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by RetroGamer87
Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:12 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains



I was under the impression that the greenway was shelved and that there was an albeit small possibility that it was going to be used for trains again. Guessing that thought bubble has been canned.... Different corridor I'd say. There is a more direct line between the Port and Dry Creek ...
by RetroGamer87
Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: Metropolitan Development
Topic: News & Developments: Other Suburban Retail
Replies: 99
Views: 85894

Re: News & Developments: Other Suburban Retail

Instead of building an unnecessary McDonald's at Ingle Farm, they should build a third Coles.
by RetroGamer87
Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:02 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

What's the downside of having battery powered trains?
by RetroGamer87
Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains






I would rather see Grange close and government redirect and planned investment and annual expenditure saved elsewhere within the network, having travelled Grange both peak and inter peak, the line is virtually redundant and seems to only exist now out of the fact that neither party when in ...
by RetroGamer87
Thu Jul 04, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Other Transport Projects
Replies: 730
Views: 389849

Re: News & Discussion: Other Transport Projects



To think maybe the current Murray Bridge area should have been used for site of Adelaide


In 1836, a port was essential for a remote new colony. The river was barely navigable all year round before the barrages were installed.

Having said that, Governor Hindmarsh preferred Victor Harbor ...
by RetroGamer87
Sat Jun 29, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

claybro wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2024 3:38 pm
Another study?! :roll: And with comments like "we cant take the old line all the way back to Angaston because it is now a bikeway???? I'm not holding my breath for anything to come out of this.
The next study will conclude that another study is required.
by RetroGamer87
Mon Jun 10, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains








An extension to Aldinga is just plain obvious. As for the Gawler line it seems strange to consider the Barossa the place to consider first. A spur to Virginia and Two Wells makes far more sense to me, or even to extend past Gawler to Roseworthy and Freeling.


Not to mention Riverlea Park ...
by RetroGamer87
Fri Jun 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains



South Australian government wants to look like its doing something about expanding public transport.....to me it seems more a pr release to placate the whingers, rather than an actual plan.

Adelaide rail extensions to be investigated with new funding in South Australia's budget

https://live ...
by RetroGamer87
Sat May 11, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] M2 North-South Motorway
Replies: 6408
Views: 1990202

[U/C] Re: M2 North-South Motorway



Before building tram depots, how about they decide where, if at all, any more tram lines will run?


Keeping on the topic of the motorway, the best option for trams right now is to extend the existing stub routes.

I thought that was the whole reason the stub lines to Festival Theatre and ...
by RetroGamer87
Sat May 11, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 5227
Views: 1525255

Re: News & Discussion: Trams



the majority of people that use Adelaide Airport aren't wishing to travel into the CBD


But once in the CBD it is so much easier to get anywhere else by public transport. That is why other airports in major cities have convenient airport links to their CBDs. Whenever I fly to Melbourne or ...
by RetroGamer87
Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains


Latest construction pics from the Port Dock extension build

https://i.imgur.com/Z2azwrWl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KP53YtEl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bCM3GtSl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/G50YbcVl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Yt94njul.jpg

Photos sourced from the Adelaide Metro Facebook page ...
by RetroGamer87
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: [U/C] Ovingham Level Crossing Removal | $231m
Replies: 290
Views: 131644

[U/C] Re: Ovingham Level Crossing Removal | $231m





Elder Smith Rd bridge was clearly designed to be upgraded to 4 lanes. The earthworks are already 4 lanes wide.


So why was it built as a one lane road? Earthworks are just soil, unless they're actually serving their intended purpose.

The same reason the Southern Expressway was built only ...
by RetroGamer87
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 5227
Views: 1525255

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

Cross Road/Marion Road followed by South Road followed by the Seaford/Flinders/Belair line. Three bunny hops in a row. I almost wonder if it would be better to just raise up the section of tramline between Cross Road and Goodwood station and enable even more roads to go underneath.
by RetroGamer87
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains
Replies: 6376
Views: 1981938

Re: News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

Flinders train was so late it ended up arriving after the time it was scheduled to depart.

It left the station very shortly after it arrived.

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by RetroGamer87
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Retail
Replies: 4061
Views: 1404948

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail

It's so ugly! If I was making a movie about a soulless dystopian future, this is the type of building I'd put in.