Spin-off success of the Waterford Greenway cycle path

The Waterford Greenway has seen businesses boom, writes Joyce Fegan

COUNTY transformed — the Waterford Greenway has seen 40-year-old local businesses boom and even a famine workhouse brought back to life.

On March 25, the Waterford Greenway, a 46km stretch from Waterford city to Dungarvan opened to cyclists and pedestrians and now just four months on footfall in the area has increased by 54% and businesses are seeing a bounce of almost a third in custom as tourists flock from Letterkenny, Switzerland, the US, and France.