Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards

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The gate was open today, despite the sign at the Chandos Road end saying the gate was closed.

[SteveTheTiger]

This post in the Westlink M7 Cyclists Facebook group seems to confirm its open again (apart from the usual times when its closed) - https://www.facebook.com/reel/976953120 ... WDuG2&fs=e

[g-boaf]

Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan

Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.

Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.

[g-boaf]

Be careful if riding near the Pemulwuy housing development on the prospect path above.

The dip section will be flooded or at the very least dangerously slippery with the mud and dirt run off caused by the construction and rain today.

[mikesbytes]

Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan

Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.

Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.

Looks like quite a significant proposal and might link up with Cooks River

[g-boaf]

Link: https://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/prosp ... masterplan

Prospect Pipeline Corridor Strategic Masterplan.

Bridge at top of Prospect Dam is open, I went through there on the weekend.

Looks like quite a significant proposal and might link up with Cooks River

No proposal- it’s adopted, finalised. It will happen.

Just which century it will happen in is the question.

[g-boaf]

One of the local laneways has two of these solar lights installed in a tiny small space - it's barely 30 metres of laneway:



I'm seeing if the council can install similar on the cycleway along the canal. That will greatly improve the safety at night and early morning.

[g-boaf]

Illegal quad bikes and trail bikes are out in force in the canal shared path at the moment.

And nothing can be done, Police are too short staffed to catch these guys.

[g-boaf]

Very bad news - Prospect Dam gates are now no longer open before 7am - apparently 8am is the earliest time. This just started happening yesterday and today.

So the key link in the western Sydney cycling network f going further west is out of action, you have to ride on Victoria Street Wetherill Park. Not good.

Lots of riders and runners caught out.

[AndrewCowley]

That’s crazy late. Any idea of why they’ve done this? IIRC it’s a very popular place for cyclists.

[g-boaf]

That’s crazy late. Any idea of why they’ve done this? IIRC it’s a very popular place for cyclists.

Official signs say it's because daylight savings have ended. It closes at 4pm as well. So only open 8am-4pm. So pretty huge early mark for them to finish up compared to most other workers.

A lot of riders have finished their rides already by 8am so it's a huge annoyance. And many have not even left work by 4:30pm, making the 4pm gate closure especially bad.

If you try to contact them you'll be bounced around various places for weeks and weeks.

They may as well just close it permanently. We need a different route (not Victoria Street Wetherill Park).

My thoughts would be to have a shared path along Great Western Highway from Pemulway area up to the M7 at Wallgrove Road - that will remove the need to go through Prospect Dam completely.

[AndrewCowley]

From memory, back when the Spring Cycle used to go through there, it was a really nice area to ride in. Perfect actually. Seems crazy to restrict it.

[g-boaf]

From memory, back when the Spring Cycle used to go through there, it was a really nice area to ride in. Perfect actually. Seems crazy to restrict it.

The bridge at the top is better now (fixed up) but the top is a bit muddy and lots of loose gravel everywhere. Also the road up the hill towards the bridge (heading south) is pretty rough these days and has a couple of deep potholes.

It's still far nicer than riding on Victoria Street.

[g-boaf]

Yesterday the gates nearest reconciliation road were open before 7am, but the lazy security guy didn’t feel like opening the top THREE gates until much later.

Two of us were stuck waiting for 10 minutes and when ge did finally open the remaining gates he claimed that outside of daylight savings gates were never open before 7am (which is wrong) and that they only open them between 7-8am.

We both told him if you open one gate, open them all! Otherwise it wastes time for people who then have to turn around and ride a massive long diversion.

[g-boaf]

The underpass near Holroyd High School on the canal cycleway is pretty badly covered with leaves and sticks/twigs.

I asked the council workers yesterday if they could organise to get it cleaned up - they were going to get it done.

It needed doing because one entire lane is half taken up by all the mess and it will inevitably cause an accident.

[g-boaf]

Yes, an underpass was nicely swept up - but it was the Gipps Road one! They did the wrong one - I'll make another request.

[g-boaf]

Snake alert - large brown snake spotted just on the eastern side of the underpass near Holroyd High School.

I missed it by a narrow amount. It wasn't aggressive and just slithered off to the grass off the side of the path and kept watching carefully.

[caneye]

Snake alert - large brown snake spotted just on the eastern side of the underpass near Holroyd High School.

I missed it by a narrow amount. It wasn't aggressive and just slithered off to the grass off the side of the path and kept watching carefully.

Ooo .. that's quite some distance from the park lands.
will definitely keep an eye.

Saw a red belly over the weekend, but that was in the eastern suburbs (Malabar headland)!

On Saturday, there was a council crew working on the shared path near Lizard Log. The path was closed and a slight cx detour was required.

[g-boaf]

Snake alert - large brown snake spotted just on the eastern side of the underpass near Holroyd High School.

I missed it by a narrow amount. It wasn't aggressive and just slithered off to the grass off the side of the path and kept watching carefully.

Ooo .. that's quite some distance from the park lands.
will definitely keep an eye.

Saw a red belly over the weekend, but that was in the eastern suburbs (Malabar headland)!

On Saturday, there was a council crew working on the shared path near Lizard Log. The path was closed and a slight cx detour was required.

That’s now open (checked yesterday) and much smoother!

[g-boaf]

I’ve been quietly working on getting some more improvements to the Guildford to Prospect cycleway. This is getting some traction.

Should help with the safety for all users of the path.

Subject to grant funding of course. Once it happens I’ll post more, it’s aligned with an existing works program.

[peter]

What's the situation with the gate near Chandos Road? Can you ride through the reservoir from Chandos to Prospect Highway?

[g-boaf]

What's the situation with the gate near Chandos Road? Can you ride through the reservoir from Chandos to Prospect Highway?

Yes, I think so, but not before 8am, and not after 4pm from what I understand.

So you have to use Victoria Street as the detour (an on road detour).

[peter]

Thanks, will plan accordingly. I recall Victoria Road is not too bad on weekends, but a boring on road ride.

[g-boaf]

Watch out at top of prospect dam just after the bridge - construction works have finished on the new project to implement flooding across the path.

It’s not very deep but go slowly.

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Watch out at top of prospect dam just after the bridge - construction works have finished on the new project to implement flooding across the path.

It’s not very deep but go slowly.

Thanks for the heads up - I was definitely looking out for this today. Approx 5m of the path is fully covered by 3-4cm of water