Walking Vancouver, Washington
Last month I was a volunteer 'trail counter' for Vancouver Parks and Recreation. It was a great experience, especially since the weather
was great and my fellow volunteer is one of my personal local heroes. I spent a couple of hours learning more of her interesting life and talked to happy people doing healthy things - how great is that?
So, here's what the trail count reavealed (this was from multiple time periods, multiple locations):
Total Counted: 1003 Weekday Counted: 412 Weekend Counted: 591
Total Bikes: 439 Weekday Bikes: 132 Weekend Bikes: 307
Total Peds: 530 Weekday Peds: 264 Weekend Peds: 266
Total Others: 34 Weekday Others: 16 Weekend Others: 18
% Trail Usage By Time
Weekday Weekend
4-4:15 5% 12-12:15 11%
4:15-4:30 5% 12:15-12:30 7%
4:30-4:45 5% 12:30-12:45 9%
4:45-5 5% 12:45-1 7%
5-5:15 4% 1-1:15 8%
5:15-5:30 5% 1:15-1:30 6%
5:30-5:45 7% 1:30-1:45 5%
5:45-6 5% 1:45-2 5%
Numbers - I love the usefulness of numbers! - show that we have pretty level usage during the day, and slightly heavier on weekends. Most (92%) were out for exercise. The full report will be available through Vancouver Parks and Rec; I know that there are great plans for making the trails more connected so that you can actually get one place to another (even Ridgefield to Camas in a long view). Being a strong proponent of walkable communities, I'm really pleased to know the local government is interested in giving us more walkways. Now if we could just get the developers and zoning people to create more walkable and less car-dependent communities...
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