A report to the North East Scotland Transport Partnership shows that the number of passengers using Portlethen station has increased.
The report says that “rail patronage has continued to see an overall decrease in patronage through North East stations. Whilst all stations have seen a decrease between 2015/16 and 2016/17, the majority of stations are still significantly higher than their 2010/11 baseline, with Inverurie seeing a 48% increase since 2010/11, Laurencekirk seeing a 30% increase since 2010/11 and Portlethen seeing a 150% increase in the same time period.”
There were more than 26.5 million bus journeys made in the North East in 2017/18. Both concessions and paying customers has seen a decrease over the last 12 months, with a reduction of 11.2% on the 2016/17 figures.
The number of cyclists on key routes in Aberdeen is increasing. The city has seen an over 40% increase between 2008 and 2018. In Aberdeenshire the number of cyclists has decreased on the majority of routes between 2016/17 and 2017/18.