Have you ever noticed the bike counter tacked onto the Fremont Bridge last October? More importantly, have you ever gone to the Seattle Department of Transportation's webpage that synthesizes the data collected by that bike counter, spitting out all sorts of interesting graphs tracking bike trips day by day, hour by hour, across the bridge?

It's pretty fascinating. For example, there have been over one million bike trips across the bridge in the last year. Just yesterday, the bridge hosted 1,141 trips. And now that we've collected over a year's worth of data, SDOT has found that bike trips across the bridge are up 28 percent this year over last year, resulting in "over 3,500 more cyclists per week," according to a fresh SDOT tweet. The webpage even shows the effect rain has on bike commutes!

SDOT is collecting the data from both the Fremont bridge bike counter and another counter on Spokane Street to help inform the woefully-underfunded Bicycle Master Plan. The website is a fun, educational time waster—and the perfect link to send your car-humping coworker who still stupidly insists that nobody rides.