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Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:52 am

The Liberals plan for a park'n'ride at the Paradise O-Bahn Interchange.
From The Advertiser

SA election 2018: Liberals promise Paradise Park ‘n’ Ride if they win office


POLITICAL DRIVE: An artist’s impression of the Liberals’ plan for a $7.5 million a Park ‘n’ Ride facility at Paradise.

THE Liberal Party has fired the first salvo as it seeks to prevent Nick Xenophon returning to State Parliament, pledging $7.5 million to build a Park ‘n’ Ride facility at Paradise if it wins the state election.

Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said the Park ‘n’ Ride was “desperately needed” and the commitment was the result of Hartley MP Vincent Tarzia’s “concerted campaign” for the project.

Mr Tarzia faces an uphill battle to retain Hartley at March’s election, in a tussle against SA Best leader Nick Xenophon and former Labor education minister Grace Portolesi.

A new carpark at the Paradise interchange was promised by Labor in the lead-up to the 2014 election, but abandoned after its carpark tax was defeated in the Upper House.

Mr Marshall said the proposed facility would provide more than 300 new parking spaces for users of the O-Bahn tunnel, easing the “parking and congestion problems” facing local residents.

“If elected, a Liberal gov­ernment will deliver this important project for public transport users in the northeastern suburbs who have been waiting for years for better parking infrastructure at Paradise,” he said.

Full article : http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 9e5fa10da9

Lol

This Park'n'Ride would have already been built and people would have already enjoyed the benefits of extra parking at Paradise had the Liberal party and Xenophon Party not blocked the State Government’s plans to fund this project in 2014.

Thanks to Liberal Leader Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon Party blocking the Transport Development Levy, funding for Paradise and another seven Park ‘n’ Ride facilities being scoped was blocked.

citywatcher wrote:They paved paradise put up a parking lot

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PeFe wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:06 pm

The Paradise Interchange and the Modbury Interchange must have the best frequencies for public transport in Adelaide.

My guess there is a bus every 2 minutes during the day, and probably every 10 minutes at night, nowhere else in the metro area gets this level of service....
and how many people live close, or can walk to this great public transport.......very very few...
This is the great failing of the O-Bahn experiment, inability to increase patronage (easily) by bringing people closer to the node points (ie the interchanges)

All is not so gloomy though, Tea Tree Plaza have recently announced an upgrade to the shopping centre (it desperately to get rid of the downmarket 1960's feel it currently has) The interchange could easily be turned into a tod (paid for by a developer in exchange for the privilege of building apartments over the top)
Would this work at Modbury? I think it would....the hospital is nearby and I am sure quality apartments would attract nurses/doctors/health workers etc

And if Modbury was successful as a tod, then i think it will be easier to rezone around the Paradise Interchange, hopefully this will be possible in the near future especially if the park'n'ride is never built.

PeFe wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:06 pm

The Paradise Interchange and the Modbury Interchange must have the best frequencies for public transport in Adelaide.

My guess there is a bus every 2 minutes during the day, and probably every 10 minutes at night, nowhere else in the metro area gets this level of service....
and how many people live close, or can walk to this great public transport.......very very few...
This is the great failing of the O-Bahn experiment, inability to increase patronage (easily) by bringing people closer to the node points (ie the interchanges)