http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Edinburgh - bucking the Scottish trend? en Fri, 22 May 2026 07:21:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12114#post-141103 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:15:19 +0000 gembo 141103@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All except straiton I think are in Edinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12114#post-141099 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:59:40 +0000 neddie 141099@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does the Edinburgh LA include places like Straiton / Edinburgh Park / Gyle / Hermiston Gait / Fort Kinnaird ?</p> <p>Because that is where the cars are... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12114#post-141092 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:50:10 +0000 Kim 141092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Put it down to the tram works making more difficult to drive in Edinburgh ;-)</p> <p>It is certainly <em>not</em> due to CEC policy... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12114#post-141021 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:48:05 +0000 kaputnik 141021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If cencus data is anything to go by, then absolutely. </p> <p><a href="http://www.celiamac58.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/travel-to-work-or-study-overview-of.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.celiamac58.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/travel-to-work-or-study-overview-of.html</a></p> <p>So "good for Edinburgh" in a way, but why do I feel a bit more like it's shame on every other council in Scotland?</p> <p>Headline facts;</p> <p>Edinburgh is only Local Authority area with a less than 50% use of cars as primary mode of works transport. Glasgow a bit behind then Aberdeen. Everywhere else trending heavily towards 80% car use.</p> <p>Edinburgh only LA area where car use has dropped since 2001 census as mode of driving to work. Quite notably too.</p> <p>Edinburgh has 4th highest % of students getting to place of study by active transport, and appears to have highest by bike, by quite a bit (although lion's share walk).</p> <p>My own playing with the Scottish Neighbourhood Survey datasets led to me plotting some graphs, in which I found the following;</p> <p>Edinburgh is only LA where car ownership declining.<br /> Edinburgh is LA with lowest access to car reported.<br /> Edinburgh is <strong>not</strong> the LA with the highest level of bicycle ownership reported<br /> Edinburgh is the LA with the most people saying they have walked to work in the last week.<br /> Total car use in Edinburgh (vehicle KM) appears to be falling</p> <p>I'll put these up when I get a chance.</p> <p>The really telling thing is not that Edinburgh is so different, it's that the rest of Scotland is quite so uniformly car-dominated, and that the direction of things is to car ownership and use increasing.</p> <p>So Edinburgh may be years (decades) behind European cities, but sadly it's also years or decades ahead of most everywhere in Scotland. But less than 50% of people in Edinburgh own a car, and less than 50% use the car as their primary method of getting to work. This suggests that <em>the commuting motorist in Edinburgh is a minority</em>! I'm not beginning to suggest that the majority are cyclists, but the alternative to the car is the majority, be it bus-walk (I assume this is the most popular in Edinburgh), train-walk or just plain walk.</p> <p>If you believe the charts, that is. </p>