But for some reason it’s gone rather Greenway mad. Anywhere I want to go anywhere vaguely citywards it will tell me to use the Greenway and Lilyfield-bloody-road and then Anzac bridge.
I presume because Dogwalker Central is a “cycle path” and so bicycles will want to use it. And Lilyfield Road which is lots of single lane each way with parked cars and heaps of uphill is the only way it knows to connect to Rozelle.
I just wanted to h ave some idea how far and how long it might take to take a reasonably direct route to the National Maritime Museum, not go up hill and down dale and fight for road space with dog walkers and runners and rat running cars.
Is there another wayfinding thing? I tried https://cycle.travel/map but it too has fallen for the TfNSW lie that the Greenway is suitable for bicycles.
Ah well, Denison, Crystal, Pyrmont Bridge road it is. At least I know that route exists cos if I didn’t I too might think the only way to get to the CBD is a 3m wide path full of headphone wearing extenda-leash holders.
Greenway is becoming the most used link, so google maps probably believes it is the best link, even if it isn’t. It seems to be a numbers game for the mapping these days. Lilyfield Road is quieter since they cut if off, but that hill, yeah. Bonus, it goes straight through to the Rozelle Parklands, direct to the Anzac Bridge path, then Saunders/Miller/Union run to the Pyrmont bridge/NMM. Could be worse…you could be the delivery rider I watched turn from Robert St, onto Victoria Road, then onto the bridge road deck above Blackwattle Bay…following a map, no doubt.
Running the gauntlet on PB Rd sucks. The off-street path ends either side of the Fish Market as it is marked as dismount and walk, annoyingly (which is arguably 7x worse* than Greenway).