Analysis of national cycle counter data shows 14 locations recording increases of over 30% in the number of cycle journeys in summer 2024 compared with summer 2023, with a site in Stirling recording a 100% increase.
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.
Data table
Locations showing increases in cycling of more than 30% in June, July and August 2024, compared with 2023:
