Saw this was asked last month by Caroline Russel about the new cycle counters placed on cycle superhighway routes. (Question 2018/0948)
Are there any updates on this and will this be available live via open data? Also if it is available via open data is there a way to be notified of updates? (if so please add me the list!)
Many thanks,
Adam
Hi Adam
I’m pleased to let you know that the cycle counter stats are now available here. Let us know what you think!
Thanks
Theo
Nice thank you! 
Taking a brief look over the data but I was wondering what all the headers meant exactly, and also the uncertainties on the various measurements.
Current assumptions/queries:
4632, Blackfriars is 4865
HH:MM:SS:S00
Also I spotted in Embankment/May there’s Tuesday, Jul 3 2018.xls which should be moved to Embankment/July
EDIT: Also realised Embankment and Blackfriars are wrong way round, need to be swapped (i.e. all the Blackfriar’s ones are in the Embankment folder and vice-versa).
EDIT: The Embankment data seems heavily skewed towards eastbound. Having processed a few files, I can’t seem to find one with more than 3% of journeys westbound, and I find it hard to believe for every cyclist going west there are 35 going east - unless like birds the cyclists are migrating in the summer… 
Also the Blackfriars data seems skewed southbound, but not as much; 70-80% heading southbound.
Also I think it would be helpful if the files were all CSV (as opposed to XLS) as it’s an open format and easier to parse for applications, and if they were named with an ISO 8601 date at the beginning in a standardised format across different counters.
EDIT: been thinking about this, think a sensible naming format would be:
http://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/CycleCounters/YYYY-MM-DD-SSSS.csv where SSSS is the SITE_ID.
EDIT: the files are actually CSV but think they have been renamed to .xls, which results in Excel mangling them. Renaming them back fixes the issue.
Once again thanks so much for publishing this data! 
If, as domdomegg notes above, the Blackfriars files are in the Embankment folder, and vice versa, then there may be a date problem too.
Lots of us noted that the Embankment CSH counter tripped 1 million at 6pm on Monday 23 July. It was reported live on several social media platforms.
Taking the Blackfriars-foldered file, and assuming that Serial Number is the count, then it doesn’t hit 1 million until 9.36 am in the file for Friday 27 July.
Is there a mis-alignment between the data in the files and observed numbers on the counters’ displays?
Yeah at first I thought the SERIAL_NUMBER was the cumulative count but it’s about -40000 / 4 days off.
I also wonder whether these data dumps are from some feed, or are the result of some TfL employee going to the counter, opening it up and copying some data over - due to the differing file formats, file naming scheme, mixup between the locations and the out of place files I suspect it’s the latter which means there’s probably no way to get it live so @cs3count can be the source of the latest possible news 
Thanks for all your comments about the counter data. It actually comes from the supplier’s system but real time is not possible at the moment. I’ve passed your other comments on to the data owner. We are still refining this data set so it’s great to have your feedback.
Hi Theo
Can you ask the data boffins to check the cycle counter data files, please?
There is 3 months of Blackfriars Road CS6 counter data.
However, there’s only one proper month of Embankment CS3 counter data - July’s - and this is stored in the Blackfriars folder.
The May and June files - allegedly for Embankment - are duplicates of the May and June Blackfriars files. E.g. compare the contents of May 31st Blackfriars http://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/CycleCounters/Blackfriars/May/May%2031%202018.xls with May 31st Embankment http://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/CycleCounters/Embankment/May/Thursday,%20May%2031%202018.xls Both files have the same Blackfriars CS6 records.
Like Adam & others, I appreciate TfL gathering and publishing the data, but there’s some tidying up to do before it is fit for use …
Cheers
It’s hard to understand why when real-time cycle counter data is routinely provided by counter suppliers. For example LB Camden’s open data site is routinely providing cycle counter data (https://opendata.camden.gov.uk/Transport/Camden-Cycle-Counters/hwk2-xvrv) in response to realtime queries and Camden Cycling Campaign are publishing useful summaries: Camden’s Phase 1 cycle counters on Royal College Street
Hello,
Have you been able to confirm what these tags mean please?
Many thanks
D.