Bicycle Projects

Northern region

For the 2010/11 financial year these bicycle provisions are being made in the following projects:

Armidale/Dumaresq

  • Stage 2 construction of a shared use path along the Scholes Street corridor from Link Road to Harden Street, linking via the existing New England Highway underpass, Armidale.

Ballina

  • Stage 1 construction of a shared use path along the northern side of Skennars Head Road and the eastern side of North Creek Road from the Coast Road to Amber Drive, Lennox Head.

Clarence Valley

  • Construction of a shared use path along the northeastern side of Brooms Head Road and Diamond Street from Armstrong Road, Gulmarrad to Jubilee Street, Townsend.

Coffs Harbour

  • Construction of a shared use path along the southeastern side of the Pacific Highway from Englands Road, North Boambee to Isles Drive, Coffs Harbour.
  • Stage 1 construction/installation of a) a shared use path along the southern side of Coffs Harbour Creek from Bakers Road to Loaders Lane; 2) mixed traffic lanes along both sides of Brindley Court, Goodenough Terrace, Loaders Lane and Shephards Lane from the Bringley Court cul-de-sac to Coffs Harbour Creek; 3) a shared use path along the southern side of Coffs Harbour Creek from Shephards Lane to Tulipwood Close; and 4) mixed traffic lanes along both sides of Tulipwood Close and Red Cedar Drive from Coffs Harbour Creek to Robin Street, West Coffs Harbour.
  • Installation of bicycle parking facilities in Coffs Harbour.

Gunnedah

  • Construction of a shared use path along the western side of Wandobah Road from Lincoln Road to McAndrew Park, Gunnedah.

Hastings

  • Installation of bicycle parking facilities in Port Macquarie.

Lismore

  • Construction of a shared use path along the southern side of Ballina Road (Bruxner Highway) from the Kellas Street underpass to Rotary Drive, Lismore.
  • Construction/widening for a shared use path along the southern side of Ballina Road (Bruxner Highway) from Jubille Avenue to Rous Road, Lismore.

Liverpool Plains

  • Stage 2 construction of a shared use path along the western side of the New England Highway from Humble Street to the Willow Tree Public School, Willow Tree.

Richmond Valley

  • Design development of a shared use path along Woodburn Evans Head Road - stage 1 Riverside Village to Evans Head.
  • Construction/widening of the existing paths to shared use paths along both sides of the Bruxner Highway from the Irving Bridge to Gays Hill, Casino. Tamworth Regional - construction of a shared use path along the southwestern side of the New England Highway from Crawford Street to Rotary Park, East Tamworth.

Tweed

  • Construction of a shared use path along the eastern side of Keith Compton Drive from the current southern end of the path at Solander Street south to the Island Drive roundabout, Tweed Heads.
  • Design development of a shared use path (Boardwalk) along the southern side of Kennedy Drive from Boyd Street to 50 metres west of Second Avenue, Tweed Heads