New bikeway improves
local access for riders
Stage 2
Collingwood
Drive nearing
completion
The end of Stage One Collingwood
Drive where Stage Two work has
started.
Residents are thrilled with recent
upgrades to the Goodna Creek
Bikeway, providing pedestrians
and cyclists with more off-road
cycling facilities.
The newly installed shared pathway
which forms part of the Goodna
Creek Bikeway, provides better
local connectivity for pedestrians
and cyclists, by linking into existing
pedestrian facilities which extend
to the Redbank Railway Station and
beyond.
The $800,000 project was an
important local transport project and
jointly funded by council and the
State Government.
The latest stage of the bikeway
provides a new route that better
connects the surrounding suburbs,
with the construction of a path
crossing over Goodna Creek within
the Goss Drive Road Reserve.
As part of the project, construction
of the new bikeway sections included
pathway lighting, street furniture,
drainage works and landscaping over
two sites. Work was completed in
two stages.
The first stage involved upgrading of
the intersection of Namatjira Drive and
Duncan Street to provide safe bicycle
and pedestrian road crossing facilities.
The second stage travels through the
Peter Beattie Park Reserve, Deborah
Drive Park Reserve and Goss Drive
unformed road reserve, providing
a link between Lawrie Drive, Goss
Drive, Watson Street, Deborah Drive
at Collingwood Park and Henderson
Street at Redbank.
Residents in Collingwood Park will be
able to utilise a direct link to Redbank
Plains Road following the completion
of the Collingwood Drive Stage
Two project.
Construction has started on
Collingwood Drive Stage Two with
project completion planned for the
2014-2015 financial year.
The project will take around 18
months to construct and cost around
$11 million.
Collingwood Drive Stage Two work
includes connecting the road from
the existing Collingwood Drive at
Woodlinks Primary School to Redbank
Plains Road.
As part of the work, Redbank Plains
Road across Six Mile Creek will also be
upgraded with new twin bridges.
As well as the road link, a new
development will connect into the
new section of Collingwood Drive.
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Councillors Cheryl Bromage and
Victor Attwood check out the new
bikeway with some local riders.
