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Ken Ohrn’s “An Hour on Point Grey Road ” is attracting lots of traffic (ahem).
“B” has counted the people in the 245 pics:
- 220 people on bicycles (in one hour)
- 210 people on foot
- 19 cars
Very rough engineering practice would be to add a zero to peak hour numbers to guess at daily. … If 2,230 bikes per day is anywhere near reasonable, this is more than double the number quoted in the council report for a previous August. It’s also pretty competitive with the Burrard Bridge at this time of year.
The bike route signs aren’t even up. It’s also March.
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Notes Ken:
The number of people on bikes and on foot, if we use the “add a zero” rule of thumb (to get a wild-ass guess), would then be roughly 4,300 per day. This compares respectably with the commuter volume, assumed to be mostly single occupancy vehicles.
And it isn’t even finished yet.
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Pics hastily grabbed on my phone.
Considering how well used Point Grey Road is becoming (as proven by the increasing number of photo-data on this website), now that it has been closed to commuter motorists, just imagine the loss to us all by not closing the road sooner; sincere attempts began as far back as 1992 (that’s the past 22 years of just my existence in Vancouver that I, and millions of others, could not enjoy this road as the neighbourhood road that it is today). What a shame that we are so slow to recognize what will surely benefit us.