We queue nearly twenty people on bikes and micromobility devices every peak cycle at Hampshire & Prospect in #CambMA. It is beautiful to watch. We are making it happen here.
@bikepedantic out of curiosity, I exported the data from the bike counter at Broadway and it doesn't show much of an increase in bikes since 2015.
https://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transportation/gettingaroundcambridge/bikesincambridge/ecototem
@Drew @bikepedantic I did a little more detailed look at the data before. From 2015-Covid there was a steady seasonally adjusted increase. The numbers cratered with Covid and have been pretty steadily increasing again, though not to 2019-early 2020 peak.
I changed up how I save the data, so that graph isn't something I can regenerate without fixing up some code, unfortunately. Definitely on the list to fix up after the election.
@Drew @bikepedantic The counter is in a kinda weird spot in terms of what it is counting. Useful since it's a long data set, but not the best at understanding the overall biking in the city. BlueBikes data is probably a closer analog.
@BostonBikeData there's a real data quality issue with all loop counters. We know they don't detect scooters and other new micromobility devices. If they're systematically not detecting cargo bikes like mine either, that's a massive chunk of ridership on the road now that wasn't on the road a few years ago, let's say pre 2017ish @Drew
@haraldkliems Perhaps they do them, but i don't know that adjustment factors have ever been published here, and i'm assuming the released data is raw, not adjusted in any way. @BostonBikeData @Drew
@bikepedantic @haraldkliems @BostonBikeData from the data portal Cambridge links through, yes it seems like raw unadjusted data
@Drew @bikepedantic @BostonBikeData I remember a conversation with someone from Eco Counter that made it sound like they provided at least some data cleaning before serving data to their clients. But I don't have any specifics, and this was in the context of one of our counters temporarily malfunctioning and inflating counts.
@haraldkliems They do - they scrub out spikes due to electromag interference, and will apply adjustment factors if the customer provides them. @Drew @BostonBikeData
@bikepedantic @haraldkliems @Drew Not sure about exactly what they do with this counter, but the city is testing intersection camera counters and those counts have severely under-counted bikes to the point they won't publish the data. I assume that means they are happy enough with the totem accuracy.