http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Bike use dropping despite government promises/spend/gibberish en Mon, 18 May 2026 00:22:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302219 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:05:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 302219@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>9.8% cycle commuting rate in Edinburgh during 2017, just 0.3% in Midlothian!</em></p> <p>Edinburgh is merely frightening. Midlothian is terrifying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302218 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:00:22 +0000 sallyhinch 302218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Slightly disingenuous to yoke together bike use falling over the last five years with a doubling of spending that only started last year. Especially as it takes on average two years for new infrastructure to create new cycle commuters (and that's something really good quality like the Cambridge guided busway) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302216 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:43:08 +0000 toomanybikes 302216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I recently heard CO2 output generally goes down with economic output. So we could just start tanking the economy to save the planet... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302215 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:31:15 +0000 Baldcyclist 302215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I remember compiling statistics from the DFT which showed car use spiked again in the 90's after that recession started to ease."</p> <p>Sooo, we need another recession, now, where might we find one of those?....</p> <p>Oh, that's another thread ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302214 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:30:59 +0000 Morningsider 302214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The statistics show that cycle commuting modal share has remained at 2% since 2007 (Table 11.14). </p> <p>Total distance cycled (a fairly flakey statistic) increased from 288m km in 2016 to 290m km in 2017 (Table 5.3). Although as Crowriver says, this is a fall from 369m km in 2014. </p> <p><a href="https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/43115/la-tables-tatis-2017.xls">A different TS stats publication</a>, this time showing local authority level data, shows that Edinburgh is now effectively a different (transport) world from the rest of Scotland. 9.8% cycle commuting rate in Edinburgh during 2017, just 0.3% in Midlothian! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302213 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:22:25 +0000 steveo 302213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On a more serious note, I'm sure I remember compiling statistics from the DFT which showed car use spiked again in the 90's after that recession started to ease. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302212 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:17:22 +0000 steveo 302212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> We need a step change in the whole transport sector.</em></p> <p>Yup end the war on the motorist, stop wasting money on dwindling end users, spend the money where the demand is; build more roads. I'm sick of sitting in traffic caused by this clowncil.</p> <p>/EEN mode. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302211 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:04:21 +0000 unhurt 302211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SO depressing. The stats on bus ridership are awful too. Congestion, price rises, cuts to routes - who would have thought? We need a step change in the whole transport sector. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302206 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:36:59 +0000 crowriver 302206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Carmaggeddon here we come! </p> <p>13% rise in number of cars registered in Scotland since 2007, 31% rise in traffic since 1995 (the year the west supposedly hit "peak car" - Scotland 20 years behind it seems).</p> <p>Also seems (with the possible exception of Edinburgh) that 2014 was "peak bike" in Scotland (at least in C21st), as I've been saying for a while... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19476#post-302202 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:59:16 +0000 rider73 302202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The number of people travelling by bike also fell over the past five years, with just 3% of people now commuting by bike."</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47388550" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47388550</a> </p>