Cairns Trails in Paradise

The average $30~$55/m has been the labour cost for the construction of a trail for years. A lot of the older feasibility studies don't show the full costs of completing a trail network and now it's even worse as the Nimbys and Greenies are onto the full environmental impact studies. I remember one of the trail organisers here said they had to pay a large sum of money in the thousands for a few indigenous folk to do a cultural search through one of the prospective trails. Different parts of councils absorb the cost in some cases also. Pirate trails are really looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I didn't say that. ;)




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Flow-Rider said:
The average $30~$55/m has been the labour cost for the construction of a trail for years. A lot of the older feasibility studies don't show the full costs of completing a trail network and now it's even worse as the Nimbys and Greenies are onto the full environmental impact studies. I remember one of the trail organisers here said they had to pay a large sum of money in the thousands for a few indigenous folk to do a cultural search through one of the prospective trails. Different parts of councils absorb the cost in some cases also. Pirate trails are really looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I didn't say that. ;)




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Yeah, some of these really big projects blow out costs significantly when everyone gets their piece of the pie.

The Wild Mersey Trail Network I was involved in would have topped out at around 4 million for 100km of trail. That included two trail head carparks, two toilet/shower/bike wash facilities and a big sealed $200k pump track. This was a council run project but the funds really only paid for the trail construction and infrastructure, the council resources for planning and management was absorbed by the council.

Then the trails our club had built in the Dial Range including Iron Tor, which was 15km of trail cost $600K so about $40 per meter. That's pure trail cost as all the RRAs, budgets and project management was handled by volunteers in the club and the planning, mapping and ground truthing was done by club members and donated time by Next Level Mountain bike.
 
Flow-Rider said:
The average $30~$55/m has been the labour cost for the construction of a trail for years. A lot of the older feasibility studies don't show the full costs of completing a trail network and now it's even worse as the Nimbys and Greenies are onto the full environmental impact studies. I remember one of the trail organisers here said they had to pay a large sum of money in the thousands for a few indigenous folk to do a cultural search through one of the prospective trails. Different parts of councils absorb the cost in some cases also. Pirate trails are really looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I didn't say that. ;)
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All I'm seeing is that 2km of shuttle road costs more than most of the trails put together.
Pedal up ya fat karnts.
 
Stredda said:
Yeah, some of these really big projects blow out costs significantly when everyone gets their piece of the pie.

The Wild Mersey Trail Network I was involved in would have topped out at around 4 million for 100km of trail. That included two trail head carparks, two toilet/shower/bike wash facilities and a big sealed $200k pump track. This was a council run project but the funds really only paid for the trail construction and infrastructure, the council resources for planning and management was absorbed by the council.

Then the trails our club had built in the Dial Range including Iron Tor, which was 15km of trail cost $600K so about $40 per meter. That's pure trail cost as all the RRAs, budgets and project management was handled by volunteers in the club and the planning, mapping and ground truthing was done by club members and donated time by Next Level Mountain bike.
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This country will eventually grind to a standstill. $50m for some MTB trail with additional fluff is crazy :(

Flow-Rider said:
Pirate trails are really looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I didn't say that. ;)
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We have a bloke here in SA who is currently doing an A-Z of DH trails on YouTube. One I watched a few weeks back, I was like faarkk, thats literally 700m from my front door. I went to ride and already, its got one of those galv tube metal fences erected with a 'keep out conservation area' sign on it.

Also loads of natural trails (illegal) have gone from Trailforks, still on Strava as segments and heatmaps but we are being watched 👀
 
ozzybmx said:
This country will eventually grind to a standstill. $50m for some MTB trail with additional fluff is crazy :(



We have a bloke here in SA who is currently doing an A-Z of DH trails on YouTube. One I watched a few weeks back, I was like faarkk, thats literally 700m from my front door. I went to ride and already, its got one of those galv tube metal fences erected with a 'keep out conservation area' sign on it.

Also loads of natural trails (illegal) have gone from Trailforks, still on Strava as segments and heatmaps but we are being watched 👀
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That would be city of Mitcham getting an admin account on trailforks after I refused to do their deleting
 
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