Cycling in Waterloo Region

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Benton St traffic counts

16626 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT COURTLAND AVE
6316 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) BTWN COURTLAND & St. George
8033 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT St. George St
6444 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) BTWN Church & St. George
7871 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT Church St
6572 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) BTWN CHARLES & Church
15416 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT CHARLES ST
8735 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) BTWN CHARLES & Hall's Lane
9722 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT Hall's Lane
8709 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) BTWN Hall's Lane & King
14973 BENTON ST/FREDERICK ST (Regional Road 6) AT King St

What is it with the Region and only ever painted bike gutters? There's a 20m right-of-way to work with here.

https://streetmix.net/coryca/1/benton-st-kitchener-on

How is this measured? I'm confused how the major intersections record so much more traffic than the sections between, unless this is counting traffic crossing over but not using Benton St.

Yes, the intersections, e.g. "16626 BENTON ST (Regional Road 6) AT COURTLAND AVE" are every vehicle going through it, regardless of which direction they came from, whether they turned or not.

If you check an intersection and the 4 "arms" around it, the intersection count is roughly 2x that of any arm, and roughly the same each pair of opposite arms.

Charles: Queen to Benton 8,179 + Benton to Eby 7,147 = 15326

Benton: Church to Charles 6,572 + Charles to Halls Lane 8,735 = 15307

Benton at Charles 15,416