Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:09 am
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby isabella24 » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:51 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:59 am
Also if you ride out along the Horsley Drive at Bossley Park which was the Prospect Dam detour it looks like a car has left the road and gone into the trees and bushes on the side of the road. The car has been dragged out and taken away but as that has been done it has dragged trees and dirt all over the path blocking it which of course remain:roll:
/rant. Growing up in England tow truck drivers had to carry brooms and clean up every scrap of detritus after a road crash or they lost the contract to pick up smashed cars. Here in Sydney after an accident all the glass and crap is left to be swept into the gutter by passing cars and what can't fit on the tow truck is just left behind. I've lost count of the amount of Commodore bumpers i've seen that are just thrown onto the pavement after a smash because the tow truck driver can't be arsed putting it on his truck or hasn't got a few metres of rope to tie it down/rant over
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Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby isabella24 » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:45 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:59 pm
All the drains were backed up due to the storm, hopefully it should all drain away by the morning.
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Postby isabella24 » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:30 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:14 am
That damn car is still there!isabella24 wrote:Yep, the car was there today, up on bricks. Looks like it was taken for its wheels as they left the rest. Didn't even bother to set it alight....
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Andrew09 » Mon Apr 27, 2015 7:01 pm
Hergest wrote:There's a car been dumped at the Chandos Road end of the Prospect Dam path about 20 metres down from the road on the cycle path.
Also if you ride out along the Horsley Drive at Bossley Park which was the Prospect Dam detour it looks like a car has left the road and gone into the trees and bushes on the side of the road. The car has been dragged out and taken away but as that has been done it has dragged trees and dirt all over the path blocking it which of course remain:roll:
/rant. Growing up in England tow truck drivers had to carry brooms and clean up every scrap of detritus after a road crash or they lost the contract to pick up smashed cars. Here in Sydney after an accident all the glass and crap is left to be swept into the gutter by passing cars and what can't fit on the tow truck is just left behind. I've lost count of the amount of Commodore bumpers i've seen that are just thrown onto the pavement after a smash because the tow truck driver can't be arsed putting it on his truck or hasn't got a few metres of rope to tie it down/rant over
It's an offence in NSW to "Not clean/remove debris from accident scene" = $250 fine.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sat May 09, 2015 12:27 pm
One guy tried to guide it further up the hill and got too close, and it attacked him. I told him plenty of times to stay away from it.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Sat May 09, 2015 2:34 pm
For the first couple of weeks after the dam was reopened there would be a kangaroo every weekend morning on the approach from Reconciliation Road to the dam and he would hop along towards the dam and disappear through a hole cut in the fence just before the sharp left hander that takes you into the picnic area. The hole has been patched up so the wildlife can't get on to the path at that point now.g-boaf wrote:The car is still there, and there was a kangaroo on the uphill section at Prospect Dam, poor thing was absolutely terrified.
One guy tried to guide it further up the hill and got too close, and it attacked him. I told him plenty of times to stay away from it.
Talking of which, has anybody seen anything of the huge herd of goats that used to hang around that end of the path? I haven't seen them for ages and remember when they had been grazing along the path and all their muck looked like a truck load of Maltesers had been spilled.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Sat May 09, 2015 2:43 pm
I don't know if they were wild goats or managed to escape from someones property. I think there were some that managed to escape their paddock a few times. I've seen those ones a couple of times, and even stopped with them while the council came out (to get the owner to get them back again).
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Thu Jun 04, 2015 1:16 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby g-boaf » Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:58 pm
Praise the Lord! I was beginning to think we might need to all get there with our trolley jacks and move it to one side ourselves.Hergest wrote:The car is gone
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby unbent » Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:51 pm
It was becoming a landmark but yay!Hergest wrote:The car is gone
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:19 am
They look really healthy and not feral but heaven knows where they have wandered in from.
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Postby g-boaf » Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:11 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby zozza » Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:48 pm
Hergest wrote: Half a dozen sheep which have taken up residence,
They look really healthy and not feral but heaven knows where they have wandered in from.
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby Hergest » Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:35 pm
A big billy goat standing in the middle of the T-Way as it goes down the hill to Davis Road around Wetherill Park. A bus came up behind it honking his horn but the goat stood his ground at first until the bus went to push the silly sod out of the way.
Wildlife in the suburbs eh?
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby SteveTheTiger » Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:04 am
1. Running from the entrance to Calmsley Hill City Farm, southwards to Plough & Harrow Park east.
2. Running from Plough & Harrow Park west, westwards to where the M7 Cycleway crosses Elizabeth Drive
WSP has a survey about their proposal here - http://ow.ly/Pj9KS
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
Postby isabella24 » Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:49 pm
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Re: Greystanes canal / western sydney regional park hazards
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