> Little bit of evidence here to support the 7/7 theory. In June 2005 the
> London Cycle Network website had just over 600,000 hits, whilst in June
> 2005 we had 1.4million
At the time, I was one of the people analysing the counts from TfL's
network of automatic cycle counters. There was a leap of about 40% in
traffic on the main roads (TLRN red routes), which carry a large
proportion of cycling traffic in London. This dropped back to give a
longer-term increase of about 20%. There may have been more analysis
done, after my time there - Lee Abbott or Mike Tarrier at TfL should be
able to give you the specifics.
And there were many things going on in the period 2000-2008. Lots of
soft measures, as well as lots of hard measures, including a huge shift
in the philosophy of the LCN, switching it from obscure convoluted
backstreet routes, to focussing on better provision on main roads.
There was evidence-led accident-mitigation, which lead to a series of
interventions at the junctions either side of each of the Thames
bridges, and at big central London gyratories such as the Shoreditch
triangle and Elephant & Castle.
There was also lots of roadspace reallocation away from cars in Central
and Inner London, for example to well-enforced bus lanes.
There was also a TfL programme to get some members of the emergency
services using pushbikes too, while on duty. I'd expect that to have had
positive consequences on the attitudes to other cyclists of those police
officers who started cycling, but as far as I know, it hasn't been studied.
Regards,
Andrew
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