Organisation: Transport for London (TfL)
Date of publication: January 2021
Date uploaded: 23 February 2021
TfL says new data – which shows levels of cycling increased in both inner and outer London last year – is further evidence of the vital role played by active travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since 2015, TfL has carried out annual cycle counts, usually in the spring, which record the number of people cycling past fixed points on the Capital’s cycling network over the course of a day.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, cycle counts in 2020 were instead carried out in the autumn, with results showing a 22% increase in outer London, compared to the previous count in spring 2019. There was also a 7% increase in cycling in inner London.
TfL also points to a report, published in December 2020, which shows almost half of all journeys between April and June 2020 were made by walking and cycling - up from 29% before the pandemic.
Click on the link below to access the data on the TfL website: