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Talks continue over off-road bike park to help curb rogue riders in Sunderland. Do you think this will work?

Steven Paxton: It’s about time tbh! It will bring in revenue and reduce the Anti social behaviour to do with bikes.

Robert Barrow: There used to be an area where you could ride an off road bike legally a good few years back that got well used you payed a small fee then it was changed to a go cart track and the bikes were chased.

Stuart Parker:

Something must be done. These guys have made a mess of Hastings Hill, which, I believe is owned by the National Trust. They have ripped the turf off the hill and forming tracks to the summit. This will take a long time to recover, if ever.

Karl Waddell: Get a track open.

Steven Franklin: How will they get to it? Yes some will use their own transport but many who use these bikes won't have the transport so its encouraging them to ride the streets to get to it.

Kris Johnson: You’d make a fortune if you opened a track in Sunderland, would be full capacity every time it was opened up.

Ray Knox: Complete waste of time and money, they will NEVER use it, doesn’t have the same 'thrill' as bombing around at whatever speeds on untaxed uninsured machines and annoying everyone.

Jason Bainbridge: Have a bike track where you can hire the bikes for kids and adults and don’t make it an arm and a leg to hire them.

Phil Russell: I don’t think it will have much an effect. Bikes need to be road legal or transported to get there, all this costs money. Then entrance fees. People will get bored of the same terrain and people telling them what to do.

Dave Ridley: The appeal is the fact that's it's illegal. You'll never change that.

Jackie Walton: Yes. They need somewhere to go.

Brian Haddaway: You can have the best free to use bike park ever but the bikes still have to get there. Need a better solution than this.