[bikeqld] investment in cycling

[Yani]

The costing fall down, as I see it, because the cycle ways are forever being
broken by council not taking a hard line on what is allowed to transit them.

 

At least ¼ of the paths are being broken by heavy machinery used in parks.
The chances of getting a 30 year life is zero.

 

You would want to hope that when they report on cycling costs they DON’T add
in the cost of repairs caused by the stupidity of contractors.

 

Yani

 

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From: bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au [mailto:bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au]
On Behalf Of Michael Yeates
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:39 PM
To: bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au
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Subject: [bikeqld] investment in cycling

 

Hi all ...

The following may be of interest ... in effect it is the investment needed
(ie justified by) one extra cyclist travelling regularly three days a week
(presumably but not necessarily instead of using a car ...

Put another way, this means that the long term cost:benefit of spending each
£100,000 requires (ONLY) 11 additional regular cyclists ...!

ALL other cyclists would be cost neutral or cost beneficial at no marginal
cost ... that is until the capacity is reached or peds are allowed to use
the "path" as on Coro Drive "bikeway"...!  

An extract of the summary indicates ...

The study presents for the first time a Cycling Planning Model (CPM) that
will help local planners to better assess the number of additional cyclists
required to generate a return on investment. The model shows how a
surprisingly small number of additional cyclists will pay for investment in
new cycling infrastructure. The model suggests: 

An investment of £10,000 requires one additional regular cyclist  

An investment of £100,000 requires 11 additional regular cyclists  

The research defines regular cycling as three times a week and measures the
impact across the lifetime of a project – assumed in this study to be 30
years. 

http://www.dft.gov.uk/cyclingengland/2009/03/new-economic-analysis-signals-a
-more-effective-approach-to-cycling/ 

For those sufficiently interested, the home page for Cycling England is
http://www.dft.gov.uk/cyclingengland/

MY.................................


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