Why I Love Mount Druitt!

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Thursday, 13 November 2014

Google Maps Bicycling - Doesn't Have Many Safe Cycirtling Roads/Paths For Mount Druitt!

The internet is proven time and time again how up to date the information for the community is important, especially when you know how to simply search it.
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Maybe Blacktown City Council should refer to Google Maps and see what their cycle plains are compared to them!

This is how you research it:

Google
Type in 'Mount Druitt'
Click on Maps & Enter
Place your Point on the 'Mount Druitt' Rectangle (top left hand corner)
A drop down box appears
Click on the word 'bicycling' and (in French) I say, 'Voila'!

You will then notice indexes identifying color coded bicycle friendly-roads and dirt/unpaved roads. Not much and patchy areas within Mount Druitt and it seems none of them paths/road legally from Mount Druitt to Blacktown. Maybe if they interconnected and there were more shared special lane for cyclists on main roads and more shared pathways with plenty of notices, informing all the community. Here it is. Try it yourself: