The Gore Hill and Epping Road cycleways is a conjoined

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for

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and

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s, and an on road

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located in the lower north shore of

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. The eastern terminus of the cycleway is in Naremburn, while the western terminus is in

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The eastern terminus of the cycleway is at Merrenburn Avenue, Naremburn. The eastern segment of the conjoined cycleway, opened in 2007, follows the direction of the

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, west to Willoughby Road where it proceeds over Willoughby Road on a shared pedestrian and cycleway bridge. Form here the cycleway continues west alongside the Gore Hill Freeway, where it climbs up a ramp to the Pacific Highway. Travelling west, initially alongside Longueville Road and then

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where the

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is permitted to be used by cyclists, the western segment of the conjoined cycleway was completed in 2008 at a cost of 7.6 million. The cycleway ends at Wicks Road in

. The nearest connecting railway stations are North Sydney,

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and

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. At the junction of Epping Road and Delhi Road, cyclists can transfer from the

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, operating east bound only. At the eastern terminus there is a long-term plan to link the Gore Hill and Epping Road cycleways with the

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, to the southeast.

Cycleway use

In the twelve months to February 2014, between 400 and 500 cyclists used the cycleway at Merrenburn Avenue on an average weekday. In 2008 the

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called for the Epping Road segment of the cycleway to be scrapped, claiming that it registered 25 trips per day on this segment. Three years later in an

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of use of the cycleway by cyclists and pedestrians front that on a peak day in November 2011 a total of 271 cyclists and 164 pedestrians were counted on the shared-use path at a set point on the southern side of Epping Road, east of the junction with Mowbray Road West; with a similar result some fourteen days later.

References

External links

Bicycle NSW websiteBike North website
* {{Bicycle paths in Sydney, state=collapsed Cycleways in Australia Cycling in Sydney

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Cycleway use

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