Towing Path User Survey : Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1988

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>This survey was undertaken to determine levels of use and attitudes of users to each other; to determine the change in levels of use and user attitudes after opening the towing path to unrestricted cycle use; to establish whether the new facilities encourage new visitors; to establish whether the towing path functions as part of a wider leisure path network; to obtain users' views on the new facilities.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> Group size, age, sex; origins, distance travelled, destinations, purpose of visit, frequency of visits; method of transport; use of local footpaths and country roads; how visitors heard of site, attractions of site, attitudes to other users, difficulties in using the towing path.<br>
In addition to the interview data, observation data was collected for different types of user for forty minutes per hour between 10 a.m. and 6.40 p.m. on each survey date for 1 mile stretches of towing path centred on the survey points.