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This cache is part of a four-part series around the perimeter of Harrington Park. The series celebrates the suburb’s entrances. Which, on first look, sounds … be kind now ... unusual! But maybe you’ve experienced the way some newer housing developments going up on Sydney’s outskirts have just a single road leading in and out. Most of the day this doesn’t cause problems, but at peak hours (a.m. & p.m.), as well as school times simply getting out of your small suburb (ie starting your journey) can be an Everest of frustration. Spending a few days in the northwest of Sydney brought this acutely to my awareness, because it hasn’t been a part of my experience living here in this part of the world. Harro is not my suburb, but it’s a place that exemplifies what should happen in a suburb’s planning ...
Helped by decent-sized main roads to receive the traffic spill when volumes are high, Harrington Park/Grove has: two roads entering onto Camden Valley Way, two onto Oran Park Drive, two onto the Northern Rd, and two onto Dan Cleary Drive. So even though traffic is tight around the public school at pick up and drop-off times, the place has been set up so that this zone can be avoided if that’s not where you have to be. All this managed in a suburb where a former watercourse running down its centre challenges motor vehicles with a Gandalf-like “You shall not pass!” A very “entrancing” place indeed!
SEARCHERS … Do not attempt to reach this cache by walking over the garden ("You shall not pass!") You can’t get it that way. A longer route is required. The bitumen path just along Forestgrove Drive is a start. Also, PLEASE DO NOT SEARCH AT NIGHT ... houses are sufficiently close for an after-dark search to provoke unwanted interest.
How to make the trip to work a bit lighter ... pick up an FTF on the way. Good on yer, MamaPez.