http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 2011 census data on commuter modes en Tue, 19 May 2026 06:08:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217925 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:48:55 +0000 chdot 217925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"yet so few people do the former and I can't think why."</p> <p>A71, A8 or canal</p> <p><a href="https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/52448290/#balanced" rel="nofollow">https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/52448290/#balanced</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217919 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:34:57 +0000 chdot 217919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone here on the Edinburgh Park intranet?</p> <p>It used to try encourage PT use + walking/cycling.</p> <p>Don't know if it still does. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217916 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:27:45 +0000 kaputnik 217916@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Also not surprising given the perceived distance.</em></p> <p>Indeed, with an emphasis on the perception, a Livingston - Gyle cycle is only slightly longer than a Leith - Gyle cycle, yet so few people do the former and I can't think why. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217907 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:57:38 +0000 PS 217907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>So, people aren't really coming by bike across authority boundaries. Not surprising given the lack of connections? </em></p> <p>Also not surprising given the perceived distance. Non-cycley people often think me doing 20 miles in one day is a feat of inhuman endurance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217903 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:36:46 +0000 kaputnik 217903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a fuller report here;</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/7496/census_2011_-_travel_to_work_flows_-" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/7496/census_2011_-_travel_to_work_flows_-</a></p> <p>repeats some of the same charts but with more written context and has additional data too. Clear destination hotspots of centre of town and the Gyle / Edinburgh Park / Gogar area. Perhaps someone should link the two by some sort of convenient, direct, active travel corridor?</p> <p>The Gyle area is also a hotspot for car commuting (despite its good transport connections). Hardly surprising when most of the offices provide generous parking and its at the end of the A8/M8/Bypass. If you build it, they definitely come. By car.</p> <p>On the cycling page, I quote;</p> <p>"Destination of Commuters: cycle journeys<br /> As Cycle journeys tend to be shorter than by motorised modes of transport, the pattern for commuters travelling by bicycle is mostly concentrated in areas of high density population, especially such areas close to major employment centres.<br /> Areas to the west of the City are less popular destinations for cyclists than for the all trip average.<br /> There are very few cross boundary trips by bicycle so maps for neighbouring authorities have not been prepared."</p> <p>So, people aren't really coming by bike across authority boundaries. Not surprising given the lack of connections? </p> <p>But cyclists are under-represented in journeys to the west of the city (i.e. Gyle area), again hardly surprising given the shoddiness of the cycling access and infrastructure and the free and easy nature of driving there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217902 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:25:23 +0000 chdot 217902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Any attempts to encourage car sharing/pooling clearly haven't done much."</p> <p>And the plans for the new Forth crossing are?... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217899 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:21:54 +0000 kaputnik 217899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>That data shows quite starkly how many car journeys are single-occupancy.</em></p> <p>This.</p> <p>Also, car passenger mode has come down by a significantly higher proportion than car driver. Any attempts to encourage car sharing/pooling clearly haven't done much. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217894 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:45:57 +0000 AKen 217894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That data shows quite starkly how many car journeys are single-occupancy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217884 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:16:48 +0000 wingpig 217884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hopefully someone's currently using the journey detail to work out where the new park-and-rides have be placed and whither public transport services thence should go: if only one-third of trips within the city by car the twice-as-many inbound-as-outbound trips look like lower-hanging fruits. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217876 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:04:55 +0000 SRD 217876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1558/26654629205_8b27b5d0e9.jpg"></p> <p><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1570/26654627695_aa79932b1f.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217875 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:03:58 +0000 SRD 217875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1593/26654635015_8ebcda7f3f.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16305#post-217874 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:00:56 +0000 SRD 217874@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/7530/pib_no_52016_-_2011_census_travel_to_work" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/7530/pib_no_52016_-_2011_census_travel_to_work</a></p> <p>This is only 2 pages but some very interesting data </p>