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Motorcycle Commuting
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Just as there are thousands of people commuting to work on buses, trains and cars there are also a whole gamut of various people coming in to work on powered two wheels whether they are scooters, mini-bikes, Monkey Bikes or run of the mill motorcycles (and some very special ones too).
In fact in London (England) over the last ten years Powered Two Wheelers (PTW's) have increased by 40% in the last ten years just in London alone [1]. Which means about 16,000 PTW's ride into London every day - Some people would say that is a direct result of Congestion Charging in London [2].
Westminster Council (London) are considering charging motorcycles to park these days [3] which does seem to go against the grain of encouraging people to reduce emissions and road congestion, but that's politicians for you.
Many groups purport to stand for the motorcyclist and PTW users and they are actively lobbying Westminster Council to try and persuade them not to pursue charging for motorcycle parking. [4] [5]
But it seems, to me, that as more people move to PTW's to commute the local councils and boroughs will look to them to fund some of the money they are losing by having cars pay congestion charge (Ibid.).
Whatever the PWT people ride one thing they do need to do is get some further training and Bikesafe [6], run by Police forces all over the UK is an excellent start. Continuing training is a good idea too with people like the IAM [7] and RoSPA [8]