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‘It’s been 25 years in the making’: The inner west’s $57 million path is finally opening
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For years, Nick Chapman crossed a tract of land next to an old rail corridor when he walked his three children from their home in Haberfield to Kegworth Public School at Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west, in the 1990s.
Nick Chapman is one of hundreds of inner west residents who championed construction of the shared path over decades.Credit: Sam Mooy
Chapman, an environmental scientist, envisaged the weed-strewn strip beside the Hawthorne Canal as forming part of a “greenway” track slicing through Sydney’s dense inner suburbs. He was far from alone. Cyclists saw a crucial missing link in the city’s bike network, and environment groups imagined an urban biodiversity corridor.
Sydney's long-awaited new 6-kilometre green trail is about to open
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‘It’s been 25 years in the making’: The inner west’s $57 million path is finally opening
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For years, Nick Chapman crossed a tract of land next to an old rail corridor when he walked his three children from their home in Haberfield to Kegworth Public School at Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west, in the 1990s.
Nick Chapman is one of hundreds of inner west residents who championed construction of the shared path over decades.Credit: Sam Mooy
Chapman, an environmental scientist, envisaged the weed-strewn strip beside the Hawthorne Canal as forming part of a “greenway” track slicing through Sydney’s dense inner suburbs. He was far from alone. Cyclists saw a crucial missing link in the city’s bike network, and environment groups imagined an urban biodiversity corridor.
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