Well Redcar town centre is supposed to be dead, so I guess there is still people going to Middlesbrough. However itself was named as one of the hotspots in the UK for closed shops.
Hopefully steel prices will pick up again and the plant will be reopened. Funny how we can bail out the bankers but not save something useful. The Tyne has just been announced as a new factory for wind turbines which need steel - but not from Redcar it seems.