Appendix 1 - Is there a concealed demand for public transport?

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Appendix 1 - Is there a concealed demand for public transport?

The fact that those workers who get themselves to work are more satisfied than those using public transport does not mean that such workers would not make use of public transport were it available. The following table indicates that considerable proportions of walkers and cyclists have no better ways of getting to work available.

Table 38

(Why do walkers walk?

(Why do cyclists cycle?

	All Walkers	Over 15 minutes walkers	All Cyclists	Over 15 minutes cyclists
Prefer to	22.3	29.7	36.9	30.5
No Transport	19.1	27.1	19.9	24.2
Transport not good enough	10.9	19.1	34.4	37.2
Saves money	1.6	1.9	5.8	6.2
Live near work	49.8	22.9	-	-
Other reasons	2.3	2.9	8.5	5.4
No information	8.1	11.0	9.0	10.0
Total	707	310	398	240

It will be seen that lack of public transport is responsible for an even larger proportion of walkers and cyclists amongst those whose journeys to work take over 15 minutes. 60% of cyclists and 44% of walkers have over 15 minute journeys and together these groups of cyclists and walkers amount to 18% of the sample of workpeople. Thus numbers amounting in all to 9% of the sample (representative of the working population) cycle or walk because transport is not available.

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