Spokes Porty carried out traffic counts on Brighton Place on Tuesday May 17th. These were timed to coincide with the Spokes city center count on Forest Road and Lothian Road – a morning count between 08:00 and 09:00 and a lunchtime count between 12:30 and 13:30. We counted eastbound (into Porty) and westbound traffic on Brighton Place, between the bridge and the junction with East and West Brighton Crescents.
Total for each period were as follows:
| Morning | Lunch | |
| Bikes | 63 | 18 |
| Commercial (bus, taxi, van, etc) | 87 | 87 |
| Private car | 313 | 299 |
| Bikes as % of total traffic | 13.6% | 4.5% |
| % of cars which are single-occupant | 71.6% | 70.6% |
This is only the third count we’ve done, the previous ones being September and May last year, six months and a year ago, so we can’t draw out any real trends but the changes from a year ago are:
- Bikes up 7%
- Commercial up 17%
- Cars up 12%
One thing that is sadly consistent is the ~70% of cars having only a single occupant.