This is my first post so hello to everyone.
I wanted to highlight a project some friends of mine and I are working on and to see if people in the MTB world would like to support it.
Maribyrnong Council has released a draft plan to redevelop Quarry Park in Footscray.
https://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/...ry_Park_Draft_Masterplan_for_Consultation.pdf
They mention the possibility of a mountain bike circuit but only in passing.
Our vision is to have the Maribyrnong City Council create a community-defined, well-planned, often-used multi-use bicycle park that provides ongoing benefits to the cycling community of the Western Suburbs and beyond for decades to come.
We (myself, John Symons, my friends Martin Fluker and Duncan MacGregor, and many other people we have been talking with) feel that the plan to redevelop Quarry Park is a golden opportunity to construct the sort of imaginative and creative bicycle infrastructure needed to give cycling the boost it needs as specified in several Maribyrnong Council strategic plans feel that the existing Masterplan for Quarry Park is fundamentally flawed in that it lacks the sort of imaginative and creative bicycle infrastructure needed to give cycling the boost it needs as specified in several Maribyrnong Council strategic plans. The vision we have, and have shared with many others, would not be met if the current plan is followed
If this application is not supported by a “wave of people power” and forwarded to the Maribyrnong City Council by mid July (this is the date that they are asking for public submissions), we will be given something that we feel could be so much better for our riding community and miss a golden opportunity to encourage more people to cycle. Just imagine if the Quarry Park included a cyclocross/bmx/beginner mountain bike course similar to the one due to open in Newtown, Geelong on June 30, 2016
We have created a Facebook to support it with the relevant links and petition
https://www.facebook.com/groups/footCXray/
Thanks for taking the time to read this post
cheers
John
I wanted to highlight a project some friends of mine and I are working on and to see if people in the MTB world would like to support it.
Maribyrnong Council has released a draft plan to redevelop Quarry Park in Footscray.
https://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/...ry_Park_Draft_Masterplan_for_Consultation.pdf
They mention the possibility of a mountain bike circuit but only in passing.
Our vision is to have the Maribyrnong City Council create a community-defined, well-planned, often-used multi-use bicycle park that provides ongoing benefits to the cycling community of the Western Suburbs and beyond for decades to come.
We (myself, John Symons, my friends Martin Fluker and Duncan MacGregor, and many other people we have been talking with) feel that the plan to redevelop Quarry Park is a golden opportunity to construct the sort of imaginative and creative bicycle infrastructure needed to give cycling the boost it needs as specified in several Maribyrnong Council strategic plans feel that the existing Masterplan for Quarry Park is fundamentally flawed in that it lacks the sort of imaginative and creative bicycle infrastructure needed to give cycling the boost it needs as specified in several Maribyrnong Council strategic plans. The vision we have, and have shared with many others, would not be met if the current plan is followed
If this application is not supported by a “wave of people power” and forwarded to the Maribyrnong City Council by mid July (this is the date that they are asking for public submissions), we will be given something that we feel could be so much better for our riding community and miss a golden opportunity to encourage more people to cycle. Just imagine if the Quarry Park included a cyclocross/bmx/beginner mountain bike course similar to the one due to open in Newtown, Geelong on June 30, 2016
We have created a Facebook to support it with the relevant links and petition
https://www.facebook.com/groups/footCXray/
Thanks for taking the time to read this post
cheers
John