Commuters: West Midlands

(asked on 9th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of people who travel to work by (a) car, (b) bus and (c) rail in (I) the West Midlands and (ii) Coventry.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 15th January 2018

The number of people who usually travelled to work by car, bus and rail in the West Midlands and Coventry in 2016 are given in the table below (based on the Labour Force Survey). The rail figure for Coventry cannot be estimated reliably due to insufficient sample size.

Car

Bus1

Rail2

West Midlands

2,124,000

160,000

87,000

Coventry

122,000

17,000

*

1 Also includes coaches.

2 Includes national rail, underground, light railway systems and trams.

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