THE State Government has announced five million dollars in funding to go towards building the Bendigo Low Line project.<\/p>\n
The 4.4km-long bike and pedestrian path will join the Bendigo Creek Trail between Golden Square and White Hills.<\/p>\n
The 20-kilometre Bendigo Creek Trail runs from Crusoe Reservoir to the Huntly Streamside Reserve.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“(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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n