Green Links Was Initiated by Waverley Council to HOW to GET THERE Promote Walking in the Area
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Green Links was initiated by Waverley Council to HOW TO GET THERE promote walking in the area. This guide outlines the first two walks. Centennial Park Green Links 1 connects Centennial Park, Bondi M40, 333, 338, 339, 352, 355, 380, 418, 440. Junction and the iconic Bondi Beach with a direct walking route. Centennial Park to Bondi Junction Bondi Junction takes 10 minutes, while Bondi Junction to the Beach takes 40 minutes. Eastern Suburbs Illawarra Line Green Links 2 is from Bondi Junction to Queens M40, 200, 313, 314, 316, 317, 326, 327, 328, Park and takes less than 20 minutes. 333, 348, 352, 353, 355, 360, 361, 380, 381, 382, X84, 386, 387, 389, X89, 400, 410, 418, 440. The walks are Bondi Beach and signage: easy to follow with 333, 362, 380, 381, 382, X84, X89 and 389. footpath stencils: Queens Park 313 and 418. For more information call the transport info line on 131 500 The walks connect with other picturesque walks in Centennial Park or the coastal walk from Bondi to Bronte Beach. Council is also greening up the routes through tree planting. These walks can save you money, improve your health and help the environment. They are an easy way to get around and experience Waverley’s parks and historical sites. Green Links Green Links 1 and 2 are the first of five walks walks guide planned for Waverley. The remaining three walks will link Bondi Green Links 1 For more information on Green Links Centennial Park – Bondi Junction – Bondi Beach Junction with Tamarama and Bronte Park; contact Waverley Council on 9369 8176 Queens Park to Tamarama; and the Coastal Green Links 2 Walk to Barracluff Park. www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/greenlinks Bondi Junction – Queens Park Watsons Bay Old South Head Rd Old South Head Rd Sydney Harbour Tunnel Sydney Harbour Bridge Vaucluse Samuel Park New South Head Rd Old South Head Rd Circular South Head Rd Quay New Cahill Expressway Point Martin Potts Piper Wynyard Place Point Darling Point King St King St Macquarie St Arthur McElhone Res New South Head Rd Pennerong Rose St James Res Bay Old South Head Rd Elizabeth Wooloomooloo Mcleay BayRes Blackburn Caffyn Eastern Distributor Gardens New South Head Rd Park Fitzroy Elizabeth St Gardens New South Head Rd Park St Lawrence O'Sullivan Rd Dover Druitt St Park St Hargrave Kings Park Heights Town Steyne Cross Foster Hall William St Park William St Park Av Ocean Museum Oxford St Double Old South Head Rd Av Av Bay GoulburnGeorge St St Darlinghurst Neild New South Head Elizabeth St McLachlan Rd Bellevue St Hill ntworth Eastern Distributor (in tunnel) Boundary Av Edgecliff We Rawson Pl Oxford Street Ocean St Eddy Gilgandra Av Park Pitt St Albion Central St O'Sullivan Rd Elizabeth St Albion St Foveaux St Paddington Foveaux St Surry Thomas Hogan Reserve is the Lamrock Avenue was Along the way remainder of an 18th century garden formerly part of Francis Hills Head Rd Oxford St created by land owner Adolph Schneider. O’Brien’s estate, it was known . The Reserve is part of a migratory bird as ‘the oak walk’, a beautiful Moore Park Rd GREEN LINKS ROUTE 1 route and once had a waterfall from the Old South bush walk which led from his . Curlewis St GREEN LINKS ROUTE 2 street to the ‘floor’ of the park. estate to the beach. Anzac Pde Chalmers St Thomas Av Lamrock Elizabeth St Orr St Hogan Reserve Rickard MOORE Syd Einfeld Drive Wellington St Av PARK Moore Park Rd Av Cleveland St BarracluffFrancis St Dickson Oxford St Old South Head Rd Campbell Pde h Park Lamrock Bondi Rd St Penkivil St Moore Newland Queen ElizabethBondi Dr Beac Oxford St Av Cleveland St Park rk Rd Yo Bondi Bondi Rd Bondi Centennial Ebley St Bondi Junction Wellington St Park Park Ebley St Cleveland St Bondi Road Redfern Bronte Rd Birrell St Lawson St Waverley Brisbane St Park Bennett St Birrell St Elizabeth St Tamarama Alt St Birrell St Anzac Pde Bourke St MOORE Tamarama PARK Waverley Park Newland St Queens Park Rd Eastern Distributor Murray St Carrington Rd rk Rd Queens Yo Park McEvoy St Lachlan St Dacey Av Centennial Park was dedicated as a public park in Bondi Beach was once dominated by sand dunes Brisbane Street has a long canopy of figs that were 1888 when it was transformed from scrub and swamp with a small creek and lagoon behind the beach. planted around the 1930s. rk Rd Bourke St into a formal garden with grandYo drives, sculptures and Swimming was illegal until 1902, although the world’s Queens Park was originally part of the Sydney Elizabeth St ponds. On 1 January 1901 the Park was the site of the first surf club was created shortly afterwards in 1907. MOORE PARK Darley Rd Common and later the Lachlan Swamps Water Reserve. GOLF CLUB inauguration of Australian Federation. With easy access to the Brontecity via Rd the Bondi Tram, the area Leichhardt St It was dedicated as a public park in 1887. A remnant Alison Rd Bronte Bondi Junction has long been a transport junction rapidly expanded in the 20th century, particularly during strand of the threatened flora species, Eastern Suburbs SYDNEY the interwar period when a large number of units were ATHLETIC where steam and electric trams passed through Banksia, can be seen just west of Moriah College. FIELD Darley Rd before buses were introduced. References to the tram built. TodayMacpherson there is St a diverse community at Bondi Beach, Todman age can now be seen within the Oxford St Mall. The with Russian the most popular language spoken at home, after English. Macpherson St Eastern Suburbs Railway was opened in 1979 and the Green Links 1 includes one flight of stairs Av Please note: redeveloped Westfield shopping centre in 2005 – creating at Forest Knoll Ave. This can be avoided by following the second largest in NSW. Green Barracluff Ave – Rickard Ave – Lamrock Ave. Arden St Square Kakoda Memorial Park Frank Doyle mansRd Park French Carrington Rd Anzac Pde Alison Rd Cowper St Botany Rd Kensington Todman Av St Judes Randwick Cemetery Anzac Pde oca St Alison Rd Av Clovelly Arden St Botany St Southern Cross Dr Carrington Rd Botany St Coogee Bay Rd Anzac PdeBarker St Coogee Bay Rd Barker St St oca St Coogee Av Pauls Barker St Arden St Gardeners Rd Botany St Kingsford Rainbow St Gardeners Rd Arden St Anzac Pde Bunnerong Rd Malabar Rd Botany St.