Bicycling

I was keeping in mind the same caveat, that City of London ≠ Greater London. But still, cycling is up by a huge amount, and car traffic is down. So what they're doing is working! It's another example to point to to show that if you build cycling infrastructure people will use it.

The video also spends a lot of time looking at ridership increases in Hackney. It's another small part of Greater London (although much larger than City of London), but it's more progress, and shows off strategies that are working in residential areas. It looks like Hackney has encouraged cycling by creating "low traffic neighborhoods", where they use traffic filters to close residential streets to through-traffic.

Sometimes you hear arguments against large investments in bike infrastructure along the lines of, "Biking works for Holland, but we don't have a bike culture here." Examples of cycling trending up in more places helps to make the case for infrastructure elsewhere.