SA Footy

Driving home tonight up Grand Junction Road, which resembles a patchwork asphalt quilt most of the way from Gepps Cross to Holden Hill and has many 'ups and downs', I couldn't but wonder over the following;

Would councils again plant big trees in the small piece of dirt that is between the roadside kerb & the footpath, seeing that most kerbside gutters & paving/paths are wrecked and need replacing time after time as the trees grow bigger?

Would councils/ETSA or the like again place concrete poles bordered with steel tramlines so close to the edge of the roads and create a "death trap" hazard for vehicles that wander off the straight and narrow?

What else can you think of, without bringing modern technology into the story, that could be improved?

The layout of the city and the roads in. This is where hindsight is wonderful. Canberra, settled and populated much later has 'hubs' (the equivalent of maybe Modbury, Noarlunga and Glenelg) and freeways in and out. It's much easier to move around and far quicker.

And perhaps even the Government getting rid of the trams around the city (before my time I might add) but there seems to be a big push back toward them running around the city centre.

I wonder if Footy Park would've been built in hindsight? Again, the recent push it to have something in town.

Sorry, my thoughts are a bit bland......

gadj1976 wrote:The layout of the city and the roads in. This is where hindsight is wonderful. Canberra, settled and populated much later has 'hubs' (the equivalent of maybe Modbury, Noarlunga and Glenelg) and freeways in and out. It's much easier to move around and far quicker.

Agreed about Canberra. Very easy place to get around.

Pag wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:The layout of the city and the roads in. This is where hindsight is wonderful. Canberra, settled and populated much later has 'hubs' (the equivalent of maybe Modbury, Noarlunga and Glenelg) and freeways in and out. It's much easier to move around and far quicker.

Agreed about Canberra. Very easy place to get around.

You need a good map because the sign posts tend not to be obvious from any distance, and you need to be good at going round in circles, which I'm not - give me a nice rectangular grid any time...
I was last there in May 2008 but had to leave fast because my wife's asthma went beserk. By the time we got to Queanbeyan she'd recovered.
[That happened every time she entered Canberra - we never did work out why...]

Going up the hill from my place to TTP is awful.

The car bounces around something shocking and I only drive like an old fart. (Mainly because I am).

The road has sunken in places.

How long are we going to have to put up with this situation.

Also the corner turning right from salisbury highway onto Park Terrace is Terrible.

My suspension takes a battering.

And what about the Salisbury Train X-ing....?

Were we not promised action when that horrid accident happened a few years ago with a train/bus....?

A joke Mr Randy.

Shall we talk about our Hospitals...?

You only seem content about what happens on your palimentary desk.....

Spent $350 on repairs to my cars bodykit today, alot of which has been caused by crap roads, a couple of cracks in the fiberglass and alot of parts on the kit had come loose due to a few to many heavy knocks from potholes and some harsh drops/dips in the roads and just .

One of the worst bits of road in Adelaide that i have noticed is turning left on to OG rd from Payneham rd where the turning lane narrows in the last 20m or so, to the point a car can barely fit in the lane, and the lane narrows by the curb coming out, not the lane markings coming in, I'm really surprised i haven't seen more people mount the curb there, wouldn't be to hard to do.

What about ceramic underground pipes used for older housing with joins every couple of metres. Fantastic to let tree roots grow madly into the joins and block the bl**dy things up every few months.
Costly getting a plumber in to unblock the 'crapper' pipes 2 or 3 times a year if you are unlucky enough to live in an older area.
Why wasn't PVC around back then?

Pag wrote:

gadj1976 wrote:The layout of the city and the roads in. This is where hindsight is wonderful. Canberra, settled and populated much later has 'hubs' (the equivalent of maybe Modbury, Noarlunga and Glenelg) and freeways in and out. It's much easier to move around and far quicker.

Agreed about Canberra. Very easy place to get around.

Brisbane, when its not peak hour you can drive from Redcliffe (30kms north of brisbane) to gold coast which is 70Kms south of brisbane, in less time you can do glenelg to elizabeth, much less