Traffic Surveys

St John's Road, Corstorphine

1931 Survey

On a recent visit to Corstorphine Heritage Trust's museum at the Heritage Centre, Corstorphine, I was interested to read this survey of traffic passing along St John's Road, Corstorphine.

St John's Road is part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Road, at Corstorphine, about 3 miles to the west of the centre of Edinburgh.

I was interested to see the many British cars and the large number of trams that were recorded in the survey.

2011 Survey

I visited  Corstorphine, today and counted the vehicles passing along St John's Road.  I stood just to the west of the junction with Clermiston Road.

There were too many vehicles to count both directions at the same time, so I counted:

-  for one hour from 4pm, vehicles travelling east, then

-  for one hour from 5pm, vehicles travelling west

Here are the results, set out in the same format as for the 1931 survey.

Vehicles on St John's Road in 2011

Vehicles observed over one hour travelling east then one hour travelling west by Peter Stubbs.

Monday 12 April 2011 from 4pm   -  Weather - sunny and mild

MOTOR CARS

Alfa Romeo

3

Total - 1270

Audi

59

BMW

75

Chevrolet

4

Chrysler

3

Citroen

45

Daihatsu

1

Daewoo

4

Fiat

23

Ford

161

Honda

49

Hyundai

24

Jaguar

16

Jeep

5

Kia

24

Land Rover

15

Lexus

7

Lotus

3

Mazda

20

Mercedes

42

MG

4

Mini

27

Mitsubishi

9

Nissan

54

Opal

2

Peugeot

65

Porsche

3

Range Rover

5

Renault

67

Rover

8

Saab

10

Seat

21

Skoda

30

Smart

1

Subaru

6

Suzuki

19

Toyota

60

Vauxhall

156

Volvo

18

VW

117

Other (caravanette)

2

Other
(not identified)

3

BIKES

Motor Bikes

16

Total - 37

Scooter

1

Push Bikes

20

PUBLIC & COMMERCIAL

Bus

75

Total - 361

Coach

29

Taxi

143

Lorry

5

Van

107

Ambulance

1

Fire Engine

1

TOTAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES - 1,668

To the City 798

From the City  870                                                                Average Number per minute  28