drwaddles wrote:

Wilfy 2007 wrote:Somebody,

Be careful you are Dribbling again.

Someone get Somebody a bib!

Dribbling is not permitted in netball.

There is a minimum clearance standard needed for overhead electrification. Place the wire too low and you will get arcing between the wire and the roof of the EMU. Of course there is a minimum clearance standard - as I said before, what the average clearance is is of no concern to setting the minim...

For 25000 kV 50Hz AC electric traction like what we are getting, the average height of the contact wire (in Queensland atleast) is 1m above the roof of the rollingstock. That is only the contact wire, the additional wiring and caternary structures stand even higher so a fair amount of above head cl...

Howie wrote:It was a spammer... so i deleted him and all his posts. Sorry about that.

Well that explains half the mystery - but I definitely had replied to what is currently the last post in the SA to power the world thread.

Ive got the report for Noarlunga Centre to Seaford, where it harps on about the Westerly alignment and the 1980's alignment for the railway, who wants it? If you're referring to the October 2007 report, one thing to note is that the Westerly alignment plan has improved since it was written: see htt...

Yesterday I had an automatic email informing me that someone had posted another article on the SA to power the world thread. But when I clicked the link to see what had been written, I found that the reverse had happened: not only were there no new posts, but someone had deleted my previous one . Ho...

That's no reason for him to drop it yet. But there are two very good reasons why we should not bid for 2018: the first, as I've already mentioned, is the futility of competing against a strong sentimental favourite. The second is that we want the Games to show how good our city is. Unless our infra...

What's so great about the weather on the Gold Coast? The tropical cyclones which rip through the coastal regions? No, those only occur in tropical regions. The Gold Coast, aka the South Brisbane Sprawl, is not tropical. MHS should drop this issue, the decision for which Australian city will bid for...

And WTF is Southwark? a) A London borough across the Thames from the City b) A brand of beer made by the South Australian Brewing Company (now a Lion Nathan subsidiary) in Thebarton. The range of Southwark beers has changed over the years - I'd be surprised if the one they were whinging about drink...

Initially I almost laughed at this proposal by the Libs, but after some thought I found myself attracted to the idea, the Commonwealth Games would go some way to shake Adelaide's pervasive inferiority complex. Only a bid likely to succeed would do that! A successful bid for the 2022 or 2026 games w...

There is another good reason not to bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games: Despite the large number of African countries competing, the Commonwealth Games have never been held in Africa. It's about time they were, so if we bid we'd be running against a strong sentimental favourite, as we did the time ...

Steep slopes didn't stop them from building the freeway did it? No, but steep slopes determined where they built the freeway. To get from Crafers to the Adelaide Plains without detouring through the foothills, only two routes were suitable: Glen Osmond and Mount Osmond. You seem to be concerned abo...

Yawn - another dribler who combines foaming at the mouth with transport planning. Presume this is because you think MAN NL202s sound better than bigger 18.310s and you go and see them at Old Reynella. No, the foaming was purely the result of your wild claims! At the time you wrote this, I didn't ev...

The only real benefit of midi-buses is to get into narrow streets that can't take normal buses, and in that case, you have to wonder if these small streets are a good place for an efficient public transport corridor. Rubbish! Have you seen the price of diesel fuel lately? I admit minibuses generall...

I was having a look into it as well, and I think there is one other very viable route - via Waterfull Gully. It's not so much a problem gradient-wise, which can be eliminated by use of bridges and tunnels, its more of the impact onto the environment, considering it runs course adjacent a watershed,...