Regency Rd and Port River Expressway connector

[Strawb]

the train line is the killer from torrens to port road and the idiots turning sucks more. I hated South Road with a passion. Made me glad to work afternoon shift missed everything

[Simon_A]

Thing to think about, is when they are making this hooby road in the sky, for how many months are they gonna screw up the existing bottlenecked section of south road with their construction work.

I'm a courier, and this "nation building" bullsh!t is driving me to tears, why do they have to do it all at once everywhere. I had to deliver to Port Wakefield last week, they are even "Nation Building" out there.

I'm all for fixing up the roads, but do it one piece after the other, so we poor commuters can plan our way, not do it everywhere at once, so none of us can go anywhere without traffic jams.

/RANT

[Ian]

Grange Rd/Manton St to Torrens Rd should have been done first but I suspect the different transport and frieght associations have made the biggest noise and got their way.

[Punk Rooster]

Grange Rd/Manton St to Torrens Rd should have been done first but I suspect the different transport and frieght associations have made the biggest noise and got their way.

quiet you...

[Ian]

Grange Rd/Manton St to Torrens Rd should have been done first but I suspect the different transport and frieght associations have made the biggest noise and got their way.

quiet you...

[Sojourner]

What we should do is have a questionnaire published in the Advertiser so that people can send in what it is they would like to see done around Adelaide in relation to road works, so we can get a project started that the majority of people actually want.

South Rd Extension and the O'Bahn Extension are all good projects, yet not ones that would be at the top of most peoples lists for what they would like to see done.

The thing that does seem odd is that some of the projects that need to be done are relatively simple and probably wouldn't cost a lot yet stay undone for who knows what reason, two examples being a separate turn right lane into North Adelaide from Main North Road so that one lane of Main North Road is not constantly blocked by people turning right into North Adelaide, and how hard would it be to create a separate turn left lane from Cross Road into Fullerton Rd? Two fairly insignificant projects $$$ wise, yet ones that would make quite some difference once completed!

[Ian]

I guess it depends where you live, and where you travel. South Rd will have a bigger impact for me than both your ideas combined, for others it will be different locations

[Hondo]

The thing that does seem odd is that some of the projects that need to be done are relatively simple and probably wouldn't cost a lot yet stay undone for who knows what reason, two examples being a separate turn right lane into North Adelaide from Main North Road so that one lane of Main North Road is not constantly blocked by people turning right into North Adelaide, and how hard would it be to create a separate turn left lane from Cross Road into Fullerton Rd? Two fairly insignificant projects $$$ wise, yet ones that would make quite some difference once completed!

Small projects like that are the types you should simply write to your council about. They may well be local council responsibility? The RAA are also good for lobbying on smaller projects.

On your idea for the people to decide what gets done, I think if you tried to get a consensus out of readers of the Advertiser as to what project is more important than another nothing would ever happen! Most of us would make uninformed votes based purely on the way we drive to work!

Remember the tram-line extension was very unpopular before it started. Now it seems very popular. Sometimes we know better and sometimes (on large projects) we need decisions made for us by people that have actually done all the background research and (hopefully) are unbiased.

[Punk Rooster]

I think Adelaide would benefit by having a monorail around the city- this would remove public transport from the roads, nullify costly underground rail, & not impede too much on where & where it couldn't go.
Whilst I was pro-Tram, I think a mono rail is the real answer & the solution to what we're looking for.

[auto]

mono - mono - mono rail.

[Hondo]

Rod Hook, the guy in charge of major road projects like this new connector, gave an interesting interview on radio this morning.

I was mostly interested in the future plans for the section of South Road that a lot of us have talked about being Grange Rd to Torrens Rd. It seems the previously announced works that I provided a link to have been temporarially shelved with funding redirected to this new connector because it provides more bang for their buck in terms of KMs of road v the Port Road underpass.

It also sounds like the cost of the Gallipoli underpass blew out, mainly in the area of land acquisition, and this has made them nervous about what Port Road would cost. One of the costly land acquisitions being the need to move the ETSA sub-station. Rod Hook indicated that, while this section of South Road is still a priority, they have or will be going back to the drawing board and will make some announcements later.

I got the impression that they are re-thinking whether an intersection by intersection approach is the right way to go because once you do one, you ultimately need to do them all - ie, Henley Beach Road, Sir Donald Bradman Drive, etc. Maybe a more cost effective approach will be the new plan.

[Ian]

I wonder if we will see the "Superway" on top of a lot more of South Rd than is currently planned?? Maybe it will be a cheaper option than digging under 2 main roads and a train line.

[Punk Rooster]

I wonder if we will see the "Superway" on top of a lot more of South Rd than is currently planned?? Maybe it will be a cheaper option than digging under 2 main roads and a train line.

pre cast concrete would speed up the process- having a suspended North-South corridor possibly could've been the way to go, but I doubt all options were explored before deciding on the underpass.

[Psyber]

Just wish they fix up that crappy bit of road between Torrens and Grange Roads, Sick to death of being behind a car that is turning. (ffs state government either install turning lanes or no turns during peak hour)

I hear ya mate, right hand turns should be banned on that part of South Rd....

I discovered yesterday that there are some roads in that area you can only enter by doing a right turn off South Rd unless you drive around in a rather large circle.
They'd have to be modified to allow access from side streets presently blocked off.

[locky801]

Just wish they fix up that crappy bit of road between Torrens and Grange Roads, Sick to death of being behind a car that is turning. (ffs state government either install turning lanes or no turns during peak hour)

I hate that part of South Rd with a passion.
There is no point making the rest of South Rd non-stop if traffic is going to come to a bottleneck in this area.

Think you will find that there are plans already in the making for a bridge etc for South Rd between Grange and Port Rd's as well. Not sure where it stands but saw the plans for it about 12 months ago,