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Those are the things that will be lost by this new proposal. Totally separate issue.Elvis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:16 pmThe lord mayor states that she is against the stables on parklands because people want running tracks, bike tracks, etc - but I can't run or ride my bike through the private stables on the north adelaide parklands.
Her position on this is the height of hypocrisy.
Which stables are you referring to?Elvis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:16 pmThe lord mayor states that she is against the stables on parklands because people want running tracks, bike tracks, etc - but I can't run or ride my bike through the private stables on the north adelaide parklands.
Her position on this is the height of hypocrisy.
The Northern parklands with the horses is "underused" because it is reserved for the exclusive use of residents within 2km (not even all residents of the City of Adelaide Council area - just those within 2kms and who have a horse).Nort wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:48 pmWhich stables are you referring to?Elvis wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:16 pmThe lord mayor states that she is against the stables on parklands because people want running tracks, bike tracks, etc - but I can't run or ride my bike through the private stables on the north adelaide parklands.
Her position on this is the height of hypocrisy.
Also imagine you either didn't read the linked article, or are intentionally misrepresenting what she said, because the difference is directly called out, that horses being in an underused paddock currently is entirely different to building a whole heap of permanent infrastructure that fences off a currently open area and locks in that use for decades to come.
the existing Aquatic Centre will now close in August 2024 until the project’s completion in late 2025.
The link does say there are diving facilities, perhaps not to the same height as currently on offer.SRW wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:59 pmDIT project page including video:
https://dit.sa.gov.au/infrastructure/ad ... tic_centre
Project cost $130 million. No diving facilities, however, so will not replace the state centre at Marion.
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It all seems that the primary design objective is "reuse the existing car park".Patrick_27 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 5:57 pmCall me a cynic, but why bother? The design is so-so, however at the end of the day this doesn't provide an outstanding centre... Better facilities than what's there, sure, but for starters it's nowhere near O'Connell Street which should have been the primary objective. IF not on the reasoning that light rail may one day end up running through North Adelaide, do it for the fact that there are so many more transit opportunities with Prospect and Main North Road(s); haing taken the bus to O'Connell Street and walked to the Aquatic Centre at dusk, it's not pleasant but rather unnerving.
This plan almost seems as though they're trying to further reaffirm the status of the Rann government's white elephant at Marion as the state's main aquatic centre and in doing so undermining the potential for this facility to be be a part of the resurrection of O'Connell Street, whilst host great international events and IF we were to ever host a Commonwealth Games, have the premier swimming facility a stone's throw from Adelaide Oval.
To me, this is as half-baked as the previous government's Memorial Drive redevelopment. Either build it right, or don't build it at all. If the residents of North Adelaide don't see the sense in building a bigger facility, hold out and let them see the error of their ways with a decline in popularity of nearby O'Connell Street.
If "reclaiming parkland" was truly a design objective, significant portions of the centre would be built above car parking.Nathan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 6:10 pmIt all seems that the primary design objective is "reuse the existing car park".Patrick_27 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 5:57 pmCall me a cynic, but why bother? The design is so-so, however at the end of the day this doesn't provide an outstanding centre... Better facilities than what's there, sure, but for starters it's nowhere near O'Connell Street which should have been the primary objective. IF not on the reasoning that light rail may one day end up running through North Adelaide, do it for the fact that there are so many more transit opportunities with Prospect and Main North Road(s); haing taken the bus to O'Connell Street and walked to the Aquatic Centre at dusk, it's not pleasant but rather unnerving.
This plan almost seems as though they're trying to further reaffirm the status of the Rann government's white elephant at Marion as the state's main aquatic centre and in doing so undermining the potential for this facility to be be a part of the resurrection of O'Connell Street, whilst host great international events and IF we were to ever host a Commonwealth Games, have the premier swimming facility a stone's throw from Adelaide Oval.
To me, this is as half-baked as the previous government's Memorial Drive redevelopment. Either build it right, or don't build it at all. If the residents of North Adelaide don't see the sense in building a bigger facility, hold out and let them see the error of their ways with a decline in popularity of nearby O'Connell Street.