COM: Northern Expressway | 22km

[Paulns]

Would this new road make the current PREXY stretch between South Rd and Port Wakefield pretty much obsolete? As it is mostly wetlands either side of the road wouldnt imagine much traffic through it.

No way mate, heaps of people use this stretch of road to travel onto the Salisbury Highway to the Northern Suburbs. The Northern Connector is being principally designed to cater for heavy vehicle traffic between the Barossa Valley and Riverland regions and Port Adelaide, via the Northern and Port River Expressways. Most local traffic for people that live between Mawson Lakes and Waterloo Corner will still use the currant Salisbury Highway and Port Wakefield Road.

By the way drove past the Port Wakefield Road Interchange yesterday and it is coming along veeeery nicely! Already bitumising the ramps either side of the bridge. Hopefully this one should be open in a couple of months. I think this bridge will give people an awesome view of the city as they approach from the north! Especially at night. Can't wait for this to open to traffic!

[RayRichards]

[/quote] By the way drove past the Port Wakefield Road Interchange yesterday and it is coming along veeeery nicely! Already bitumising the ramps either side of the bridge. Hopefully this one should be open in a couple of months. I think this bridge will give people an awesome view of the city as they approach from the north! Especially at night. Can't wait for this to open to traffic![/quote]

Yes! That will a good one to drive over! Reading the Northen Connector webpage seems to show that the proposed Interchange there will be a humdinger!

Ray.

[Brando]

I work on the project and although i find the roundabouts uncomfortable to drive around, traffic lights are a pain in the arse.

A jihad on traffic lights!

The Roundabouts arent the problem, it's the new windy roads that lead to them.

Ironic talking about this. One of the overpasses was closed yesterday due to a truck rollover on the roundabout.

[jk1237]

sorry to change subject and mods feel free to move it, but the volume of cars that travel on the south Rd connector and Port River expressway between the Port area and Salis/Eliz is enormous, yet there is no bus service of any shape or form that connects the north to the Port. Surely a bus from Mawson Interchange to Port Adelaide via Dry Creek (ie Cormac Rd) and Ottoway would cater for the odd worker in the thousands of industrial workplaces in that corridor

[DM8]

Found this on DTEI this morning - February "fact sheet":

http://www.dtei.sa.gov.au/__data/assets ... /int1D.PDF

[Aidan]

Note other bridges around Adelaide and you will see they don't follow the original road: Ie Grand Junction Rd over Gawler and Port Adelaide Train Lines. South Rd under Anzac Hwy is to the West of the original alignment. There are a lot more examples i'm sure. It makes a lot of sense really.

Long time reader, but first post, so here goes

So what happened when the "Southern Expressway" was built? Honeypot Rd,Flaxmill Rd and Young street are built on there original alignment.

I was out of the country at the time so am not 100% sure, but there was a wide reservation available for the Southern Expressway so making a temporary diversion wouldn't have been hard for Flaxmill and Honeypot Rds.

Young Street was quite different - the original alignment may have been the same horizontally, but it was completely different vertically. The bridge was not there before the Southern Expressway - it used to be a ford.

[RayRichards]

sorry to change subject and mods feel free to move it, but the volume of cars that travel on the south Rd connector and Port River expressway between the Port area and Salis/Eliz is enormous, yet there is no bus service of any shape or form that connects the north to the Port. Surely a bus from Mawson Interchange to Port Adelaide via Dry Creek (ie Cormac Rd) and Ottoway would cater for the odd worker in the thousands of industrial workplaces in that corridor

Good point and I agree 100% I mean you could even use rail again going through the suburbs you metioned. But that system was dumped 23 years ago. I know at least two blokes that could use it now and save juice for their car, save the environment and be able to drink a few on the way home!

Bus, Train or flying boat. For factory workers, routes need to get cranking by 4am in the morning to make any good use of it.

Ray.

[Hooligan]

sorry to change subject and mods feel free to move it, but the volume of cars that travel on the south Rd connector and Port River expressway between the Port area and Salis/Eliz is enormous, yet there is no bus service of any shape or form that connects the north to the Port. Surely a bus from Mawson Interchange to Port Adelaide via Dry Creek (ie Cormac Rd) and Ottoway would cater for the odd worker in the thousands of industrial workplaces in that corridor

Good point and I agree 100% I mean you could even use rail again going through the suburbs you metioned. But that system was dumped 23 years ago. I know at least two blokes that could use it now and save juice for their car, save the environment and be able to drink a few on the way home!

Bus, Train or flying boat. For factory workers, routes need to get cranking by 4am in the morning to make any good use of it.

Ray.

YES!!!!!! finally someone on this forum understands not everyone is a Desk Jockey. I don't use PT because it doesn't exist when i go to work.

[monotonehell]

YES!!!!!! finally someone on this forum understands not everyone is a Desk Jockey. I don't use PT because it doesn't exist when i go to work.

Hools, I think most people on here understand that. It's just the nature of the beast that high patronage routes get first look in. We're already seeing more crosstown bus routes being introduced.

[bm7500]

sorry to change subject and mods feel free to move it, but the volume of cars that travel on the south Rd connector and Port River expressway between the Port area and Salis/Eliz is enormous, yet there is no bus service of any shape or form that connects the north to the Port. Surely a bus from Mawson Interchange to Port Adelaide via Dry Creek (ie Cormac Rd) and Ottoway would cater for the odd worker in the thousands of industrial workplaces in that corridor

Good point and I agree 100% I mean you could even use rail again going through the suburbs you metioned. But that system was dumped 23 years ago. I know at least two blokes that could use it now and save juice for their car, save the environment and be able to drink a few on the way home!

Bus, Train or flying boat. For factory workers, routes need to get cranking by 4am in the morning to make any good use of it.

Ray.

YES!!!!!! finally someone on this forum understands not everyone is a Desk Jockey. I don't use PT because it doesn't exist when i go to work.

I live and work in that exact corridor that jk mentions above and i woudl use PT if it was convenient enough..

Anyway back on topic, there have been some heavy drilling and or excavation works happening on the Eastern side of the South Road overpass over the PREXY this week, with the number of workers onsite appearing to be ramping up.

[rhino]

there have been some heavy drilling and or excavation works happening on the Eastern side of the South Road overpass over the PREXY this week, with the number of workers onsite appearing to be ramping up.

Perhaps this needs to go into the South Road Upgrade thread, or maybe it's time we had a South Road Superway thread, relating specifically to that project?

[Nort]

Anyway back on topic, there have been some heavy drilling and or excavation works happening on the Eastern side of the South Road overpass over the PREXY this week, with the number of workers onsite appearing to be ramping up.

Is that just exploratory works seeing how stable the ground is for the superway? The superway doesn't start construction for at least a year yet and the Northern Expressway ends at Port Wakefield road.

[Paulns]

The Port Wakefield Road Interchange/bridge is nearing completion, should be driving over it very soon!!

[drsmith]

The Port Wakefield Road Interchange/bridge is nearing completion, should be driving over it very soon!!

Start your engines.

The bridge should be opening to northbound traffic today.

http://www.northernexpressway.sa.gov.au ... news#lnews

[russo92]

So the final beams were laid for the bridge today. Anyone happen to cap the Ten News story on it?