Run 'event' trains up there for the supercars weekend as a start. There are probably three or four event weekends a year. Is there enough Overland rolling stock available to run event trains from existing equipment or would new trains be needed anyway? Is there a siding at Elwomple? That might be w...

You didn't highlight the preceding two words "one of". Specifically Callide C which is only 20 years old - it's one of Australia's newest coal fired power stations, and yet according to the report behind the link in that article, Callide C has failed multiple times and is identified as on...

A photo like that reminds you just how damn flat the Adelaide Plains really are. it's an airport FFS... would you rather it be on the side of a hill? the only reason you can see 88 O'Connell Street from there so prominently is because of the elevation of the geography You don't say! I never would h...

In conjunction with the above activities, a 20-metre width of native vegetation will be planted behind the remaining Aleppo pine trees along Black Road. Planting of the 10-metre width of native vegetation along South Road is complete. The "native vegetation" looks like it will grow to mas...

abc wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:52 pm

all that vacant baron land on the other side of South Road,

aka Glenthorne National Park

It's my opinion only, but I can only see the likes of Roseworthy and Two Wells etc being successful, and I mean by success is that it's a service that justifies heavy rail. By that, I mean that it ceases to be something that trams could do, but something that only heavy rail can. That is, long trai...

. How many level crossings remain in that section that would need to be removed to support high speed? That would have to include there being no at-grade pedestrian crossings too. I get: Pedestrian south of North Adelaide station Hawker Street, Bowden Pedestrian at Avenue Road, Ovingham Belford Ave...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:47 pm

Am I missing something here?

How in the hell is this costing $35m?

I understood the $35m was for the the bike overpass. Has a cost been announced for the scaled back works just announced?

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...