San Francisco to install bike counter

Joining Portland and Seattle in advanced bike counting technology, San Francisco will be getting its first real-time bike counter in May.

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The digital bike counter will be installed on the sidewalk on the south side of Market Street between 9^th and 10^th Streets, tallying all bikes heading eastbound. Counts will be visibly displayed, showing daily and annual compilations.

“The bike counter will underscore the huge and growing number of people biking on our city’s main corridor,” said Leah Shahum, the SF Bicycle Coalition’s Executive Director, who helped find sponsorship for this project. “Market Street is already one of the busiest bicycling streets in the country with very little dedicated bike space. It will be exciting to track further growth as we focus on improvements to Market Street to boost access to jobs and a stronger economic vibrancy in San Francisco.”

Seattle's first bike counter is located on the Fremont Bridge and was officially unveiled on the appropriate date of 10/11/12. A plan for installing a second counter is in the works.