Road traffic numbers in Edinburgh have risen for the fourth year running since covid – but Edinburgh’s transport boss says he is still trying to cut the figure down.

New figures published by the Department for Transport said 2.38 billion kilometres were travelled on Edinburgh roads in 2024.

It marks an increase of 39 million kilometres over last year – and is up 560m km from 2020, where figures were depressed due to the pandemic.

But it is still down on 2019’s figure, which was at 2.46bn kilometres. In 2021, it was 2.05bn kilometres, while in 2022 it was 2.29bn, and in 2023 it was 2.34bn.

Despite Holyrood axing its target to drop car kilometres by 20% between 2020 and 2030, Edinburgh has still retained an ambitious goal of dropping it by 30% in the same timespan.

The city’s baseline i

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