Travel in Wales

This table shows us the number of miles travelled by various forms of transport in two given years. People travelled almost 6.5M miles in 2005, compared to nearly 4.75M in 1990.

The main form of tansport in both years was the car, and distance travelled using cars went up from just over 3M in 1990 to nearly 5M in 2005. Distance travelled by train also increased signicantly, while the number of miles travelled by coach more than doubled and the distance travelled by taxi more than tripled. Bicycling and walking remained virtually unchanged and the only drop in the table, from over 400,00 to less than 300,000 miles, was in the distance travelled by local bus.

Cars remained the most popular form of transport in 2005, but travel by train, coach and taxi all increased significantly. The only fall was in the miles travelled by local bus, which was the second most popular mode of transport in 1990. Whether this decline was due to a fall in supply or demand is, of course, not clear from the table itself.

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