CounterPoint runs on crowdsourcing and citizen science. Data validity is transparent, simple, and comparable with automatic counters. Anyone can download a spreadsheet with a minute-by-minute record of the counts done at any location. An engineer or planner can verify any of the data easily by simply or doing a count themselves at a similar time – further adding to the history of counts at a given location. A politician can do the same. That’s how CounterPoint works – data collection that is open to the community that starts (and often ends) conversations about how our transportation systems are (and should be) working.