Most friendly cycling cities

That's right, no UK city is even in the "first division" (never mind the premiership) with regard to cycling on a world comparison. It shows how far we have to go. For inner London we believe the figure is about 4% of trips, for outer London about 2%. Some of the boroughs are higher. Hackney may now be in the 10-15% region.

Cycling is a very localised thing, and you can get very different levels in adjacent areas that have pursued different policies. Many of these cities are untypical of their states and regions. I visited Münster last year, and saw the cycling culture there, but it is not typical of Germany (but Germany is on average much better than the UK). The cities in Italy mentioned here are in the same category. Only Denmark and The Netherlands (possibly Sweden as well) are very consistently bike nations.

The other thing I have to mention (and sorry, it is controversial in the UK cycling world) is that the big thing thing that strikes me always about these kind of statistics (which I have studied a lot in the past) is that there is a very, very strong correlation between cycling levels in different cities and regions and the provision of segregated cycle facilities. In other words, segregated facilities are the main factor is getting a large proportion of the population cycling. No high cycling city in the developed world does it without this.

Consider Davis, California. It is famous as the only city in the USA to have an extensive system of segregated cycleways. It also has cycling levels about 10 times the USA average. Yes, there are always other factors, such as demographics (Davis, Cambridge, York, Münster are all university towns) and geography, factors such as availablity of training, road safety culture, legal protection for vulnerable road-users, etc., but high-quality segregated infrastructure, and lots of it, is the big thing that marks out the very high cycling cities. This is a problem to parts of the UK cycle campaigning world, as some major organisations, such as the CTC, have a history of being against, or at the least, very luke warm about, the engineered separation of cyclists and motor vehicles, preferring a "right to the road" political stance. One or two prominent cycling experts in the English-speaking world, notably John Forrester in the USA and John Franklin in the UK, have devoted a lot of effort to trying to argue against segregated cycle facilites, but to me the European experience (as well as that of Davis) stands clearly against them and disproves their arguments. Unfortunately there is little authoritative written on the subject in English - most of the expertise on actually building cycle provision that works is on the continent. One thing we desperately need is to get continental cycle engineers over here as we simply don't have the expertise.

In the end we don't need to re-invent the wheel. We only need to copy what has worked elsewhere in similar societies, adapting it slightly to local circumstances, to make London, in the LCC catch-phrase, a "World-class cycling city". But these places in the list show us we have a heck of a lot of catching-up to do.

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