Intercity Cycleway to extend through Macquarie Point precinct
AN extension of the Intercity Cycleway through Macquarie Point is one of 13 projects planned for the dockside precinct this financial year.
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AN extension of the Intercity Cycleway through Macquarie Point is one of 13 projects planned for the dockside precinct this financial year.
The $700,000 cycleway will open the 9.3ha former industrial area to the public for the first time since 1850 and aims to offer a safer path than the Tasman Highway route.
The Macquarie Point Development Corporation revealed yesterday it would build two bike paths through the site — one exiting onto Evans St and one onto Davey St.
The Evans St route will be completed first and allow a tour of Red Square, the School of Art and the waterfront, with the second route to be completed a year later.
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It will connect Berriedale with the waterfront via the cycleway for the first time.
A tender for construction is open, with the project expected to begin this month and wrap up by February 2019.
Macquarie Point Development Corporation chief executive Mary Massina said the group aimed to present “the best cycleway there is in Hobart”.
“We’ve been working with the Hobart City Council Bike Advisory Committee, the wider bike community, and we’re certainly encouraging Tasmanians to have a voice via our survey on our website to tell us what kind of amenities they think are really necessary for the cycleway,” Ms Massina said.
State Growth Minister Peter Gutwein said the Government was hoping to progress the broader site “quickly”.
“I’ll be introducing legislation later this year that will clarify matters for the corporation and enable it to ensure that this site captures the investment that we all know that it should,” he said.
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