Is there monitoring of the usage by cycles of CS7 and CS8, as usage appears to be increasing, particularly in the mornings?

Transport for London (TfL) closely monitors the number of people cycling along both routes.

On CS7 at Tooting High Street, flows increased gradually from the start of the year to the summer, and still remain higher on average now than at the start of 2021. In 2019, Cycle flows between 6am and 10pm on a single day at Upper Tooting Road were recorded as 2,396. An equivalent weekday average from the same time of year and location in 2021 recorded 3,739. The two counts cannot be directly compared as survey methods and exact locations differed, however they are in line with some of the results of TfL’s cycle intercept surveys conducted in 2021. The surveys, where customers answer qualitative questions, found that people were cycling on more days of the week in 2021 than prior to the pandemic.

On CS8, summer weekdays in 2021 saw was an average of 2,150 cycles counted 6am-10pm. This compares to a weekday average of 1,500 cycles 6am-10pm in historical manual surveys conducted along the corridor in September/October 2014-2019, indicating growth of around 40 per cent.

The growth seen on both routes is remarkable given the context of lower general activity and major reductions to workplace commuting.