It is hardly a surprise the Los Angeles River Bike Path is one of the city’s most beloved and prominent bikeway facilities. With new parks popping up and additions such as The Frog Spot, the river is increasingly a destination people want to visit. With an accerlerated focus on efforts to revitalize the river and extend the bike path that runs along it, there is a parallel growing need to collect data on the river’s bike path usage. To address this need, the Bicycle Program recently collaborated with students from the city’s Hire L.A.’s Youth program to conduct bicycle counts along the L.A. River and in river-adjacent communities.
Throughout the month of October we conducted over a dozen weekday counts along the river from 4pm to 6pm to capture use during evening rush hour.
For the month of November we are conducting counts in Northeast LA, including on York Boulevard between North Figueroa Street and South Pasadena, North Figueroa Street, and on Colorado Boulevard. The long-term goal is to repeat these counts on a regular basis to measure growth in bicycling, and more generally to have a steady stream of bike counts.
While we have yet to fully analyze our results, here are some preliminary results from one of our count sites, York Boulevard between North Figueroa Street and Avenue 63:
- We conducted four weekday PM counts between 4pm and 6pm. We counted a total of 119 people bicycling, or an average of 29 people bicycling during each count session.
- Of the 119 people counted bicycling, 21, or 17.6% were women.
- The majority of people counted, 62%, were traveling eastbound, while the remaining 38% of people were traveling westbound.
- During a mid-day Saturday count, conducted from 11AM to 1PM, we counted 41 people bicycling.
We look forward to conducting additional counts throughout the city to gain a clearer perspective on bicycle needs and use.
This data will be entered into the clearinghouse at UCLA… right?
There may be a delay but yes they will be.
Reblogged this on Road Bike City and commented:
The LA river bike path is one of my favorite short rides in Los Angeles.
Will counts be conducted in the spring and/or summer, when ridership increases?
Yes!
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May I have a contact information of the person conducting the data collection? We are in the process of collecting data of bike riding patterns in LA as part of an economic study and this data may be very useful.
Email us at dotbopintern@lacity.org for more information about our data collection.