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CyclingScotland: How many people cycled into work today at your workplace? 50% at Cycling Scotland did.
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Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/CyclingScotland/status/51227278448934912
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"How many people cycled into work today at your workplace?"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I haven't counted the bikes in the bike shed but know it is nowhere near 50%
Most I ever counted was 73Posted 13 years ago # -
Yesterday pretty much every rack in the car park was occupied on both sides at half past eight; a rough guess would be somewhat less than one hundred bikes, allowing for some forgotten taking up a stand and a few extra chained to pipes and things. Without bothering to find a headcount stat I saw a few years ago I'd reckon there'd be no more than two thousand occupants in here, so somewhere beneath 5%. For some reason it often looks like there are fewer cycles on Fridays (including today), despite us not having to wear stupid office-clothing on Fridays.
Posted 13 years ago # -
But like chdot I actually thought Cycling Scotland would have higher than 50% when I saw the tweet...
As for my workplace, well out percentage has steadily increased... As more and more of the workforce was edging into redundancy I became a larger statistic... ;)
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Posted 13 years ago #
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@Wingpig - "For some reason it often looks like there are fewer cycles on Fridays"
People going to the pub at lunchtime/after work not wanting to push bike home perhaps?
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Ah yes. People also apparently like to dress fancily and douse themselves in other creatures' musks to go to pubs, so wouldn't want to be all healthily glowing from riding nor have chain-muck on their party trousers.
Posted 13 years ago # -
3 that I know of out of erm.. around ooh about 15, sooo (pauses to take shoes and socks off) erm, around, um, 20%
Artificially high really as a proportion of our workers live less than two miles from the office (and some still drive that, sigh)
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Well I came downstairs to start work at 9am, my wife walked to work and all three of the girls walked to school as they always do. But on Wednesday I only saw one more bike than usual at the city centre office.
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Any where between 30 and 60 cycles depending on the weather. Office of about 300 only 11 parking spaces 9 for the head heid yins and 2 floating. A lot of people come in by bus/train. However we employ a lot of ex pats and people who spend 6 months here before moving to another office which means that a disproportionate number of people live with in walking distance and do.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Seem to have been a lot more bikes in the shed this week but I haven't counted them.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Actually got caught behind a small queue of slowish moving bikes heading across the meadows from PY this morning! EEK! I AM TRAFFIC! lol
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We had two, out of eighteen staff at QMS towers that gives a 11% modal share. Compared to 0% for every other organisation in the building.
Posted 13 years ago # -
3 (depths of winter) up to about 40 (height of summer. Building has c. 2,500-3,000...
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1 (me). That's 25% of the workforce.
There are probably about 40 people in the building where we have an office. I've seen another bike maybe once or twice in the year and a bit we've been here.
Definitely seem to have been more bikes out and about this week though.
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It is shocking that only 50% at Cycling Scotland actually cycle to work...
Posted 13 years ago # -
For us, 5/26 or just under 20%.
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"It is shocking that only 50% at Cycling Scotland actually cycle to work... "
Depends on what the other 50% do I guess.
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About 6 out of approx 40 - thats 15%. Not great but better than a lot of places I guess...
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mmmm.not too many, about 10 bikes in the sheds,at 10 this morning, but backshift in at 2, night at 10. usually same all day.To be honest, lots of very physicall jobs, young men, fast cars. Or lorry drivers, 12,13,14,15 hour shifts,then cycle home, perhaps at night , up to 20 miles.Not all as committed as me !
Posted 13 years ago # -
Two. Just like always.
There are more than 100 teaching staff as well as technicians, jannies, cleaners, dinner ladies and office staff.
The other cyclist will be retiring this summer so that will restore the number to the usual total for most schools I have worked in.
Great example for the youngsters.
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max 10 out of 200 but Dr Bike is coming from 9-11 next Wednesday
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Two out of ~twenty, which isn't bad considering no-one (AFAIK) lives locally in Linlithgow.
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Office of 250, maybe 10 of us cycled most of the time throughout the winter, and it's up to about 20-25 now the weather's better.
I suspect it'll be an even higher number come the summer :).
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