Manchester Cyclist Census

On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:14:10 +0100 someone who may be audrey
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anyone else here get pulled over to take part in this
yesterday?

I saw my local council try one of these once. Of course
they picked the middle of a long climb to do this and
appeared to be most upset that few cyclists stopped for
them. Had they any idea about cycling they would have
picked a better location.

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audrey of said:

anyone else here get pulled over to take part in this
yesterday?

They were asking about purpose of journey, why making
journey by bike, cycling facilities at work, best/worst
junctions, what would make you cycle more, that kind of
thing. I wish I'd've had more time to think about my
answers, but I was in a rush to get through it and still
make it to school for home-time.

I don't know if 'they' were from the Council or the DoT or
someone else

No I didn't. However last summer I did get given a form for
a traffic census that was taking place where the A road from
the end of the M56 crosses the main road through Northenden.
This is a real snarl up point. The leaflet explained that
the data was being collected for a 24 hour period. I was
pootling through at about 7pm on a summer evening. I do
wonder what someone made of my answers - start of journey
Didsbury, end of journey about 1km distant also in Didsbury,
elapsed time of journey 1 hour 30 minutes and distance
traveled 15 miles.
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