What’s happening to the Yarra Trail, I wonder?
Last week it got ploughed up between the St Kev’s boathouse and MacRobertson Bridge. I can’t find anything about the works on the Parks Victoria or the Bicycle Victoria web sites. But I can’t imagine that “they” are going to leave it as a rough dirt track.
So does this mean we’re going to get the pathway resurfaced? Actually, not just resurfaced – completely replaced. That would be great because it was a pretty lumpy ol’ stretch of bitumen.
Update: 9 May
I’d even checked on the VicRoads web site but it only occurred to me this morning that it’s probably the local council‘s jurisdiction. But I didn’t think of looking it up with Yarra BUG. Duh.
Information about this project seems to be a bit hard to come by – not that I’m complaining, just curious about what’s actually going to happen. Thanks to the comment by cfsmtb I have my answer from the minutes of the City of Yarra Bicycle Advisory Committee Meeting of 19 April 2006 (PDF file):
Paths in City of Yarra
Justin Hanrahan from Council’s Open Space area provided an update on this and
other projects.
Reconstruction of Main Yarra Trail – MacRobertson Bridge to Gardiners Creek
- Contractor has been appointed to build this path
It will be 4m wide in places and 3.5m in others
Justin can arrange for ramps to allow riders onto the Boulevard and off again at the eastern and western ends of the path as part of the project
Some trees will be removed but overall gain in tree numbers.
Some poles to be removed
Path duplication to be rationalized
Timber bridges to be removed
Path to be asphalt
Works will take 10 weeks and expect to be completed by mid July
Council is contributing $250,000 and state government $50,000 via Sport and Recreation department
That all sounds great and I am very pleased that this work is going ahead. I never imagined that this section of the trail would get a revamp, so thumbs-up everyone involved!
Simple, the surface between Gardiners & Mac Bridge is being completely redone. “They” are the sub-contractor employed by CoY to do the job. We were fully briefed on this by Yarra Councils Open Space rep at the last Yarra Bicycle Advisory Committee. YarraBUG put in a letter of support to CoY for Sport & Rec to fund the redevelopment.
Posted by cfsmtb | 9 May 2006, 10:05 am