A multi-million-dollar racetrack and resort will be built on the former Rhondda Colliery site in New South Wales as part of a wider plan to rehabilitate former mine sites.
  • In short: The former Rhondda Colliery site will be turned into a $95-million motorsport park.
  • The project is part of the NSW government’s ambition to repurpose old coal mines.
  • What’s next? Construction of the park is expected be be finished by 2026.
  • tauEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Good to see some positive news regarding racetracks, it’s a nice change from them having restrictions imposed or even shut down.

  • No1English
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    3 months ago

    I wonder what would happen if they made it EV only?

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Took me a minute to realise this was Australia whilst also wondering what Newcastle had to do with collieries in South Wales that have been closed for over 40 years.