NTRabbit wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:53 pm

If they removed all the level crossings then maybe they could step on the gas outside of the shared corridors in the city, like the Luas does with their Citadis 401 and 502s in Dublin

Presumably they could also significantly increase the frequency e.g. 4min frequency over peak hour.

Re. the very limited shelter at the new station, this completely failed the test on Sunday with the heavy rain and wind. Two of my friends were waiting there during the afternoon for a train and were completely soaked. The shelter, as we all knew it would, did nothing to protect anyone under it. Th...

From the Advertiser: OVERPASSES COULD SLASH $133m FROM ROAD COSTS By CAMERON ENGLAND and KARA PHILLIPS 05jun06 EXCLUSIVE BUILDING overpasses rather than tunnels on South Rd could shave $133 million off the bill on the blowout-plagued projects, the state's peak resources body said yesterday. This th...

I noticed yesterday when driving through that the new variable speed limit signs in the tunnel and on the approaches are bidirectional, ie they are on both sides of the gantry. You can see this in the renders if you look close enough. Presumably this is so they can close one tunnel off during and em...

Not a strong rumour, it’s actually happening. They need to widen the road corridor beneath the overpass to accomodate the massive corridor for the motorway ramps and tunnel portal. You can see the sheer scale on the interactive T2D map. The Marion/Cross Road overpass is going to be built at the sam...

Vietjet flights were launched as return (via Perth) flights on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Looking a few months into the future they are now bookable only on Saturday and Tuesday out of Adelaide, although the 5x a week flights from Perth remain. I flew Vietjet in January and it ...

It corresponds to the newly released urban design strategy. https://www.t2d.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/1300092/T2D-Urban-Design-Strategy.pdf It does read as a typical consultants report - rehashed filler from other reports they have produced, tailored from various stakeholder meetings and...

Thanks for the lecture - I’d say it’s more appropriate to leave the culture wars out of their announcement. They could have kept it race and culture-war agnostic and stuck to the merits of the development, but didn’t. Instead they dive straight into it by making political statements in the opening s...

I’m also not sure why a video like this starts with a welcome to country.

At the end of the day this is just an high density apartment project. And what I’m seeing is more money given to the aboriginal elites who would have worked as consultants on the project.

Watching that video looks like the woke mind virus has infected renewal SA.

A derelict bus terminal sits on a specific named location for kaurna people to meet? Really?

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It all comes down to cost. That would require two bridges to be built, not one. Yes and the duplication more or less matched the design of the one way freeway, which was built to the stingiest budget imaginable - I found out only recently (here I think) that it was built using department's operatio...

One of the lanes in each direction in the tunnel should be a HOV (bus/truck) lane. I know it failed but a bus lane along Anzac Highway from South Road to City should be implemented either on side or middle like Hackney Road . What’s so special about the tunnel? it’s not done on any other part north...

Can someone please post the article ? Revised designs for the Torrens to Darlington project, set to be revealed by the state government on Wednesday after a lengthy review, will cost upwards of $15bn to complete. The new designs will retain twin northern and southern tunnels along the 10.5km stretc...

SRW wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:07 am

Education buildings are rarely higher than 10 levels because the lifts can't handle the people movement.

True, although universities consist of three arms - administration, research and teaching.

Presumably it's only the teaching side that would struggle with lifts.