News & Discussion: Other Transport Projects

[Straze]

Blackwood Bus Interchange temporarily closed from Monday 1 March to Sunday 21 March 2010
The Blackwood Bus Interchange will be closed from Monday 1 March to Sunday 21 March 2010 to undergo upgrades that include new roadway and footpath, bus stops, passenger shelters and a new pedestrian crossing to ensure the comfort and safety of customers.

Customers are advised to use the temporary bus interchange located in the eastern car park adjacent the Blackwood Railway Station.

Buses will depart from temporary Zones A, B and C. Please see below for service information.

Zone A:

• 173, 194, 194F, 196, 196F, 694, 894, 894H, G30

Zone B:

• 600, 601, 605 to Aberfoyle Hub/Flagstaff Hill

Zone C:

• 600, 601 to Glenelg

Blackwood Map.pdf

Thanks to the people at Adelaide Metro for this information. For further details go to http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au

[fabricator]

Why didn't they do this when the were rebuilding the track and station last year ?
No one would have minded as much with the substitute buses if the interchange was moved. The carpark would have been empty too.

[Norman]

About time too, the road surface on Station Road is disgracefully bad.

[jase111]

does anyone know if there are plans for underpass/overpass at the oaklands morphett road train crossing
and the hove crossing on brighton road

[AtD]

^^ No plans as far as we're aware.

[fabricator]

does anyone know if there are plans for underpass/overpass at the oaklands morphett road train crossing

There was one planned years ago, it got canned and the land sold off.

[DM8]

Why doesn't that surprise me? You'd hope that by now they would have learnt from mistakes made in the early 80s.

[Aidan]

Found on the ABC website:

Locals in the outback say a proposal to seal the Birdsville Track would easily double the number of tourists using the road.
The track has faced closure several times this year because of heavy rain and floods.
Queensland MP Bruce Scott is keen to see bitumen all the way from Adelaide to Townsville across inland Australia.
He is keen to see the Mt Isa-Birdsville road sealed within five years.

It sounds like a good idea, but I wonder how effective it would really be. ISTM sealing the road is unlikely to stop floods closing it.

[Isiskii]

Didn't know where to post this as it covers a wide array of transportation projects; but nonetheless an article from The Advertiser today.

$1bn more needed for road plan
Bryan Littlely. Investigations Editor
The Advertiser
December 27, 2010 12:00am


An artist's impression of the proposed Darlington Project, looking south along South Road to the Sturt Road underpass, Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre.
Source: The Advertiser

GOVERNMENTS need to find an extra $1 billion for a non-stop, north-south Adelaide roadway, the RAA says.

It says governments must urgently commit funds to planned major upgrades along the South Rd corridor to deliver the free-flowing artery.

In its latest submission to the State Government, the RAA backs a complex plan to address Adelaide's worst traffic bottleneck at Darlington, but says the plan - including a Sturt Rd underpass and extension of the railway to Flinders Medical Centre - must be implemented in full.

The cost of the State Government's wish list for the Darlington project would exceed $1 billion.

More than $2.5 billion worth of transport infrastructure projects will reach major milestones in 2011.

These include major works on the $812 million northern-suburbs Superway, completion of the Noarlunga railway line upgrade at $300 million and the start of the $400 million railway network electrification and the $445 million duplication of the Southern Expressway.

RAA senior manager of mobility and safety Wendy Bevan said it had been the association's "number one priority for many years" to have a non-stop, north-south corridor for metropolitan Adelaide.

"Major projects such as the Gallipoli Underpass and the Northern Expressway are now complete and are providing travel time and road safety benefits for private and commercial transport," she said.

"The RAA supports the proposed Darlington project, including the plans to extend rail to both Flinders University and Flinders Hospital, and welcomes the re-announcement of the planning for the critical section of South Road between Grand Junction Rd and Gallipoli Underpass.

"What is most critical... is that these projects are not only planned, but funded and delivered.

"The RAA urges both federal and state governments to commit to funding as a matter of priority."

Tenders for the $6 million Federal Government-funded Darlington Transport Study will be called for early next year. Funding also has been allocated to plan solutions for South Rd from Torrens Rd to the Gallipoli Underpass.

Transport Minister Patrick Conlon said yesterday the currently unfunded Darlington Transport Study was "a massive set of projects".

"There's no doubt that the total of it would be a hugely beneficial set of infrastructure projects," Mr Conlon said.

"But every element has a lot of value in its own right.

"We would be looking to the Commonwealth for a major part of the funding for the projects.

"The numbers are very good and fit entirely with what the Commonwealth wants to do."

Mr Conlon said that next year the SA public would begin to realise how big and beneficial transport infrastructure building was.

"We've gone from having a Transport Department that would get itself in a fair amount of strife on projects to one that is delivering projects looked upon by the Commonwealth as a model for how to do it right," he said.

[Jim Boukas]

An artist's impression of the proposed Darlington Project, looking south along South Road to the Sturt Road underpass, Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre.Source: The Advertiser

That is very impressive, looks like something out of the 21st century well done SA for finally moving out of the 1800's

It's a shame that the $800+ million is being spent at regency park isn't going towards the portion between Gallipoli and regency road, albeit the $30m SA spent on the south road study tells us it takes priority, it's still a shame.

However progress is progress and at least this state is heading in the right direction from a road infrastructure perspective that is, i seriously need a cold shower!!!

[NoobyMcNooberton]

We like our underpasses

[metro]

Looks like they're building a new info centre at Adelaide railway station inside the paid area

shouldn't take very long to build..

[jase111]

Why in s.a. Do we not have a comprehensive transport plan for road, rail,pt,.
How many roads in metro Adelaide that have overpass/underpass then have rail crossings
I can think of least 5

[DM8]

Why in s.a. Do we not have a comprehensive transport plan for road, rail,pt,.

I recall Pat Conlon saying we don't need one.

Credibility=zero *sigh*

[[Shuz]]

Relating to the North-South Corridor

Port's export bonanza needs swift road link
Jill Pengelly and Ken McGregor
The Advertiser September 29, 2011 12:00AM

Rapid growth in exports from Port Adelaide has heightened the need to complete the north-south corridor.

THE north-south corridor must be completed at all costs, the state's peak transport body says.

Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics research released yesterday shows exports from Port Adelaide jumped almost 15 per cent in the 2009-10 financial year.

Speaking at a transport conference in Adelaide yesterday, Infrastructure and Transport Department deputy secretary Lyn O'Connell said imports through the nation's capital city ports were also growing, up 5 per cent.

"This is significantly faster than growth in overall road traffic in capital cities, meaning an increasing proportion of traffic on our roads is freight being driven from ports," she said.

Freight through container ports was expected to more than double by 2030, but improved vehicle productivity would mean the number of trucks would grow more slowly than the amount of freight they carried.

"This still represents strong growth in demand for our scarce road space, with the number of trucks on urban roads forecast to grow 50 per cent by 2030," Ms O'Connell said.

RAA senior manager of mobility and safety Wendy Bevan said the statistics were further proof the north-south corridor must be completed - something she feared would never happen.

Ms Bevan said $1 billion of state and federal funding still needed to be invested, otherwise the bottlenecks would just be moved from one intersection to another.

"Unless further funding is found we are worried it will never happen," she said.

Ms Bevan said the state needed to look at the bigger picture and see the benefits of developing the key route along from Darlington to the northern suburbs.

"It is an integral corridor but it is is congested, while some good work is getting done you will just shift the bottlenecks if you do not complete the job."

She said a fully completed north-south corridor would in time save money because it would allow freight to use the route efficiently.

The north-south transport corridor runs between Gawler and Old Noarlunga and includes the Southern Expressway and the Northern Expressway.

Construction is under way on the South Rd Superway, between Regency Rd and the Port River Expressway.

Work on duplication of the Southern Expressway has been slated for late 2011, with plans to open to traffic in 2014. Plans for other sections of South Rd are yet to be determined.