Bristol’s cycling levels can’t be attributed to Cycle City status

Mike Ginger, Bristol BS3
17 May 2013
 

Steve Melia is correct to highlight the Bristol cycling phenomenon but it is a trend that has been going on much, much longer than the Cycling City project (‘No sign of Smart Travel Towns in Census’ LTT 19 Apr).

Cycling levels have actually been growing for at least 20 years and can probably be linked back as far as the pioneering works by Cyclebag in the late-1970s. Evidence of this growth comes from the decadal census and road traffic counts. For example, the cycling share of...

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