I'm Eric Youngblom, a traffic and safety engineer, a Washington County resident, and a father of four. I built Bike Safe Wisconsin to help my own family, and everyone across Wisconsin, find safe, low-stress bike routes, and to give communities real evidence for making biking safer.
My career has centered on exactly what this site runs on: traffic safety analysis, transportation modeling, and turning large public datasets into decisions agencies can act on. The site scores every road with the bicycle Level of Traffic Stress method, follows FHWA crossing guidance, and uses measured traffic volumes from WisDOT and the federal HPMS dataset. These are the same methods used in professional practice, and the methodology write-up documents every rule.
Bike Safe Wisconsin is a personal, community project. The goal is simple: put practical, planning-level safety analysis in the hands of the parents and riders who actually use these roads, then use what they contribute to start real conversations with local and state officials about making biking safer for everyone in Wisconsin.
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