{"id":122,"date":"2025-04-09T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikeleichhardt.nfshost.com\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:46:15","slug":"callan-park-boulevard-of-broken-dreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bikeleichhardt.nfshost.com\/?page_id=122","title":{"rendered":"Callan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Update- December 2025. Council passed a motion that talks with Greater Sydney Parklands Authority be sought about the Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Update- April 2026.GSP released their Plan of Management and Access Plan. Little joy. See details at end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Callan Park frontage along Balmain Rd. Possible route for a Bicycle and Pedestrian Boulevard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A long-standing quest of Bike Leichhardt has been for a safe bike connection between Leichhardt and Rozelle. Some of this has been achieved, such as the shared path from Leichhardt Secondary College at Moore St to the City West Link, and bike lanes marked on the section Parramatta Rd to Leichhardt St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major \u201cmissing link\u201d, around 800m in length, is between Wharf Rd and Cecily St, along the Callan Park frontage (including the Ambulance HQ frontage). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bike Leichhardt wrote several submissions on bike access to and through the Park, all calling for a link along the Balmain frontage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Leichhardt Council had preliminary talks with the Callan Park authority at the time, but these lapsed when Amalgamation into the Inner West Council occurred in 2016-18.

The current Callan Park Authority (Greater Sydney Parklands) developed a Landscape Structure Plan<\/a> in 2018-22, which showed a \u201cBoulevard\u201d along the frontage,(p56, vision 3), but this was not funded in the first four year implementation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new Draft Plan of Management and a Transport and Access Plan have been released for public comment- deadline 29 October 2025. Unfortunately, there is no \u201cBicycle Boulevard\u201d shown, and it is stated that both Inner West Council and Transport for NSW opposed a path-\u201csaw no need for it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Transport and Access Plan is at http:\/\/www.greatersydneyparklands.nsw.gov.au\/callan-park-amps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plan of Management is at https:\/\/www.greatersydneyparklands.nsw.gov.au\/plan-your-visit-callan-park\/callan-park-projects\/callan-park-plan-of-management<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comments can be made online or emailed to callanparkpom@gsp.nsw.gov.au.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please ask them to build the Bicycle Boulevard along Balmain Rd.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See a document on the Bike Path possibilities<\/a> in Callan Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note Added in January 2026- Councillor Kerrie Fergusson, Labor, put a motion to Council that talks with Greater Sydney Parklands should take place about the bike path. Motion approved! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plan of Management and the Access Plan (seeimage below) have been released. Little thought has gone into bicycle access or circulation. They have persisted with the one-way circulation around Kirkbride, which will make it impossible to ride down to Waterfront Drive or KGV Park via North Crescent, or to ride from Wharf Rd to Park Drive and Cecily St gate. No Bicycle Boulevard. <\/p>\n

Still waiting on a meeting with Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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