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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Six years ago Edinburgh signed up to a Cycling Treaty http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Six years ago Edinburgh signed up to a Cycling Treaty en Mon, 18 May 2026 11:14:59 +0000 gibbo on "Six years ago Edinburgh signed up to a Cycling Treaty" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15241#post-194883 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:51:44 +0000 gibbo 194883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "To set a target of at least 15% for the share of cycling in the modal split of trips for the year 2020 and of further growth if this target already is achieved" My theory is that they left out a decimal point, and that "growth" should be "reduction". i.e. That the council's goal is to try to reduce the cycling menace to just 1.5% of journeys. That would certainly fit the council's actions over the last 6 years far better than the theory that they want to encourage cycling. chdot on "Six years ago Edinburgh signed up to a Cycling Treaty" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15241#post-194783 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:54:06 +0000 chdot 194783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ All questions worth asking Lesley Hinds. The 'official' CEC view is that the 15% only refers to journeys to work. I don't know if anyone cycled to Brussels to renegotiate the agreement... Wilmington's Cow on "Six years ago Edinburgh signed up to a Cycling Treaty" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15241#post-194779 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:20:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 194779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ chdot wrote about it in detail <a href="https://cyclingedinburgh.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/edinburgh-council-signs-cycle-treaty/">here</a>. This was after all the rhetoric about becoming a model cycling city etc etc. As mentioned in the link there was a commitment, that being, "To set a target of at least 15% for the share of cycling in the modal split of trips for the year 2020 and of further growth if this target already is achieved" That gave 11 years to achieve the split, at least 15%, and hey, further growth if the target is already (i.e. before 2020) achieved. 6 years down the line, more than halfway to the 2020 aim, what's the modal share? SPOKES a couple of years ago estimated between 5% and 9% (after counts showed something like 7.3%). Are we going to his 15%? Obviously the target became downgraded to an aspiration and so on. Is an increase of 5% modal share (taking the optimistic view we're now at 10%) possible inside the next 4 and a half years?