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Traffic on Reading roads is 'among the fastest in the UK'
from Get Reading (focusses on Reading but mentions Coventry!)
Traffic movements in Reading are among the fastest in the country, according to a new study. The surprising finding puts the town in the top three speediest places when it comes to driving and travelling by public transport.
Motorists who regularly crawl along Reading’s roads may find the results hard to swallow but the survey is being billed as the biggest GPS study done in the UK. The average speed of vehicular movements in the Greater Reading area was found to be 31.49km/h (19.6mph), compared to the 30.20km/h (18.7mph) national average. Pedestrian speed was 3.51km/h compared with the average of 3.41km/h. The figure for all trips combined is 19.93km/h (12.4mph) which is also the third fastest compared with a national average of 18.24km/h (11.3mph).
Route Research Ltd carried out the study using 28,000 volunteers across the country who carried a small GPS device for nine days so their movements could be mapped. The company carried out the research to determine the best locations to place advertising hoardings. Coventry was the speediest city in the country with a rate of 20.04 km/h for all trips and Stoke-on-Trent was second with a speed of 19.99km/h. Bottom of the pile was Manchester which crawls along at 13km/h with vehicular speed at just 21.99km/h.
Reading came third in the table of fastest cities during the week with a speed of 19.4km/h and fifth for the weekend with a speed of 21.83km/h. The best day for getting around town is a Sunday when travel speeds peak at 22.75km/h; on Mondays journeys slow to 18.91km/h.
Reading also featured highly when respondents were asked which towns they had visited for shopping in the past three months or in the past 12 months. Nearly 83 per cent said they had shopped in Reading, which was the second highest positive response after Bournemouth.
Councillor Tony Page, Reading’s lead member for transport, said he would not be paying too much attention to the study. He said:
“I will not be suggesting our transport planners spend any time studying this because I don’t believe it’s been done in a way that is at all rigorous in terms of any transport assessment.”
Do you all believe these stats?!!
from Get Reading (focusses on Reading but mentions Coventry!)
Traffic movements in Reading are among the fastest in the country, according to a new study. The surprising finding puts the town in the top three speediest places when it comes to driving and travelling by public transport.
Motorists who regularly crawl along Reading’s roads may find the results hard to swallow but the survey is being billed as the biggest GPS study done in the UK. The average speed of vehicular movements in the Greater Reading area was found to be 31.49km/h (19.6mph), compared to the 30.20km/h (18.7mph) national average. Pedestrian speed was 3.51km/h compared with the average of 3.41km/h. The figure for all trips combined is 19.93km/h (12.4mph) which is also the third fastest compared with a national average of 18.24km/h (11.3mph).
Route Research Ltd carried out the study using 28,000 volunteers across the country who carried a small GPS device for nine days so their movements could be mapped. The company carried out the research to determine the best locations to place advertising hoardings. Coventry was the speediest city in the country with a rate of 20.04 km/h for all trips and Stoke-on-Trent was second with a speed of 19.99km/h. Bottom of the pile was Manchester which crawls along at 13km/h with vehicular speed at just 21.99km/h.
Reading came third in the table of fastest cities during the week with a speed of 19.4km/h and fifth for the weekend with a speed of 21.83km/h. The best day for getting around town is a Sunday when travel speeds peak at 22.75km/h; on Mondays journeys slow to 18.91km/h.
Reading also featured highly when respondents were asked which towns they had visited for shopping in the past three months or in the past 12 months. Nearly 83 per cent said they had shopped in Reading, which was the second highest positive response after Bournemouth.
Councillor Tony Page, Reading’s lead member for transport, said he would not be paying too much attention to the study. He said:
“I will not be suggesting our transport planners spend any time studying this because I don’t believe it’s been done in a way that is at all rigorous in terms of any transport assessment.”
Do you all believe these stats?!!