Part 3: Everyone drives right?
Well, no actually!
Firstly, we started with this chart:
But we were asked a lot of questions about the Edinburgh wide data on social media, so we looked much wider than South West Edinburgh:
How do people in Edinburgh commute?
See below for 2011 data. The 2022 census data will be interesting. Will:
COVID have fundamentally changed how many work or study at home?
the tram & new rail lines have had any effect?
a perceived increase in cycling come through?
But can it change?
Yes! These trends can be very long burn, but policy can rive change - as it did in the early 2000s when Edinburgh invested in bus lanes and bus ridership (aided by a good municipal bus company) dramatically increased.
Image credit to Edinburgh Bus User Group!
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