The way points of this bicycle route:
This was the route for the July 30 2006 ride to William St. Cyclists assembled 9:00am opposite NSW Premier Morris Iemmas office of his electorate at 48 Thurlow St, Riverwood. Ride left 9:30am sharp. NSW Premier Iemma is also the Member for Lakemba. Cyclists travelled from his office at Riverwood to William St, Kings Cross, to let him know we didn't want cycle lanes removed as a result of the Cross City Tunnel fiasco. Ride returned by a similar route.
Traffic lights.
Bexley North railway station is just south-east of here.
short, steep hill!
Whistle to the cockatoo. It screeches back.
hill flattens out here.
June 2008, this path is finally reopened after 12 months of closure!
This is the western carpark for Tempe railway station. If you are going to use Tempe station, remember it has alot of steps, no lift.
This bit of path under the railway goes underwater on many high tides. Low tide on 30/07/06 is 5:23am (0.43m), high tide is 11:32pm (1.32m), low tide again 5:17pm (0.61m). The path should be clear when we pass through.
July 2008 please note that the desal pipeline construction has close part of the path we used in 2006 between here and the bridge over Alexandra Canal. There is an alternate route via the carpark to the north to the bridge.
The start of Coward St. There is a shared ped/bike footpath, but honestly its the pits, lots of driveways to cross, trees and poles to avoid. Weekends there is little traffic along this part of the street, its safer on the road.
Traffic lights at intersection with Kent St, continue along Coward St.
Mascot station is only about 100m north of this point. Please note the satellite map is more accurate than the street map for this area! There is anew bit of road past the station just north of here. Mascot station is underground. There is both a lift and escalators to the ticket office level underground. Steps from there to the paltforms. There are lifts from the ticket office level to the platforms, but I have found them to be a bit unreliable.
Opportunity for a piss-stop in the toilets in Mascot Memorial Park just to the south.
Get into the right hand lane at these lights.
You need the right lane at this roundabout to go straight ahead.
You can turn right from the left lane at these lights.
Leave the road and get onto the shared bike/ped path just before the traffic lights. Beware of vehicles approaching from the left.
The red road is bus only! Watch out for buses especially coming around the bend from the right.
Righto, this could be a difficult spot. With a small group, take them to the west across the crossing. With a large group it may be better to take them to the east, get them to line up on the path beside Moore Park Rd. Choose the right gap in the traffic to get them onto Moore Park Rd, cross ANZAC Pde and South Dowling St with the lights.
Get into right lane, turn right at lights into Bourke St.
Arrive at Kings Cross midday near those ugly stick and ball sculptures close to the intersection of Victoria St and Kings Cross Rd. The big neon Coke sign is only maybe 20m to the north. We will stop here for Susages Against Stupidity till 12:45pm, then a quick spin on William St and hopefully Kent St We will return to Riverwood via a similar route, leaving Kings Cross 2:00pm. If you want to get the train between Kings Cross and Riverwood, there is trackwork on the Eastern Suburbs line, use a City Circle station.
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
This was the route for the July 30 2006 ride to William St. Cyclists assembled 9:00am opposite NSW Premier Morris Iemmas office of his electorate at 48 Thurlow St, Riverwood. Ride left 9:30am sharp.
NSW Premier Iemma is also the Member for Lakemba. Cyclists travelled from his office at Riverwood to William St, Kings Cross, to let him know we didn't want cycle lanes removed as a result of the Cross City Tunnel fiasco. Ride returned by a similar route. Since the route was originally drawn in mid 2006, Google Maps have more detailed satellite images, I'm currently editing the route to be more accurate.
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Offroad, Low traffic, High traffic, Urban, Scenic
