Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:14 pm
Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan
Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.
Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:55 pm
The dip section will be flooded or at the very least dangerously slippery with the mud and dirt run off caused by the construction and rain today.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:00 am
Looks like quite a significant proposal and might link up with Cooks Riverg-boaf wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:14 pm
Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan
Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.
Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:26 am
No proposal- it’s adopted, finalised. It will happen.mikesbytes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:00 amLooks like quite a significant proposal and might link up with Cooks Riverg-boaf wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:14 pm
Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan
Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.
Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.
Just which century it will happen in is the question.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:41 pm
I'm seeing if the council can install similar on the cycleway along the canal. That will greatly improve the safety at night and early morning.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sun Apr 09, 2023 5:51 pm
And nothing can be done, Police are too short staffed to catch these guys.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:18 pm
So the key link in the western Sydney cycling network f going further west is out of action, you have to ride on Victoria Street Wetherill Park. Not good.
Lots of riders and runners caught out.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby AndrewCowley » Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:49 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:04 am
Official signs say it's because daylight savings have ended. It closes at 4pm as well. So only open 8am-4pm. So pretty huge early mark for them to finish up compared to most other workers.AndrewCowley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:49 pmThat’s crazy late. Any idea of why they’ve done this? IIRC it’s a very popular place for cyclists.
A lot of riders have finished their rides already by 8am so it's a huge annoyance. And many have not even left work by 4:30pm, making the 4pm gate closure especially bad.
If you try to contact them you'll be bounced around various places for weeks and weeks.
They may as well just close it permanently. We need a different route (not Victoria Street Wetherill Park).
My thoughts would be to have a shared path along Great Western Highway from Pemulway area up to the M7 at Wallgrove Road - that will remove the need to go through Prospect Dam completely.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby AndrewCowley » Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:11 am
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:25 am
The bridge at the top is better now (fixed up) but the top is a bit muddy and lots of loose gravel everywhere. Also the road up the hill towards the bridge (heading south) is pretty rough these days and has a couple of deep potholes.AndrewCowley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:11 amFrom memory, back when the Spring Cycle used to go through there, it was a really nice area to ride in. Perfect actually. Seems crazy to restrict it.
It's still far nicer than riding on Victoria Street.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sun Apr 16, 2023 4:40 am
Two of us were stuck waiting for 10 minutes and when ge did finally open the remaining gates he claimed that outside of daylight savings gates were never open before 7am (which is wrong) and that they only open them between 7-8am.
We both told him if you open one gate, open them all! Otherwise it wastes time for people who then have to turn around and ride a massive long diversion.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:50 am
I asked the council workers yesterday if they could organise to get it cleaned up - they were going to get it done.
It needed doing because one entire lane is half taken up by all the mess and it will inevitably cause an accident.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sat Apr 22, 2023 7:38 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:03 pm
I missed it by a narrow amount. It wasn't aggressive and just slithered off to the grass off the side of the path and kept watching carefully.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby caneye » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:29 pm
Ooo .. that's quite some distance from the park lands.
will definitely keep an eye.
Saw a red belly over the weekend, but that was in the eastern suburbs (Malabar headland)!
On Saturday, there was a council crew working on the shared path near Lizard Log. The path was closed and a slight cx detour was required.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:55 pm
That’s now open (checked yesterday) and much smoother!caneye wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:29 pmOoo .. that's quite some distance from the park lands.
will definitely keep an eye.
Saw a red belly over the weekend, but that was in the eastern suburbs (Malabar headland)!
On Saturday, there was a council crew working on the shared path near Lizard Log. The path was closed and a slight cx detour was required.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Wed May 03, 2023 12:39 pm
Should help with the safety for all users of the path.
Subject to grant funding of course. Once it happens I’ll post more, it’s aligned with an existing works program.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby peter » Wed May 17, 2023 4:55 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Thu May 18, 2023 8:13 pm
Yes, I think so, but not before 8am, and not after 4pm from what I understand.
So you have to use Victoria Street as the detour (an on road detour).
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby peter » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:59 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:04 pm
It’s not very deep but go slowly.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Retrobyte » Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:21 pm
Thanks for the heads up - I was definitely looking out for this today. Approx 5m of the path is fully covered by 3-4cm of water
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