Low Line project to connect Creek Trail

THE State Government has announced five million dollars in funding to go towards building the Bendigo Low Line project.

The 4.4km-long bike and pedestrian path will join the Bendigo Creek Trail between Golden Square and White Hills.

The 20-kilometre Bendigo Creek Trail runs from Crusoe Reservoir to the Huntly Streamside Reserve.

The path will include connections to Rosalind Park, the Golden Dragon Museum, the Central Deborah Gold Mine, Lake Weeroona and the Golden Square Recreation Reserve.

The Low Line name has been inspired by New York’s High Line, an approximately 2.3-kilometre-long elevated linear park and rail trail situated on the west side of Manhattan.

“The Bendigo Low Line will serve as an active transport corridor and provide safe and efficient off-road transport in and out of the Bendigo city centre,” said City of Greater Bendigo mayor Cr Andrea Metcalf.

“(It) will fill a major gap in the city’s active transport network and will repurpose and evolve the Bendigo Creek to support a key active transport corridor for 95,000 people who live within five kilometres of the creek.”

The funding from the State will go towards construction of 2.95 kilometres of the shared pathway, with the remainder to be paid for by the City of Greater Bendigo.

The project is expected to start in late 2024 and is a key part of the City of Greater Bendigo’s Reimagining Bendigo Creek plan, which was drafted in 2020 and is expected to involve “incremental changes” over the course of 50 years.