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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#796 Post by Kasey771 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:25 am

timtam20292 wrote:Awesome photos! :applause:
Yes! thank you Norman..great stuff! I wonder if there has been a choice made to not allow a top down shot from a drone to prevent the parklands lobby from freaking out before the landscaping has been done Only asking because I haven't seen one and I would love to get a better sense of the tunnel from a still aerial shot directly overhead. Too bad nearmap is behind a paywall now :(
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#797 Post by monotonehell » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:46 am

bits wrote:Plus I am sure the tunnel has drains/pumps.
Boy, does it have. Redundancy and monitoring systems at 'Star Trek: Next Generation' levels. If anything goes wrong... well things go wrong despite engineers best efforts. /pessimist :lol:
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#798 Post by monotonehell » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:49 am

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timtam20292 wrote:Awesome photos! :applause:
Yes! thank you Norman..great stuff! I wonder if there has been a choice made to not allow a top down shot from a drone to prevent the parklands lobby from freaking out before the landscaping has been done Only asking because I haven't seen one and I would love to get a better sense of the tunnel from a still aerial shot directly overhead. Too bad nearmap is behind a paywall now :(
There's been two sets of drone videos commissioned by the Advertiser. They keep them behind their pay-wall, but a google search will usually get you a free taste.

They only did it when the parklands were at their most excavated - I think they were designed just to outrage.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=drone+obahn
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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#799 Post by timtam20292 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:12 pm

Kasey771 wrote:
timtam20292 wrote:Awesome photos! :applause:
Yes! thank you Norman..great stuff! I wonder if there has been a choice made to not allow a top down shot from a drone to prevent the parklands lobby from freaking out before the landscaping has been done Only asking because I haven't seen one and I would love to get a better sense of the tunnel from a still aerial shot directly overhead. Too bad nearmap is behind a paywall now :(

My comment was in response to the photos that The Scooter Guy posted but having said that, Norman does post amazing photo updates. :applause:

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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#800 Post by duke » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:52 pm

I note on the second to last page of that report, it shows an underground "tunnel services building" http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/__d ... pdate_.pdf

I assume this would be for water and air pumping?

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#801 Post by I Follow PAFC » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:11 pm

From https://www.facebook.com/DPTISA/
The O-Bahn City Access Project has reached a new milestone, with the final roof plank being lifted into place for the Rymill Park section of the O-Bahn tunnel.
To date 425 metres of roof planks have been installed on the new 670 metre tunnel.
Works to install roof planks on the remaining sections of the O-Bahn tunnel are expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2017.
For more information about the O-Bahn City Access Project: http://bit.ly/1QKaiMa
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#802 Post by The Scooter Guy » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:07 pm

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#803 Post by Ser Noit of Loit » Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:38 pm

Kasey771 wrote:
timtam20292 wrote:Awesome photos! :applause:
Yes! thank you Norman..great stuff! I wonder if there has been a choice made to not allow a top down shot from a drone to prevent the parklands lobby from freaking out before the landscaping has been done Only asking because I haven't seen one and I would love to get a better sense of the tunnel from a still aerial shot directly overhead. Too bad nearmap is behind a paywall now :(
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#804 Post by The Scooter Guy » Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:49 pm

If anyone has access to Nearmap, please post some progress pics too!
They're of much better quality!
For starters, my avatar is the well-known Adelaide Aquatic Centre insignia from 1989.

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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#805 Post by Kasey771 » Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:52 pm

Ser Noit of Loit wrote:
Kasey771 wrote:
timtam20292 wrote:Awesome photos! :applause:
Yes! thank you Norman..great stuff! I wonder if there has been a choice made to not allow a top down shot from a drone to prevent the parklands lobby from freaking out before the landscaping has been done Only asking because I haven't seen one and I would love to get a better sense of the tunnel from a still aerial shot directly overhead. Too bad nearmap is behind a paywall now :(
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Outstanding!! that's exactly what I was after. Thank you very much!
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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#806 Post by Kasey771 » Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:21 pm

Today was the Advertiser's annual, "gee the Clipsal is a real PITA for traffic" bleat.
One of the pictures they used showed a glimpse of the tunnel under North Terrace
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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#807 Post by AroundADL » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:48 pm

What is the expected opening date of the tunnel?

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#808 Post by Norman » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:10 pm

Late 2017. No date has been set yet.

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#809 Post by citywatcher » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:19 pm

Went past today
Seems like a truckload of work to be done still

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Re: News & Discussion: O-Bahn

#810 Post by Patrick_27 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:29 am

Looking through those aerial shots, goes to show how much more sense it would have made to have stuck with the original proposal of closing Rundle Road and creating a new road along the channel of the tunnel... They won't be able to plant trees along the that channel to fill in the gaps and closing Rundle Road would have made for a reasonably large chunk of parkland returned. Did the APPA even know what they were protesting for?

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