PRO: Port Adelaide Tramline | $260m

[Wayno]

I find it rather disappointing that the power lines along Port Road won't be undergrounded.

i agree - Port Rd would look "quite the boulevard" without those massive stobie poles...

[Will409]

I am personally a little bit perplexed at the overhead gantries shown at the Entertainment Centre stop. For a tramline, you don't really need gantry work of quite that scale unless it may be part of the 600V DC - 25,000V 50Hz AC wiring transition between light and heavy rail networks.

[monotonehell]

I find it rather disappointing that the power lines along Port Road won't be undergrounded.

You want to underground the power lines, but you're quite okay with a gantry line being set up for the trams. Hypocrite!


(joking )

[Will409]

Just found these images on the DTEI website showing the tramline in more detail then the community brochure. Going by these impressions, the Entertainment Centre stop roof will actually be hanging from the line side gantries with no connection to the platform at all, certainly thinking outside of the box there.

http://www.dtei.sa.gov.au/infrastructur ... mpressions


Entertainment Centre












Bonython Park.


(New) Royal Adelaide Hospital.

[adam73837]

I did work experience today with Aurecon today and was told that construction is due to start tomorrow which is good to see!

[UrbanSG]

Wow, great find Will409.

The overhang glass shelters look very interesting. Thankfully they have made the entertainment centre stop nice and wide as it could get busy there at times. Might also be to do with the adjacent flag pole and future extension to Port Adelaide.

This is definately the next step to a system linking up to Port Adelaide, exciting times for public transport in Adelaide for a change.

[joshzxzx]

Awesome...

I really love the design.. i also love it how the street scape will look once the development is completed... I beleive that it will revitalise the area just like the extension did with the end of King William street...

Bring it on..

Does anyone know if they will be working 24hours a day like they did in the city?

[Shuz]

I like it a lot!

This government sure knows how to put the sexy in infrastructure

[Will409]

And so it begins...

Work has officially commenced on the tramline extension this morning with the first job being removal of the trees on the northern side of North Terrace being removed to make way for the widened boulevard. This job looks like being attacked with gusto since I saw atleast three gangs of tree loppers at work with another group making temporary fencing all the way to Port Road bridge.

While that is the only major work being performed at the moment, I did also notice some surveying equipment on Port Road bridge as well as some temporary 'truck entering' signs having been erected on Port Road near the new Entertainment Centre tram stop site.

Temporary pedestrian diversion fencing.



Tree lopping underway.





Fencing being erected on Port Road beyond West Terrace intersection.



Survey equipment on Port Road bridge.


New truck signage on Port Road median strip.

[joshzxzx]

Bloody hell...

AWESOME pics... They give a good indication on what is occurring here...

[UrbanSG]

Great set of pics Will409. First set for this extension, well done! Keep up the good work.

[Norman]

Thanks Will!

[mattblack]

Does anyone know where the 'entertainment tram' will terminate? The glenelg ones will obviously terminate at the new RAH stop, but surely the new trams will terminate at south terrace.

[citybangbang]

I think it is going to join up to the railtracks soon after the ec, well before south road

[rhino]

I think it is going to join up to the railtracks soon after the ec, well before south road

I think mattblack meant "where will the southern terminus of the trams from the Entertainment Centre be?"

Probably South Terrace, unless they are continuing on to Glenelg.