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# Honk, if you’d like Bloomington’s traffic counts
- URL: https://bsquarebulletin.com/honk-if-youd-like-bloomingtons-traffic-counts/
- Published: 2023-05-31T21:29:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-24T23:43:51.000Z
- Author: Dave Askins
- Tags: Old B Square, #imported-whole

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/20/6f/206f9007-c0a7-47d4-b87b-686c21961f22/content/images/2025/02/bsquarebulletin.comwp-contentuploads202305overview-of-traffic-count-locations-Screen-Shot-2023-05-31-at-12.53.28-PM-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/20/6f/206f9007-c0a7-47d4-b87b-686c21961f22/content/images/2025/02/bsquarebulletin.comwp-contentuploads202305closeup-traffic-count-locations-Screen-Shot-2023-05-31-at-12.53.28-PM.jpg) 

On an average day, 2,526 cars drive along the section of Morton Street between 7th and 8th streets in downtown Bloomington.

Measured just a few months ago, that’s one of the freshest numbers in [Bloomington’s traffic count dataset](https://data.bloomington.in.gov/-Planning-Transportation/Traffic-Counts/dcr5-fg4c). That dataset and others are available through the part of the city’s website that is branded as [B Clear Open Data](https://data.bloomington.in.gov/).

As Bloomington gears up for some mid-June public meetings about the [College and Walnut corridor](https://bloomington.in.gov/transportation/plan), traffic counts are one kind of information that residents might like to have in a handier format than a bunch of rows and columns.

To serve that potential community interest, The B Square has built a Google Map showing [the locations of all the traffic counters](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1YqIoSee-Ej-QSoX-A0a2Y-OGet%5FzFMQ&usp=sharing) in the B Clear traffic count dataset. Click on a colored dot, and a sidebar will appear, showing the traffic count tally, as well as the year when the count was done.

On June 13, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in city hall, there will be a public meeting to discuss the existing conditions along the College and Walnut corridor. Two days later, on June 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., another public meeting is scheduled, to discuss design concepts.

Those public meetings follow a few weeks of information gathering by city staff, using online surveys and in-person talks.

The dots on the traffic counter map are assigned colors on the map based on the average daily traffic count at that location:

Green: 10 to 450  
Blue: 451 to 1,345  
Orange: 1,364 to 3,582  
Light Red: 3,586 to 8,523  
Red: 8,578 to 27,052

For readers who want traffic count numbers that are more recent than the numbers in the B Clear dataset, in some cases the [Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) traffic count database](https://indot.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Indot&mod) offers fresher figures.

The original B Clear dataset is missing the latitude-longitude coordinates for some of the locations. For our map, The B Square has manually geocoded the missing locations based on the descriptions in the dataset.

Google Maps offers a straightforward way to find the coordinates of any point on a map. Use CTL-click (Mac OS) or right-click (Windows) on any map point, and a menu will pop up, showing the latitude-longitude coordinates as an option to pick. Clicking on that option will automatically copy the lat-long information to the clipboard. It can be pasted anywhere you like, including the cells that are missing lat-long coordinates in a dataset.

Traffic counter locations are described in the B Clear dataset in a natural way—on Street X, between Street Y and Street Z. To conduct an efficient search for traffic counter locations in Google Maps, it’s useful to specify an intersection—like “Street X & Street Y”. After Google Maps serves up a placemark for the intersection and zooms in for a closer look, the other cross street (Street Z) can be found by visual inspection.

Below is a series of screenshots showing how that process can work.

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