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"Edinburgh leads way for Scottish cycle use"

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  • Started 9 years ago by jdanielp
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  1. jdanielp
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    "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.

    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."

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-leads-way-for-scottish-cycle-use-1-3708619

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  2. kaputnik
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    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."

    Is the meenister talking to himself in an empty room?

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  3. Min
    Member

    He's having those visions again poor chap.

    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.

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  4. richardlmpearson
    Member

    It looks like there is going to be a feature on the Fountain Bridge show tonight on STV Edin (Sky 117).

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  5. Morningsider
    Member

    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.

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  6. kaputnik
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    Morningside a bit harder to explain.

    It's mainly Chdot, throwing all the statistics out by steadfastly cycling everywhere, everyday.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  7. Stickman
    Member

    Nobody cycles in East Renfrewshire or Inverclyde (at least to 1 dp).

    Posted 9 years ago #
  8. neddie
    Member

    It's all those people that live in Marchmont & 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.

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  9. Chug
    Member

    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?

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  10. jdanielp
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    @richardlmpear it was the STV Edinburgh Twitter account that alerted me to the article in the first place: https://twitter.com/STVEdinburgh/status/573124593080262656

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  11. richardlmpearson
    Member

    I saw it on their facebook page and commented.

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  12. jdanielp
    Member

    @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.

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  13. crowriver
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    People live on the Meadows? Where do they sleep?

    Posted 9 years ago #
  14. Instography
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    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.

    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.

    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.

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  15. Instography
    Member

    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%

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  16. Morningsider
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    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.

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  17. jdanielp
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    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.

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  18. crowriver
    Member

    LEITH NAMED AMONG TOP 10 CYCLING NEIGHBOURHOODS IN SCOTLAND

    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.

    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.

    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.

    In fact, the City of Edinburgh dominates the top 20, with 12 wards making the table.

    http://greenerleith.org.uk/blog/leith-named-among-top-10-cycling-neighbourhoods-in-scotland-5147

    Posted 9 years ago #

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