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Driving at all time high

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  • Started 9 years ago by Morningsider
  • Latest reply from I were right about that saddle

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  1. Morningsider
    Member

    The new edition of Scottish Transport Statistics is out - no, wait - come back!

    A few key highlights:

    Total distance travelled by motorised vehicles hits its highest ever - 44,450 million km.
    The total distance cycled hit 339 million km.
    Total distance cycled increased by about 3% from the previous year.
    Bike as usual means of transport to work remains at 2% (Transport Statistics GB figure), or 3% (Scottish Household Survey figure). No change in either figure from previous years.
    Bike as usual means of transport to school is 1.7%, up from 1.2% the previous year. This figure is pretty variable due to small sample size.
    The SUSTRANS hands-up survey gives a cycling to school rate of 3.4%.
    For every 1000 people aged 17+, Edinburgh had 384 vehicles - the lowest proportion in Scotland.

    Fill your boots with transport statistics at:
    http://www.transport.gov.scot/report/j415388-00.htm

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. crowriver
    Member

    Interesting snippet:

    "30% of journeys to work were by public or active travel in 2014, down from 31% in 2004. Public and active travel to work has remained at around 30% since 2004, with cycling retaining a low modal share but showing increases in share of work travel in the cities (the proportion of Edinburgh residents cycling as their main mode of travel to work has increased from 4% to 11.8% over the last 10 years)"

    Also:

    "Bus passenger journeys have generally been falling in the long-term, almost halving between 1960 and 1975 and roughly halving again since then."

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. crowriver
    Member

    This is very revealing:

    "138 million tonnes of road freight was lifted in Scotland in 2014. By weight, much more freight is carried by road than by any other mode of transport.

    Before 2011, more tonne-kilometres of freight were moved by coastwise shipping than any other mode of transport. However, since then more freight is now moved by road.

    After falling between 1960 and 1994-5, rail freight traffic has since increased in most years until 2005, when it began to decline again.

    12 million tonnes of freight were lifted by coastwise shipping in 2014 – a fall from 25 million in 2000."

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. crowriver
    Member

    More interesting details:

    "Between 2013-14 and 2014-15 there were decreases in all motor vehicle offence categories; changes in these figures may arise because of changes in the level of enforcement or police deployment. The largest decreases were for Vehicle excise licence offences, where there was a 60% decrease from 6,601 to 2,634, and for Seat belt offences, where there was a 59% decrease from 37,880 to 15,619 "

    Looking at the tables, other whoppers where offences are down by a lot include mobile phone offences (50% fewer in 2014); traffic direction offences (e.g.. driving the wrong side of the road/wrong way on one way street) down by 10,000; driving while disqualified (down a third); lighting, construction and use offences (down nearly 1/3).

    Either Scotland's drivers have transformed into paragons of virtue in the course of one year, or Police Scotland are doing a sh1t job: one of the two.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. minus six
    Member

    They resolutely continue to punt the term "road accidents" instead of incidents.

    Routinely reinforcing the dominant paradigm's justification for ever-increasing trunk road expenditure.

    After all, its the roads that cause the accidents, right?

    Shameful.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    The car century was a mistake. It’s time to move on.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/02/29/the-car-century-was-a-mistake-its-time-to-move-on/

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. slowcoach
    Member

    New edition out now

    "pedal cycle traffic is estimated to have decreased by 7 per cent to 342 million vehicle kilometres in 2015."

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    ensure every shopping bag arrives at every home with an internal combustion engine attached

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/destruction-of-britains-high-streets-business-rates

    Posted 8 years ago #

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