[bikeqld] Coro Drive to Newstead?

[Ian Lister]

Hi Anthony,

You can get from the Bicentennial Bikeway or the CBD to Newstead using 
paths and only a few, mostly quiet roads. It's far from direct, 
though; you essentially follow the river around its loops.

>From the botanic gardens get onto the city reach (Eagle St) boardwalk at 
the bottom of Edward St. Some would say it's as dangerous as plenty of 
roads, but follow it around to the detour onto Howard St. The detour is 
signed to keep you on the footpath but I usually hop on the road around to 
Boundary St, where you get a nice wide path in front of the cliffs near 
the Story Bridge and onto the floating section of the Riverwalk. You have 
to go on the road (or footpath) at Merthyr Rd, down Griffith St to Sydney 
St. Griffith St is not too busy and has BAZs down it. At Sydney St you can 
get back onto the path along the river through Merthyr Park to the bowls 
club. From there you have a short (but again fairly bike-friendly) stretch 
to New Farm Park at Brunswick St. Keep following the river around past the 
powerhouse. You'll have to leave the river to get to Lamington St for a 
block, and back down Hollins Crescent and along a path to get back to the 
river. IIRC there's a sign there explaining that it's too expensive to 
provide the missing couple of metres (literally) of path along the river 
because there's an electricity cable crossing there. That path continues 
back up Merthyr Rd; obviously you can cut straight across from the west 
side of New Farm if you're willing to cycle on a bit more road. I can't 
remember if you have to hop on Macquarie St for a couple of hundred metres 
there, but there's then more path up to Commercial Rd, at which point you 
have to detour around some boat terminals and the gasworks site along 
Skyring Tce and Longland St to Ann St and Breakfast Creek Rd. There's path 
alongside those roads to Waterloo St (or thereabouts), from which you can 
get to Newstead Tce and I think back on to the river, and then you're in 
Newstead Park.

Sorry I'm a bit fuzzy on the details; perhaps others more familiar with 
the area can correct me anywhere I went wrong or am out of date.

Cheers,

Ian

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Anthony Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering does anyone know if it is possible to ride from Coro 
> Drive or the city to Newstead on bike paths or is it a case of having to 
> get on the roads.
> 
> Regards,
> Anthony