#Edinburgh #LEZ

👍 Research says 🚲🚶🚌 all slightly up & 🚘 down
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👍 agrees with our #SpokesCount

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#SpokesCount background

When we started regular counts years ago, we chose one +ve 🚲 location #ForrestRoad & one poor #LothianRoad

With limited capacity we stick to these locations to identify *trends*

🙋‍♀️ Would be great if other local orgs did regular counts, like #SpokesPorty now does!

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#SpokesCount May 2025

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#SpokesCount - May traffic count

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Start of Spokes count article... Spokes Traffic Count May 2025: new post-covid bike % record! Our regular May traffic count, at Lothian Road and Forrest Road, found bikes forming the highest proportion of all vehicles so far post-covid. The 8-9am increase to 16.7%, from 16.3% in 2024, was marginal, with both car and bike numbers rising somewhat. However, at lunchtime (12.30-13.30) the bike percentage was up from 10.2% to 11.1%, with car numbers falling – indeed, for the first time ever there were fewer private cars than the bus/taxi/van total, our ‘commercial’ category. At Forrest Road northbound, bikes formed a remarkable 26.9% of all vehicles between 8 and 9a.m. – our highest post-covid figure so far at any count point. As we have seen in the last couple of years, the modest improvements in bike numbers at our count locations (where cycling infrastructure has not yet been installed or improved) contrast strongly with hugely impressive rises where segregated infrastructure has recently been built, notably the Cycling Scotland data for CCWEL and at Picardy Place. For full data from our May 13 count, see the ‘Resources’ section below A parallel count was conducted by Spokes Porty, with fairly similar results to the central area – see below

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New records:
👍 🚲 % morning & lunch
👍 🚘 overtaken by 🚌🚕🛻 at lunch

-> www.spokes.org.uk

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