Showing posts with label hornsby bike path unfinished cycleway route nsw sydney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hornsby bike path unfinished cycleway route nsw sydney. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Carrots have a Wild Cousin


QUEEN ANNE'S LACE

Queen Anne's Lace is often a feral weed in Australia and you can see it growing near the railways tracks near Hornsby station and Pretoria Parade. It's a relative of the carrot and is as much a herb as a weed. I suspect since its not a native plant some early colonist brought seeds over from the UK for a herb garden and like so many other plants it went wild.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Hornsby Bike Path still not QUITE finished!






Did you know we have a bike path in Hornsby?

Running down behind the buildings in College Crescent?
Well we would if the Council or someone would just finish the last section!


Go into the Baptist Church car park ... the unpaved part between the cottage by the railway and the main building and walk down hill and turn right.


If you walk to the end of the gravelly stony rubble patch and turn left you 'll see the view on the left: the finished part of the bike path!

This path is suppose to join up with other roads and paths and run down to Normanhurst and beyond.

You're supposedly to be able to cross over Pretoria Parade and follow the roadway up behind the Jubilee and Polaris and other buildings then go up the lane to rejoin the main road to the station.

I've been following the VERY slow progress of this path since it was first announced.

Maybe this year the last section will be FINALLY paved?

If you're willing to walk over the rubble section its a pleasant cool shady walk down the back of the apartment buildings.

At the rate its be worked on over the last DECADE yes Decade! you shouldnt have to worry about being bowled over by skateboarders or cyclists any time soon!

I'll let you know if and when it's finished!