Cycle count & new cycle counters
October also provided a new round of the cycle counter stats (see last page of linked doc) – AT reports almost 8% more cyclists on the October roads and paths counted by the automatic cycle counters than in the same month last year!
The website intended to report in more detail on these trends (and provide counter-by-counter data and other formatted data to the general public) is still being developed though…
Great news also from a recent meeting between ourselves and Auckland Transport / Auckland Council – in addition to the 10 counters already in place in the region, Auckland Transport will be activating 5 new counters in November. The new counters will be reporting on cycling on:
- Grafton Bridge
- SH20 Cycleway
- East Coast Road
- Dominion Road
- Lagoon Drive
Update: Existing counters are:
- Northwestern Cycleway (Te Atatu)
- Northwestern Cycleway (Kingsland)
- Upper Harbour Drive
- Lake Road
- Tamaki Drive
- Twin Streams, Henderson
- Orewa Estuary Path
- Mangere Bridge
- Highbrook Drive
- Great South Road, Manukau Central
Auckland Transport is also committed to further extend this network of counters in the next year after that. If you want to make suggestions on where counters should go, feel free to sound off in the comments below.
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Down in the Wynward Quarter? I pretty well exclusively cycle via there when going from Ponsonby to the innercity area. Symonds Street and K’Rd are pretty ‘busy’ routes too (in an Auckland sense).
Good thinking, thanks! That’s just the sort of new area that we need to monitor! What do you think of putting one on the Te Wero Bridge?
Anyone else got ideas?
Sandringham Road? Another fairly major commuter route. I know at least one cyclist who goes up and down there twice a day and he sees plenty others. Remmers Road and/or Broadway – just to capture traffic from east into City. Although I guess you might get them going over Grafton Bridge… However, I do think there would be some people commuting from eastern suburbs into Newmarket who such a counter would capture.
Manukau Road? Somewhere say just to the north of the Alpers Ave, Manukau Rd, Great Sth Rd and St Marks Ave intersection…
i do gt sth/market road 2-3 times a week… a lot of bikes through there..
The report shows the stats on Remuera Road are down this year.. which may be related to the Orakei Road cycleway opening. It’s quite well used (I switched to it from Remuera Road myself) so may be worth adding a monitoring point there.
so is there already an automatic counter on Remuera Road? I couldn’t see it in the list Barb C provided… Or do you mean the manual count?
Sorry I’m referring to the manual (annual?) count.. which showed an 18% decline this year.
Hi Tim – the annual count is not to be trusted to give such short-term trends, sadly… varies too much due to weather and other one-off factors. Maybe there was an 18% reduction representative of something general, maybe there wasn’t. Using a one-day count like the “annual manual”, you’d need to look at least for several years before getting any indication whether a specific trend at a single location was true or just a fluke. That’s why the continual counters are, comparatively speaking, so much better.
Where are the existing ones? I don’t think I’ve ever noticed one.
You aren’t supposed to notice them, to prevent people from just riding back and forth over/between them and skewing the numbers. The existing ones are:
Northwestern Cycleway (Te Atatu)
Northwestern Cycleway (Kingsland)
Upper Harbour Drive
Lake Road
Tamaki Drive
Twin Streams, Henderson
Orewa Estuary Path
Mangere Bridge
Highbrook Drive
Great South Road, Manukau Central
And of course, soon, the 5 new locations noted in this post.
Thanks that’s useful. It’s good to be counted.