Litir Chumhdaigh
Cycling mode share is currently not actively monitored in the City as it has been done in the past. This submission requests that targets and goals set for cycling in the city are actively monitored by a systematic traffic counting program to evaluate progress in growing cycling mode share in the city
Monitoring and Evaluation Cork City Council does not actively monitor cyclist numbers at present. To measure progress in the objective of growing cycle mode share in Cork, a systematic traffic counting programme is needed to have accurate and timely data on cycling mode share. TFI traffic automatic traffic counters do not measure cyclists. In Dublin, the city council operate a small network of totem cyclist traffic counters , the data from which is available to the public on the data.gov.ie website. Evidence from other cities such as Copenhagen shows that the most accurate means of measuring cycling numbers is still a manual traffic counting programme conducted annually. In the past An Foras Forbeatha operated such a programme, see attached for reference . Cork City Council also used to conduct an Annual September traffic count. The 2008 CASP update , snapshot attached, called for the re-introduction of such a traffic counting programme. A manual and regular traffic counting programme , complemented by automatic cyclist counters that feed into the City Smart Gateway portal, is required in order to actively monitor progress in growing cycling mode share.
Active Travel Objective 4.4 to include a suggestion that Cork City Council would undertake a systematic traffic counting programme , complemented by automatic cyclist counters at key locations , in order to actively monitor and evaluate progress in reaching cycling mode share targets.
Sustainable transport targets should be measured at regular intervals to actively monitor progress in achieving goals and alter strategies if necessary.
