The dream that grew into the GreenWay – a car-free corridor from Sydney Harbour to the Cooks River

Plans that evolved over more than two decades are about to become reality as a 6km cycling, walking and nature corridor opens through Sydney’s inner westGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAbout 25 years ago, Bruce Ashley was walking beside the Hawthorne canal in Sydney’s inner west when he stopped to chat with two men planting native species next to the footpath.Ashley, an environmental planning consultant, had been thinking about how to link paths and scraps