The Paddington Project has benchmarked the likely cost of making the Moore Park Road and Fitzroy Street cycleways permanent, and the numbers tell a very different story to the political rhetoric.
Our analysis, based on the delivery costs of four comparable City of Sydney cycleway projects, indicates that implementing Council's 28 April resolution would cost between $15 million and $20 million. By any reasonable benchmark, this represents a strong value-for-money outcome.
The comparison becomes even more compelling when measured against the proposed Oxford Street East project. The Moore Park Road and Fitzroy Street solution would deliver approximately 50% more cycling infrastructure for less than 30% of the reported cost. Unlike a new proposal, these cycleways are already operating successfully, with demonstrated community use and established safety benefits.
In short, the choice appears clear: a proven, functioning piece of transport infrastructure can be made permanent for a fraction of the cost of alternative projects currently under consideration.
The data suggests this is not a question of financial feasibility, but one of political will.
Explore the full analysis below.
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2 comments
12 August 2026
We are permanent residents owners living on Moore Park road, PADDINGTON NSW 2021 since 2009 to present and future.
We are 10000% REJECTED the COS’s motion to construct any Cycleway on Oxford street and Moore Park Road in PADDINGTON NSW 2021.
City of Sydney must permanently ABANDON this ideas – OSEC. This idea showcase just another misused of taxpayers funding, destroy more business amongst the already struggling local retailers on Oxford street, inconvenience to all traffics currently are operating within a tight routes between buses, trucks, vehicles, motorcycles and bikes.
We as residents have never been formally consulted in person by COS officers from the very beginning of their useless ideas in OSEC.
STOP and ABANDON all COS’s expensive and thoughtless ideas in keeping all their civil servants jobs within.
As long terms taxpayers and rates payers of Sydney – Australia,?we do NOT PETMIT THIS MOTION TO BUILD ANY CYCLEWAY on Moore Park road and Oxford Street in Paddington zone.
This must be recorded and keep in record for all official to read.
Regards,
Paddington permanent residents owners team.
What were the qualifications of the authors of your study? Looks like a ChatGPT job. If you don’t want your driving to be disrupted along Oxford St, just drive down Moore Park Rd! If your reaction is “that’s a more inconvenient driving route” then you now understand why it’s so important to have safe cycling infrastructure located where people actually want to use it.