We have updated our transport insights document for Q1 2025 – available on this page: Transport Data Insights.
Headlines from Q1 2025:
• Total Park & Ride passenger numbers continue to exceed pre-COVID levels. Volumes are now 22% above those seen in March 2019, albeit with some site-by-site variation.
• Vehicular flows on the strategic road network are now 4% above pre-COVID levels; with the M11 continuing to see a particularly strong recovery (+16%).
• Vehicular flows on the local road network are 14% below pre-COVID levels; and are 3% below this time last year (March 2024).
• Multi-storey car park usage in Cambridge remains below 2019 levels (-19%), despite the re-opening of Park Street Car Park in November 2024. This may partly account for the large increase in P&R usage.
• Retail footfall in central Cambridge is 7% below pre-COVID levels. Mondays (-15%) are particularly far below the levels of footfall seen in March 2019.
Context: each quarter, the transport sub-section of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Policy & Insight Team publish a slide pack which seeks to summarise how transport and mobility is recovering / has recovered from the impacts of COVID-19.
This includes metrics relating to strategic road usage, local road usage, footfall levels, air quality, car park usage and levels of active travel.
Please get in touch with us if you require the document in an alternative format.