http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Edinburgh leads way for Scottish cycle use" en Mon, 18 May 2026 13:48:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182620 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:23:09 +0000 crowriver 182620@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>LEITH NAMED AMONG TOP 10 CYCLING NEIGHBOURHOODS IN SCOTLAND</p> <p>A new study of cycling trends in Scotland has revealed that Leithers are some of the most likely people in the country to travel to work by bike.</p> <p>It finds that nearly 1 in 20, or 4.8% of people, in Leith ward are choosing to get to work by bike. This puts them ninth in the national league table.</p> <p>In Leith Walk ward, the figure is slightly lower at 4.6%. Nevertheless, this result still puts the residents of Leith Walk ward as living in the 12th placed area in the national bike-to-work league table.</p> <p>In fact, the City of Edinburgh dominates the top 20, with 12 wards making the table.</p> <p><a href="http://greenerleith.org.uk/blog/leith-named-among-top-10-cycling-neighbourhoods-in-scotland-5147" rel="nofollow">http://greenerleith.org.uk/blog/leith-named-among-top-10-cycling-neighbourhoods-in-scotland-5147</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182568 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:51:39 +0000 jdanielp 182568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I made the mistake of watching The Fountainbridge Show on STV Player last night; fairly cringeworthy stuff... The first of the two pundits for the cycling discussion item seemed was convinced that all cyclists in Edinburgh are students because student areas are the busy cycling areas (or is it merely because they are central?!). The second pundit was more realistic about her assessment of cycling in the city. @richardlmpear's comment was one of three that they managed to read out a little later on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182464 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:56:02 +0000 Morningsider 182464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Insto - thanks for that. I had noticed that all the road safety graphs cover different time periods. Also, the inclusion of "slight injury" statistics (which are notoriously unreliable) effectively hides the changes in the far more serious (but far less frequent) killed and seriously injured statistics. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182455 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:59:20 +0000 Instography 182455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That report's like something straight out of how to lie with statistics. All those bar charts overstretched to make even the smallest change appear to be a huge jump or drop. The circles for usual or regular cycling are classic: the area of the combined usual and regular circle is 3.2 times the size of the 'usual' circle even though the number is only 5.6% is only 2.4 times 2.3% </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182445 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:13:41 +0000 Instography 182445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Scottish Household Survey has three measures of cycling - usual mode of travel to work or education, regular alternative mode of travel to work or education and cycling for leisure in the last 28 days.</p> <p>It turned out that no one had ever analysed the 'regular alternative' data although it seems reasonable to think that there might be a lot of people who are regular alternatives when the weather allows.</p> <p>Some time ago I gave Cycling Scotland data on each of these and combined measures of regular commuting (where cycling is the usual mode or regular alternative mode) and any cycling (usual or regular commuting plus any leisure cycling). Hopefully that's been thrown into their cycling monitoring from the guidance that MVA were contracted to produce in 2012 (and I oddly received a contract award notice today). Hopefully they've also used the maps of every local authority that I produced and couldn't be bothered billing them for. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182443 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:59:48 +0000 crowriver 182443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>People live on the Meadows? Where do they sleep? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182439 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:12:30 +0000 jdanielp 182439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@richardlmpear oh yes, so I see! I should have mentioned my source in the first post... They didn't make it clear on Twitter that they are running a feature this evening, but now that you have alerted me to that fact I will add to the positivity with another bicycle friendly comment. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182436 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:31:27 +0000 richardlmpearson 182436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw it on their facebook page and commented. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182434 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:24:29 +0000 jdanielp 182434@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@richardlmpear it was the STV Edinburgh Twitter account that alerted me to the article in the first place: <a href="https://twitter.com/STVEdinburgh/status/573124593080262656" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/STVEdinburgh/status/573124593080262656</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182431 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:56:05 +0000 Chug 182431@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So can we now please have a segregated cycle route along the weekday racetrack and weekend carpark known as Myreside Road to allow all these commuters to safely access the canal/NCN 75? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182430 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:48:39 +0000 neddie 182430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's all those people that live in Marchmont &amp; Morningside - they're the only ones that can afford 'luxury' items like bicycles. While the rest of us struggle to keep the 'essential' two cars on the road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182429 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:48:25 +0000 Stickman 182429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nobody cycles in East Renfrewshire or Inverclyde (at least to 1 dp). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182428 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:46:33 +0000 kaputnik 182428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Morningside a bit harder to explain.</em></p> <p>It's mainly Chdot, throwing all the statistics out by steadfastly cycling everywhere, everyday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182427 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:45:49 +0000 Morningsider 182427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does anyone know how Cycling Scotland defines "regular" cycling in this document? It quotes the Scottish Household Survey and "further information" from Transport Scotland as the source of this information. I've checked Transport and Travel in Scotland 2013 and it doesn't mention "regular" cycling and I've never seen this term used before. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182425 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:36:37 +0000 richardlmpearson 182425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It looks like there is going to be a feature on the Fountain Bridge show tonight on STV Edin (Sky 117). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182424 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:22:24 +0000 Min 182424@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He's having those visions again poor chap.</p> <p>Wonder if the high Meadows figure is to do with the Meadows cycle paths! Morningside a bit harder to explain. Morningside Rd is pretty hostile. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182423 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:18:34 +0000 kaputnik 182423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Transport minister Derek Mackay said: "The increase in some figures is a positive sign but there is still work to be done to achieve our shared vision of 10 per cent of journeys by bike by 2020."</em></p> <p>Is the meenister talking to himself in an empty room? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14467#post-182418 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:22:06 +0000 jdanielp 182418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"ONE in ten people in parts of Edinburgh now commute by bike amid a one third growth in cycle use across the country, Cycling Scotland revealed today.</p> <p>Residents of the Meadows and Morningside are the most likely to pedal to work - 9.9 per cent - the Scottish Government-funded development agency said."</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-leads-way-for-scottish-cycle-use-1-3708619" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-leads-way-for-scottish-cycle-use-1-3708619</a> </p>