Louise Sauvage Pathway

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Louise Sauvage Pathway - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 33°49′59″S 151°03′56″E / 33.8331°S 151.0655°E

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33°49′59″S 151°03′56″E / 33.8331°S 151.0655°E / -33.8331; 151.0655

Louise Sauvage Pathway

Looking north towards ferry terminal

Technical

Line length

6.3 km (3.9 mi)

Route map

Legend

					Rivercat to Parramatta or City
					River Walk to Newington Armory / toilets and water
					Stage 2 Parramatta Light Rail (planned) beware : poles
					Warning Sign unexploded landmines
					Rest Area water
					Silverwater Marker



					Woo-La-Ra summit
					Woo-La-Ra carpark beware : poles

					Rest Area water
					Weapons Museum heritage railway tour

					Newington Nature Reserve pre-colonial woodland

					Bell Frog Boardwalk
					to Bicentennial Park

					Newington Armory south exit sunrise → sunset
					disused heritage railway
					Building 46 Rest Area Ausgrid training facility
					Holker Street stop 212798^[1] / underpass
					Narawang Wetland
					US Navy artillery bunker Building 47 abandoned

					Access to Precinct 3 steps and Burma Road
					Access to Precinct 3 Blaxland Avenue steps

					Access to Precinct 3 Sandpiper Crescent
					water
					Avenue of Oceania

					Larisa Latynina Walk to Newington Marketplace
					Sydney Metro West tunnel (planned)
					Haslams Creek Flats
					Access to Precinct 2 Paavo Nurmi Avenue steps
					Access to Precinct 2 Bobby Pearce Avenue steps

					Access to Precinct 2 Heidelberg Avenue
					Newington Public School

					Access to Precinct 1N Susie O'Neill Avenue
					Haslams Field cricket oval
					Access to Precinct 1N Michael Jordan Avenue



					to Stadium Australia
					water / spiral hill Haslams Creek Marker
					John Ian Wing Parade crossing Haslams Creek
					Access to Precinct 1S Snowy Baker Avenue
					Path to Teal Pond
					Access to Precinct 1S Louise Sauvage Place
					Access to Precinct 1S Beaconsfield / Jesse Owens
					Olympic Park boundary

					M4 Motorway underpass
					Duck River Cycleway to Parramatta

Louise Sauvage Pathway runs alongside the suburb of Newington, New South Wales, and is named in honour of Australian paralympic wheelchair racer Louise Sauvage. The Pathway is the longest continuous section of pathway in Sydney Olympic Park.^[2] The pathway is suitable for walking and pushbikes, as well as wheelchairs.

Facilities

The Pathway is two-lane, marked and sealed throughout, with numerous detours along its length, ranging from two-lane and marked, to one-lane sealed and an assortment of recognised and unrecognised unsealed paths. The pathway is only interrupted in two locations where the access roads cross into Newington, the former athletes' village. Amenities for travellers are provided along the path, including five water fountains and a toilet facility.

Historical links

The Pathway provides a north-south link between the Parramatta River and the Western Motorway, passing the last remaining piece of virgin woodland in Sydney's Cumberland basin. The Pathway also provides access to Newington Armory as well as passing by some adjoining land, closed to all public access due to unexploded ordnance buried in the swamp.

Two of the former buildings of the Newington Arms Depot are accessed by the Pathway and no longer within the grounds of the Armory: Building 46, a renovated educational building operated by Ausgrid, and a former US Navy trench-style artillery bunker behind Newington Precinct 3. These bunkers were serviced by narrow-gauge railway to carry the highly sensitive explosive shells; the rail tracks are still maintained, and many are openly accessible via the Pathway.

Environmental links

Numerous waterways and wetlands adjoin the Pathway and its linking paths. Some of the water bodies such as Haslams Creek link to the Parramatta River, whereas others such as the Narawang Wetlands are artificial lakes created as part of the Sydney Olympic Park environmental rejuvenation. The Bell Frog Boardwalk side-track provides access to some rare habitat of the Green and Golden Bell Frog.

The Newington Nature Reserve contains a Turpentine Ironbark Margin Forest^[3] that survives intact in the same condition as it was before Sydney was colonised.

Recreation and Events

Each year in September the pathway is closed for one day to make way for long-distance bicyclists travelling through Olympic Park. The pathway forms an integral part of the route for sporting events such as the Sydney Spring Cycle (Classic Route).^[4]^[5]

For cross-city riding, many preferred routes will use the combination of Silverwater Road Bridge, River Walk and Louise Sauvage Pathway. Such routes include any travel from the Hills District to the southern suburbs around Liverpool, and from Parramatta to the inner-western suburbs or Sydney Airport via the Cooks River cycleway.^[6]

References

^ http://tp.transportnsw.info/nsw/XSLT_DM_REQUEST?mode=direct&type_dm=any&name_dm=10140047
^ "Sydney Olympic Park paths map" (PDF). Olympic Park Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ "River Walk & Louise Sauvage Pathway" (Press release). Olympic Park Authority. 6 March 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
^ "Sydney Spring Cycle". Clubsonline.com.au. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ "Sydney Spring Cycle Route Map". ridewithgps.com. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
^ "Sydney and Parramatta bikemap" (PDF). NSW Government. Retrieved 16 May 2010.

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