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\"average<\/a>The average driving speed (in England but I’m sure the story is the same on other nations) is falling according to Department for Transport figures.\u00a0 I’ve downloaded the data and plotted it out (shown above).\u00a0 The point is that with the average driving speed falling will it soon be quicker to cycle?\u00a0 The average speed has fallen from about 20mph to under 18mph in 4 years.\u00a0 Its easy to see from the trend line I’ve fitted to the data that the trend in the data that has a very regular pattern to it and that within another 8 years the average driving speed will be about 12mph.\u00a0 The average cycling speed<\/a> is about 14mph for men and 12mph for women.\u00a0 So it does look like on the current trend in England it will soon be quicker to cycle than to drive.<\/p>\n

There are two very different conclusions you could draw from this data.\u00a0 The first is to build more roads and build your way out of the problem.\u00a0 History suggests this won’t work.\u00a0 Besides in urban areas the scope for building more or wider roads is very limited.<\/p>\n

The second conclusion is that to reduce congestion you need to encourage the alternatives like walking, cycling and public transport. \u00a0 The advantages of this are obvious, better health, less pollution and a more pleasant cityscape.<\/p>\n

As you can see there are up and down spikes in the speed.\u00a0 These are higher during the summer holidays and fall again in November.\u00a0 Presumably as the weather worsens people start driving again and also snow can reduce speeds. \u00a0 This fact must have lessons to get people out their cars.\u00a0 You have to make as easy, cheap and pleasant as possible.
\nThanks to Make Wealth History<\/a> for alerting me to this story.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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