Dear Supporters, thank you for your continued interest in helping to preserve our environment, save our scarce parks and for your appreciation of the heritage features of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and its approaches. Today’s picture is at the narrowest part of Bradfield Park – where a linear ramp would land, carving its way through the park and destroying its north/south progression.

A ramp on the area known as Bradfield Park Central, which is where the community endorsed “fold back” ramp will be located, is the only place for a ramp to land in Milsons Point where impacts on our heritage are minimised. By contrast, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) favour making maximum impact which destroys the sense of “Place”.

The community’s “fold back” ramp has been:

• Independently Peer Reviewed by esteemed Sydney based cycle infrastructure and transport safety experts Barros van den Dool, confirming compliance with all Australian design guidelines.
• Benchmarked with similar contemporary projects in Europe, confirming that the “fold back” concept addresses all functional and safety requirements. 
• Supported by many professional bodies, including the National Trust, Engineers Australia Heritage Branch, Garden History Society, the Australian Institute of Horticulture, North Shore Historical Society and even TfNSW’s own consultant (TZG) identified Bradfield Park Central as a possible ramp location. North Sydney Council have in 2022 repeatedly sought a ramp solution that does not land in Bradfield Park North.

Where To From Here. Unfortunately, North Sydney Council has given into TfNSW’s threat of withholding funds from Council should land holder’s consent not be given. So now, TfNSW can proceed to lodge a Section 60 application under the Heritage Act. We need to ask:

• was landholder’s consent properly given?
• will the NSW Heritage Council fall in with TfNSW or will it act to safeguard an area of state heritage significance?
• will the Commonwealth government’s Minister for Environment take steps to safeguard an area of national heritage significance?

Obtaining answers to these questions takes time. By ignoring all sense and logic, TfNSW are needlessly postponing the commencement of a ramp solution which many cyclists need and want.

The NSW Parliament needs 20,000 on-line signatures for our petition to carry any weight (it is only 10,000 paper signatures). Your continued interest in this subject is therefore needed. Thank you.