Levels of Cycling in the UK

The National Travel Survey provides information on the levels of walking and cycling nationally.

The data suggest that on average there are between about 15 and 20 trips per person per year, and that this figure has been quite consistent for about 20 years.

Average number of cycling trips per person per year

However, we know that about 85% of people aged 16 and over in England do little or no cycling in a year.

This means that there are a small number of people making quite a lot of trips each.

This means that on average the few people who do actually cycle are probably making about two trips per week each by bike.

We will be looking to see if there is any more specific data for the Lancaster area in future posts.

Lancaster's Air Quality Management Area turns Twenty!

There has been a big birthday celebration this week, with the 20th anniversary of the Lancaster city centre Air Quality Management Area last Tuesday. Basically the entire one-way system is likely to exceed the 1 hour and annual mean objectives for nitrogen dioxide.

However, there may be some positive news in that we have heard rumors that Lancashire County Council will be receiving almost half a billion pounds of additional funding from next year onward to transform transport across the County. That’s equivalent to almost a week and a half’s worth of that mythical money that we used to pay to Europe and somebody said we could give the NHS instead if we left. The question is whether any of this will be used to address the air pollution problem in Lancaster.

The Northern Bypass was supposed to solve the already longstanding air pollution problem, but instead it has been used as a relief road so that more through traffic can use the city centre as a though route. Rishi Sunak certainly doesn’t need to be worrying about any of that nasty Lefty “War on Drivers” here.