Over the last eight months I have had 40 to 50 cyclists staying. It has doubled my trade and is more than half my business. I know a lot of people for whom the C2C has been very good and no-one to whom it has done any harm. It takes most people three or four days to complete the route. Our main point is that the C2C is a demonstration route.
Cyclists mean business'.
Denis Inch concludes his piece with a report of further plans for cycle routes in the region. Sustrans has said that the evidence of the success of the C2C route had encouraged Northumberland County Council to go ahead with the development of a coastal cycle route between Newcastle and Berwick.