The additional use highlighted by the statistics below shows how the local community benefited, they wouldn't be using the route unless it made a difference to their lives:
• Usage is nearly 140,000 trips per year, half if which are made by children
• Children going to and from school account for 49,555 walking and cycling trips per year
• 30% of respondents could have used a car but chose not to
• Almost 75% of those surveyed have found that the route has helped then to increase their levels of physical activity
• Just under 15% of cyclists stated that they have just started cycling again and 8% of users were registered disabled


"This is a great honour; I love the thought of becoming part of the landscape alongside Dick Wagstaff and the great Richard Burton. I'm hoping that my sculpture might be able to persuade Burton's sculpture to quote some poetry of an evening, or at least a bit of War of the Worlds." Rob Brydon
"Making it easy for millions of people to change their world by walking and cycling to the local places they want to go"