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   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "lein"  wrote:   
      
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   > Bill Shatzer wrote:   
   >> lein wrote:   
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   >> > Don Homuth wrote:   
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   >> >>As for your invented "ratio" that's what's nonsense.   
   >>   
   >> > I know, it's likely greater.  Much greater.   
   >>   
   >> Your claimed 100 to one seems unlikely.   
   >>   
   >> Vehicle count numbers for the four bridges I could find numbers on   
   >> are:   
   >>   
   >> Bridge       Bicycles      Motor Vehicles   
   >>   
   >> Hawthorne    4,829         29,412   
   >>   
   >> Steel        2,112         18,791   
   >>   
   >> Broadway     2,081         27,259   
   >>   
   >> Burnside     1,170         39,085   
   >>   
   >> All traffic counts are for 2005 - daily averages for bicyclists and   
   >> the Portland BoT listed one day count for motor vehicles.   
   >>   
   >> It would seem the ration varies between 6 to one on the Hawthorne to   
   >> 33 to one on the Burnside.  All considerably short of 100 to one,   
   >> much less "Much greater".   
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   >   
   > How about the Marqum and Freemont bridges?  How about 26 to/from   
   > Wash.Co.?  How about I-5?   
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