None Of Top Five Congested Roads In U.K. Feature Adjacent Cycleways – Forbes

Traffic congestion is caused not by cycleways but by too many cars, trucks and vans. This, one would assume, is patently obvious. But not according to many trusted news sources which are today blaming cycleways for making London the most congested city in the world. The ill-researched stories are based on a press release from the automotive traffic data service Inrix.

The American company has released its 2021 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard. This matrix identifies and ranks congestion and mobility trends across more than 1,000 global cities. London is now ranked by Inrix as the world’s most congested city, partly because it was the first to bounce back economically after Covid lockdowns.
Drivers in the U.K. “lost” 148 hours this year in traffic, states a press release from Inrix. The Inrix scorecard report does not blame cycleways for traffic congestion. The report only mentions cycleways once, and German ones to boot.