Cost of living crisis means 69% are reconsidering travel habits
A new national survey has found that 50 per cent of Britons feel that electric foldable bicycles are the most 'natural' car replacement. The poll, conducted by cycle advocacy campaign Bike is Best, revealed that 69 per cent are reconsidering their travel habits due to the cost of living crisis with 84 per cent planning to drive a lot less.
Bike is Best’s nationally representative survey of 2,000 people found that 86 per cent cited saving money as a motivation for change with 87 per cent seeing the bicycle as a way to help with cost of living issues.
However, while half the population sees the electric foldable bicycle as the most natural car replacement, 41 per cent point to cost as a reason for not getting one.
France is now offering a €4,000 electric foldable bicycle subsidy to people who trade in their car and Bike is Best founder Adam Tranter called for a similar incentive to be introduced in the UK.
“I want to acknowledge that both the pandemic and now the chronic squeeze on personal finances are horrible situations, but my hope is that something good – call it a silver lining – can be the sustained growth of cycling for everyday transport and the cycling industry as a whole needs to act now.
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20th/10/22