Put simply we are dominated by the number of owner/operators of single occupancy vehicles. Any money spent on PT is money not being spent on the quixotic quest to alleviate congestion by building ever wider and smoother roads. These people vote and pollies know they'll cop an electoral backlash if ...

... For example the Gawler line.....40 kms of barren wasteland next to the line, train stations that 3rd world countries would reject, plenty of opportunity to plan and integrate development around rebuilt train stations. Strange, last time I travelled on the Gawler line I passed freight distributi...

Torrens-To-Torrens plans to put the Outer Harbour line on a bridge in the same alignment between New Years Eve and Australia Day next year. If they succeed, it will demonstrate that the metro lines do not need to be closed for long periods to grade separate an intersection. Then we'll have a company...

What about servicing the suburbs expanding to the North. For example, Bolivar and Virginia? It's almost too late to plan for that now, but you'd have thought that there was some plan for serving them apart from buses. :| Not to mention the increasing numbers in the hills. The existing route is too ...

Extending to Nuriootpa would be a big step, and it's all only single track past Gawler station. Extending to Kalbeeba with a new station where the line crosses Barossa Valley Way would help people from Gawler East. I don't know what frequency could be supported going that far on single track. Possib...

The train trip Gawler to Seaford is 1 hour 50min - The distance is 85km - In peak hour traffic it's about 1hr 30min (according to Google) - Driving would cost about $6.50 in petrol say this person is on a concession ticket - $1.75. It's only 20mins quicker to drive, the train trip would be more com...

I noticed the works stopped just before reaching the main intersection so there are probably plans to re-configure this in the next couple of years. Adequate signage may follow after this. The way I see the Road Alignment Plan for the Northern Connector, the final intersection with PWR will be slig...

I have not seen the stockpile of dirt that was where the tunnel is going to be. It stands to reason there will be dirt left over that has to go somewhere, although it may not all be good topsoil. Also, from a stormwater management perspective, the "approach roads" to the tunnel probably ne...

Emerson Crossing is noted as an "early works" public transport project to provide grade separation of the railway line. Not sure why our state govt constantly refers to level-crossing removals as 'public transport projects' when train users suffer most of the inconvenience and disruption ...

There is a publically released plan that has been linked a bunch of times. http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/nsc/10_year_delivery_strategy http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/166392/new-delivery-strategy.pdf Regency Road crossing is to be an elevated road/superway. I d...

It's surprising that with contract announcement that there's nothing new of substance on the Northern Connector project website. http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/nsc/northern_connector/publications The following is all I can find, $985m Northern Connector sets new standard in local work opportun...

I drove along South Rd at 1 pm Saturday from Harriet St (just south of Hawker St) to Torrens Rd some 600m it took 23 minutes. The traffic going in the opposite direct is probably still there. Most frustrating thing was that the variable signage at the South/Regency Rd intersection said the travel t...

The point of a toll road can be to allow free movement of freight, with a secondary consideration being to free up road capacity on arterial roads. This is a different proposal entirely to a commuter freeway. Whatever point you wish to make, the price signals should reinforce the point, not conflic...

The problem with "traditional" road tolls is that the toll is levied on the smooth, straight, free-flow road that is exactly where we want people to choose to drive instead of the parallel suburban streets with pedestrians and cyclists. It is establishing a cost profile counter to what the...

The bike path is either nest to or the shoulder of PWR between the Northern Expressway and Waterloo Corner Road. The shared path must be next to PWR, not on the shoulder itself, as riding northbound would not work on the shoulder of the southbound carriageway. I have not been game to try it in the ...