Trail Counter Celebration
On Saturday March 18, 2023 Bike Walk Greenville, the City of Traveler’s Rest, and The Community Tap celebrated the second successful installation of a trail display counter on the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. Left to right are BWG board member Wayne Hollinger, Tim Simpson Jr who did the graphic design of the counter, BWG […]
White Horse Road StreetLight Data
Bike Walk Greenville has recently used our StreetLight Data (SLD) license to learn more about pedestrian and bicycle use in the vicinity of the White Horse Road Walmart Supercenter. In 2021 Bike Walk Greenville advocates started looking at White Horse Road after reading Right of Way by Angie Schmitt and the Smart Growth America’s Dangerous […]
New data about SRT Users
StreetLight Data about Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail Green Line (SRT) Users at the Willard Street Display Counter The data prompted our Executive Director to submit a commentary to the Post and Courier that was published on January 18, 2023: Taylor Farmer with WSPA News 7 reached out to us on January 26th and produced […]
2023 Trail Counter Prediction Contest
The Display Counter at Willard Street just north of Unity Park was made possible by our succesful fundraising in 2021 resulting in the donation of the counter to the City of Greenville. In 2022, the final count for 11 months after the installation was 656,467. 53.6% were people on bikes and 46.4% were people on […]
An update from SCDOT
We reached out to Brandon E. Wilson, SCDOT District 3 Traffic Engineer for an update on the long awaited traffic signal at the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail interesction with West Blue Ridge Drive (SC-253) who provided this information on December 13, 2022: New Technology The goal of the radar technology being deployed at the […]
Streetlight Data License
By Dr. John McBurney, Board Vice-Chair This short video provides an overview of this big data product that can track billions of data points each month including anonymous cell phone data from people on foot and on bikes. Thanks to a generous donation to Bike Walk Greenville, we have obtained a license to SLD to […]
Our 2022 Advocacy Summary
Bike Walk Greenville has been advocating for safe walking and biking infrastructure since 2013. As a 501(c)3 non-profit, Bike Walk Greenville relies on generous contributions from people like you to continue our work to advocate for a safer community for people on foot and people on bikes. We strengthened our relationships with elected officials and staff […]
Ryan Soukup talks about needed SC legislation
Post and Courier Commentary by Ryan Soukup November 13, 2022 Few South Carolinians know that red light cameras were made illegal in the state in 2010. While the red light camera ban may be in keeping with this state’s tendency to lean toward the “less is more” approach to the public road system, I don’t […]
SC Pedestrian Deaths Data
Some observations on the data We recently received spreadsheets from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) that provided extensive details of all the motor vehicle crashes with pedestrians for four years- 1/1/2018 through 12/31/2021. There were 4,553 crashes listed of which 714 were fatal. 829 were categorized as “incapacitating,” 1,403 were “not-incapacitating,” 196 […]
An update on walkable communities in Greenville County
We originally published this post on December 27, 2016. On September 28, 2022 we presented about walkability to the Upstate Forever Citizen’s Planning Academy and we asked the participants what percentage of Greenville County residents live in a walkable community, and the guesses were all very close to our 2016 analysis! We decided to look […]