Full article in the Fremantle GazetteFREMANTLE’S bid to become one of the most bicycle-friendly areas in WA has been boosted by more than $300,000 of State Government funding to be spread across five projects.
However, the grant amount of $332,330 fell short of the $409,165 the City was hoping for, and is not enough to contribute towards all of Fremantle’s proposed projects.
Skipped in the funding were the High Street bike study and the Carrington Street shared-use path. Neither of these met the Department of Transport funding criteria, despite the City having already put aside 50 per cent of the Carrington Street project costs ($169,300) in the recently announced 2014-15 budget.
Conversely, the City received more than $100,000 for the South Beach path upgrade and almost $7000 for the Connecting Schools project for John Curtin College of the Arts and White Gum Valley Primary School but had not allocated any funding for those projects in the recent budget.
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