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Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:17 pm
by rev
SRW wrote:
Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:59 pm
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Does this involve re-aligning the the intersection as well? Because there's some pretty straightened up bits of road at that intersection in the render.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:40 am
by rhino
SRW wrote:
Sat Jun 10, 2023 12:59 pm
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These claims seem a little sly:
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What city is that in the backdrop? And what hills are those, on the eastern horizon?

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:26 am
by greenknight
Google vs their renders... doesnt look too bad?
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Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:02 pm
by rhino
Yeah I was a bit tongue-in-cheek because
a) the city skyline is several years old, with many new tall buildings missing
b) the 'lake' (?) in the middle-distance, to the right of the RAH, with hills beyond reminds me more of upper Spencer Gulf than Adelaide.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:49 pm
by abc
are these rust coloured buildings the new black?
reminds me of the Marion library

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:28 pm
by Patrick_27
Saw that today’s state budget has allocated $23m towards upgrades to the Marion State Swimming centre, it’s a relatively new building?!

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:22 am
by ChillyPhilly
Patrick_27 wrote:Saw that today’s state budget has allocated $23m towards upgrades to the Marion State Swimming centre, it’s a relatively new building?!
Secretly, it was filled with defects. A friend who visited it for university back in 2013 was tasked with finding this out. He succeeded.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:37 am
by SRW
How much more money would it take to make the North Adelaide centre FINA-compliant? Might as well return competitions here if rebuilding anyway.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:29 am
by claybro
SRW wrote:
Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:37 am
How much more money would it take to make the North Adelaide centre FINA-compliant? Might as well return competitions here if rebuilding anyway.
That would require admitting the Marion complex was an ill thought out poorly located folly by a previous Labor government.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:18 pm
by [Shuz]
Why not have both?

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:41 am
by rhino
[Shuz] wrote:
Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:18 pm
Why not have both?
Like they're tacos?

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pm
by gnrc_louis
Part 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:16 pm
by Patrick_27
gnrc_louis wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pm
Part 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/
I’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:39 pm
by rev
Patrick_27 wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:16 pm
gnrc_louis wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pm
Part 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/
I’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.
To be fair though, do they deploy the mounted unit anywhere on a significant basis outside of the CBD?

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:16 am
by claybro
Patrick_27 wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:16 pm
gnrc_louis wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:42 pm
Part 27 is one of the most “natural” of all the parklands - about as bad a choice as Park 21 in that regard: https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/08/07/ ... elocation/
I’m trying to understand why SAPOL have such strict requirements for the proximity to the CBD of their Mounted Police Unit, when (from my understanding) no other state has their equivalent unit(s) so close to the CBD nor do they have a staging paddock within the CBD. Seems that SAPOL are being precious about the whole thing.
Mounted police are used mainly in situations where crowd calming /control is required...usually tight urban conditions (in Adelaides case the CBD) where they can be deployed rapidly and easily even if just for a general Saturday night shift. The reason I suppose that the other states do not operate similar units in close proximity to their CBD's may be that they do not have the luxury of vast, largely unused sections of parkland in close proximity.