The project has exceeded its overall visitor target, nine months ahead of schedule. The original target was for a total of 455,000 passes on trails constructed by the Project by the end of 2013; we now expect to exceed this by 34%.

As part of the four-year funding agreement under the Rural Development Programme for England, the project signed up to certain targets that needed to be met by the end of 2013, as a means of ensuring best value for public money. By the end of March this year, we had surpassed those expectations, and look set to continue the trend for the next few months. It is easy to work out how far has been cycled overall by multiplying the number of rides by the distance of the trail. Even at an average of 5km per ride this equates to 1.5M miles ridden, the equivalent of riding 60 times around the world!