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All high-rise, low-rise and street developments in the Adelaide and North Adelaide areas.
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Kasey771
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by Kasey771 » Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:10 am
Nathan wrote:The lighting is finally going to start being installed tomorrow, with completion aimed for October 14.
Call me a cynic. I'll believe it when I see a picture of the installation happening:) fingers crossed this unnecessarily long odyssey is hopefully almost complete:)
Big infrastructure investments are usually under-valued and & over-criticized while in the planning stage. It's much easier to envision the here and now costs and inconveniences, and far more difficult to imagine fully the eventual benefits.
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by monotonehell » Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:33 pm
Was just (9:30pm 23/8/2015) walking down Rundle Mall, the part between KWS and Charles Street is completely blocked to pedestrians and work is going ahead. Also there's workers in the pole pits at the Pulteney Street end. So something is going on.
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by Waewick » Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:50 pm
monotonehell wrote:Was just (9:30pm 23/8/2015) walking down Rundle Mall, the part between KWS and Charles Street is completely blocked to pedestrians and work is going ahead. Also there's workers in the pole pits at the Pulteney Street end. So something is going on.
Probably removing the poles
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by Patrick_27 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:37 am
Waewick wrote:monotonehell wrote:Was just (9:30pm 23/8/2015) walking down Rundle Mall, the part between KWS and Charles Street is completely blocked to pedestrians and work is going ahead. Also there's workers in the pole pits at the Pulteney Street end. So something is going on.
Probably removing the poles
Was there a last minute miracle that means the lights would no longer require the support of those eyesores?
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by Waewick » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:40 am
Patrick_27 wrote:Waewick wrote:monotonehell wrote:Was just (9:30pm 23/8/2015) walking down Rundle Mall, the part between KWS and Charles Street is completely blocked to pedestrians and work is going ahead. Also there's workers in the pole pits at the Pulteney Street end. So something is going on.
Probably removing the poles
Was there a last minute miracle that means the lights would no longer require the support of those eyesores?
Was joking
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Kasey771
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by Kasey771 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:10 am
Waewick wrote:monotonehell wrote:Was just (9:30pm 23/8/2015) walking down Rundle Mall, the part between KWS and Charles Street is completely blocked to pedestrians and work is going ahead. Also there's workers in the pole pits at the Pulteney Street end. So something is going on.
Probably removing the poles
I get this warm glow in my belly when I imagine the heads of various Advertiser columnists exploding if this were true:)
Big infrastructure investments are usually under-valued and & over-criticized while in the planning stage. It's much easier to envision the here and now costs and inconveniences, and far more difficult to imagine fully the eventual benefits.
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by monotonehell » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:11 am
Not tight yet but progress. On the Myer Centre.
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by Ben » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:54 am
monotonehell wrote:Not tight yet but progress. On the Myer Centre.
Is the circus in town?
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by crawf » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:37 pm
I haven't got high hope for this anymore. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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by Ben » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:41 pm
Just walked through the mall and looks as bad as my worst fears. It may look ok at night time but there is no hiding all those wires during the day.
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by bits » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:52 pm
I find overhead cables feel like a roof. It completely destroys a nice open feeling free sky gives you. Rundle Malls beauty is its open air, putting a roof feeling in has got to be bad.
I get a cramped feeling as you drive down north east rd(mostly between ABC and Holden Hill police station.) with all the over head cables. If they were removed the just the street crossing cables that road would look so much better.
Rundle Mall will surely give me the same cramped feeling after these lights are installed.
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by monotonehell » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:31 pm
crawf wrote:
I haven't got high hope for this anymore. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I think they will look a lot better after they are tightened and put vertical. The picture is one hanging lose, from the side.
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by Matt » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:46 pm
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by Patrick_27 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:11 pm
It would appear that they're working down to the wire here...
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by claybro » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:42 pm
Is Rundle Mall the next tram extension?
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