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Bike to Work Book - Revised/ Expanded 2011
Prolific cycle blogger and advocate Carlton Reid has revised his brilliant Bike to Work book and its free to download on issuu! Definitely worth reading!
Covers all the hows and whys and has great answers to the many…”i can’t cycle because” reasons! It has also got some great illustrations!
Guardian - Cycling worth £3bn a year to UK economy, says LSE study
Image: David Sillitoe -Guardian
Brilliant, exciting, ‘we told you so’ type news in the Guardian today courtesy of LSE!
In light of the fact that a ‘20% increase in cycling by 2015 would save the economy £207m in reduced traffic congestion, £71m in lower pollution levels and £52m in NHS costs’ perhaps now we might see real policy acknowledgement!
You can read the report “The British Cycling Economy” here.
Cycling generates nearly £3bn a year for the UK economy, according to a report from the London School of Economics. The figure includes £51m in revenue for British manufacturers from the 3.7m cycles sold in 2010 – a rise of 28% on 2009.
The gross cycling contribution of £2.9bn for the economy takes into account factors such as bicycle manufacturing, cycle and accessory retail and cycle-related employment.
Commissioned by the broadcaster Sky and British Cycling, the report said every cyclist in the UK has a “gross cycling product” of £233 annually.
Employing around 23,000 people, the UK cycling sector made a £500m employment contribution in 2010, including more than £100m in income tax and National Insurance contributions last year, the report said. A total of 208m cycle journeys were made in 2010, with a net addition of 1.3m more cyclists taking to their bikes compared to the previous year, bringing the total to 13m.
Of these new cyclists, half a million are now cycling regularly. New cyclists alone contributed £685m to the UK economy, with existing regular cyclists representing a total market value of £635m. The report also showed that regular cyclists take 7.4 sick days per year, compared with 8.7 sick days for non-cyclists.
It added that a 20% increase in cycling by 2015 would save the economy £207m in reduced traffic congestion, £71m in lower pollution levels and £52m in NHS costs.
Dr Alexander Grous, of the LSE, who conducted the research, said: “The good news is that structural, economic, social and health factors seem finally to have created a true step-change in the UK’s cycling scene.”
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