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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
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It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. London and Edinburgh are the two most congested cities in the UK, with drivers clocking up average speeds of only 7mph during the final mile of their journeys, the global traffic audit has revealed. It concluded that it has become ‘faster to ride a bike than drive or take the bus’ for millions of motorists in Britain. It found that last year drivers in six UK cities – London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – crawled along at an average speed of 10mph or less in the last mile of their journey. The average cyclist in cities travels at 9.6mph, according to traffic analysts Inrix, which conducted the study. ENDS. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cle-drive.html |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On 19/02/2019 06:48, soup wrote:
On 18/02/2019 13:52, GB wrote: Central London is pretty flat, so it's easy to cycle round. Whereas Edinburgh is the complete opposite, everywhere is uphill from everywhere else (only a slight hyperbole) . Well exactly half a hyperbole. |
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The British streets where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote:
QUOTE: It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. London and Edinburgh are the two most congested cities in the UK, with drivers clocking up average speeds of only 7mph during the final mile of their journeys, the global traffic audit has revealed. It concluded that it has become ‘faster to ride a bike than drive or take the bus’ for millions of motorists in Britain. It found that last year drivers in six UK cities – London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – crawled along at an average speed of 10mph or less in the last mile of their journey. The average cyclist in cities travels at 9.6mph, according to traffic analysts Inrix, which conducted the study. ENDS. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cle-drive.html I have corrected the thread title for you and for the Daily Mail. As written. it was the usual nonsense. I am confident that any competent driver in an ordinary car, behaving completely lawfully, could easily beat you or any other cyclist (on a bicycle) in a race - at any time of day or night - from one end of the Liverpool Ring Road* to the other. [* Approximately 11.3 miles, Millers Bridge / Balliol Road / Breeze Hill / Queens Drive / Menlove Avenue / Hillfoot Road / Speke Hall Road, northerly termination at Regent Road, southerly at junction with A561 Speke Boulevard. Almost all dual carriageway, almost all 40 mph limit.] |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On 18/02/2019 17:53, soup wrote:
On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote: QUOTE: It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cle-drive.html Every other month, for the last good few years, there has been some contests or other reported where bike, public transport and car are pitted against each other for a commute; invariably the bike wins... ....over the last, inner-city, bit of the journey. Where the journey is posited and measured so as to be representative of normality is something that is never measured - for some reason. Probably partly to do with the need for headlines, even if they are deceiving headlines. |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:54:29 GMT, JNugent wrote:
On 18/02/2019 17:53, soup wrote: On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote: QUOTE: It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itish-cities-f aster-cycle-drive.html Every other month, for the last good few years, there has been some contests or other reported where bike, public transport and car are pitted against each other for a commute; invariably the bike wins... ...over the last, inner-city, bit of the journey. Where the journey is posited and measured so as to be representative of normality is something that is never measured - for some reason. Probably partly to do with the need for headlines, even if they are deceiving headlines. It might have become "normal" for some people to commute daft distances; that's another part of the problem. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug. |
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The British streets where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:51:41 GMT, JNugent wrote:
On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote: QUOTE: It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. London and Edinburgh are the two most congested cities in the UK, with drivers clocking up average speeds of only 7mph during the final mile of their journeys, the global traffic audit has revealed. It concluded that it has become ‘faster to ride a bike than drive or take the bus’ for millions of motorists in Britain. It found that last year drivers in six UK cities – London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield – crawled along at an average speed of 10mph or less in the last mile of their journey. The average cyclist in cities travels at 9.6mph, according to traffic analysts Inrix, which conducted the study. ENDS. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tish-cities-fa ster-cycle-drive.html I have corrected the thread title for you and for the Daily Mail. As written. it was the usual nonsense. I am confident that any competent driver in an ordinary car, behaving completely lawfully, could easily beat you or any other cyclist (on a bicycle) in a race - at any time of day or night - from one end of the Liverpool Ring Road* to the other. [* Approximately 11.3 miles, Millers Bridge / Balliol Road / Breeze Hill / Queens Drive / Menlove Avenue / Hillfoot Road / Speke Hall Road, northerly termination at Regent Road, southerly at junction with A561 Speke Boulevard. Almost all dual carriageway, almost all 40 mph limit.] This appears to be some kind of race. But on dual carriageways. I can't see it as representative of the madness that is the daily commute into a city centre. xpost added. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug. |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 10:16:16 PM UTC+1, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
It might have become "normal" for some people to commute daft distances; that's another part of the problem. When I worked at BP I had the longest commute in our lab at 12 miles and was the only one who cycled in. One evening, I got a lift home and it took me 15 minutes longer than my bike ride home and I was told by my driver that this was "normal". My bike ride took 25-35 minutes depending on the wind (never traffic) and by car, it could be over an hour in the evening. |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On 03/04/2019 22:16, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:54:29 GMT, JNugent wrote: On 18/02/2019 17:53, soup wrote: On 17/02/2019 20:52, wrote: QUOTE: It's now faster to cycle than drive in some city centres as Britain’s roads become increasingly gridlocked, a report has found. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...itish-cities-f aster-cycle-drive.html Every other month, for the last good few years, there has been some contests or other reported where bike, public transport and car are pitted against each other for a commute; invariably the bike wins... ...over the last, inner-city, bit of the journey. Where the journey is posited and measured so as to be representative of normality is something that is never measured - for some reason. Probably partly to do with the need for headlines, even if they are deceiving headlines. It might have become "normal" for some people to commute daft distances; that's another part of the problem. What "problem" would that be? I remember a commute I had from Lancashire into Liverpool: 12 miles, including about a mile on local 30mph roads, a mile on NSL A-roads, six miles on a motorway and four miles on other 30mph roads, about half of which was dual-carriageway. No cyclist could have done that quicker than a driver in a quite ordinary car. In order to allow a cyclist a chance to "win" such a challenge, an organiser would have had to contrive the last few hundred yards of the inbound journey only. |
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The British cities where it is now faster to CYCLE than drive
On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 10:30:57 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 10:16:16 PM UTC+1, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote: It might have become "normal" for some people to commute daft distances; that's another part of the problem. When I worked at BP I had the longest commute in our lab at 12 miles and was the only one who cycled in. One evening, I got a lift home and it took me 15 minutes longer than my bike ride home and I was told by my driver that this was "normal". My bike ride took 25-35 minutes depending on the wind (never traffic) and by car, it could be over an hour in the evening. Some people think transport is spelled C-A-R. At the Uni we have a sports centre and some of my colleagues and myself use the facilities. The difference is I walk the 5 mins to the gym whilst my colleagues spend 10 mins driving + finding a parking space and then walking to the gym. Some people are either mentally lazy or they think 'successful' people use cars, or chisels, or little dogs. |
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