Bike Life
Bike Life gives leaders of cities and towns the confidence, opportunity and evidence to talk about the benefits of cycling. It helps them make cycling an everyday way to travel.
What is Bike Life?
Inspired by the Copenhagen Bicycle Account, Bike Life is the biggest assessment of cycling in cities and urban areas across the UK and Ireland.
Each report looks at infrastructure, travel behaviour, the impact of cycling, and new initiatives.
Since our first reports in 2015, Bike Life has informed policy decisions, justified investment and enabled cities to develop more ambitious action plans for cycling.
This year we've published reports in:
Bike Life UK 2019 report
Our UK-wide report aggregates data from 12 of the 14 cities and urban areas we've worked with on Bike Life 2019.
Download the UK report
In 12 UK cities and urban areas
270,000
cars taken off the roads every day by cycling
160,000 tonnes
of greenhouse gas emissions saved each year by cycling
55%
of residents think there are too many people driving in their neighbourhood
59%
of residents support restricting through-traffic on residential streets
68%
support building more cycle tracks even when this would mean less room for other road traffic
58%
of residents would like to see more government spending on cycling
Streets for everyone
Creating streets that make walking, wheeling and cycling safer for everyone has wide-ranging benefits for local communities.
In our series of videos, local businesses and residents across the UK tell us why the changes made in their area matter to them.
Bike Life methodology paper
Read how the Bike Life data was captured and analysed.
Got a question about Bike Life?
Bike Life is a collaboration between Sustrans and the participating cities. It is funded by The Freshfield Foundation, Transport Scotland and our city partners.
If you have a question about Bike Life, please get in touch.
Take a look at our other Bike Life reports
Want to see how things have progressed? Download our previous UK Bike Life reports:
Other reports and further reading
We also published reports in 2018 for:
