Unless it's some sort of contamination that eats through concrete, what's the big bloody deal? If it's so contaminated that nothing can be built there then I suppose that opens up liability to be sued by railyard workers? So anyway, $850 million for Perth's. If we commit to it now we can get it done...

Maybe they'll be the anchor tenant for the building you can see in the header of this page?

Let's hope the planners have enough insight on this! I wouldn't worry about oil spills. Firstly, oil floats on the top of water and the intake is underwater. Secondly, reverse osmosis desalination forces water through extremely fine membranes under very high pressure - if oil managed to somehow get...

OK, what about Sydney Harbour Tunnel? That was opened in 1992 according to Wikipedia. (I only thought of it because I was in it on Saturday) Yep, that would be older than any of the other tunnels mentioned so far. Several different construction methods used but still older and consisting of two tun...

I thought the port was already capable of handling panamax ships and that the dredging was so it could handle post-panamax? (Isn't that why Melbourne is dredging theirs?) Also, why use tonnes instead of cubic metres for measuring the amount of material that was dredged?

The Mini Cooper is also the only one of the lot to have a movie starring it

But leaves his bag on the seat next to her. A Elderly lady comes in next stop and the first Woman asks him to move his bag he says "to where? I'll have to carry it then" And you just sat there watching it rather than picking up the bag and throwing it off the bus? Punks like that need a k...

Even the airport is routinely 5 degrees cooler than Kent Town in the afternoon due to the sea breeze. Plus the radiative effects of all the concrete and bitumen in the urban areas. My Tips: Live in a house with eaves! Live in a stone house or house with high ceilings Live in a house with some shadi...

Government will continue to brainwash the public that speed is deadly because they generate so much revenue from speeding fines. The majority of crashes are caused by driver error - fatigue or risk taking. I'd like to see the state limit increased to 130km/h - most roads can handle it and modern car...

NIMBY time here: I'm glad this was knocked back. Marion Bay has lost quite a lot of it's charm and appeal since the south side between the original village and the boundary with Innes was developed. My family has been going to there and Pondalowie for longer than I've been alive, so I'm biased in th...

shiftaling wrote:Preserve a funky art deco laneway rather than installing yet another Hudson's foyer, please

What if it's a Cibo foyer?

Possibly because the need for both a local link road and a freeway to bypass the local is needed? The existing Pt Wakefield Road services a lot of existing sideroads that would be bypassed if converted. You cant provide interchanges for every road that a freeway passes, it's cost inhibitive and a l...

As we're seeing today with parts of MATS continuing to be implemented, it was mostly right. But had it been fully implemented Adelaide would be very different today - it probably would have sprawled a lot faster. Perhaps the greatest mistake made was the scrapping of the arterial road widening progr...

You have to wonder where did this $1 billion figure come from? Is it because Docklands cost $400-500 million (despite what Wikipedia says) and they're factoring in inflation over the decade since doubling the cost? Why does the government assume they'd be the ones paying for it? I was stoked to read...

I'll say this; there are other areas in town that have far greater potential than Victoria Park. My life will go on if VP becomes a large open area, and temporary stands must be built each year for the Clipsal. I would much rather see attention paid to the Festival Plaza, the railyards, Riverbank, ...