BikesCount report for Tuesday 29 October, 2013

BikesCount report for Tuesday 29^th October 2013

22 spotters counted cyclists for 2 hours from 7am till 9am. Weather: cloudy but dry morning, although the forecast was for thunderstorms in the afternoon. Total cyclists 1810 , of whom 19.4% were female. We counted parent-child pairs, as they are an indication of cycleway safety. 17 pairs were recorded, down from 27 last October.

Location	Tues Oct 2013	Tues Oct 2012	Tues Mar12	Tues Oct 11 rain	TueMar2011
Route 6
Honeysuckle Dve, west	122 (late*)	165	202	152	195
Route 6, Hannel St		127	138	90	109
Route 6, TAFE	128	113	110	81	110
Route 6,Waratah Stn	72	79	65	39	68
Route 6, Maud St	57	57	57	39	47
Moore St near Regal			47	17	47
East west
Jesmond Park/JHH	71	66		50
Howe St-Croudace Rd
Turton Rd/ Sports centre	104	103	111
Showground, Markets.
Beaumont St/ Donald St	105	XXX	115	79	105
King St /Markettown	91	85	89	61
Civic Park corner	95	92	109	57	96
Coastal Cycleway
Fernleigh /Kalaroo Rd	115	144		94
Fernleigh Track/Dibbs St	185	205	175	125	159
Glebe Rd/ Teralba Rd	117	119	112	92	108
Dumeresq / Gordon Ave	92	86	81
Parkway / Union St		96	104	59	95
Stockton Wharf		33		21
Mackie Ave/St James Rd	95	103	97	78	93
Dixon Park/ bathers way				23
Bathers Way/BarBch	29
North South / Kotara	42	XXX	36	27	50
Glebe Rd/ Gordon Ave	44	49		50	40
Industrial Dve/Tourle St	–		42	23	26
Industrial Dve, William St	–
Queens wharf	–		165
Booragul/ 5 Islands	–			28
Wheeler Pl / Merwether st	119
Bank Corner	98
Bar Beach- Bathers Way	29
Wallsend-Glendale-nth	–	9
Glendale (sth end)	14 (1 hour)
Morissett. Acacia	15

*Counted on 5^th November

Comparing like with like, the 12 sites that were counted in October 2012 and 13 showed a decrease from 1332 to 1253, a decline of 6%.

For the first time we counted in 3 time slots, 7 till 7:30 / 7:30 to 8:30 and 8:30 till 9am. Across all sites together, the proportion of cyclists seen during these times were 23.6%, 53.1% and 23.3%. The locations that varied from this pattern were the CBD locations with 10-15% in the first half hour, and the Fernleigh Track spots with 35-40% of the cyclists seen in the first half hour.

Of note is the count at Glendale for the first time, a 1 hour count from 7:30 to 8:30. Fourteen cyclists were seen, of whom 10 used the Glendale-Wallsend track. In the same hour 87 people travelled the Fernleigh track. Glendale –Wallsend is not highly used, and many people do not know it is there. Last October we counted the north end and saw 9 cyclists in 2 hours.

We counted two locations on Hunter St, in view of the proposed cycle lanes. At Wheeler Place 71 people made some of their journey on Hunter St, and at Bank Corner 67.