The number of cyclists in London

Everyone knows the number of cyclists on London's streets has shot up in the past ten years. I'm writing a short paper and need to know by exactly how much, but can't seem to find data on TFL's site. If anyone knows a couple of stats and better yet, their sources, please let me know.

It used to be two or three, now it's hundreds.

(No need to credit me in your paper.)

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/London-Travel-Report-2007-final.pdf
Has a graph on page 51 which has the source of the National Road Traffic Survey.

2010 report http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/travel-in-london-report-3.pdf shows 500k in middle of 2009. Also try looking for details of CAPC studies by TFL, where they count how many people come in to the central area.

Is this lazy journalism?

Is this lazy journalism?

I'm writing a book for children so sources are not required.

Pictures would be handy though.

Is this lazy journalism?

Well, it's only one sentence so it's hard to say. Does seem fairly lazy though.

Raoul, as I'm sure you're aware, all the best figures are rough estimates at best. No-one really knows how much cycling has risen in London. However, it is generally accepted that levels of cycling have more than doubled between 2000 and 2010.

Check the following data sources:

(1) Census figures--2001 figures are the latest figures available;
(2) TfL Central, Inner, and Outer Cordon data;
(3) Local authority figures--patchy and rarely available;
(4) DfT Matrix figures--but beware, as a large percentage of these are only educated guesses;
(5) Thames bridges screenline counts;
(6) and TfL Travel in London reports--however, there are concerns about a good deal of that data and its interpretation, so treat it with caution--it has shown some strange fluctuations.

So, try to avoid the temptation to give 'exact' figures--they don't exist.

Even if data-gathering mechanisms were better, it would be all but impossible to give exact figures. Street traffic movements in a complex city like London are too difficult to quantify to make that possible.

Well, it's only one sentence so it's hard to say. Does seem fairly lazy though.

Fuck, I should flower it up.

Could you lend me some big words, please.

Is this lazy journalism?

Better?

I cycled in London in 2000, and I do now. You should be able to extrapolate the rest from that.

Hope that helps.

John H. -- you're in the data.

Thanks all for the help.The paper is for an Irish tourist body. I'm Irish and the economy there is fucked, so I think they should be advertising to British and London bike people about the excellent cycling to be had there. Dublin's 8 hours from London by boat and train, you can bring your bike, and it costs 35 quid. Pretty awesome, especially if you like cycling onto a train, cycling off the train onto a boat, and cycling off the boat into a city.

ask corny. as a london cyclenger who spent a year away in 2010 he's in a unique position to bitch about the seemingly exponential increase in hipster fixie skidder, nodder and twat numbers in that time.

Nodder and Twat.

North London estate agent?

Is this lazy journalism?

It is well known that this site is the source of all knowledge on the internet and beyond. It may be taking a short cut but I would call that efficient journalism rather than lazy. Better to get your information here than get it wrong.

The answer to the orginal question is 576 up from 232.