There must've been at least 30 gunzellers on the first round this morning.
Some problems around lunchtime todayThere seems to be a lot of trouble getting those crossings to work correctly at the moment.
Pedestrian crossing at Fairfax Ave was 'stuck' on, East Ave level crossing was down.
A DMU set city bound and 4003 Seaford bound passed through both very slowly. 4003 stopped at signal 631 (displaying red) for a few moments before proceeding (didn't see if the signal changed) Police were present at East Avenue directing road traffic away from the crossing.
Signal techs were quickly on the scene. (in SA Gov plated vehicles)
Ian,
That is precisely why I suggested that a permanent team be an integral part of the Adelaide Metro organisation. I am not sure whether you are agreeing with me or not.
If a twig needs to be removed from those innocuous looking wires, it would be a little inconvenient to have to fly in trained staff, let alone their cherry pickers etc. from interstate or New Zealand.
South Australia has in the past had an ETSA which supplied our needs with, from memory, very few outages. Presumably its very expensive successors that have relieved the taxpayers from debt and loaded it onto the customers (the same taxpayers) with an added exorbitant profit margin which has been paid to shareholders of completely unnecessary retail companies which don't do a single thing except send out the bills and are based mainly in Hong Kong, have a few qualified employees who could be persuaded to join the railway group.
This backward little state has managed to have more wind generation than the rest of the states put together and to be testing wave, hot rocks and solar thermal storage (Port Augusta) base load generation, so we could not only run our trains and trams on a zero carbon emission basis but we have the resident expertise to install and maintain distribution wiring of any kind.
Regards,
Brian.
Some problems around lunchtime today
Pedestrian crossing at Fairfax Ave was 'stuck' on, East Ave level crossing was down.
A DMU set city bound and 4003 Seaford bound passed through both very slowly. 4003 stopped at signal 631 (displaying red) for a few moments before proceeding (didn't see if the signal changed) Police were present at East Avenue directing road traffic away from the crossing.
Signal techs were quickly on the scene. (in SA Gov plated vehicles)
One of the EMU passenger services arrived into ARS 22 minutes late yesterday. The display information at the Showground station had the service already departed and it was showing the information for the following service another passenger who was waiting at the Showgrounds station with me started to wonder if the EMU had broken down because it was so late.
I agree regarding the permanent team or teams, that was my point. …….
…….. Nowadays it takes two people, at least one in non flammable PPE with the other checking every move. Since 24 hour operation requires 4 shift teams to cover the work that's jobs for 8 persons minimum. The rest can be on call.
There are plenty of skilled persons in this state but do they have the right skill set. …….
I have been involved with the grid connection of a number of wind farms including being the Technical Certifier for the first in the state. Believe me, they are not that clever.
One of the EMU passenger services arrived into ARS 22 minutes late yesterday. The display information at the Showground station had the service already departed and it was showing the information for the following service another passenger who was waiting at the Showgrounds station with me started to wonder if the EMU had broken down because it was so late.
Yes Adelaide Metro are renowned for running smaller than needed trains when some event is on. However opening the new extension they should know that more than average numbers were going to travel so should have had more cars available than two car sets. It seems they try to run all special events as two car trains when really 3 or more if possible would be better! Get your act together Adelaide Metro as the public for whom you provide the service is rapidly getting stroppy over the lack of foresight during big events from you. A little more thinking on their part would help a lot a times.
There is a fair bit of Seaford just west of Seaford Meadows and it is handier to people from McLaren Vale.Yep, a good combination of a new development area on one side and a future-proof park-and-ride station ready for greater usage in years to come. I do hope a little effort is put into prettifying it over time though, it's an eyesore as it is currently!
….. the last bit of Victor Harbor Road approaching the junction is a slow crawl.
Off topic: I cannot understand why the intersection of the Yorke Penunsula and Port Augusta roads and the Victor Harbor and Main South Roads have not long ago been grade separated. Both are nightmares in holiday traffic conditions . . . . . .
These locations are brought up routinely in the media every Easter, Long Weekend etc, complete with helicopter shots of the long tail-backs.
The standard government answer is "yes, they are congested, but there are only a couple of times a year when they are really bad, so not worth the money to build elaborate intersections". Basically you need to suck it up and wait in the line of traffic.
Same thing with full duplication of the Victor Harbor Road. 99.8% of the time it's totally fit for purpose as it is, couple of times a year all the city-dwellers pack up and head off to Victor or Port Elliot at the same time (or return home at the same time) whinge about the traffic jam and demand a freeway.
Victor Harbor Rd/Main South Road can be bad in morning peak hour, but there are plenty other intersections all over the metro area just as bad, and worse.
Off topic: I cannot understand why the intersection of the Yorke Penunsula and Port Augusta roads and the Victor Harbor and Main South Roads have not long ago been grade separated. Both are nightmares in holiday traffic conditions and dangerous at all times.I agree that the Port Wakefield junction needs to be grade separated and linked into a dual carriageway bypass. It would be safe enough for normal non-holiday traffic if Australian drivers were properly trained, but even if we started proper education of new drivers tomorrow that wouldn't do anything about the drivers with 40 years of sloppy driving under their belts.
I agree that the Port Wakefield junction needs to be grade separated and linked into a dual carriageway bypass. It would be safe enough for normal non-holiday traffic if Australian drivers were properly trained, but even if we started proper education of new drivers tomorrow that wouldn't do anything about the drivers with 40 years of sloppy driving under their belts.
In my opinion the Victor Harbor Road Y-junction is perfectly safe for regular use now that it has signals and three lanes on the approach - you may not have been there recently but they are visible (along with the Seaford Line nearing construction completion at the time) on the late 2012 images on Bing Maps. The only problem there is that it is slow during both the daily AM peak and 6-8 days of heavy holiday/event traffic each year, but as I said before smart people can avoid it by making a short diversion (using Robinson Road or Tatachilla Road to approach from the South Road leg of the Y) or using a completely different route.
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