| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Cyclists and support for local shops | |
| Posted by: | Charlotte Kasner | |
| Date/Time: | 01/04/19 17:15:00 |
| Ms Walsh, may I suggest that you actually read what I said in the post which was: "The cycling demographics of the 14 centres studied were the same as nationally: white, affluent, middle aged males, none of whom relied on cycling as their main mode of travel, unlike a large proportion of bus users. " Nowhere did I say that cyclists were "middle class". I don't think that it would be unreasonable to infer that from the study, but it is a term that would need to be defined for each study and isn't very useful other than colloquially as a short cut. This is what the study actually says on pages 20 and 21: "Cyclists were more likely to be male, White and working than other mode users. See Table 7." If you compare this with the other statements in the study on demographics: "Bus users were more likely to be retired and have lower household incomes than other mode users. Car users were more likely to be older and have higher household incomes than other mode users. Train and Tube users were more likely to be younger and non White than other mode users." ...I believe that, taking all those findings into consideration, the description that I used is not unreasonable. By all means, feel free to disagree but, for the sake of the community on the forum, it would be better manners not to resort to personal abuse, especially if stems from being completely inaccurate. Please do use the link to download the study and see for yourself. Also, look at the DoT figures here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/syste/uploads/attachment_data/file/736909/walking-and-cycling-statistics-england-2017.pdf Annoyingly, this document doesn't have page numbers but the index has hyperlinks. |