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Why do you hate it, you don't even use it or live that way.Shuz wrote:-facepalms-
I haaaaaaate the freakin' O-Bahn. The whole thing should just be a train line, not some antiquidated 1980's busway which very few cities have taken up on the concept of.
That's what my question was this morning... Unless they plan to locate the stops in the middle of the road, just like tram stops, I don't see how the free flow of traffic would happen. But to do that they will have to run buses in the opposite direction, which is sheer madness... I'm a bit confused here, guess will have to wait for the official map to be released.peas_and_corn wrote:The bus lanes will go down the middle of Grenfell/Currie? Does that mean they will lurch across the lanes to go to a stop? That'll be a bit difficult...
That was a possibility I considered, though that would mean some quite wide bus stop sections for people to stand- they will have to be on the left due to where the doors on the buses are, and there will need to be a *lot* of room due to the large number of people who wait for buses at peak time (as noted in Aidan's thread). This is possible of course since they will use the room currently used by the left-most 'bus stop lane' anyway, and most likely all of the parking space as well._MO_ wrote:That's what my question was this morning... Unless they plan to locate the stops in the middle of the road, just like tram stops, I don't see how the free flow of traffic would happen. But to do that they will have to run buses in the opposite direction, which is sheer madness... I'm a bit confused here, guess will have to wait for the official map to be released.peas_and_corn wrote:The bus lanes will go down the middle of Grenfell/Currie? Does that mean they will lurch across the lanes to go to a stop? That'll be a bit difficult...
The O-Bahn effectively acts as a fourth mode of PT, after trains, trams and buses, which is just absolute baloney. Adelaide doesn't even need four different PT services. We don't even need three at that! It should be just trains and trams, really.Norman wrote:Why do you hate it, you don't even use it or live that way.Shuz wrote:-facepalms-
I haaaaaaate the freakin' O-Bahn. The whole thing should just be a train line, not some antiquidated 1980's busway which very few cities have taken up on the concept of.
Don't trains need feeder buses? You can't get rid of them completely!Shuz wrote:The O-Bahn effectively acts as a fourth mode of PT, after trains, trams and buses, which is just absolute baloney. Adelaide doesn't even need four different PT services. We don't even need three at that! It should be just trains and trams, really.Norman wrote:Why do you hate it, you don't even use it or live that way.Shuz wrote:-facepalms-
I haaaaaaate the freakin' O-Bahn. The whole thing should just be a train line, not some antiquidated 1980's busway which very few cities have taken up on the concept of.
No concrete designs for O-Bahn city extension
TOM ZED, TRANSPORT REPORTER
May 13, 2009 02:30pm
THE $61 million extension of the O-Bahn busway is scheduled to begin this year - but the State Government admits it has no real concept how the plan will proceed.
Transport Minister Patrick Conlon today said the State Government had secured the Federal Budget funding through "very, very strong cases for it" – yet was unable to offer any concrete detail of the plan.
The Budget papers say construction will begin this year.
"What we will have is dedicated corridors into the city," Mr Conlon said.
"We've got a number of design options but they will be dedicated bus corridors that will mean that that slow crawl into the city when you get off the O-Bahn will be over.
"It will make the services faster. It will mean more people will be able to use the O-Bahn.
"We will go out to the private sector, as we've done with other projects, and we'll come back with dedicated designs. What that will be is a little hard to forecast now."
I have to drive to the CBD, part of my job...crawf wrote:Its about time something is going to be done, because atm Grenfell/Currie St is a mess in peak hour.
Simply don't drive to the CBD.how_good_is_he wrote:so will Grenfell St reduce to 1 lane only for cars?
Quite right. I just hope that they don't have the tram setup, that'll be quite frustrating for both passengers and car drivers. To make it work effectively, they'd need to have two bus lanes, so that buses can pull into their stop without holding up the other bus traffic, but that'd leave hardly any room for cars and cyclists!_MO_ wrote:
That's what my question was this morning... Unless they plan to locate the stops in the middle of the road, just like tram stops, I don't see how the free flow of traffic would happen. But to do that they will have to run buses in the opposite direction, which is sheer madness... I'm a bit confused here, guess will have to wait for the official map to be released.