By Laura Wakely
BRIMBANK City Council will put in a bid to fund a $1.5 million walking-cycling trail from Brimbank Park to the Organ Pipes National Park.
The council’s infrastructure and environment general manager Paul Younis said the council had had the vision for “quite a while” with a view to creating a link along the Maribyrnong River.
The current proposal, which will go before the Federal Government’s Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF), will use the existing trail along Taylors Creek and, as Mr Younis noted, “significant land acquisition” would be required to build the trail along the Maribyrnong.
Administrator Meredith Sussex said walking-cycling trails were missing from the West, but were the “bread and butter” of the eastern suburbs.
Ms Sussex said many trails existed in the East as a result of State Government funding, but “for whatever reason” local government had to find funding to create similar infrastructure in the West.
“We really need to up the advocacy for this,” she said.
The council has already set aside $400,000 in this year’s capital works budget to complete a section of the trail on Green Gully Rd.
