News & Discussion: Other Transport Projects

[zap brannigan]

imagine if this $300M was spent on fixing adelaide's roads instead of massaging media mike's massive ego.

The Rann government has spent billions on fixing South Australia's roads. I wonder how much the Libs would've spent on Transport and Infrastructure if they were in power.

i'm sure they would do the same.

[Westside]

You know what I can't stand are the Lib voters that put sh!t on the Government for their plans and put so highly on a pedestal the Libs plans. And I hate the Labour voters who put sh!t on the Oppositions plans and put so highly on a pedestal the Labour plans. Has anyone realised that both parties are putting forward identical policies? The only difference is what part of town we will need to go to to see the football or visit the hospital and whether our water will be salty or oily! The only way anything will get done in this state is if people were open minded to all suggestions and didn't vote the same in every election because "Im a L*** voter and I'll always vote L***"

[zap brannigan]

does anyone know if the intersection of daws and springbank roads on goodwood road is being straightened out?
the two roads are not aligned and some blocks of land around the intersection have been cleared.

[Wayno]

does anyone know if the intersection of daws and springbank roads on goodwood road is being straightened out?
the two roads are not aligned and some blocks of land around the intersection have been cleared.

i'd love that to happen, and an underpass would even be better - but alack and forsooth, i've heard of no plans for either...

[rhino]

Now that Regency Road and Mullers Road have been aligned with each other, I think we will see more of it. Certainly a Springbank Road / Daws Road realignment would save many minutes of travelling time. I notice there's also been some land clearing around the Marion Road / Holbrooks Road miss-alignment. How long has it been since Tapleys Hill Road and Brighton Road were lined up with each other? Maybe we'll get one re-alignment every 10 years

[DM8]

As I understand, the Regency/Muller/Hampstead Rd and The Parade/Portrush Rd intersections were realligned because Hampstead and Portrush Rds are a major freight route on the Auslink network, and these intersections got federal funding to fix up.

Springbank/Daws Rds and others like Marion/Holbrooks Rds and Holbrooks Rd/East Ave are off-network, and I reckon will remain as they are for some time yet unless there is political motivation to do something about them. Even if they qualify for the black spot program (not sure if they're black spots or not), I don't think the funding would be sufficient to meet the millions needed to reallign the roads (I remember the supposed "black spot" at Montague/McIntyre Rds where pretty much all they did was restripe the road to give Montague Rd two lanes through the intersection, but they merge back in to one on either side - lots of near misses there with people who don't know how to merge, so I'm not sure how it's been "improved").

[zap brannigan]

Now that Regency Road and Mullers Road have been aligned with each other, I think we will see more of it. Certainly a Springbank Road / Daws Road realignment would save many minutes of travelling time. I notice there's also been some land clearing around the Marion Road / Holbrooks Road miss-alignment. How long has it been since Tapleys Hill Road and Brighton Road were lined up with each other? Maybe we'll get one re-alignment every 10 years

that whole marion/holbrooks/hanson road corridor is way out of alignment. they would have to run a big bulldozer thru the suburbs to get the roads joined up.
i wonder why these roads were laid down in such a chaotic fashion... there is no sense to it.

maybe the town planners were pissed at the time.

[RayRichards]

All these roads mentioned are very good candidates for realigning. How about Majors/Black Road and Realign Hampstead/Tauntan/Ascot Roads so there is only one set of traffic lights instead of two. That ones under the Feds yeah.

Ray.

[rhino]

i wonder why these roads were laid down in such a chaotic fashion... there is no sense to it.

I believe this had something to do with keeping the surveyed section sizes roughly equal, while allowing the most sections access to water from the Torrens. I was told this a few decades ago when I first started working as a cartographer. Generally, the roads that run north-south through Adelaide's metropolitan area are set one mile apart. In the Torrens corridor, this gets shot to hell, then once the corridor has been crossed, it's all back to normal again. In the western suburbs the corridor runs between Henley Beach Road and Grange Road. In the eastern suburbs it's between Payneham / Lower North East road and the North East Road.

[peas_and_corn]

A roundabout is being installed in the Grand Junction/Hancock road intersection... should be better than what's currently there.

[bm7500]

A roundabout is being installed in the Grand Junction/Hancock road intersection... should be better than what's currently there.

Yes that's good to hear, it's always been a dangerous intersection.

[peas_and_corn]

A roundabout is being installed in the Grand Junction/Hancock road intersection... should be better than what's currently there.

Yes that's good to hear, it's always been a dangerous intersection.

Tom Kenyon- who seems to be more interested in giving me information the past 6 months for some reason- sent me the plans, though I don't have a scanner so I'll have difficulties uploading it. The changes also include realigning the approach from lower north east road, so that it's more at right angles.

[DM8]

A friend of mine who used to live just off Hancock Rd mentioned to me a while back that Tea Tree Gully council had plans (going back some years now) to realign and straighten the whole stretch of Lwr N.E. Rd from just north of Barracks Rd through to Perseverence Road, but this fell through (council didn't want to spend the money I'd say).

Personally, I'd like to see Lwe N.E. Rd straightened through to the new rounabout at Hancock/Grand Jnc Rds, and the stretch of Lwr N.E. Rd between Hancock and Perseverence Rds decommissioned so that Perseverence Rd meets Grand Jnc Rd at a T-Junction. Thoughts?

[peas_and_corn]

A friend of mine who used to live just off Hancock Rd mentioned to me a while back that Tea Tree Gully council had plans (going back some years now) to realign and straighten the whole stretch of Lwr N.E. Rd from just north of Barracks Rd through to Perseverence Road, but this fell through (council didn't want to spend the money I'd say).

Personally, I'd like to see Lwe N.E. Rd straightened through to the new rounabout at Hancock/Grand Jnc Rds, and the stretch of Lwr N.E. Rd between Hancock and Perseverence Rds decommissioned so that Perseverence Rd meets Grand Jnc Rd at a T-Junction. Thoughts?

I'm not 100% on this, but wouldn't that mean putting lower north east through a house?

[DM8]

Nope, the land is unoccupied.

Perhaps this illustrates the idea better:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&m ... 5bb3287546
(Lower N.E. Rd realigned to follow the blue line, and the existing road that curves around to the east and up to the Grand Jnc/Perseverence Rd intersection decommissioned)