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Bob wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 26, 2017 4:01 pm

One of the options being considered is the possibility of running Bus Lanes in the Centre of Grenfell & Currie Streets with Super Stops east of Frome St, near Gawler Pl, immediately west of KW St and potentially one immediately west of Light Square. Each Super Stop would have platforms on each side, the rebuild of the roadway would include wider footpaths and increased street tree numbers along with street furniture, indented parking bays for Taxi Ranks & Loading Zones to fit within the scope of the Greening Adelaide City Masterplan.

Potential obstacles include the political sell that street parking will be reduced, right hand turns banned, and the cost of the redevelopment, which the ACC is not prepared to undertake alone, it already paid for Rundle Mall and the half-baked (far from finished) Victoria Square. With no Federal or State funds allocated the ACC will leave Grenfell – Currie Street untouched until Government funds in the future are allocated. In reality this translates to ‘expect nothing in the near future with this corridor outside a standard re asphalting of the surface which will be required in the next 2-3 years for safety reasons’.
The ongoing debate and differences of opinion between the State Government and the ACC is strangling what potentially could be a win-win solution, especially considering the unofficial expected passenger numbers using the OBahn will pass 10M annually within 3 years from the City Access Project completion. Chances are this number is conservative, once patrons discover peak travel time savings will exceed the ‘average 3.5 minutes per trip saving as part of the projects initial appeal’, in all likelihood peak hour savings away from the CBD between 1700 & 1800 will be 5- 8 minutes savings off current times. For comparison the Adelaide Railway Station today handles about 8-9M passengers annually.

Ignoring the obvious increased traffic congestion points about to unfold from the end of this year will not take the issue away, that issue being Governments at all levels will need to cooperate and agree upon the final plan and funding for the main east –west bus corridor through the city.

This will be further exasperated if Bus services from Norwood, Kensington & Burnside districts all use the same city corridor once the old RAH closes.

Taking the task head on now instead of the backroom chatter currently taking place, is the only way to sensibly tackle what is going to be a big project in the middle of the CBD sooner or later. He said, she said, is not a professional way to agree, plan and fund this critical transport corridor.

Bob wrote: ↑

Tue May 22, 2018 1:03 pm

Commuters left behind as O-Bahn buses hit capacity

https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2018/ ... -capacity/

More buses and more services required...

Transport Minister Stephan Knoll declined to comment on whether O-Bahn routes were under-serviced but argued that Adelaide Metro performed well overall, given that an average of 9400 bus services operate across Adelaide daily.

“That means of the 2.4 million bus services each year on weekdays, only 0.2 per cent of those are reported as full in that they can’t take on more passengers,” Knoll said in a statement to InDaily.

“That means 99.8 per cent of bus services aren’t reported as full and are able to take on more passengers.”

On routes that include the O-Bahn, Adelaide Metro received a report that a bus was full and unable to pick up additional waiting commuters an average of 48 times each weekday between 1 April 2017 and 31 March this year.

adelaide transport wrote: ↑

Tue May 22, 2018 9:24 pm

That is totally wrong. One of the key benefits of the O-Bahn is the ability to continue off-track at both Paradise and Tea Tree Plaza Interchanges.