ChillyPhilly wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:47 am
flat04 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:35 am
The target demographic for the Unley Rd apartments isn't giving up their Mercedes for public transport though. Greenhill Rd should be more of a focus than Unley Rd?
Unley Road is ripe for a future tramline/high street designation. This is a step toward making that happen.
Absolutely!
The Suburb of Hyde Park had a population of 1677 at a density of 2709/sq km at the 2021 census. Unley: 4050 residents at density of 2740/sq km. If you add in an estimated 430 residents from the 246-252 Unley Rd developments (150 apartments and ~65 apartments/town houses at estimated 2 people per dwelling), 130 apartments / 260 residents at Unley Central and 45 dwellings/90 residents at 107 Unley Rd, then that adds 780 residents to Hyde Park & Unley. This boosts the area to 6507 residents at 3099/sq km (from 2727/ sq km).
For context, the city of Prague has a population density of around 4,000/sq km. This density across the urban area is sufficient to sustain an extensive bus, trolleybus and tram network and a 3 line subway (4th line under construction).
It doesn't take a lot of these higher density developments to make the area ideal for more permanent infrastructure like tram lines.
The recently built and proposed developments are a real shot in the arm. It would likely only take maybe 10 more developments of the scale of 246 Unley Rd development and you'd probably have sufficient density to have an Unley tram line running to Hyde Park, or maybe Cross Rd at a stretch.
