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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Pub
- Topic: The Housing Crisis
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3414
Re: The Housing Crisis
Page 2 includes a long article that includes a quote that housing construction was already slowing. Nobody (in the article or here) has attempted to either challenge or explain that statement. There seems to be plenty of land "released" for housing. Has somebody done an analysis of what i...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure
- Replies: 1553
- Views: 375574
Re: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure
Yeah. Renewables caused the structural failure of the interconnector and forced Pelican Point to shirk its responsibilities. :hilarious: Please explain. imagine 'Renewables' relying on fossil fuel in a black out. Since nobody was claiming that renewables, in 2017...or today, could completely take o...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
- Replies: 381
- Views: 110001
[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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
- Replies: 381
- Views: 110001
[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...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure
- Replies: 1553
- Views: 375574
Re: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure
Great! Can't wait until the point when it's not just net >100% renewables, but there is basically never any need to fallback on imported fossil power. South Australia does not "rely" on imported fossil fuel.....we have our own.....there is still quite a bit of gas capacity........But when...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
- Replies: 4909
- Views: 1130889
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
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...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Ever since the previous fatality, trains have limited their speed around that curve (even if they're not stopping at North Adelaide), and usually (but to be fair, not always) sound their horn. The active crossing gates are now operating at both North Adelaide Station, and where this incident occurr...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Another pedestrian killed presumably at the same place as last time: https://indaily.com.au/news/2024/01/15/train-hits-pedestrian-at-north-adelaide/ The fatality last year was at North Adelaide Station. This incident was at the crossing between the station and Torrens Bridge which had remained clos...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:00 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
The active crossing at North Adelaide Station is apparently finally operational today. Only took 5 1/2 years and one death. Nice! How many remaining to be commissioned? Both North Adelaide and War Memorial Drive were being worked in the last fortnight. These were the last crossings not activated. I...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Ah, I missed that - I thought it was only 3121/22. 3017 wasn't paired with 3009 yesterday, but with I think 3020 or thereabouts (I didn't make it that far up the platform and only saw it from a distance). Whatever it was it wasn't green-wrapped and I noticed that whilst 3017 had the green wrapping ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
The reference to the Elizabeth Turnback is puzzling. Signals and points were installed during the electrification/resignalling. The turnback was indeed constructed around 2013 but were subsequently removed and replaced with plain rail when the electrification was cancelled in 2014. Can you clarify ...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
- Replies: 381
- Views: 110001
[U/C] Re: Port Adelaide Dock Spur 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 track into the platform.... The plan only shows the AdMet parts of the project. The NRM track might be getting done as a s...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:33 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: [U/C] Port Adelaide Dock Spur Line
- Replies: 381
- Views: 110001
[U/C] Re: Port Adelaide Dock Spur 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 track into the platform.... One platform could become inadequate especially on busy event weekends such as History Festiva...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
- Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
- Replies: 6006
- Views: 1457072
Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02yuG6qcaDynRGFjuTmFnfcqiu2edqJq8kVkobP79au1MDupayQwTd6A7hhqdxMsBKl&id=100064342463158&mibextid=RtaFA8 Gawler line closure for pedestrian crossing installations and Elizabeth turnback In recent weeks there has been quite a bit of preparatory ...