COOKS RIVER PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLE PATH IMPROVEMENT STUDY PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Prepared for: Cooks River Foreshores Working Group With funding provided by: Burwood, Canterbury, City of Sydney, Marrickville, Rockdale and Strathfield Councils and the NSW Government’s Cooks River Foreshore Improvement Program By: Jamieson Foley Sustainable Transport Traffic & Transport Pty Ltd Consultants Pty Ltd ABN 76 092 984 953 ABN 19 101 162 716 Suite 405 PO Box 1601 5 Hunter Street Bondi Junction NSW 1355 Sydney NSW 2000 p +61 2 9386 4484 p +61 2 9233 1277 f +61 2 9389 5736 f +61 2 9235 2490
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[email protected] [email protected] 22 December 2006 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction The Cooks River Pathway is one of the oldest shared pedestrian and bicycle paths in Sydney. It is a largely off-road facility that runs from Homebush Bay in the west to Botany Bay in the east. Jamieson Foley, Sustainable Transport Consultants and The Environment Works were engaged by the Cooks River Foreshores Working Group to study the pathway and identify safety, access and other issues with a view to developing a strategy for the improvement of the walking and cycling environment. This report presents the pathway development strategy and is based on the findings of two previous reports by the study team, including a formal road safety audit and an issues and options paper.