You cannot improve what you do not measure - or at least you cannot know you need to improve it, or that you have improved it.
Traffic engineers are measuring all kinds of things with the purpose of improving the driving experience - we should make sure other agencies are measuring variables with the purpose of improving the bicycling experience. Otherwise, The driving experience gets even better relative to the bicycling experience, and a higher percentage of transportation consumers choose driving over bicycling, and politicians wrongly attribute that to something special about the automobile rather than the built environment, and that gives them yet another reason to prioritize the driving experience, which reinforces the cycle. Let's break the cycle by being twice as diligent about measure the quality of bicycling as the Traffic Engineers are about measuring the quality of the driving experience! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schaefer, William Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:25 PM To: 'Dave Schlabowske'; MILBTW; Bikies Cc: Beck, Drew; Sobota, Tim Subject: Re: [Bikies] bikes on buses up 50% in MKE Metro Transit staff has told me they have no way to count usage of the bike racks so I'd be curious to find out how MCTS did it. Don't know if they ask drivers to push a button on the farebox or if they have an automated way of counting. Bill Schaefer, Transportation Planning Manager Madison Area Transportation Planning Board - An MPO 121 S. Pinckney St., #400 Madison, WI 53703 PH: (608) 266-9115 FAX: (608) 261-9967 Email: [email protected] www.MadisonAreaMPO.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Schlabowske Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:38 PM To: MILBTW; Bikies Subject: [Bikies] bikes on buses up 50% in MKE Anyone have the Madison figures for bike boardings? It would be interesting to compare since they have had racks for so long, but the Madison bike mode share is so much higher. http://www.bfw.org/2011/10/26/bike-use-on-milwaukee-buses-up-50-in-2011/ Yours in cycling, Dave Schlabowske Communications Director Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 414-271-9685 414-736-2209 [email protected] www.bfw.org
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