A 🧵on use of Census 2021 Travel to Work data.
TL;DR: Just don't.

Census happened during lockdown. Only key workers were supposed to travel to work and avoid public transport.

@bathnes is consulting on its local plan and this section is painful. 1/

beta.bathnes.gov.uk/local-plan-opt… You cannot say this:

"The maps show that a greater proportion of people travel to work by car and travel a greater distance in the more rural parts of the District, and also the Somer Valley."

You can say the majority of key workers did this during lockdown. But that's it 2/

Oooh boy...this #15minutecity conspiracy theory goes deep. @peterwalker99 @carlafrancome @jonburkeUK @carltonreid My letter I wrote to him for context.

In 2022 we saw @bathnes deliver Liveable Neighbourhoods trials, Shared Bus Borders, Bus Stop Bypasses, Light Protected Cycle Lanes, Floated Car Parking to protect cycle lanes, Bike Hangars, 20mph speed limits, Continuous Footways, and a new Walking/Cycling Bridge! Amazing! 1/n BUT @BathnesParks installed gravel bound steep path in @fosydneygardens creating an inaccessible exit on Beckford Rd. @bathnesld weakly hid behind a Citizen's Panel. @BATHNESHighways submitted a failed £1m bid to @activetraveleng ATF Tranche 3. 😭 2/n

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are an attempt to reverse the 1990s decision to leverage residential roads to take pressure off main through routes by keeping them permeable in response to a lack of national policy to cap car ownership and under-investing public transport. 1/n If we do nothing, traffic levels will continue to increase and grid lock is inevitable anyway. A two way cycle track is the equivalent of adding 5 lanes of vehicle people movement capacity. LTNs play a key role in increasing the people movement capacity of your network 2/n