Comments on: 2023 Census stats show cycling growth in Christchurch

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:17:42 +0000

At least 50% of my trips are done by bike and many weeks I would do over 50km, but this does not appear in the census data. Now I am retired I no longer feature in these statistics sadly. The Press top cycling suburbs is very interesting. It would be nice to see a driving vs public transport version for the ECAN submission.

By: LennyBoy

LennyBoy — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:55:37 +0000

In reply to Criggie. There is actually a separate "work/study from home" category in the Census data and some people have included it in the reported stats (which makes all the other percentages lower). I have chosen to only focus on the mix of people who actually travel to work or study.

By: Jono

Jono — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:14:21 +0000

Small nitpick – I think you should credit The Press in the caption of the “Top cycling suburbs in Christchurch” chart. The chart also does not clearly display all suburbs – quite a few are just dots (with no label) that are barely visible. Would be cool to see a chart which fixed this.
This chart shows that 9 suburbs have more than 10% of people cycling as their main way to get to work and another 15 suburbs are close behind at between 7%-10%.

By: Criggie

Criggie — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:38:42 +0000

In reply to George. Since the pandemic, there's a lot more "Work From Home" which should have it's own category now.

By: George

George — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:15:12 +0000

What’s interesting is some of these suburbs around 50% of people are driving to work, which means the other 50% is walking, cycling, taking public transport to work. All great wins!

By: George

George — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:10:25 +0000

“As you may recall, two of the relevant questions asked are “what is the main means of travel that you usually to travel to work?””

Exactly, my wife put usually drive even though on average she bikes around 40% of the time . It’s a badly worded question and she commented on it when we went through our census together.