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by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu May 09, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
Replies: 6192
Views: 1519437

[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. Extending the Entertainment Centre tram to Grange will involve crossing the motorway so...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu May 09, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Regional Development
Topic: Whyalla | Developments & News
Replies: 100
Views: 122071

Re: Whyalla | Developments & News

Adelaide to Whyalla is about the range the first generation of electric airliners will have. There's potentially opportunity to ask for subsidies to trial electric airliners when they become available.
by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu May 09, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Public Transport Contracts, Service & Policy
Replies: 2051
Views: 532615

Re: News & Discussion: Public Transport Contracts, Service & Policy

Pedestrian crossings are dirt cheap to make grade separated. They could probably all be grade separated for the cost of one level crossing removal. The other advantage of building grade separated pedestrian crossings is it opens more entrances to some stations or makes connectivity with buses easier...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: The SA Politics Thread
Replies: 1250
Views: 333607

Re: The SA Politics Thread

The result of a traditional inner city Liberal seat being lost to Labor, most on the back of a significant increase (9.5%) in the Greens vote all but guarantees that Labor will be in Government for, well, ever basically. One Party State. Also Labor has moved right to fill some of the gap left by th...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Public Transport Contracts, Service & Policy
Replies: 2051
Views: 532615

Re: News & Discussion: Public Transport Contracts, Service & Policy

- Build a third track between Ovingham or Dudley Park and Grand Junction Road to allow express trains to pass. If the Adelaide Hills rail bypass is built, that will free up one track between Dry Creek and the city. There's actually enough space to have two extra tracks, so there could be express tr...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: 3D Billboards
Replies: 4
Views: 905

Re: 3D Billboards

We don't need any billboards, they're tacky.
by 1NEEDS2POST
Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
Replies: 393
Views: 114498

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

Is it just me or does that curved section look odd? I'm assuming they haven't finished perhaps? The track requires the use of a tamping machine to consolidate the ballast under the sleepers to establish the correct vertical and horizontal alignments of the track. It is only more recently that the t...
by 1NEEDS2POST
Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
Replies: 393
Views: 114498

[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: 12010

[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: 6083
Views: 1477273

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: 393
Views: 114498

[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: 3121
Views: 993326

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: 433117

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: 393
Views: 114498

[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: 12010

[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.