Bourke Street Bicycle Route - Extended Deadline 6 June

Due to a strong effort by residents in the vicinity of Bourke St - the deadline has been extended to the 6th of June. BikeSydney recommends if you have not placed your submission in, you do so. Also you should visit the City of Sydney website and read all the documentation on this.

Council website

Also the CoS have now produced some FAQ’s - you should read this so you know what is actually happening.

People are saying that all the trees in the street are being destroyed, infact 4 trees are slated for removal (out of 500). There are some other trees (16) that will be pruned and at a last resort removed.

The CoS are holding a series of consultation meetings. It woud be great to get large number of cyclists to these (It does clash with the Ride of Silence)

Wool’loo
Saturday 24 May, 9am to 10am
Venue: Mary McDonald Activity Centre 82 Bourke St (cnr Charles St) Woolloomooloo

Darlinghurst
Saturday 24 May, 10.30am to 11.30am
Venue: SCEGGS Great Hall, cnr St Peters St & Bourke St Darlinghurst

Redfern
Saturday 24 May, 12noon to 1.00pm
Venue: Redfern (Ron Williams) Activity Centre, 5-11 Kepos Street Redfern

Surry Hills
Saturday 24 May, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Venue: Medina on Crown, 359 Crown St Surry Hills

I personally have taken a few calls from residents on this. The biggest issue that has been said to me is about the loss of car parking. Somehow these people seem to think that they own a 2 metre x 6 metre plot of land outside their house - bizarre.

Anyway please read all the documentation and also write to the council.

Published by: AndrewD on May 16th, 2008 | Filed under BikeSydney News