Reasons People Don't Go Cycling
While browsing some of the up and coming sites on the web this morning (as per Alexa), I came across a site that creates charts from database information provided by users (Swivel).
I noticed a search box on Swivel and decided to see if anyone had submitted data related to cycling. Interestingly, I found this chart featuring the reasons people give for not riding their bicycles. Supposedly, the data comes from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (sfbike.org) which is a pretty respectable cycling advocacy organization. Unfortunately, when I searched their site to verify the data references, I failed to find any mention of the data. It's a big site so it's possible I just ran the wrong seach keywords...Anyhow, here's a table that corresponds with the chart above. The table lists each of the complete responses (rather than the abbreviated ones shown above).
| Reason Given For Not Cycling | Percent of Responses |
| Weather | 15 % |
| Worried about bike theft | 14 % |
| Worried about safety | 13 % |
| Can | 10 % |
| Street conditions (potholes / tracks / etc.) | 9 % |
| I ride as much as I want | 8 % |
| Other | 7 % |
| Too far to travel where I need to go | 6 % |
| Not enough bike lanes | 6 % |
| Too hilly | 5 % |
| Bike lanes don | 4 % |
| Too busy / no time | 3 % |
Larry
Labels: alexa, bike stats, biking stats, cycling stats, sfbike, swivel
posted by Web @ 9:52 AM Post Your Comment 
2 Comments:
Larry,
Glad to see you using Swivel. You happened to come across a slightly messed-up version of the data. I updated it and included the URL to the page that had the survey (http://www.sfbike.org/?women). This is the updated graph: http://www.swivel.com/graphs/share_new/1169431?keep_state=true
You can copy and paste the HTML snippet on that page to embed the graph in your blog.
The data was pointed out to me by my friend, Frank Chan, who now works for the SF Bike Coalition.
Best regards,
Dmitry Dimov
Product Chief & Cofounder
http://www.swivel.com
Dmitry,
Thanks for sharing the links to the corrected graph and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition data. The corrected chart makes sense.
By the way, I'm impressed with Swivel and am looking forward to creating some charts from my own bicycling data!
Larry
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