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Progress! (MMW COUNTER WORKING!)
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Many thousands by lunchtime...
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I can claim 479 :0) while heading for Laidback last night.
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854 by 2025 last night, although I think Sally wins the bragging contest!
Robert
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Baged 2229 thru 2231 during POP.
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Good turnout as actually freezing cold. Good to see many more children, also two dogs, quite a lot of knitted material and many weird and wonderful bicycles. Dave's double recumbent won for heaviest bike in show and indeed most interesting. My pal Graeme had a leather strap affair that connects a wine bottle to a bicycle crossbar. Was very good.
Well done to organisers, my ongoing ill health curtailed my involvement but Balerno was well leafleted and Waverley court.
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How many points will I get for a tandem towing a trailer?
Answering my own question, Greenroofer's brompton and I went through together and we scored 4...
Maybe it's a way of counting more people cycling...
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Son #2 and I went through it close together this morning and we got 1270-1272 - that's three! On the way back it counted our number correctly.
In the afternoon the POP "traffic" was too busy to check the number as my wife and I went past on our tandem, and by pure coincidence strangers on an almost identical one beside us!
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We left at Big McBrown's education rubbish as my youngest son was getting bored and wanted to play on the park. As we tootled down mmw we were 245something. I can't beleive 5000 cyclists only amounted to ~2000 since we filed down at 11:25 to the start.
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Bike + Carryfreedom counted as 2. 2 bikes simultaneously passing also counted as 2.
Not tested any other possible combinations. One for the next PY.
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On the BBC report you can see it not changing 5 or6 cyclists go through. I think it missed a big chunk off the front.
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I very much doubt it was ever expected to cope with cyclists riding 3 or 4 abreast and overlapping with the riders in front and behind them. On a more ordinary day it will probably be pretty accurate.
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It was getting on for 6000 this afternoon when I wandered by a couple of hours ago, which isn't bad considering it was only somewhat over 3000 when I cycled back from PoP around the same time yesterday. It clearly didn't do very well at counting the PoP riders with any accuracy though.
Is there any news about the counter near the canal basin?
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I noticed today, two sensor loops on the Dunfermline - Alloa path. One just by East Grange (south of Blairhall) and another just to the west of Lundin road.
Are these connected in to anything?
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there are supposedly a lot of counters around. just not public ones. don't know anything about those locations in particular.
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There's usually an anonymous looking metal box off to the side. If it's a Sustrans path, they will usually have access to the figures, or it may be the local council will have them.
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Thanks for the info'.
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@Chdot, If it's pressure sensitive I wonder if it accidentally counts pedestrians when they are on the cycling side of the path.
I'll guess at 28th of June for the 100k mark.
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I think we need an urgent PY in which we trial 1,2,3,-10 bikes and work out how/when it counts accurately and when it fails.
eg we know that 2 heavy bikes count as 3, but do 2 'normal' bikes get counted correctly? when does it just stop counting at all?
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Empirical observations made during PoP suggests that "normal bike" + carry freedom trailer = 2 bikes. Replicated 3 times.
2 "normal bikes" simultaneously = 2 bikes. Not yet replicated.
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1 bike plus 1 buggy = 3 bikes !
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It'll roll over 10,000 sometime today, if not already...
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Public cycle counters are a great way to encourage cycling – it’s hard to resist a moment of excitement when you increase the number as you cycle past! Spokes has consistently lobbied Edinburgh Council for a Middle Meadow Walk public counter, and it was agreed in ATAP, the Council’s Active Travel Action Plan. However this was overtaken when Sustrans won government Climate Change money to install 9 public counters around Scotland, including Middle Meadow Walk. In recognition of the Spokes role, our logo is on the MMW counter.The counters will be in Clydebank, Glasgow,Coatbridge, Stirling, Benderloch, Inverness,Perth, and Edinburgh (Meadows and Canal) with a Master Display outside the Scottish Government Offices showing all counts. Whilst the data will be useful, there are of course alreadymany non-display counters, and we see the greatest value of the public counters in encouraging people to cycle.
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http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2014/04/pop-its-all-happening
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with a Master Display outside the Scottish Government Offices showing all counts
Victoria Quay? Hardly a poster child for cycle accessibility!
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When I passed at about 11pm Monday, the counter had just hit 2000 for the day. Impressive!
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It was at ~9700 around 11am.
Think it had passed 10000 when I was en route home circa 3pm, but I was a few merlots down at that point.
Even allowing for POP big numbers.
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@kaps
Victoria quay from the trinity path not too bad a cycle from Balerno. Back when I used to cycle down that away. Fair bit of covered cycle parking. Both the civil servants I used to meet keen cyclists. I showed one of them the cable tie trick to fix a popped mudguard. BFFs now.
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I passed the MMW counter this morning at 0720, and it read 130 bikes today(!). When I passed it again at about 1635 it read 1404 bikes.
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Should have hit 12000 by now I think?
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