the Botany Bay cycleway
Sydney would have to be one of the most bicycle- unfriendly cities in the world - hostile, aggressive drivers; too many mothers in cumbersome four-wheel-drives doing the school run; and an infrastructure designed for the car not the bicycle. The Lord Mayor, Clover Moore is valiantly trying to build a bike network, but is meeting huge resistance from the State Government and the bully-boy Murdoch Press-owned Daily Telegraph, appropriately dubbed the Daily Terror. So, it appears almost inconceivable that I can cycle forty-five kilometres from the geographic heart of Sydney on the Parramatta River, all the way to Cronulla Beach, the southern-most surf in the city, and for the majority of this ride do it on bike paths. Ill-designed, rough and poorly sign-posted bike paths... but anything is better than the killer roads. The first ten kilometres is a joy, cycling along the Parramatta River and through the Olympi...