More bikes than cars in morning rush hour on Glasgow’s Victoria Road; Edinburgh cycling route doubles use after one year; new Stirling cycle network helping more people to travel by bike.
The latest all-mode traffic surveys organised by Cycling Scotland have revealed the continuing impact of new infrastructure to support everyday cycling.
In Glasgow, more journeys were cycled than driven during one rush hour period (8-9am, Thursday 5th June*) on the South City Way cycle route. This is the first time this has been observed as part of traffic surveys at this location, and a sign of the continuing impact of new cycling infrastructure on Victoria Road.
More than 1,000 bike journeys a day were recorded on the recently completed Byres Road cycle lanes connecting Dumbarton Road to University Avenue.
An average of 1,655 daily cycle journeys were counted on Clyde Street, where a protected junction for cycling connects a cycle route along the River Clyde with the South City Way and the East City Way via Glasgow Green.
In Edinburgh, an average of 1,375 daily bike journeys was counted along West Coates, on the route of the City Centre West East Link (CCWEL) protected cycle lane. This compares with an average of 725 bike journeys per day in May 2024 – an 83% annual increase.
8.2% of journeys at this section of the CCWEL were recorded as being made by bike.
In Stirling, an average of more than 400 journeys per day were recorded on sections of the city’s newly completed protected on-street cycling network: An average of 403 daily bike journeys were recorded on Goosecroft Road** close to Stirling Rail Station, and an average of 415 daily bike journeys on Causewayhead Road, which connects the city centre to the University of Stirling, Wallacewell High School and Bridge of Allan.
In Perth, Dunkeld Road and Ruthvenfield Road saw the highest cycling counts recorded in Cycling Scotland traffic surveys. Tay Street and Main Street saw the highest levels of cycling since the pandemic.
In Aberdeen, an average of 450 daily bike journeys were recorded on King Street in the north of the city.
The data is from the Cycling Scotland all-mode traffic surveys which are conducted over a 48-hour period across more than 100 sites in all 32 of Scotland's local authorities. They are conducted twice a year - in May & September.
All raw data can be viewed and downloaded from the Cycling Open Data portal.
*Data for all sites was captured on 14th-15th May, excepting data for Victoria Road which was recaptured on 5th-6th June, following technical issues with the initial survey.
**Data for Goosecroft Road is taken from a real-time AI sensor, rather than a 48-hour traffic survey, and is therefore not directly comparable with the traffic survey results.
