CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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66 employers based in Edinburgh took part in the survey, with an average of 4.7% of their employees choosing to cycle to work. This compares to a Scottish national average of 3.6%.
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http://www.local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/25477-edinburgh-cycle-commuters-ahead-of-the-curve
Good to see this. Makes it all the more frustrating that the active travel funding is being cut by the SNP government...
Yep, emphasis on 'perhaps' if my work (very cycle friendly, great facilities etc) was anything to go by - 2000 bodies, best we ever get is perhaps 50-75 in mid summer.
Although we are at Edinburgh park, if we were in town perhaps more would cycle ?
I have to admit that looking at the website advertised on here, I didn't know its point until today .I just thought it was some each individual cyclist registered. I know my Co didn't register, and we have a few regular cyclists...
So I don't know how accurate this is. The Website was a little cagey before the day and on the day I still didn't see any clear definition.
Perhaps I wasn't looking deeply enough.
Crow,
You have mentioned that before. A few times. I may start playing a kind of buzz word bingo or waiting for you to bring it up like an English TV show mentioning the 1966 World Cup of Football.
Will you also be mentioning the transport minister's announcement from September 21st? Is the transport minister slim enough for you?
Can it be shown that this spending makes any difference? Glasgow put in lots of paint before the Velocity conference a few years ago. I'm not aware of any result outwith a very silly lane in Cambridge St. It even has a web page.
http://scruss.com/enterprise.net/barriers_to_glasgow_cycling.html
According to the Scottish Household Survey (2009-10), 8% of Edinburgh adults in full time employment cycle to work.
Only 2.8% of Glasgow adults cycle to work (same source).
I wish I hadn't clicked on the original link. It's not a national survey of employers in any meaningful sense. It's a self-selecting group of people who provided some information about their workplace. Cycling Scotland have no reason to be delighted by the results - they missed the 'right' answer (if I can use that phrase for a nationally representative sample of 12,000 adults) by a mile. The last bit is the worst, "Accross the country, the Big Count surveyed 184 workplaces with a sample of 60,000 Scottish employees." (their typo).
They didn't survey 184 workplaces. They were given information about 184 workplaces. Those employers might have 60,000 employees but, at best, this is a "sample" of 184 employers not 60,000 employees. We call this, in the trade, turd polishing.
wfb: "Can it be shown that this spending makes any difference? "
Whilst I'm confident that spending money on infrastructure makes some difference, it probably requires much more significant expenditure to make a real and noticeable difference.
If we were spending the same proportion of our transport budget on cycling as, say the Germans or Swedes do (let's not even mention Denmark or Netherlands, too humiliating) then just maybe we might have a cycling culture explosion in Scotland.
As it is, even the miserly tokenism we do have is being abandoned in favour of trunk road and motorway expenditure. Where is the 'evidence' that these massively expensive projects will bring benefits? To whom and by how much?
The SNP have got some things right in a difficult public funding climate, but on transport it's clear that (whether the minister is plump, rakelike, a beanpole or a shortarse) the petro-economy is their priority. Which is frankly just 'business as usual' and very similar to what the Tories are doing down South.
I just did a complete survey of the entire Edinburgh office, and 10% cycle to work every day, with a further ~5% occasionally. We're in the 'international finance' bracket - and in Leith, so at least a token distance out from the town centre. Seems that is a respectable result.
Can we have our 10-15% of transport funding, please?
@Dave - Good result.
If your results were replicated here, we would have 200 with a further ~100 or so occasional riders.
Which would be great for cycling, but the selfish part of me thinks 'how long would I have to wait for the shower' !!!!
Of our 18 odd employees (excl students and visitors) based at our Edinburgh office, 4 regularly cycle, 3 regularly use a car and the rest use bus or walk. So that's 22% cyclists. But not a large "sample".
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