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by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
Replies: 381
Views: 109977

[U/C] Re: Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line

If the lines are to be connected, then it might be appropriate to connect the Port Dock line to the Outer Harbour line, and use the alignment via Wingfield as a T junction. The Rosewater loop corridor is surplus to requirements, and has no use nowadays. That would be ideal if the viaduct could be r...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [PRO] New Police Barracks
Replies: 22
Views: 11698

[PRO] Re: New Police Barracks

Police horses are a waste of resources to being with. It would be better to do away with the mounted unit and buy more police cars. They serve very different purposes. How often does breaking up riots with horses take place in Adelaide? The cost of keeping horses for those few events is enormous an...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6006
Views: 1457028

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Very sad news. But why that particular spot? The tracks are on a curve and trains are traveling at speed since most don't stop at North Adelaide station. Drivers can't see anything until it's too late. Ever since the previous fatality, trains have limited their speed around that curve (even if they...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:14 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
Replies: 381
Views: 109977

[U/C] Re: Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line

Next step, I'd like to see this turned into a terminus for trains to Dry Creek as well via the now disused goods line. Would’ve be easier to convert in future if they hadn’t dumped a load of earth between Russell Street and the mainline junction There are two routes to Dry Creek, one being the Rose...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Airport & Airlines
Replies: 3074
Views: 977429

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Airport & Airlines

If a government ever did consider the storm drain tram approach (which would be quite expensive due to the narrowness of that corridor along most of the route requiring a bunch of residential acquisitions) I think it would actually be more beneficial to consider making it O-Bahn track. Agreed, I st...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: O-Bahn
Replies: 1746
Views: 428124

Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

If you're going to electrify the obahn and have electric buses running on it, wouldn't it make sense to either have overhead wires, or a 'powered' rail down the centre at 'ground' level like some tram systems have to power them? I'm sure with some government funding as an incentive, the firm that b...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
Replies: 381
Views: 109977

[U/C] Re: Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line

Next step, I'd like to see this turned into a terminus for trains to Dry Creek as well via the now disused goods line. I've always been told that the new station would be an island platform with the metro trains on the non-museum side and the NRM trains on the other but that plan only shows one trac...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [PRO] New Police Barracks
Replies: 22
Views: 11698

[PRO] Re: New Police Barracks

Police horses are a waste of resources to being with. It would be better to do away with the mounted unit and buy more police cars.
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: Metropolitan Development
Topic: Thebarton Brewery Site Redevelopment
Replies: 70
Views: 18719

Re: Thebarton Brewery Site Redevelopment

:? what? Screenshot_20231013-151717~3.png There's already a park in that location though, the 'vision' posted just shows an expansion of that park and making it more accessible. Basically what a few of us said on previous pages about what should happen on the river front there, and better connectin...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6006
Views: 1457028

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Adelaide has 89 railway stations. These could be used as hubs to send and receive parcels, like the parcel lockers at Australia Post. Parcels would automatically be loaded to/from trains so parcels will move across the network faster than the post. It could even be fast enough for food deliveries, ...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:57 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6006
Views: 1457028

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Adelaide has 89 railway stations. These could be used as hubs to send and receive parcels, like the parcel lockers at Australia Post. Parcels would automatically be loaded to/from trains so parcels will move across the network faster than the post. It could even be fast enough for food deliveries, l...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:28 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6006
Views: 1457028

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

What has taken so long to fit a battery to the 3000 class railcars? Each time they stop at a station they are wasting energy without it.
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:48 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: Sir Donald Bradman Drv / Marion Rd Upgrade
Replies: 54
Views: 15316

Re: Sir Donald Bradman Drv / Marion Rd Upgrade

Once the North South Motorway is completed, this stops being the main road to the airport, doesn't it? People from the north have to leave the motorway before Port Road and use Grange Road and Airport Road; people from the South will use a new access via Richmond Road? It will be split among the th...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:45 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 4909
Views: 1130841

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

Adelaide Metro is designed to transport people in the morning peak from 8 am to 9 am and the afternoon peak from 5 pm to 6 pm. This means Adelaide Metro hires drivers for two shifts and they have excess capacity in the middle of the day. If we want to introduce free fares, the first place to introd...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Fri Jul 28, 2023 6:56 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 4909
Views: 1130841

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

Adelaide Metro is designed to transport people in the morning peak from 8 am to 9 am and the afternoon peak from 5 pm to 6 pm. This means Adelaide Metro hires drivers for two shifts and they have excess capacity in the middle of the day. If we want to introduce free fares, the first place to introdu...