Hobart bike path costing $700k half ripped up two years later
Under the Macquarie Point Development Corporation Act 2012, the Corporation is required to "encourage and provide… appropriate temporary and longer-term use of the site" and the Corporation says the cycleway was one of several interim developments providing activation on the site while permanent development was pursued.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Corporation said contamination was found to be "more extensive than initially advised by our environmental consultants" in July 2020, with sections underneath the cycleway found to be impacted.The Macquarie Point cycleway remains closed to the public. The spokesman said without those works, the permanent development of areas called The District and The Park would have stalled.