30% increases in cycling across Scotland

The urban and rural locations include locations in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, and West Dunbartonshire, with a number of count sites having seen significant investment in safer cycling infrastructure in recent years.

Airthrey Road in Stirling – on the Stirling Station to University section of the city’s under-development cycling network – saw the number of cycle journeys double, with 10,926 people recorded cycling southbound on the route in June, July and August 2024, compared with 5,295 over the same period in 2023.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, 31% year-on-year growth in cycle journeys has been recorded at Picardy Place, where the city’s Leith Walk and City Centre West East Link on-street cycling routes meet.

In the south of the city, 169% year-on-year growth in cycle journeys was recorded at the junction of Gilmerton Road and The Pillars Path, where two cycle routes now meet.

In the north-west of Glasgow, a 39% year-on-year increase in cycle journeys has been recorded at the Stockingfield Bridge on the route of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

This is yet more evidence of increases in cycling resulting from investment in safer, well-connected infrastructure, and follows on from news of significant cycling modal share of 13% along Glasgow’s South City Way route after its completion to the city centre.

 

Locations showing increases in cycling of more than 30% in June - August 2024, compared with 2023:

Area	Location	Summer 2023	Summer 2024	% increase
Aberdeenshire	Ballater, Deeside Way	3073	5361	74%
Angus	Forfar, Loch Path	1168	1651	41%
Clackmannanshire	Alloa, Alloa Road	5727	7698	34%
East Lothian	Musselburgh, High Street (Eastbound)	1451	1947	34%
Edinburgh	A90 Deans Bridge	33540	46789	40%
Edinburgh	Edinburgh, Picardy Place	124987	163678	31%
Edinburgh	Edinburgh, The Pillars	5451	14670	169%
Edinburgh	West Hermiston Bridge, NCN754	21182	32102	52%
Glasgow	Stockingfield Junction South, NCN755	34813	48310	39%
Glasgow	FC Anniesland	9481	13630	44%
South Lanarkshire	Cornwall Way (East Kilbride)	2202	3778	72%
Stirling	Stirling, Burghmuir Road	3270	4593	40%
Stirling	Airthrey Road (Southbound)	5295	10926	106%
West Dunbartonshire	Kilpatrick, Erskine Bridge Southbound	4730	6572	39%

View the location details for each counter in Google Maps.

Cycle data from over 800 cycle counters, covering all 32 Scottish local authorities, is available for anyone to view on the Cycling Open Data portal, including data from the National Monitoring Framework.