Smee – stop being an offensive numpty. I said it wasn’t in the documents I saw not that it was not in any documents about funding for the chairlift so I would like to know where you get your information from.
Tourism – one of the proposed revenue streams is to have hundreds of tourists – not bikers – going up there paying £7 for the privilege -do you really think they will do that if the view is of a windfarm?
I can’t find the main documents I saw but how about this?
“All sounds good so far, although some of the market research backing the plan up seems perhaps a little bit iffy. Having interviewed over 1,500 people, the consultants have concluded that 7% of the population “undertake mountain biking”. Taken nationally, that would suggest that there are 4.25 million mountain bikers in the UK, which leads us to wonder where they’re all hiding. Apparently 1.3 million mountain bikers live within a four-hour drive of Innerleithen, and while we’d love to believe that, we can’t help thinking that that figure relies on a somewhat loose definition of “mountain biker”. Focussing on the definite enthusiasts reveals that downhillers would use a lift at Innerleithen an impressive 23 times a year on average, although it’s not clear whether a “time” means a day or if, say, a week-long trip counts as only one “time”. “
“The new bike park plan is described as being “fully commercial”, which suggests that it’s supposed to pay for itself although clearly it’s going to need some substantial funding to get off the ground in the first place.”
From http://www.innerleithen.tv/forums/topic-36799-innerleithens-chairlift-plan
also the same article is on bike magic