If the platforms were on the sides of the tram corridor instead of the centre, then there would be so much more unusable road space. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed that traffic would be able to drive on the tram tracks in much the same way as it can along the southern end of KWS. If you go m...

The Coles/K-Mart merge is off since Westfarmer bought Coles Group. Huh? K-Mart is part of the Coles Group, they were never going to merge. More likely K-Mart will be re-badged to become a Coles Department Store in a bid to lift it's (K-Mart's) image, in a similar way to Bi-Lo being re-badged as Col...

Coming back from Singapore I was leaving the plane to be greeted by a lot of white halls and straight to customs. I actually saw the transit hall (people who stay inside to wait for a connecting flight) and it was bare-as. There were no shops from what I could see, a great disappointment IMO. Compa...

So Adamo - is public transport adequate or not? You say it is, then you say it isn't.

The Solar Tower, if/when it's built outside Mildura, is supposed to be 1000m tall. Even if a taller tower gets built, Mildura's will probably be the lonliest (furthest away from a major city) tower in the world.

Pistol78 wrote:Aren't their height limits keeping with their pyramid scheme they have designated for Adelaide?

I think this has a lot more to do with the height limits than flight paths do.

A toll road is a user pays system, if you want to use it you have to pay for it. The builders of the tollway, don't care if you are a student, pensioner or war vet, they are providing a service for you, by building a road that speeds up your travel time between 2 points, they don't force you to use...

It does appear that private roads are inevitable, but I will only support such ventures if they are equitable. For example students, pensioners, war veterans and low -income earners should pay a reduced toll or no toll at all. And how will you police that??? It would work with e-tags. When you appl...

I would expect that if a letter is sent to the feds asking for Auslink funding for South Road, then one of the conditions will be that it is spent on South Road. Period. No if, no buts.

I don't believe South Road should be a toll road. It's part of Light's original arterial road system. If a new north-south Controlled Access Road is built, that is the one that could be a toll road. If a toll is placed on South Road, it's a dangerous precedent. Tolls could be placed on any arterial ...

I believe TrailsSA is also negotiating with the new owners, to re-route the Heysen Trail through the property, where it currently uses public roads to skirt it. Having hiked this section of the trail only a few weeks ago, I think that a re-route through Balquhidder would be exceptional.

I don't think the lines that don't go through the CBD will work. People who commute to the city for work want to get there without having to change trams/busses if at all possible, and they are the people who will use the PT system the most. All routes need to go through the CBD at some stage. The P...

Ho Really wrote:As for the coastal towns between Geelong and Adelaide only a few have safe harbours. You need to remember that not all have deep sea access.

Portland certainly does, and is an attractive and historic city to boot.

Navy ships cannot go upriver of a mechanical bridge. Since when? When HMAS Encounter (shore base)on Fletcher Road was still operating, HMAS Banks was berthed upstream of the Birkenhead Bridge, and any visiting Navy ship was berthed next to the Banks, be it a patrol boat or a destroyer. I remember s...

Thanks Adam. I guess the A class designation means there are future plans for the road.