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Millswood. You can catch either a tram, bus or train, all in easy walking distance and all a few minutes away from the city.

"Run where??? There won't be any usable BG track left anywhere"

Armchair operators of course! We have hear fertile ground for 30 years of dead route speculation, all of it unrealistic. Convert to S ...

"Nature will eventually erode the windiness away"

Hmm, I did the standard 5m by 1m inclined sandbox at uni. We set a steep gradient and a ran water over level sand. A braided stream developed. We r ...

Where I walk over level crossings, the correlation is pretty good.

Standard Gauge, wood sleepers in fairly good condition, standing on ballast.

Broad Gauge, mulch and compost sleepers, standing ...

Yes and no. In SA there is a pretty direct correlation between gauge and track condition.

It may well be academic anyway. Transperth made their decision with a $0.70 Australian dollar and before the mining boom almost doubled the wages of skilled electricians, boilermakers and fitters in W ...

"Why don't they just call tenders for whatever is cheapest and does the job?"

They will. And if they do it properly with enough other specifications to accurately measure full lifecylce costs and p ...

"My bet is, though, that you probably wouldn't end up with such a narrow vehicle in Adelaide."

Certainly a loading gauge roughly the same as the 3000's would be a pre requisite.

But in the schem ...

"I don't see why the Perth/Qld existing B/SMU body can't be used for Adelaide, it is not an oversized body for the adelaide loading gauge, the traction gear for 25kv all fits, only the bogies and thei ...

Re Perth vs Adelaide climate.

I have lived in both, four years in one, six years in the other. I have also, beeing a nerd, poured over the average climate stats via bom.

Both Perth and Adelaide ...

One thing I like about that new connections pamplet, apart from the transperth EMU's and heavy/light rail image.

They used bogan's in the artists renditions!

Very accurate for Adelaide, and for ...

"One question - how will the trams use rail stations that currently have high level platforms?"

Their own short platforms?

Different stopping patterns than the trains?

Combination of the abov ...

"Can we please not have that design for our EMUs. '

I agree, those damn things are modern, efficient, equiped with regenerative braking, large fleets in service for logistics, reliable, made in Aus ...

Pretty massive

New rolling stock, converted rolling stock, sparks, trams....

I notice part of the work includes additional traffic cameras at crossings.

WA is doing this too, I hear.

All good and a stupidity tax if you like.