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 methods used here — bicycle Level of Traffic Stress, FHWA crossing guidance, AASHTO sight-distance criteria, and measured traffic volumes from WisDOT and the federal HPMS dataset — are the same ones used in professional practice, documented in the methodology write-up.
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 — and 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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