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• Use the existing South Road alignment

Westside wrote:Here's my visionary prediction on the future of the N-S motorway. It's pretty complex, so I hope I can describe it accurately:

• Use the existing South Road alignment

Westside wrote:Here's my visionary prediction on the future of the N-S motorway. It's pretty complex, so I hope I can describe it accurately:

• Use the existing South Road alignment

RayRichards wrote:I came up with an alternative to the R4 and R5 sections. Most of the route follows James Congdon Drive from South Road, through to Port Road Thebarton, across diagonally to Cawthorne Tce up to the River Torrens, and again diagonally across with Adam Street to the existing start of the current Torrens to Torrens project.

Regards.
Ray.

Llessur2002 wrote:My route requires zero property acquisitions.

rev wrote:

Norman wrote:Most of those motorways were designed in the 1960s and 1970s, things have chanced since then in terms of city and transport planning.

As I said earlier, most freeways today are designed for freight purposes, not commuting to the city. Look at WestConnex (Airport/Port Botany), Roe8 (Fremantle Port), Western Distributor (Port of Melbourne), Northern Connector (Outer Harbor), etc...

And what's being built in Adelaide is following along a very similar path/plan to what was laid out in the original MATS plan. So what point where you trying to make about their design being from a few decades ago?
We had an extensive tram network once in Adelaide, long before the MATS plan, and now we are trying to rebuild it small piece by small piece. Are you saying we shouldn't, because it's a decades old design/technology or something...?

The flavor of the month may be to try and get more commuters onto public transport, and more freight vehicles off suburban roads and eventually onto motorways, but that doesn't take away from the fact that private commuter vehicles will be the biggest users in terms of numbers of these new motorways/freeways being built.
And as long as there are cars to buy, they will continue being the biggest users of road infrastructure.

The case of motorways/freeways for freight is a separate issue and shouldn't detract from the fact that me, in my personal vehicle, and the tens of thousands of others in their personal vehicles, will outnumber the amount of trucks on these motorways by several times.

crawf wrote:Agreed 100%. It would be very bad planning.

The Government should have acquired this site.

rhino wrote:

crawf wrote:Agreed 100%. It would be very bad planning.

The Government should have acquired this site.

fixed that for you

drsmith wrote:Has it been decided yet along that section as to which side of South Road land would be acquired for the future expressway ?