📣 Have your say: Feedback on the Curlewis Street Cycleway REF (review of environmental factors) closes this Tuesday at 5pm.

The cycleway will link Bondi Beach most of the way to Bondi Junction and the CBD. Hopefully this is the last round of consultation and it can get built in time for summer! 🌅 🏖️

https://haveyoursay.waverley.nsw.gov.au/curlewisstreetscape

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Nice to see some more bits of cycleway popping up on the Kingsford to Centennial Park cycleway route!

It's had a super slow start but I reckon the end-of-2023 completion date could still be within reach
#SydneyCycleways #sydney #cycleways #construction #betterstreets #BikeTooter #bikesydney

Awesome news, this is a huge win for Sydney 🥳🥳

https://news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/articles/college-street-cycleway-reopens

I'll be using it for riding from Central to Circular Quay and Woolloomooloo, with the final section of Liverpool Street starting construction this year, it'll be seamless! 🎉

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Back in 2018 I wrote a response to the public exhibition of the NSW gov's proposed F6 extension. Basically an urban freeway tunnel linking the new #Westconnex interchange at St Peters to President Ave in #Kogarah.

My feedback was that we should be leaning away from urban motorways as a transport solution towards higher capacity and more healthy/environmental friendly modes.

More specifically though, I was interested in the #ActiveTransport plan that was a part of the proposal.

Southern Sydney has been home to an enormous green space that was set aside for the F6 in the 50's. Since this plan was putting the road mostly underground, it made sense to officially convert the reservation into parklands and an active transport corridor.

The plan was to do that, but where there was no reservation simply route the bike path into winding, disparate suburban back streets. Effectively making the path cute for Sunday strolls but useless for commuting. The reason for this was that providing a proper RoW would require acquiring 3 (by my count) houses. For context, the M4 East component of Westconnex acquired hundreds of houses!

This week I stumbled across more detailed plans for the project, now known as the M6 (F stood for freeway and it ain't going to be free) and I am stoked to see the pathways look like they'll be awesome and direct enough to be useful! Hooray!

Link to blog: https://jedsetter.com/submission-to-the-f6-stage-1-eis/

Link to plan: https://media.caapp.com.au/pdf/ttqutv/603b768d-2385-4352-84f5-9ff7c662be4e/Appendix%20B%20-%20Pedestrian%20and%20cycle%20implementation%20plan%20%288%20MB%29.pdf

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Hooray! I have to drag my bike out of the city every day. Very much welcome this.
King Street Cycleway - Projects - Roads and Waterways – Transport for NSW
https://roads-waterways.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/king-street-cycleway/index.html
(Now make the traffic lights let me out too :-)) #sydney #cycleway #SydneyCycleways #bikesydney