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It’s been answered. But also it’s not an honest question. It’s just an attempt to minimise what is a success story, as is the out of context reference to past statements made during lockdown, and the language of ‘declines’ . These constant tactics of framing, cherry picking and deflection are so tedious.

Clearly year by year too - it's why things tend to be analysed annually as it more clearly shows trends. Still, no-one can offer any reason why there has been a significant change in the growth rate - as usual everyone seems very keen to shoot the messenger and ignore the message!

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Stopping if necessary, is not proceeding. And this: Just proves the point being made. You can wear whatever you want, there is always someone who will claim they 'couldn't see you' - that's not good enough. If you proceed even when you can't see what's coming / in front of you, then you aren't driving with due care and attention. And if someone is going about their lawful business, they don't 'deserve' to have someone drive into them (including in cases where one may disagree with their clothing choices).

In summary. There have been significant increases in cycling numbers, a trend sustained over many years. This is the result, at least in significant part, of a relatively modest investment (somewhere around 1% of TfL's annual budget) in better cycling infrastructure. And yes, it should put to bed the claims that have been made by a handful of contributors that cycle lanes are some extravagant waste of money, and that cycling hasn't increased as a result.

Growth was in decline... 🤔 Growth rates will fluctuate day to day, week to week, month to month etc which is why you look at overall trends. Note that against all this there have been changes in population, changes in transport options (like the Elizabeth Line for example, also changes to congestion and ULEZ zones / charges), there's been a pandemic and associated changes in working patterns. There's a whole mix of factors in the background but *overall*, the trend is up. Imagine if you drive 12,000 miles in a year. That's an average of 1000 miles a month, yes? You could draw a dead straight graph of that growth. Except it won't look like that will it? That month you were away and the car sat on your drive. 0 miles, no growth in mileage. That month you did a big road trip, 3000 miles. HUGE growth! But the next month you WFH a lot and didn't drive to work much so it was only 500 miles. And so on. But the average over a one year period is still 1000 miles a month. Same here. The increase is the 43% stated. It honestly doesn't matter much what happened month to month, year to year so long as you look at the figures in Year X and the figures in Year Y and calculate accordingly. You can absolutely get more in depth with things like "ULEZ zone extended on this date" and "Elizabeth Line opened on that date" and "new cycle lane installed here" and "new housing development built there" and that'll obviously play into it but what it being talked about here is a headline figure. X % increase over Y years. It is as simple as that.

Then put in something like 'Amended following updated information'. Then it won't be empty but it won't have what you wanted to remove.

I think most people would understand it as year on year growth. To pick any individual year out and ignore the very clear upward trend is misleading. It's ridiculous to use language that implies 'declines' against massive, long-term growth. It's not very subtle. If you look at the trend, I don't think anyone would use the word 'decline' in relation to it, unless they were trying to misrepresent the actual pattern. This is what it looked like as of last year, and this year it's trending up even faster: Two statements already provided, that have clearly been proven wrong. You don't see it because you don't want to. Clearly proven wrong...and The was never a 'long-term trend' of growth having stalled...there are lots of other examples, but what's the point?

I did delete the contents, but I got a message saying I couldn't have an empty post.

The best you can do is to amend the post by deleting its contents if you want to remove something. I've noted that when you do that, Admin may actually do the deletion.

I highly recommend using the TfL Go app. It states it’s due to emergency electrical works.

Strictly I'd call that a decline in growth rate. I'm afraid that people tend to think of 'a decline in growth' to mean a contraction - rather than a slowing down. There is an argument to suggest that such a slowing down would indicate that maxima (a ceiling) may have been reached.

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Yup, just not addressing the points you made; so, so obvious. Still nothing from DulvilleRes. If you make attacks and claims like that, at least have the decency to provide the 'proof'. You may have a point- perhaps they exist only in the imaginations of some. Not saying all cycle lanes are not busy, just some.

@exdulwicher can we have less of the passive aggressive attacks please - are you even going to both to try and answer the question or just here for the fun of the pile-on? You're supposed to be an expert in such matters yet you seem unable to offer any conclusion - like many others, just posting to attack me for daring to ask the question. The usual suspect responses are hilarious to read - creatures of habit and all that!

Link already posted above, sorry, but I can't delete the post.