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Council will prepare a report on what would be required to make the City South tram stop the same standard as other tram stops in terms of safety, disability access and shelter. The matter is also to be presented to the Capital City Committee

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Council will prepare a report on what would be required to make the City South tram stop the same standard as other tram stops in terms of safety, disability access and shelter. The matter is also to be presented to the Capital City Committee

Even though I no longer use that stop, hooray! Especially with recent and upcoming developments in the immediate vicinity, it's something that needs to happen.

Festival organisers in Adelaide may now be forced to install special sound monitors that pull the plug on them if noise limits are exceeded. Adelaide City councillors met on Tuesday night and voted to impose the monitors on “high risk” festivals and concerts liable to breach noise-pollution levels.

News Limited reports council members will be able to impose the so-called “sound pressure level limiters,” which cut power if noise exceeds a certain level, usually 110 decibels, at their discretion. Councillor David Plumridge, who initiated the reform, called it another “weapon in our armoury.”

Mr Plumridge also reportedly called to increase the bond for exceeding noise limits to $40,000, but this measure was rejected and the bond will now be cut to just $5,000. The councillor’s sound monitor initiative follows a previous row with Soundwave organisers and the Adelaide City Council.

As Music Feeds reported in April, Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah forfeited a $10,000 bond after it was found that the Adelaide event in Bonython Park exceeded noise restrictions. Council monitoring allegedly revealed one stage exceeded 110dB for 70 percent of the day and evening.

Though the Adelaide City Council claimed that they received a number of complaints from residents of North Adelaide and other city-adjacent areas, Maddah insisted via Twitter that the “numerous complaints” reported by the council were in fact the result of “one guy in North Adelaide.”

At the time, Maddah said he feared that organisers would be denied hire of Bonython Park, which would mean “adios Adelaide.” The organiser recently confirmed that Soundwave would return to Adelaide in 2015, launching in Bonython Park next February with the event’s new two-day format.

The sound monitor initiative is the latest chapter in the fraught history of SW’s relationship with Adelaide. However, despite Mr Plumridge’s satisfaction with the outcome of the vote, some councillors have criticised the move as petty and potentially detrimental to Adelaide’s cultural scene.

Where Council has failed, is in the planting of trees in the many residential streets as well as the main thoroughfares of the city. Just think how much better the city would
be if every major street was as well-provided with significant trees as is Hutt Street. Currie St, Grenfell St, Waymouth St, Flinders St and Franklin St - to name a few - all
need an arborial make-over. If re-elected in October, this will be one of my priorities.

For a rash of cheap and sometimes grungy looking footpath advertising that has taken over our streets in recent times. Beautiful slate paving indiscriminately defaced in this way does the city no good and is little better than officially sanctioned graffiti – all done in the name of ‘City Activation’.

For a rash of cheap and sometimes grungy looking footpath advertising that has taken over our streets in recent times. Beautiful slate paving indiscriminately defaced in this way does the city no good and is little better than officially sanctioned graffiti – all done in the name of ‘City Activation’.