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58 ~ CiTY OF SAN LEANDRO BiCYCLE & PEDESTRiAN MASTER PLAN <br />Existing Conditions <br />Commuters stopping by the Energizer Station at San Leandro BART on Bike to Work Day were <br />greeted by City Staff and two Councilmembers. <br />Existing and Future Bicycle Commuter Population <br />Based on journey to work data from the 2015 American Community Survey: <br />5-Year Data (2011-2015) (Table 6), it is estimated that 1 percent of San Leandro <br />resident commuters use a bicycle as their primary means of transportation <br />to work. This represents an estimated 370 work based daily bicycle trips. it <br />should be noted that this data does not account for commuters with multiple <br />modes of travel to and from work, such as commuters that ride a bicycle to <br />a BART station before transferring to transit for the remainder of their trip. <br />in these surveys, such trips would be counted as a transit trip. in addition, <br />the census data fails to capture people who commute by bicycle only one or <br />two days per week. Consequently, it is understood that the number of actual <br />commuter bicycle trips is higher than what is represented here. <br />This sample of the commuter population represents only a percentage of <br />the total cyclists within the City. Cycle trips made for school, shopping, and <br />recreational purposes often represent a large percentage of total bicycle trips, <br />but are not captured within census based surveys. <br />The future bicycle commuter population will depend on a number of factors <br />such as the availability of well-connected facilities (bikeway and bicycle <br />parking), population density, and type of future land development. With the <br />current emphasis in San Leandro on transit-oriented development and use <br />of alternative transportation modes for environmental and personal health <br />reasons, it would be expected that the popularity of bicycling would increase <br />at an even greater rate than what has occurred historically. For these reasons, <br />it is estimated that with implementation of the recommended bicycle network, <br />the commuter mode split would reach an estimated 3 percent of the mode <br />share representing approximately 1,200 work-based daily bicycle trips. This <br />should also grow non-work bicycle trips as well. <br />Bikes parked outside of the San Leandro BART station. <br />196