Tea Tree Gully Mayor Miriam Smith has backed plans for a 20km bike path from Modbury to Gawler. Picture: Luke Hemer Source: adelaidenow
PLANS for a cycling trail linking Adelaide's northeast suburbs to the Barossa Valley have failed to win Federal Government support.
Tea Tree Gully Council's bid for $4.5 million Regional Development Australia funding for the project was rejected by the government last month.
The grant would have funded a 20km bike path from Modbury to Gawler which connected to the existing trail from Gawler to Tanunda.
Gully Mayor Miriam Smith said the project would provide a missing link for cyclists riding from Adelaide to the Barossa.
"I've been driving this project because the River Torrens Linear Trail ends on the eastern side of Tea Tree Gully with nowhere else to go," Ms Smith said.
"There's a gap between Modbury and Gawler.
"If we connected them it would make the track one of the largest in the world."
Early plans for the trail indicated it would pass through Golden Grove and along One Tree Hill Rd to Gawler.
Ms Smith said Gawler and Playford councils had already given in principle support to the project.
She said she would lobby the State Government to support the proposal and urge the council to again apply for federal funding.
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