News & Discussion: General CBD Development

[Ben]

The middle school building at St Aloysius has been complete demolished. I’m surprised it wasn’t heritage listed.

[abc]

The middle school building at St Aloysius has been complete demolished. I’m surprised it wasn’t heritage listed.

for reference, the first few seconds of the video shows the school prior to demolition

[floplo]

Those nice little touches

The Queen's Wall on the side of the Queen's theatre.

[ml69]

Not sure where this post fits, mods please move if it’s in the wrong section.
I’ve just visited Hobart. Their CBD is full of one-way streets. I was impressed with how smoothly the traffic moves with this system - it seems you almost always have a green light. For visitors, it’s a bit confusing initially but you soon see the benefits. Should certainly be considered for certain narrow streets in the Adelaide CBD - perhaps Pirie/Waymouth St and even Hindley/Rundle St.
Thoughts?

[[Shuz]]

One way streets wouldn't work in Adelaide due to the hierarchy of the street grid.

Basically each east-west street follows an alternating major / minor thoroughfare pattern.

To optimise traffic flow, you would want a major / minor / minor / major pattern - then it would work because the 2 consecutive minor streets would be the one way thoroughfares.

I think the best solutions to manage traffic flow ironically would be to invest in public transit measures which have the intended effect of mode-shifting, thus reducing traffic which makes it flow better for those who actually need to use it (courier trucks).

1. Closing the entirety of Rundle Street and Hindley Streets and converting it into a mile long pedestrian mall (similar to Swanston Street, Melbourne).

2. Constructing a bus only tunnel with "super stops" underneath Currie and Grenfell Streets (similar to Queen Street Busway, Brisbane).

3. Underground CBD rail loop.