An excellent road network does not come about by accident. It requires careful, well-integrated planning over the entire metropolitan area, over many decades, as well as a will to implement these plans, and a commitment to see them through to completion. Unfortunately, Adelaide has a sad history of great plans that were never implemented, and…

This is a copy of the submission I made to the consultation on the T2D project’s Project Assessment Report. This response relates mainly to the “Traffic and Transport” topic in the PAR, but also touches on other topics, such as impacts nearby homeowners and those facing property acquisition. This response raises several major issues with…

The Tennyson Centre is a large commercial building on the western side of South Road, about 500 metres north of Anzac Highway, hosting a large number of business tenants, all of them in the healthcare industry. A casual look at a satellite image shows that, if the motorway were to continue straight north from the…

Most significant transportation projects require land acquisition, and even those that don’t may have impacts on nearby properties and those who live in them. The Torrens to Darlington project is no exception, despite the use of tunnels, which don’t save nearly as many properties as the government claimed they would. Yet these impacts should not…

Anyone who goes anywhere near South Road knows that it’s a traffic bottleneck. It gets congested even at times when other roads usually aren’t. Yet there is a simple short-term solution available that the government is largely missing: fix Marion Road. The Marion Road corridor (which includes Holbrooks Road and East Avenue) is the most…

Transport planning in Adelaide has lacked vision for the last 50 years. I say 50 years because if you go back just a few years more, there was the MATS plan, which was a visionary plan for a comprehensive network of motorways for Adelaide, and also included some visionary ideas about the rail network. The…