pushbutton wrote:anyone got any ideas what the "Leisure water area" will consist of?

A shallow kiddie wading pool?

By the way, construction activities are picking up on site. The construction office huts are in place now, some heavy machinery is now located on site and a driveway onto the site from Morphett Rd has been laid. So construction should be underway shortly. Hooray!

Hooligan wrote:and plenty of people live north of the CBD, Or don't they matter?

They do matter, and so do the people in the south, and the Adelaide Aquatic Centre is available for those north and central. So everyone gets a swim.

Yep, it's being built between Oaklands Park railway station and Marion Shopping Centre.

Plenty of people live south of the CBD, and the State Aquatic Centre will be a boon for them (us).

By the way, there's still very little construction action on site. A bulldozer has graded a narrow track across part of the site, and the grass has been cut, there's a lone excavator which I see parked there each night, and the blue Candetti signs have been removed from the fence surrounding the sit...

deano91 wrote:Looks like the beginning of work is fairly imminent, there was a big blue fence around the perimeter when I drove past today

The big blue fence appeared just before the launch event. Nothing at all has occurred on site since then though.

Pants wrote:Welcome to the forum Mr Rann.

Now now ... I just happen to think the SAC is going to be a good thing. I happen to live close to it too, so of course it will be very convenient for me.

The Bicycle Institute of South Australia has been developing a concept called "Green Links", which makes use of the existing roads and boulevards which run parallel to train lines. These roads have low car traffic volumes and are well suited to cyclists. The problem though is that there ar...

I think the new State Aquatic Centre is going to be great. Not a white elephant, not the wrong location ... it's all good and I can't wait until it's finished!