The way points of this bicycle route:
Starting from Banks St.
Near intersection of Banks St amd Kuranda Ave, turm right to use the path around Padstow Park.
Tight turn, tandems, trikes and trailers may not make it round. Follow the narrow concrete path.
Right at the change rooms, use the path to the driveway.
Left at the wide driveway.
The driveway meets Davies Rd. Continue ahead, cross Davies Rd to Bridge St. Davies Rd is busy, often vehicles are doing 80 kmh, take care. There are turn lanes half way across you can use as a sort of refuge.
Bridge St ends, turn right onto the path.
Path ends, boardwalk starts. Please note, this side of Salt Pan Creek (Bankstown Council) bans bikes being ridden on the boardwalk. I just slow down or stop for the pedestrians. Parts of the path in dense shade can be VERY slippery in the wet.
Careful at this corner when wet! It is well shaded by mangroves and is often slippery. Sometimes its just safer to walk the bike around this corner, remount when the boardwalk gets out into the open again.
Cross Salt Pan Creek using the bridge. There are about three steps up, or a wheelchair/pram ramp with tight turns.
This boardwalk on this corner gets a lttle slippy in the wet.
Boardwalk intersction, continue ahead to Lillian Rd via a dirt path. A depot for the K2RQ project is on your right (too recent for the satellite image).
Get onto Lillian Rd.
Left into Henry Rd.
Henry Rd becomes William Rd at the corner.
Left into Bennett Lane.
Right into Coleridge St.
Intersection with Belmore Rd South, continue ahead along Colridge St.
Left into Nettleton Ave.
Right into Josephine St.
Roundabout, left into Bonds Rd.
Traffic lights, turn right into Hannans Rd.
Roundabout at intersection with Karne St, continue along Hannans Rd.
Traffic lights at intersection with Penshurst Rd, continue along Hannans Rd. Narwee station is on your right, pub, 7-11, takeaway etc are to your left. Theres more shops on the southern side of the railway.
Traffic lights at intersection of Hannans Rd, Kardella Cr and Broad Arrow Rd, continue along Hannans Rd.
Theres a metal plate on the road just near the corner, its slippery in the wet. Watch out for cars cutting you off at the corner as well. Uphill from here to King Georges Rd. Hannans Rd becomes Broad Arrow Rd. September 2009, the magpie is back on the attack.
Traffic lights at intersection with King Georges Rd. Broad Arrow Rd finishes, cross King Georges Rd, head into Ponyara Rd. Its often best to be in the right hand lane.
Pedestrian crossing, road narrowing, speed hump.
Left into Yarallah Pl. Road has patches breaking up, since Nov 2008 surface is marked for repair.
Pedestrian crossing, broad speed hump. Lookout for cars attempting to overtake here, take the lane as you will be turning right shortly.
Around to the right. Watchout for cars behind that may assume you will go straight ahead like most cars do. From here to Earlwood shops its quiet back streets and path.
Left into Tallawalla St. Its downhill from here to the bike path.
Beware of cars crossing Tallawalla at the intersection with Pallamana Pde and Kirrang St. Sometimes they head across without even slowing down.
Turn left off Tallawalla Rd onto the path where the bollards are.
Cross the storm water channel.
Ahead is a wide underpass under the M5East. Turn right before the underpass to follow the path on the southern side of the M5East.
Karingal St underpass is on your left. Keep following the path downstream.
bollards
Turn left where the path reaches Kingsgrove Rd to head north under the M5East.
Cross Kingsgrove Rd at the lights under the bridge to continue using the path on the southern side of the M5East.
Arinya St underpass is on your left, bridge to Kooreela St is on your right.
Bridge to Bonalbo St is on your right.
Lundy Ave underpass is on your left. Gross pollutant trap is on your right, ducks like sleeping on it.
Turn sharp right as path nears Bexley Rd, follow the path to use the bridge over Bexley Rd.
Use the bridge to cross Bexley Rd. Bexley North railway station is just south-east of here.
Left to follow the ramp down towards the Bexley Rd, Wolli Ave intersection.
As ramp nears Bexley Rd follow the path to the right. Get into low gear, theres a short steep climb for a hundred metres or so. September 2009 the path is narrow, fences from the construction of the nearby M5East air filter plant are part way across the path.
Leave the path, get onto Wolli Ave. Typically quiet backstreets from here to Homer St, but do lookout for buses from both left and right here.
You are past he steep bit, road is still climbing.
Hill flattens out here. Road forks, keep following Wolli Ave to the right.
Watch out for this manhole cover that sticks up out of the road, it could really do some rim/tyre/tube damage on a road bike if you hit it hard.
Left into Airedale Ave.
Follow the road around to the right, Airedale Ave becomes Morgan St.
Roundabout, turn right into Homer St. Look out, many vehicles speed through it along Homer St.
Signalised pedestrian crossing, road narrowing opposite school.
Traffic lights at the intersection of Homer, William and Hartill-Law. Continue along Homer St. Theres often alot of traffic here, but we turn off it very soon. These lights are hard to trigger, you need to be in the middle of the lane, back from the line about two metres.
Traffic lights at intersection of Homer St and Joy Ave, continue along Homer St.
