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- Mon May 13, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
- Replies: 6194
- Views: 1519982
[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...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
- Replies: 4948
- Views: 1146618
Re: News & Discussion: Trams
Ahh, never change, Adelaide: A government spokesperson responded: “The State Government is not currently investigating a rail link between Adelaide Airport and the city, and has no plans to do so.” Big Country Town Mentality. It is disappointing to see such a categorical refusal to even consider bu...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [APP] 399 King William Street | ~52m | 16 Lvls | Mixed
- Replies: 272
- Views: 134116
[APP] Re: 399 King William Street | ~52m | 16 Lvls | Mixed
Excavators on site today digging
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [APP] 75-79 King William Street | 124m | 36 Levels | Wyndham Grand Hotel
- Replies: 326
- Views: 134605
[APP] Re: 75-79 King William Street | 124m | 36 Levels | Wyndham Grand Hotel
Apparently this is under construction??? https://www.worldconstructionnetwork.com/marketdata/construction-wyndham-grand-adelaide-hotel/ anyone know whats going on, or seen anything at the site? This article (and the website it is on) seems to be some kind of phony AI generated content that has been...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [PRO] 188 Grenfell Street | 64m | 19 Levels | Student Accom
- Replies: 112
- Views: 27765
[PRO] Re: 188 Grenfell Street | 64m | 19 Levels | Student Accom
One good thing to come out of this is push back on façadism as a way of maintaining heritage. Wearing the old building as a skin, and gutting everything past 30cm deep has always felt like such a minimum effort approach, and implies that heritage is about what something looks like on the surface an...
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Metropolitan Development
- Topic: News & Developments: Inner East & Greenhill Road
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4198
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6083
- Views: 1477692
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Long commutes should be unpleasant enough to encourage better choices, which take time to change. More cross-suburban public transport would help people choose it. People who live in outer areas should work there, or people who work in outer suburbs should live there. Just like new freeways, new ra...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6083
- Views: 1477692
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
There are practical difficulties with running high frequency services on single tracks. I'm not sure if the corridors are wide enough to easily duplicate the track without negotiating with dozens of land owners. Not impossible, but neither quick nor cheap. Victoria has been actively funding removal...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6083
- Views: 1477692
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
It isn't difficult, we just need government to pull their finger out. Look at the engineering feats around the world, even in developing countries. A few new train lines aren't anything major. We’ve just go so used to nothing happening in this country that we think even the most basic infrastructur...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6083
- Views: 1477692
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
To be honest, I cannot see a business case for urban rail to Virginia and Riverlea ever stacking up, despite being quite a large potential catchment area (40,000+ people). It would be an extension of about 16-17km which you would need to double-track to join it to the existing Gawler line. This is ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [COM] Festival Plaza Tower 1 | 115m | 27 Levels | Office
- Replies: 2086
- Views: 599102
[COM] Re: Festival Plaza Tower 1 | 115m | 27 Levels | Office
I know there's a much larger discussion over habitat and food for native fauna but I think the wholesale move away from non-native trees is a mistake in many inner urban applications. You’ve also got to remember that a lot of so-called native trees are from nowhere near Adelaide in the first place....
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
- Replies: 6194
- Views: 1519982
[U/C] Re: M2 North-South Motorway
Maybe this belongs in the Trams thread, but I don't really understand the push to put trams back down thoroughfares like Prospect Road, where they're just going to sit in traffic and get stuck at traffic lights, negating the benefit of building the line when it's still just as fast for people to dr...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
- Replies: 6194
- Views: 1519982
[U/C] Re: M2 North-South Motorway
Port Road is surely the most feasible location for a new depot. The government has just bought one large chunk of it, and has compulsory acquisition power for other parts (say, the former Coca Cola site). Get it done. I honestly can't see them using prime inner suburban land for a tram depot that c...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: CBD Development
- Topic: [APP] 126 Wright Street | 57m | 18 levels | Apartments | Soul on Wright
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23730
[APP] Re: 126 Wright Street | 57m | 18 levels | Apartments | Soul on Wright
I reckon this demolition might just be something to do with the new supermarket which is opening next door. There's signs up about it in Wright Court.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Metropolitan Development
- Topic: Cedar Woods Glenside
- Replies: 46
- Views: 28051
Re: Cedar Woods Glenside
This mindless push of highrise in the suburbs is ridiculous and needs to stop, save a few key areas like Glenelg, The Port, and some arterial roads and where it makes sense with a public transport node that has capacity or it can be added. This isn't Sydney, we don't need to turn our suburbs into h...