NSW RTA funding cut effects

OK, I was wrong. The RTA was actually going to do something besides
construct hard to follow and poorly signposted cycle routes with its
budget this year before it was drastically cut.

The RTA has announced that the cycle route that winds up and down
hills and across intersections between Eastwood and Meadowbank was
going to be replaced with a cycleway up beside the railway line,
but.that it has now been cancelled. It would been useful to both
commuters to Macquarie Uni and North Ryde as well as recreational
cyclists.

Ah well back to ignoring the cycle route and riding down the side
streets along the Western side of the railway tracks.

I have often thought that building cyclesways along the railways would
be a good idea in the area, since all the good routes along ridges are
staked out by highways full of trucks and alternativesa are hard to
find. Seems like the RTA had finally got around to thinking so too.
Though the best would be from Eastwood to Hornsby, instead of having
to circle around and up and down through Marsfield, Turramurra, and
Wahronga, though that would not be possible since the railway
accomplishes it with high embankments and narrow cuttings.

dewatf.