{"id":779,"date":"2025-02-25T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T05:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:12:15","slug":"cycling-in-ashfield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/cycling-in-ashfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling in Ashfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Bland St near Parramatta Rd. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Inner West Council\u2019s Bike Strategy (2023) recognises that Ashfield suffers from a lack of bicycle infrastructure, compared to the former Leichhardt and Marrickville Council areas, and that a special effort needs to be made to improve the roads for the safety for cyclists and investigate the possibilities for improved bike routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this end, a consultant was appointed in 2023\/24 to assess traffic flows in North Ashfield and effects that bike lanes or traffic calming would have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report was done but has not been made public. Word is that the report was the Council traffic engineers objected to its findings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Council is now asking for public comment on traffic issues for North Ashfield on its Yoursay<\/a> pages. Please have a look and add a green sticker or two! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashfield Bicycle Group submission<\/a>, highlighting Elizabeth St and Alt\/Bland Sts as needing traffic calming or reduction and bicycle infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A further development is that a motion by Greens Councillor Antoniou to investigate Elizabeth and Grosvenor Sts as an east-west bicycle route was passed by council on 15\/2\/25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lends support to the State Government\u2019s Strategic Cycleway project, which is looking at a cycleway from Ashfield Station to Burwood, possibly using Elizabeth St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a plan to develop a bike path along the Iron Cove Creek canal, between Elizabeth St to Iron Cove . Funding for a design has been given. Difficulties arise at Parramatta Rd and Church St, where the canal lacks headroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frederick St also presents possibilities, being basically a two lane road with extra wide 5 m traffic lanes. A report was supposed to have been done as part of the Iron Cove Creek Masterplan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Inner West Council\u2019s Bike Strategy (2023) recognises that Ashfield suffers from a lack of bicycle infrastructure, compared to the former Leichhardt and Marrickville Council areas, and that a special effort needs to be made to improve the roads for the safety for cyclists and investigate the possibilities for improved bike routes. To this end, … Continue reading “Cycling in Ashfield”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}