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Here is a radical idea to solve that argument: the land owners are responsible for maintaining gardens in the median. After all, they are the ones who benefit from the gardens.claybro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:43 pmFinally someone has cottoned on in Adelaide that if the arterial roads can be made more pleasant with decent landscaping and planning, then investment and commerce will follow. Ironic, because about 20 years ago, MN Rd in this area had carpet roses planted on the median strip, but it all became too hard to maintain. An argument developed over who was responsible to maintain it all, and eventually got ripped up. Same with the farce that became the Greenhill road median...once a beautiful, irrigated strip of lawn and shady trees was left to die, whilst the councils argued over who was to maintain it and eventually blamed the drought. Hopefully any efforts in this case will be better maintained, but Im not holding my breath.
It's about time SOMETHING was done. It has changed very little in the past few decades. You're certainly right about the shade. Since it's the Prospect council is proposing this, the other end on the road (towards Enfield/Blair Athol) wouldn't be included.Llessur2002 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:06 pmLong overdue - it's a very bland and depressing road at the moment and a nightmare to walk along in the summer due to the complete lack of shade. Hopefully the landscaping will be maintained into the future.
Here's an even more radical idea..councils put some of the tens of millions they collect from rate payers to good use and maintain the vegetation within their boundaries.1NEEDS2POST wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:33 pmHere is a radical idea to solve that argument: the land owners are responsible for maintaining gardens in the median. After all, they are the ones who benefit from the gardens.claybro wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:43 pmFinally someone has cottoned on in Adelaide that if the arterial roads can be made more pleasant with decent landscaping and planning, then investment and commerce will follow. Ironic, because about 20 years ago, MN Rd in this area had carpet roses planted on the median strip, but it all became too hard to maintain. An argument developed over who was responsible to maintain it all, and eventually got ripped up. Same with the farce that became the Greenhill road median...once a beautiful, irrigated strip of lawn and shady trees was left to die, whilst the councils argued over who was to maintain it and eventually blamed the drought. Hopefully any efforts in this case will be better maintained, but Im not holding my breath.
I hear and agree with what you say, and it needs an extra lane in certain places. But surely the premier road to the Barossa is now the Northern Expressway.claybro wrote:Interestingly, councils have for years been saying they cannot maintain main road medians as they are under the DPTI. Now suddenly they can plant trees. Well and good but when the trees die through lack of maintenance, they will just blame the DPTI again. On a semi related matter,Main North Road between Gepps Cross and Gawler is an absolute disgrace. Road surface is like a goat track - median strip is dying/dead grass and shrubs. Not a good look for the main route to our premier tourist attraction The Barossa.
There's quite a lot of earth moving/site works activity going on. I'd say it's site works for Kaufland.Sephiroth_FF wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:18 pmThere's seems to be some activity at the Kaufland site. Hopefully they're starting to build it.
Thats for the Munno Para store. Prospect is still going ahead afaik.Vormund wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:06 pmLooks like the prospect store is canned. Paywall article.
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A few days after I posted, there were a whole lot of articles confirming that work has commenced. It'll apparently take a year to build and will first be used as a test store (it didn't say how long for). I'll post a link shortly.rev wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:34 pmThere's quite a lot of earth moving/site works activity going on. I'd say it's site works for Kaufland.Sephiroth_FF wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:18 pmThere's seems to be some activity at the Kaufland site. Hopefully they're starting to build it.