They say: “This is the highest level of cycling on the public highway since the 1960s”. Department for Transport’s (DfT) ‘ Road Traffic Estimates Great Britain 2020’ statistical release, reporting that pedal cycle traffic (cyclists on public highways, and the paths next to them) was 45.7% above 2019 levels.If you’d like to investigate this further, see: This has often been marked by higher levels of cycling and less motor traffic.
Talking of the pandemic, as these statistics don’t go beyond 2019 or early 2020 at most, they can’t reflect significant changes in travel behaviour during lockdown. Our sources are quoted in brackets (see ‘Key to sources’, and ‘More about our sources’ below).Ĭurrently, some sets of 2019 data are delayed because of the pandemic, but we’ll incorporate them in due course. The following figures mainly come from official government publications. We time our annual update to capture as much of the latest data as possible, meaning that most (but not all) of the figures cited below relate to 2019. This is often some months in and, occasionally, not until the year after that. Obviously, statistics covering a full year aren’t published until the year afterwards.
Safe roads, traffic offences and the lawĮach year, Cycling UK rounds up the latest available statistics covering the topics that most often generate queries (see contents list below).What to do if you have a cycling crash?.
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