Cycling in Waterloo Region

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Back of the envelope we have... ~575 trips per day. If we assume 2 trips per person, the trail's seeing 288 daily active users (DAU). (gross oversimplifications: assuming each day of the week sees equal traffic, assuming each user takes 2 trips on average, assuming the counting methodology isn't flawed in some way... but still, almost 300 users per day)

The counting is based on loop counters installed along Waterloo's trails in a number of locations, and I get the impression it's very good-- capable of detecting and distinguishing bikes and pedestrians, and recording direction.

I believe the open data is available here: http://opendata.city-of-waterloo.opendat...sportation&page=2&sort_by=relevance

The website is very flaky for me, and I don't know if it's because the site is broken or my work's web proxy is getting in the way.