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Fawkner Cemetery Path – Upfield Path

Background

Having completed extensive product functionality testing SolarOne was commissioned to install a 1.6 km suite of solar lights for Moreland City Council to complete the earlier trials

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The Fawkner Path site was an upgrade to an existing pathway, a section of the Victorian Upfield Path. The Upfield Bike Path is a shared pathway for cyclists and pedestrians. It stretches from Princess Park, through Brunswick and Coburg, to Fawkner and carries, daily, about 800 riders most of whom are commuters.

Moreland City Council had recently concreted the path and recognised that, without any lighting, traffic growth was unlikley after dusk. Connecting grid powered lighting was extremely expensive and, because of this costs and the environmental issues, solar powered lighting was chosen.

The path is quite straight thus it was decided to lay the lights out at maximum intervals of 40 meters with the cross roads and abutments identified with the hazard light configuration.

Details and Aim of Installation

Project Aims
  • To make the pathway safer and more enjoyable for pedestrains and joggers after dusk by;
  • Delineating the pathway
  • Marking the hazards
  • Defining the path direction and length
  • Making it appear safer
Site Location
  • Google Earth 37. 42′ 44 S and 144. 57’50 E
  • Section of the Upfield Path through past Fawkner Cemetery, between railway track and cemetery boundary fence
Site Environment
  • 1.6 kilometers long and 2.7 meters wide
  • Shared pathway pedestrians and bicycles
  • Number of crossing of roads and paths
  • Passageway past station entrance
  • Concrete surfaces
  • Station and roadway lights spillage
Cyclists Lighting Goals to:
  • Indicate station egress
  • Indicate crossing
  • Indicate approach to crossing
  • Indicate clearway for riders
  • Show direction of pathway
  • Indicate pathway risks such as hidden crossings, dips, etc.
Installation Issues
  • 150 mm deep reinforced concrete had to be diamond core drilled for installation with 150 mm diameter bit.

Site Photographic

Path with 40 meters distance between lights.

Pathway showing delineators and hazards indictors.

Results

Installation date February 2009
Effect of existing light sources (Light wash) It was found that light spill from railway station flood lights did not affect delineations lighting and that the pathway was appropriately lit
Reliability Despite extreme hot weather in February and March 2009 all lights functioned as required
Visibility LED – 600 meters plus
Surface contact
  • No slipping
  • No obstruction
Durability
  • No significant damage or any failure during high temperatures periods
  • No damage or apparent vandalism attacks
Installation All lights secured and no attempts to remove

Outcome

Australia’s, and the world’s, first bicycling and pedestrian marked, sun-powered pathway.

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