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by RetroGamer87
Sat May 11, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
Replies: 6193
Views: 1519547

[U/C] Re: M2 North-South Motorway

Before building tram depots, how about they decide where, if at all, any more tram lines will run? Keeping on the topic of the motorway, the best option for trams right now is to extend the existing stub routes. I thought that was the whole reason the stub lines to Festival Theatre and Botanic Gard...
by RetroGamer87
Sat May 11, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 4948
Views: 1146257

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

the majority of people that use Adelaide Airport aren't wishing to travel into the CBD But once in the CBD it is so much easier to get anywhere else by public transport. That is why other airports in major cities have convenient airport links to their CBDs. Whenever I fly to Melbourne or Sydney, I ...
by RetroGamer87
Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Latest construction pics from the Port Dock extension build https://i.imgur.com/Z2azwrWl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KP53YtEl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bCM3GtSl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/G50YbcVl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Yt94njul.jpg Photos sourced from the Adelaide Metro Facebook page So I guess it's too l...
by RetroGamer87
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Ovingham Level Crossing Removal | $231m
Replies: 290
Views: 92318

[U/C] Re: Ovingham Level Crossing Removal | $231m

Elder Smith Rd bridge was clearly designed to be upgraded to 4 lanes. The earthworks are already 4 lanes wide. So why was it built as a one lane road? Earthworks are just soil, unless they're actually serving their intended purpose. The same reason the Southern Expressway was built only one-way... ...
by RetroGamer87
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 4948
Views: 1146257

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

Cross Road/Marion Road followed by South Road followed by the Seaford/Flinders/Belair line. Three bunny hops in a row. I almost wonder if it would be better to just raise up the section of tramline between Cross Road and Goodwood station and enable even more roads to go underneath.
by RetroGamer87
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Flinders train was so late it ended up arriving after the time it was scheduled to depart.

It left the station very shortly after it arrived.

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by RetroGamer87
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Retail
Replies: 3938
Views: 1114495

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

It's so ugly! If I was making a movie about a soulless dystopian future, this is the type of building I'd put in.
by RetroGamer87
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

At Nth Adelaide Station the ARTC line does have a separate crossing. However at Torrens Jn (where this week's incident took place) there is a single crossing across all 3 tracks which is activated by either ARTC or DTI trains. Does that mean if a goods train was passing pedestrians would be prevent...
by RetroGamer87
Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

The photo in the article shows an Adelaide Metro railcar, but no where has anyone said that's what struck him. There's also the ARTC track there and goods trains take a lot longer to stop. They're also going quite fast, they can come from either direction and because they are less frequent, pedestr...
by RetroGamer87
Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

It looks like there was a derailment near Mawson Lakes interchange.

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by RetroGamer87
Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

The ARTC track has its own set of active pedestrian gates that operate separately from the Adelaide Metro tracks. At Nth Adelaide Station the ARTC line does have a separate crossing. However at Torrens Jn (where this week's incident took place) there is a single crossing across all 3 tracks which i...
by RetroGamer87
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Very sad news. But why that particular spot?
by RetroGamer87
Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:30 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

It’s a shame that the northern end of the concourse is closed off to the platforms. What’s inside that closed space next to the InfoCentre, between the concourse and Platforms 4-9? a hotel basement? Nothing to do with the hotel. This space existed long before. On the concourse side, it’s between th...
by RetroGamer87
Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

I don't think they want people milling around right in front of the turnstiles looking at the screens Respectfully, if they didn’t want people milling about next to the turnstiles then they should’ve put the departure screens in a better location. If you enter from the North Terrace escalator, the ...
by RetroGamer87
Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:54 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6083
Views: 1477399

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

why? Its only about 3 feet deep if you ever seen it drained not that we'll ever see an underground line anywhere in Adelaide in our lifetimes Sure but how much water is underneath the lakebed? How much water is in Sydney Harbour? Yet they've tunnelled there for their metro. Anyhow, they don't need ...