Volunteers are needed to manually count bicycles and pedestrians at several locations across the city next month. The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization and the City of Lawrence will be conducting bicycle and pedestrian counts on Saturday, September 10th from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Wednesday, September 14th from 9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m., 4:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. A rain date has been scheduled for Thursday September 15th and Saturday September 17th.
Those interested in volunteering for one or all of the scheduled count times are required to attend training session on either Thursday, September 8th from 11:30 a.m. to or 12:30 p.m. or Thursday, September 8th from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Volunteers will be taught the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project method created by Alta Planning and Design and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Volunteers trained in 2010 are not required to attend training in 2011.
Data collected on bicycling and walking will assist city and regional leaders in 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.
To volunteer, sign up at:
For more information please contact:
Jessica Mortinger, transportation planner at (785) 832-3165 or [email protected].
