West Seattle Bridge.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed that, since the West Seattle Bike Counter was finally deemed operational, when I crossed it, it either didn&#8217;t count me or it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}