FOLKC Book

TRAIL DEVELOPMENT
As mentioned earlier, in 2001 FOLKC developed our own concept plan for the Kororoit
Creek corridor within Hobsons Bay, which incorporated a shared trail link from Cherry
Lake to Geelong Road, Brooklyn, linking the Hobsons Bay ‘Bay Trail’ to the ‘Werribee
Federation Trail’ and the ‘Metropolitan Trail Network’.
Shared trails are essentially forms of infrastructure that support multiple recreation and
transportation opportunities, such as walking, bicycling and people in wheelchairs, but
not motorbikes, using either the official roadway, or traversing pathways like ours along
Kororoit Creek.
Over the following five years, FOLKC worked with government agencies and local
government bodies to ensure that the plan for the shared trail along the full length of
the Kororoit Creek corridor was incorporated cohesively into the overall ‘Kororoit Creek
Regional Strategy (2005 - 2030)’, and that the concept for the Hobsons Bay section of the
trail was detailed within the ‘Hobsons Bay Kororoit Creek Masterplan’ in 2006.
Some of the measures taken to establish the trail connection through Hobsons Bay,
Wyndham and Brimbank are shown below. FOLKC has:
• ensured that the Barnes Road Bridge Development Committee included the
Kororoit Creek shared trail into the Barnes Road Bridge structure;
• incorporated a concept of the trail within the ‘Hobsons Bay Hosken Reserve
Draft Masterplan’;
• established the concept and built part of a walking trail along the east side of the Creek
between Hosken Reserve and McArthurs Road, below the proposed shared trail;
• commenced construction of a future looped walking trail on the east side of the
Creek, between McArthurs Road and Barnes Road;
• obtained funding through ‘Vision for Werribee Plains’ grant for HBCC to design
the shared trail between Geelong Road and Barnes Road;
• requested Brimbank City Council relocate the ‘Federation Trail’ overpass, to
ensure the trail link to Geelong Road could be built;
• worked with Brimbank Council to design and landscape the shared trail from
‘Federation Trail’ into West Sunshine; and
• worked with Wyndham City Council to plan, build and landscape the shared trail
from ‘Federation Trail’ to Geelong Road, through a ‘Vision for Werribee Plains’ grant.
FOLKC continues to lobby the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust to develop the
walking trail between Grieve Parade and Dohertys Road, and thus allow completion of the
walking track on the east side of the Creek between Geelong Road and Barnes Road.
• developed a concept plan of the shared trail link from Cherry Lake, Altona, to
Geelong Road, Brooklyn;
• involved the Department of Infrastructure in the development of the ‘Kororoit Creek Regional
Strategy (2005 - 2030)’, which incorporated the proposed plan for the shared trail;
• funded HBCC, through its sponsor Millers Inn, to commence the planning of a
section of trail between Geelong Road and McArthurs Road;
• successfully lobbied the Victorian State Government to resume the development of
the $12.5M ‘Federation Trail’ between Werribee and Millers Road with a view to
connecting the Brooklyn community to the Kororoit Creek Trail and, ultimately, to
the Hobsons Bay ‘Bay Trail’ and ‘Metropolitan Trail Network’;
• obtained EPA Victoria funding through the Courts, and involved the local business
community in landscaping the ‘Federation Trail’ between Geelong Road and Millers
Road, Brooklyn;
Proposed pathways along
Kororoit Creek
• established a looped walking trail and continuous connection between Barnes and
Geelong Roads, through a ‘Vision for Werribee Plains’ grant;
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