Department for Transport data shows 2022 cycling rates rising sharply – Cycling Industry News
Though by many accounts the marketplace is slowing, aligning to a trend of dipping consumer buying power, cycling rates have flourished as other transport forms have become expensive and impractical when weighed against cost controls for families (though the data sadly does not confirm whether the cycling is leisure or transport cycling).
Put into the graph at the head of this article by bike business development specialist Mark Brown, English cycling rates got out of the blocks early this year and continued a steep trend into early summer; now shown to be north of 150% up against the first weeks pre lockdown in 2020.
The findings have been reaffirmed by Cycling UK today, who have trends against last year (not pre-pandemic) as 47% ahead on weekdays and 27% on weekends in the five months to the end of July. This arguably suggests greater commuter cycling increases, which would align to petrol price increases and rail disruption – from January to June the cost per litre on petrol has jumped by around 30%.
