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News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#1 Post by sam » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:47 am

Yesterday coming home I noticed there was some significant damage at Paradise Interchange to the sheltered bus stop waiting area. Took some quick (+crude) pics on the phone. Anyone know what happened?

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Re: Paradise Interchange Damage.

#2 Post by sam » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:49 am

(It was perfectly fine @ 0715 that morning, those photos were taken at about 1800.)

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Re: Paradise Interchange Damage.

#3 Post by muzzamo » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:04 am

it was in the paper this morning a truck got wedged under there.

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Re: Paradise Interchange Damage.

#4 Post by sam » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:16 am

Thanks for that - Haven't touched the paper yet - will have to read about why a truck was in there...

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Re: Paradise Interchange Damage.

#5 Post by Omicron » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:57 pm

muzzamo wrote:it was in the paper this morning a truck got wedged under there.
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Re: Paradise Interchange Damage.

#6 Post by monotonehell » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:45 pm

Let's see how long it takes for "them" to repair this reasonably major damage...
Monday morning - still there.
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The Adelaide O-Bahn

#7 Post by AtD » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:31 pm

Found this on YouTube.




"Silent buses" mmmyes.

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#8 Post by Jamo » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:12 pm

Ill have one!

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#9 Post by joshzxzx » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:40 pm

My gosh...

A city with Vision.. Where did it go???
South Australia the Festival State

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#10 Post by Shuz » Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:25 pm

I think the O-Bahn is the sort of system that could only work to its full potential if it were part of a 'metropolitian busway system' - not this ad-hoc naueseum of train, tram, o-bahn and bus which Adelaide currently has.

PT should be as minimal as possible, should be either rail, or bus. Not both.

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#11 Post by baytram366 » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:14 pm

Could you post the links to the videos - it isn't coming u for me here for some reason...
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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#13 Post by Cruise » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:57 pm

Shuz wrote:
PT should be as minimal as possible, should be either rail, or bus. Not both.
You can't honestley believe this

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#14 Post by AtD » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:49 pm

Cruise wrote:You can't honestley believe this
I thought the exact same thing.

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Re: The Adelaide O-Bahn

#15 Post by PhilM » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:50 pm

What I think he means is that it is foolish having ad-hoc public transport infrastructure and the types of PT systems must be kept to a minimum. That being so I agree strongly.

The O'Bahn is a one off and ongoing upgrades hard to source, why not rip up the tracks and replace them with an electric train/tram system in line with the rest of the proposed public transport system?

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