Turn left just before the traffic lights. We want to head to Earlwood Ave. The clods at the council put in traffic calming devices to discourage cars using Earlwood Ave but didn't think to still allow cyclists to go that way legally to access the councils own marked bike route. So we are going to do this stupid little U-turn dance.
Pedestrian crossing. Yep I know I could just go straight up into Earlwood Ave here by riding across the pedestrian crossing but I find it safer to just go along Clarke St....
Do a U-turn...
Turn left into Earlwood Ave. Thanks heaps car-centric road designers. On a happier note theres coffee shops, pub and ATM nearby. Quiet back streets till Wardell Rd.
Its downhill from here to the Cooks River.
Roundabout at intersection with Hamilton Ave, continue ahead along Earlwood Ave.
Roundabout, turn right into Fricourt Ave.
Roundabout at intersection of Fricourt Ave, Collingwood Ave and Hamel Crescent. Veer left to Hamel Crescent.
Hamel Crescent ends, use the footpath to get to Wardell Rd.
Cross Wardell Rd.
Roundabout at intersection of Wardell and Bass Rd, turn left into Bass Rd.
Stop sign, turn right into Riverview Rd.
Left into Macquarie Rd.
Macquarie Rd finishes, path starts.
Turn right to head eastbound on the Cooks River path.
Past the gate, turn left at the footpath. Use the island in Homer St to cross. Check for fast traffic approaching from the roundabout on your right. Adora Chocolates is on the eastern side of Homer St, their chocolates are the best you can get. Well worth a stop.
Up on to the path, turn left, head across the bridge to cross the Cooks River. You can often get a good view of cormorants and pelicans catching fish here.
Path forks and narrows, veer right.
Route cuts cross the carpark.
Water, timber fueled BBQ, tables and seating, toilets are all just north of here. Also Steel Park cafe is in the sports centre to the NE.
Off to your right is one of the few bits of the Cooks River left with sand on it.
A combination of very heavy rain and high tide can put this part of the path under water.
Turn right to go over the small bridge.
Path forks, veer left after crossing the small bridge to head towards Carrington Rd.
Path finishes, get onto Carrington St. Offices of Choice magazine are coming up on the left.
Theres a T-intersection of Carrington Rd and Richardson Crescent. Veer left to continue along Carrington Rd. From here to the other side of the railway can be busy at peak times.
Left into Myrtle St.
Follow the road under the railway. Myrtle St become Victoria Rd.
Right into Meeks Rd.
Cross Marrickville Rd, continue ahead along Meeks Rd.
Right into Sydenham Rd, can be busy.
Left into Cadogan St.
Right into Saywell St.
Up on to the path at the eastern end of Saywell St, turn left. It can be a bit desolate around here at 3 in the morning.
Path finishes, get onto Sydney Steel Rd.
Right into Edinburgh Rd.
Left into Murray St.
Roundabout at intersection with Smidmore St, continue along Murray St.
Murray St becomes Victoria Rd. Don't turn left into the other part of Victoria Rd.
Left into Edgeware Rd.
Traffic lights at intersection of Edgeware Rd, Llewellyn St and Alice St, continue along Edgeware Rd.
Right into Camden St.
Left into Simmons St.
Corner of Simmons and Margaret St, continue ahead, use the short bit of path over the road closure to Sarah St.
Right into Sarah St
Left into Simmons St.
Right into Fulham St.
Fulham St becomes Reiby St at the corner.
Right into Rawson St.
Left into Station St.
Traffic lights, right into Enmore Rd. Enmore Rd is typically busy.
Traffic lights at intersection with King St, continue ahead into King St. The next set of lights you'll be turning right, its a good idea if you are already in the right lane now.
Get into right turn lane. If you haven't been able to make it safely over to the right turn lane and are blocked in the left lane, bail out to the kerb on your left, then wait for a break in the traffic.
Traffic lights, right into Wilson St.
Traffic lights at intersection with Erskineville Rd, continue ahead to Wilson St.
Roundabout at intersection with Brown St, continue along Wilson St.
Roundabout, turn right into Wilson St. Wilson St contraflow lane is on your left. The excellent Cheeky Transport bike shop is just to the north in Georgina St, just off King St.
Roundabout at intersection with Golden Grove St, continue ahead along Wilson St.
Roundabout at intersection with Buttlin Ave, continue ahead along Wilson St.
Roundabout at intwersection with Shepherd St, continue along Wilson St.
Wilson St ends, head through the bollards to Little Eveleigh St
Use the green contra-flow lane along Little Eveleigh St.
Right into Lawson St.
Traffic lights at intersection with Gibbons St, continue ahead to Lawson Square.
Traffic lights at intersection of Lawson Square and Regent St. Cross Regent St.
Left onto the path for a few metres after crossing Regent St.
Right into Wells St.
Left into George St.
Traffic lights at intersection of George St and Cleveland St, get into the right turn lane. Head to the ramp to path on far side of Cleveland St.
Use path through Prince Alfred Park. Slow down for the pedestrians.
Path ends, you've reached Elizabeth St.
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Padstow to Surry Hills via Padstow Station, Bridge St, Salt Pan Creek, M5East paths, Cooks River path, Marrickville, Newtown, Wilson St, Redfern, Prince Alfred Park.
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