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Of 112 cities and towns in the UK, only 15 of them have less people commuting to work by car than the sum of walking, cycling, and public transport. That's only
by awjr 9y ago
Of 112 cities and towns in the UK, only 15 of them have less people commuting to work by car than the sum of walking, cycling, and public transport. That's only 14% of towns and cities.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9f-g8ETvljw-YAZbFpWXOBdKZQhExHuqbX6tkrUnI8/edit#gid=1747708383 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9f-g8ETvljw-YAZbFpW...
In the UK 6M people drive to work each day, 1M of them live within 20 minute walking distance of work, and 3.5M live within 20 minute bike ride of work.
However to blame them for making a transport choice over another transport choice is to not recognise that Local Authorities and National Governments have direct responsibility for ensuring there is real perceived safe choices.
There is no point berating people for choosing to drive to work, when the bus service takes you to the central bus hub and you have to buy two tickets to get to work. Unless your local authority provides end to end protected cycle networks why would you get on a bike?
- chrisseaton 9y agoAre those people really driving to work /in/ a city? Or are they driving to work around the suburbs of a city? I mean 26% of people drive to work in London? Their definition of London can't be what I think it is then. I would have thought almost literally nobody is driving themselves to work in central London. Offices in London don't have car parks do they?
- jonatron 9y agoLondon most likely means Greater London. Lots of people drive if they live and work in the suburbs. Trains only really go in the direction of central London, so it can make sense if you're just commuting from one suburb to another.
- chrisseaton 9y agoI guess my definition of city might be tighter than everyone else's then. When people said about driving to get around a city I was thinking 'nobody who has to go to Harrods and then the British Museum will be driving themselves between those two places'.
- awjr 9y agoAgreed, but London, as far as I could work out was pretty much anything within the M25. Not ideal.