1 Introduction

Bicycle NSW welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Lane Cove Tunnel EIS. We genuinely appreciate the outcome in terms of cycle facilities and the ability to provide input to that through the community consultation phase. Accordingly we have highlighted some of the more positive features the EIS offers in Chapter 2.

Despite that appreciation we do still have some very major concerns with the overall project and the basic premises underlying the cycle facilities which are detailed in Chapter 3.

Chapter 4 provides a more detailed identification of bicycle issues that need to be resolved if the proponent goes ahead with an off-road cycle facility. Note, there are some very complex issues with respect to these pathways and many are inter-relating and it is simply not possible to describe every scenario, so we have not made any such attempt. We also don't believe it is our role to provide any detailed engineering specifications or similar to those set out in the Jamieson Foley reports. We have made comments and attempted to provide our overall user requirements.

Chapter 5 discusses some of the issues that arise during the building process.

Finally Chapter 6 gives our detailed section by section assessment of the route, highlighting specific issues and other opportunities.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this EIS. We look forward to contributing further on the project. For further information please contact:

Carolyn New
carolynn@ihug.com.au