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Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:25 pm
by monotonehell
Well they've finally done it.
After a LOAD of delays the Cambridge Busway is officially open.
http://www.cambridgefirst.co.uk/news/a_ ... d_1_984945
So now that we're second best, time to dig it up and replace it with a ... oh I dunno ... canal system.

Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:10 pm
by Omicron
Ooh, canals! That would be pretty. Do it now.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:23 pm
by metro
yeah rip it up and replace it with Australia's first driver-less metro, extend it from modbury up to golden grove and under the cbd and to the Airport

Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:39 am
by jk1237
the Vancouver skytrain and Edmonton LRT is quite impressive. If Edmonton can have trains go underground through its downtown, why cant we. We are still a larger city I think. Canadians seem to put a greater priority on public transport than us, which is not what I was expecting.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:07 pm
by [Shuz]
How 'bout a bonafide, electrified six-car monorail?
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:42 pm
by peas_and_corn
[Shuz] wrote:
How 'bout a bonafide, electrified six-car monorail?
I'm still waiting for the monorail connecting TTP, Pelican Plaza, the library and Modbury Triangle we were promised at the last state election.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:14 pm
by monotonehell
peas_and_corn wrote:I'm still waiting for the monorail connecting TTP, Pelican Plaza, the library and Modbury Triangle we were promised at the last state election.
LOL! Who promised that?
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:42 pm
by peas_and_corn
monotonehell wrote:peas_and_corn wrote:I'm still waiting for the monorail connecting TTP, Pelican Plaza, the library and Modbury Triangle we were promised at the last state election.
LOL! Who promised that?
It was actually the Liberal contesting the seat in Modbury. There was a short article about it in the Messenger, and I imagine there were some discreet phone calls made, because it wasn't mentioned again.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:08 pm
by metro
peas_and_corn wrote:monotonehell wrote:peas_and_corn wrote:I'm still waiting for the monorail connecting TTP, Pelican Plaza, the library and Modbury Triangle we were promised at the last state election.
LOL! Who promised that?
It was actually the Liberal contesting the seat in Modbury. There was a short article about it in the Messenger, and I imagine there were some discreet phone calls made, because it wasn't mentioned again.
Well there isnt a seat of Modbury, it's either Newland or Florey. and that promised monorail (if it was real) is just more proof that the Liberals in this state are hopeless

Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:15 pm
by peas_and_corn
metro wrote:peas_and_corn wrote:monotonehell wrote:
LOL! Who promised that?
It was actually the Liberal contesting the seat in Modbury. There was a short article about it in the Messenger, and I imagine there were some discreet phone calls made, because it wasn't mentioned again.
Well there isnt a seat of Modbury, it's either Newland or Florey. and that promised monorail (if it was real) is just more proof that the Liberals in this state are hopeless

Yeah, I couldn't remember the name of the seat, just that it covered Modbury. It was possibly Newland.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:12 pm
by Aidan
monotonehell wrote:Well they've finally done it.
After a LOAD of delays the Cambridge Busway is officially open.
http://www.cambridgefirst.co.uk/news/a_ ... d_1_984945
So now that we're second best, time to dig it up and replace it with a ... oh I dunno ... canal system.

We're second
longest, not second best. Ours is still faster.
'Tis the Cambridge busway that should be replaced by a railway, as it could form a useful part of a cross country line.
Where's Pelican Plaza?
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:18 am
by shaun
Aidan wrote:Where's Pelican Plaza?

Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:56 pm
by peas_and_corn
If you go slightly further up Northeast Road, on the left, where the Hungry Jacks is.
Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:10 pm
by iTouch
No lets not rip it up. I really like the OBahn

Re: Time to rip up the OBahn?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:59 pm
by skyliner
Replace it with rail connection. Currently it is an isolated system. Integration by rail with much needed new rail extensions, light or heavy, in the eastern suburbs needed.
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