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:
• The route carries up to 399,000 trips per year
• 50,000 of those trips were by children walking and cycling to school
• Safety, convenience of the route and pleasant surroundings are all cited as reasons for using the route
• The number of respondents who could have used a car but chose not to has grown by over 6% to 38% since the works were completed
• 40% of users are going shopping and a third are visiting friends, relations or walking or cycling for leisure
• 20% of users use it to commute to work
• Over 60% of users are over the age of 60, and a quarter of users reported living in a household that does not have the use of a car
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