2 sets of lights for all traffic using port Rd or Anzac highway doesn't sound good.

Diverging diamond seems more appropriate if the crossing road is minor.
Also the surface south Rd for both of these intersections goes straight which isn't managed by the diamond.

The more people in an area the better for business typically.
But I don't see a link in Adelaide between directly infront PT access and successful restaurants.
Jetty Road has it but it is the only example I can think of. Most Adelaide restaurants instead chose to open and have run successfully in ...

Explain Rundle Mall..

I don't see many parallels between Rundle Mall and O'Connell Street.
The now mall section of Rundle Street appears to have always been the destination, it wasn't a major route through to other destinations.

Rundle Mall to me seems more about homewares and clothes whereas ...

Isn't part of the reason for the businesses on O'Connell Street because it is full of passing cars?
The parallel roads haven't got nearly as much business because they lack the cars.
Remove the cars from O'Connell and do you not just end up with what is currently on the parallel roads aka not much ...

VinyTapestry849 wrote:Here are the three design changes, in case anyone has forgotten

What is this building?

The Rundle Mall car parks charge a fortune and are no less a nightmare. Eg the Wilson off North Terrace attached to David Jones has the tightest space carparks possible. It begs for damaging cars paint as people try to slide between cars and squeeze into tiny door openings.
A 200m walk is ...

Another answer is to not increase the population.
No more people means no more traffic

You can't compare botanic garden to parkland funding.

Parklands are mostly an Adelaide City council thing. The users are local residents and local businesses.
Playing sport, walking, riding, school use etc.
The parks in suburbs are mostly paid for by local councils also.
The state government ...

Regarding gas. I believe my electricity bill would be lower than my current electricity + gas bill.
But the initial outlay for a new heat pump hot water system and new heater means it isn't a simple problem.

I haven't crunched hypothetical numbers but my gut feeling is I can afford to wait for the ...

Just out of curiosity, what are the winter quarter figures? Also, as gas is now to attract pariah status ( Victoria in particular) but now many new developement are banning gas connection to promote “ green” credentials, have you estimated what effect the removal of gas would have on the ...

The house at idle over night is about 250w. Which is internet boxes, 2 low power computers, a bunch of phone chargers, a bunch of google assistant displays, random red lights on TV's etc.
100w more when either of the fridge compressors cycle on.

A few TV's, a PlayStation 5, on adds about 400w ...

My familes electricity bill for the last quarter in Adelaide is a credit of $51.

This is with 5kw of solar panels and 5kw of batteries.
Both are considered fairly small.

I am very electricity conscious eg I have evaporative airconditioning instead of reverse cycle. However to keep things at a cosy ...

I would add kids staying at home longer does this also.
Once all the excess cars were a 2-3 year problem for a house until the kids moved out.
Kids staying until they are 25-30+ means it is an average 10-15 years problem instead of 2 years.

That is caused by housing affordability.

This is all a silly conversation as on street parking is not because of ego boosting larger cars not fitting in the garage of the house.
I don't see any evidence that there is a larger amount of large vehicles using on street parking.
From my eyes most on street parking appears to be of lower value ...

My issue is more that car parking wouldn't be such an issue if

1. They didn't allow ridiculous oversized cars


A quick look at Bowden street view doesn't show a mass of Raptors on the road.
They appear to mostly be small hatches.

So I think your reasoning that large expensive cars are mostly ...