Bushwalk Australia

Some people just don't get it

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/20 ... -news.html

Prion Beach pub? Mt Louisa Lodge? SW Cape service station?

what a joke the exsiting road to strahan is fine plus there is no need to ruin such a beutiful part of tassie with roads and infrastructure

I can't wait for the road over the Ironbounds and at $200 per car it is cheaper than the OT. The concept matches the proposed road up the Huon to Scotts Peak that was proposed in the 80's. That proposal, at least, was largely using existing logging roads apart from the last 15km or so. No doubt Hazell Bros would want the contract to build it.

Its back to the future with Don !

Around 1900 there was a plan to build a railway from Hobart to Queenstown via
Maydena and the Gordon River valley. It would have make the Abt look like a walk in the park.

It'd be fun to plan the route

I wonder if Don has even driven to Scott's Peak. Most Tasmanians I meet haven't even heard of the place.

Someone needs to explain to him what World Heritage Area means!

It's not as though there aren't already developments inside the WHA. I tend to agree with him - it works for NZ (build it and they will come...).

Strider wrote:It's not as though there aren't already developments inside the WHA. I tend to agree with him - it works for NZ (build it and they will come...).

Well the Strider you must not have ever been there

Did you read his proposal?

Except that NZ has got more "in your face" scenery than Tassie. Tassie is more subtle : animals, beautiful low vegetation, small but beautiful lakes etc... There's no glacier, prestine blue lakes like Tekapo or giant mountains visible from the road in Tassie. Besides, there's no way it would work in the SW anyway, it rains too much (granted, it rains like hell in Milford Sound too, but somehow they made people believe it's still attractive under the rain _ it's not). The location where it could work is in the North-East : Mount Williams NP area. The roads are rubbish, and there's nothing. Great for people like us, but a smart business-man could do some serious damage and collect some serious ducats.

Hallu wrote:Except that NZ has got more "in your face" scenery than Tassie. Tassie is more subtle : animals, beautiful low vegetation, small but beautiful lakes etc... There's no glacier, prestine blue lakes like Tekapo or giant mountains visible from the road in Tassie. Besides, there's no way it would work in the SW anyway, it rains too much (granted, it rains like hell in Milford Sound too, but somehow they made people believe it's still attractive under the rain _ it's not). The location where it could work is in the North-East : Mount Williams NP area. The roads are rubbish, and there's nothing. Great for people like us, but a smart business-man could do some serious damage and collect some serious ducats.

Nah the NE is crap. There is a myriad of forestry roads in the SW to help access the remoter areas, a massive road network that will fall into disrepair with the demise of the forestry industry, I have driven the full length of the Florentine and Styx Roads dozens of times and this gives amazing access to areas like The Snowy Range, Wylds Craig, Mt Mueller,The Denisons and many more. The scope for 'developing' these areas is absolutely there already, particularly for shared use trails and a network of simple huts with facilities look at what NZ has done for Mtn Biking, so much potential....

Tourists have no idea about these roads, they also snake through the NE, NW and SE providing access to amazing country.

The idea of cutting into one of the worlds great 'wilderness' areas is insanity imho

Well yeah it's insane and it would take an insane man, or more precisely a big rich gambler, to develop massive tourism there. But half of Tassie would be in the streets as soon as the project would emerge anyway. Unesco is already threatening Queensland of removing the World Heritage status to the Great Barrier Reef, seeing how poor a job they did at protecting it (the Queensland government is probably the worst, conservation-wise, among all the states), I don't think anyone would risk the WH status of the SW.

Yep agreed pie in the sky stuff but from the local commentary today who knows what the pollies will do for some votes.

The Great Tasmanian White Elephant!

Like others have said, it's a pretty mad idea. Just building a road through the combination of swamp, steep mountains and heavy forest would be a nightmare. It'd make the so called "road to nowhere" in the NW pale.

yeah yeah, another developer with a dream because they've got nothing better to do with their lives... that do what they've always tried to do. ram massive engineering projects through the wilderness.
they want to get the govt behind them to bankroll it
in nz the local tourist providers try and stir up the govt to put roads through, the latest on is they claim the hollyford track is a designated road so they should build one over it...
then they want the heaphy turned into a road as well.
ram a tunnel from wakatipu to hollyford.
i won't mention all the plans to put dams into the wilderness.

and lets see whens the last time they went on a long bushwalk?

plans by people who interact with the wilderness by driving, or boating through it or flying over it... once they've finished one road they are dreaming up the plan for the next one... what an imaginative world they live in...

Hallu, have you seen milford sound when it doesnt rain? it's minus about 600 massive waterfalls...

stepbystep wrote:

Strider wrote:It's not as though there aren't already developments inside the WHA. I tend to agree with him - it works for NZ (build it and they will come...).

Well the Strider you must not have ever been there

Did you read his proposal?

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I agree with the concept of making amazing places accessible. However, I do not agree with ploughing a road through the middle of the WHA.