{"id":10117,"date":"2011-08-11T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2011-08-11T19:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T08:55:02","slug":"minister-wont-stop-rumours-of-cycleway-axing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=10117","title":{"rendered":"Minister won&#039;t stop rumours of cycleway axing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">THE Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, is raising fears that a long-planned cycle path and walkway from the Cooks River to Iron Cove could be the victim of early budget cuts by the new government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The inner west GreenWay was to have been built along the extension of the light rail line from the Lilyfield terminus to a new stop at Dulwich Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But, while Ms Berejiklian has committed to the light rail extension, she is refusing to douse rumours the government will scrap the GreenWay to save money and speed up construction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If the government does not commit to the GreenWay, tipped to cost an extra $30 million, it will be a blow to community members and councils who have already devoted time and money restoring vegetation along the corridor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former government signed off on planning approval for the light rail extension and GreenWay in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Early planning documents put the cost of the project &#8211; the light rail line and the GreenWay &#8211; at $150 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For the most part, the GreenWay is planned to run directly along the light-rail extension in a disused freight corridor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Labor and Greens politicians from the area, including the former deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt and the Greens mayor of Marrickville, Fiona Byrne, have condemned any backdown on the GreenWay<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/5447841312\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7914\" title=\"Greenway Festival Day\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2010-10-16-at-11-29-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, is raising fears that a long-planned cycle path and walkway from the Cooks River to[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}