GreenWay pedestrian and cycling link given the green light
INNER West Council has given the green light to the GreenWay project, a 5.8km cycle, pedestrian and biodiversity link connecting both ends of the municipality between the Cooks River and Iron Cove.
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THE final GreenWay masterplan has been adopted after almost two decades of painstaking planning.
There was a massive cheer from the public gallery last Tuesday when Inner West Council gave the green light to the project, a 5.8km cycle, pedestrian and biodiversity link connecting both ends of the municipality between the Cooks River and Iron Cove.
GreenWay steering committee chair Alex Lofts said: “It’s a historic day and it has taken co-operation from the community and all levels of government to achieve something that will be an example of what should happen in the rest of Sydney”.
Mayor Darcy Byrne said the masterplan proposes about $57.8 million of works over the next 10 to 15 years with existing funding to deliver $27.8 million of work over the next four years.
“For more than 20 years the community has been advocating for a GreenWay to be created and I am delighted council is finally going to make it happen,” he said.
The State Government is also contributing funding to deliver one of the biggest projects ever undertaken in the inner west.
The councillors backed a number of amendments by Labor’s Anna York including that council support a tunnel under Davis St as the preferred route to avoid it going through the Waratah Mills carpark, a move welcomed by resident Carla Cranny.
“The council listened to what we asked for, which was structured consultation about the ongoing design and implementation,” she said.