Very well put. Concise and to the point, while going into detail.Aidan wrote:Coincidentally I did look at the MATS Plan this week. A deeply flawed document proposing freeways where they weren't necessary and underestimating what could be done with public transport.
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The MATS plan would NOT have enabled us to solve the congestion problem, or even helped us to.
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Re: MATS Plan
Exit on the right in the direction of travel.
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As we're seeing today with parts of MATS continuing to be implemented, it was mostly right. But had it been fully implemented Adelaide would be very different today - it probably would have sprawled a lot faster.
Perhaps the greatest mistake made was the scrapping of the arterial road widening programme. Many of the congested roads around Adelaide used to have the land on the side owned by the government so that in the future they could be widened. The dismissal of controlled access roads was also another big mistake as anyone can see by looking at what has happened to Main South Road and Main North Road.
Perhaps the greatest mistake made was the scrapping of the arterial road widening programme. Many of the congested roads around Adelaide used to have the land on the side owned by the government so that in the future they could be widened. The dismissal of controlled access roads was also another big mistake as anyone can see by looking at what has happened to Main South Road and Main North Road.
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