Your help is needed to count bicyclists and pedestrians!
Transportation planning and design at all levels requires understanding of actual conditions. This involves determination of motor vehicle, bicyclist and pedestrian numbers. This data dealing with the characteristics of vehicle or people movement is obtained by undertaking traffic counts. Just like motor vehicle counts, counting bicyclists and pedestrians at specific locations will help us to more accurately estimate demand, measure the benefits of investments, and design our projects. This information will also help us target safety and mobility projects and improve our traffic models.
Data collected on bicycling and walking will assist City and Regional Leaders with estimating usage and demand for bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The counts will also be used to track the region’s progress on increasing the use of non-motorized transportation, strengthen grant applications to leverage additional federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects, evaluate existing projects, and help determine the location of future investments.
There’s four training sessions you can attend if you haven’t done it before and they are looking for people on various days in September in Lawrence, Eudora and Baldwin City.
To learn more about volunteering and available times, please visit www.lawrenceks.org/mpo/volunteer or contact Jessica Mortinger at [email protected] or (785) 832-3165.
