On 10/26/2011 5:27 PM, Matt Logan wrote:
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!
Great idea! Are there any standard metrics, or are we at "Go",
determining what they will be and how to measure them?
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