{"id":595504,"date":"2025-11-26T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:07:30","slug":"a-new-transport-report-has-revealed-that-cycling-in-london-has-soared-by-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/595504\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Transport Report Has Revealed That Cycling In London Has Soared By 43%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"A man and a woman cycling by the River Thames on one of the best cycling routes in London\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shutterstock_1103074691-3-1024x678.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Matthew Ashmore, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p>Grab a cuppa and make yourselves comfy, folks, because I\u2019m 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? <strong>Public transport<\/strong>, of course. And more specifically: cycling.<\/p>\n<p>Transport for London have just published their <strong>2025 Travel in London report<\/strong>. The annual report delves into London\u2019s 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 <strong>Mayor of London<\/strong> is getting on with his latest transport strategies and analyses the way in which we London\u2019s are getting about the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/best-things-to-do-london\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/best-things-to-do-london\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">capital city<\/a>. Riveting stuff, I know.<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-309962 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Two cycllists chatting to each other on the Embankment\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shutterstock_2297384745-min.jpg\"\/>Credit: I Wei Huang, Shutterstock <\/p>\n<p>The 2025 report shone a particularly bright light on the huge increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/cycling-spots-london\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/cycling-spots-london\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">cycling<\/a>. It\u2019s clear that we Londoners have become wheely rather fond of cycling in recent years, as the report revealed that there\u2019s been a pretty hefty <strong>43% increase in cycle journeys<\/strong> over the past six years. In 2019, the Travel in London report detailed <strong>1.05 million<\/strong> daily bike journeys. This year, however, that figure has risen to a whopping <strong>1.5 million<\/strong> daily bike journeys.<\/p>\n<p>The report also spotlighted the fact that only <strong>40% of bike-riders<\/strong> felt safe on roads that don\u2019t have a designated bike lane, as opposed to the <strong>76% of cyclists<\/strong> that felt safe on the roads that do have an appointed cycle path.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-346568 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"A row of Santander bikes parked in London\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shutterstock_2543704169-min.jpg\"\/>Credit: pedro emanuel pereira, Shutterstock <\/p>\n<p>TfL\u2019s cycle network has expanded rather drastically in the past six years, growing from<strong> 90km in 2019 to the current 431km<\/strong>. The cycle network is now officially longer than the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/abandoned-tube-stations\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/abandoned-tube-stations\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_internal\">London Underground<\/a>. And this surge in cycling in London certainly suggests that the capital is on its way to becoming a \u2018cycling city\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Norman<\/strong>, London\u2019s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said on the report: \u201cAs we continue to expand London\u2019s 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\u2019s no doubt that <strong>London is fast becoming a cycling city<\/strong>. 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<strong> better, greener London<\/strong> for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Matthew Ashmore, Shutterstock Save Grab a cuppa and make yourselves comfy, folks, because I\u2019m about to spend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[31473,748,393,4884,17009,257,10763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-595504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bicycle","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-trip","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-trip-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115617336014187248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}