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Grab a cuppa and make yourselves comfy, folks, because I’m about to spend the next few minutes waxing lyrical about one of my favourite topics of all. The subject in question, I hear you ask? Public transport, of course. And more specifically: cycling.
Transport for London have just published their 2025 Travel in London report. The annual report delves into London’s transport trends and summarises them into a handy document for us mere mortals to have a nosey at. The report lets us know how the Mayor of London is getting on with his latest transport strategies and analyses the way in which we London’s are getting about the capital city. Riveting stuff, I know.
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The 2025 report shone a particularly bright light on the huge increase in cycling. It’s clear that we Londoners have become wheely rather fond of cycling in recent years, as the report revealed that there’s been a pretty hefty 43% increase in cycle journeys over the past six years. In 2019, the Travel in London report detailed 1.05 million daily bike journeys. This year, however, that figure has risen to a whopping 1.5 million daily bike journeys.
The report also spotlighted the fact that only 40% of bike-riders felt safe on roads that don’t have a designated bike lane, as opposed to the 76% of cyclists that felt safe on the roads that do have an appointed cycle path.
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TfL’s cycle network has expanded rather drastically in the past six years, growing from 90km in 2019 to the current 431km. The cycle network is now officially longer than the London Underground. And this surge in cycling in London certainly suggests that the capital is on its way to becoming a ‘cycling city’.
Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said on the report: “As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has almost doubled since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day, with the cast majority of people feeling safe when using our Cycleways. There’s no doubt that London is fast becoming a cycling city. Of course, there is more to do. The Mayor and I will keep working closely with TfL and the boroughs, investing in more high-quality routes to enable even more people to walk and cycle, building a better, greener London for everyone.”