This is a fun one for all you tram tragics out there. ;) The Trieste-Opicina hybrid tramway employs standard electric trams on the level areas, but in order to climb and descend the hill route, the drivers pull up to a cable grasping tractor in a siding and proceed from there. The tractors are not l...

Can't they give the "young people of the state" an Adelaidefree wi-fi that works first.....? The problem with that is AdelaideFree was built on top of Internode's wifi network. And Internode have been gutted after being taken over by TPG, so I don't know of there's any actual management i...

Citywatcher you are arguing against around sixty years of experience and observation. All those who have studied this in detail are onboard with the fact of induced demand. More freeways leads to more traffic, it might seem counter intuitive, but it's a verified fact. This is why current PT efforts ...

Freeway would have been better... Surely you've been reading this forum long enough to know better? Does better mean agreeing with you Not necessarily, but if you've been reading this forum for a few years you would have been exposed to a lot of evidence that a NE freeway would be a bad result comp...

Nick Xenophon's SA Best party to oppose deregulated shopping hours The SA Best party led by former senator Nick Xenophon will block any move to deregulate shop trading hours in South Australia. In a significant blow to the state Opposition's hopes to deregulate hours if it wins the March election, ...

citywatcher wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:42 pm

Freeway would have been better...

Surely you've been reading this forum long enough to know better?

There is a story circulating that they did do something like that - bought up all of the trams and lines and dismantled them so that people had to purchase cars.... In the USA this did happen - it is well documented. In Adelaide, they didn't have to as the government at the time happily ripped up t...

I thought the land corridor had already been preserved for the OBahn extension to Golden Grove. You can see it on Google Maps - veering left just before Grenfell Road through the park and onto Avalon Drive through to the Golden Grove Shopping Centre. I thought the corridor was McIntyre road? McInty...

[Shuz] wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 30, 2017 3:19 am

I thought the land corridor had already been preserved for the OBahn extension to Golden Grove.

You can see it on Google Maps - veering left just before Grenfell Road through the park and onto Avalon Drive through to the Golden Grove Shopping Centre.

That's not a route - that's a creek.

I'm convinced that the last council election where we lost Yarwood (2014?) was an orchestrated ballot stuffing by certain business interests who were voting multiple times via their businesses and corporate officials against the spirit of the rules.

Waewick wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 29, 2017 9:40 am

Gawler Chambers is a heritage issue i believe.

The issue is the building was left to rot, and rot it did. There's now substantial problems with the structure, which is having an impact on the plans that incorporate the old building.

When I went to America, I tried Johnny Rockets in Long Beach, CA. I liked it. I was looking for another chain but couldn't find it. I had major accent problems in there as well :lol: :lol: When in the USA I found I needed to put on a slight USAian accent, otherwise they just said "what?" ...

Just FYI there's a good overview of Festival Plaza from the top floor of the Casino. But you need a valid reason to get up there in the lift.

...And a completely unrelated fact the Fortuna Buffet Restaurant is up there.

Look, I didn’t have too much of an issue last year, but second time around I feel the Xmas decorations detract more than they add to the Mall. The ply trees are nothing more than cheaply made debris traps. And the the video screens are just another obstacle to overcome in the high trade crowds (wou...

Ben wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:56 pm

No surprise but the Christmas Trees in the mall are dead after 1 and a half weeks.

Somebody's cousin must have a share in a xmas tree farm...