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semi-diverters such as on Alder at 19th and 24th provide a quiet bicycle <br /> route. <br /> <br /> IV. Eugene has been a national leader in the provision of bicycle facilities <br /> A. Others have taken our lead, and some have surpassed us; i.e. Corvallis now <br /> has bike lanes on 80 percent of its arterials, and the 1990 census information <br /> indicated 8 percent bicycle usage for work commuting in Corvallis. In <br /> Eugene, we have bike lanes on approximately 30 percent of our arterials, and <br /> the 1990 census information shows our bicycle usage for the work commute <br /> has dropped to 5.8 percent, down from 8 percent in 1980. <br /> B. We receive several calls a month from around the nation requesting <br /> information on the formation of our program, asking for assistance in creating <br /> a program of their own, and with specific questions on design. <br /> C. There are lots of bicycles in Eugene, but the exact number isn't certain. Here <br /> are a couple of figures that give an idea of the number. <br /> 1. The percentage of bicycles to cars has been counted in several <br /> traffic corridors. On Amazon Parkway, we get about 1,300 <br /> bicyclists a day and about 11,500 autos a day (about 10 percent <br /> of the traffic is bicyclists). On Pearl and High streets, we get <br /> about 450 bikes and 10,000 autos (4 percent). Over the Ferry <br /> Street Bridge, we get about 770 bikes and 60,000 autos a day (1 <br /> percent). On the Fern Ridge Path and 18th Avenue bike lanes, <br /> we have 940 bikes and on 18th Avenue we have 15,400 autos (6 <br /> percent). And on Fifth Avenue we've counted 920 bikes and <br /> 3,900 autos or almost 20 percent of the traffic is in the form <br /> of bicycles (this figure probably reflects a choice by many <br /> motorists to use Sixth and Seventh avenues rather than Fifth for <br /> east-west travel). <br /> 2. It's possible to compare those percentages with the percentage of <br /> road width allocated for alternative modes. Typically, on streets <br /> striped for bicycles, about 15 percent of the road width is <br /> allocated for bicycles. For example, 14 percent of Pearl Street <br /> is bike lane, as is 15 percent of the Ferry Street Bridge (because <br /> bicycles use the sidewalks on the Ferry Street Bridge, the <br /> allocation includes the space shared by bicycles and <br /> pedestrians). Because of the lack of on-street parking, the split <br /> on Amazon Parkway is much higher 28 percent for bikes, or <br /> 46 percent counting the parallel 12-foot off-street bike path. <br /> D. While the percentage of Eugene commuters who bicycle to work has dwindled, <br /> <br />