May have been posted previously? Anyway SRD appears to be in the video.
"COMMUTERS are turning to cycling and walking at record rates according to new figures – with levels of both booming as people become disillusioned with high car costs and traffic congestion.
Statistics released under the council’s Active Travel Action Plan show the number of people cycling into the city centre grew by a quarter between 2009 and last year.
This culminated in almost 1600 cyclists entering the inner city limits by bike between 8am and 9am last November, in a sign that commuters are increasingly turning away from cars and public transport to travel to work under their own steam.
The number of people walking into the city centre has also climbed seven per cent since 2009.
Tram works, the escalating cost of living, record petrol prices and a growing eco awareness, along with people’s awareness of the need to keep fit, have all been cited as prime catalysts for the change.
The growing rates have also coincided with the council increasing its spending on cycling from its transport budget – cycling accounted for five per cent of the budget in 2012-13, or £957,400.
That allocation is set to grow even further – to six per cent of the budget this financial year. An ambitious target of 15 per cent of all commuter journeys being made by bicycle by 2020 in Edinburgh is the over-arching goal."
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