Whilst I don't have an issue with those gum trees, from historical pictures I've seen it appears the northern edge of Elder Park along the Torrens used to be lined with London Plane trees - perhaps as late as the 1970s/80s. I presume they were removed when the path was widened which is a bit of a s...

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...

On another note re this precinct....those gum trees in front of the festival centre!!?? Can anyone imagine large eucalypts in front of the Sydney opera house? Trees in the park that give year round shade? The horror! The lower sections of the Festival Centre could do with covering up - they're not ...

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...

abc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:02 pm

gotta love this back pedaling

Not at all. The extreme right of anything is the furthest right of that thing. But as others have said, you do you, I really don't care.

Saying that someone is probably the extreme right member of federal parliament can also be construed as the furthest right. That's how I read it. ASIO might say that Extreme right is fanatical, but I don't believe we have any fanatics in our federal parliament.

abc wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:21 pm

you talk some shit

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Aside from being a cool project, I love that this blocks the GDH building behind it. Hoping they can bulldoze it and build something special there #dreamsarefree I actually like the entrance to Grote St from Victoria Square, with the Hilton on the south side and the GHD on the north. The buildings ...

So a dogleg is removed, but a new signalised intersection will replace it at Price Street. So there will still be two intersections within 270 metres, plus Furness Ave a short distance south. This might need to go back to the drawing board. Yes, that was my thinking too. Perhaps the Price St lights...

So do you believe that every new migrant is a doctor/builder/ childcare worker/ aged care worker etc? Can you tell us how many of each we need? And how many of each of the 500,000-600,000~ migrants in the last 12 months fall into those categories? Reality is most are unskilled/uneducated and end up...

Skilled migration for areas we say we are short of should be a net benefit - doctors, nurses, aged care, child care, building trades etc. Migrant visas can have conditions about living/working in areas of need/shortage. We can't force the current citizens/residents to move away from their friends, ...

The suburbs of northern Melbourne stop 22,23 kms north of the CBD but Adelaide seems to want to challenge Perth for the title of "Longest lowest density suburban sprawl in the world". Mickelham is are 40ish km away from the cbd. What decade are you getting this 22km figure from? South you...

abc wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:41 pm

Mt Gambier is to Melbourne like Broken Hill is to Adelaide...apart from the time zone

young Mt Gambians aspire to move to Melbourne

Fact or opinion?

So let me get this straight, Mount Barker has a population of 40,000 and the state government have rebuked every suggestion of an electrified rail service to the centre, meanwhile Kouts is talking out of his arse about a possible rail service to Riverlea, so long as the population of the area grows...

Considering that Balhannah and Hahndorf are at very similar elevations above sea level, that is a very steep railway from Bridgewater to Hahndorf.