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King William Street Adelaide Tram Bus People Bike Congestion June 2015 Video
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Video Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFg2yTahxt4
Grenfell Street and King William Street is a level crossing for most of the bus and trams in Adelaide. • Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study, or MATS Plan as it became known, was a comprehensive transport plan released in 1968 examining the then-current and future needs of transport for the city of Adelaide. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo... • It recommended the construction of ... a subway under King William Street. • Ultimately none of the plan's recommendations were brought to fruition in their original form, due to political and public opposition, in contrast to the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan. • After 1973, the state government decided on a light rail proposal to extend the historic Glenelg Tram. The new route was to continue along King William Street beyond what was then the terminus in Victoria Square and weave through the Adelaide Park Lands to the Modbury corridor. The light rail system would connect with feeder buses at stations along the length of the corridor to transfer passengers to suburban routes. New light rail vehicles were to be bought to replace the ageing 1929 H class trams. • Public opposition to the project was broad. The Adelaide City Council objected to the plan on the basis that it would interfere with the well-designed layout of the city proper. In response, the government altered the plan to redirect the line underneath the city, at a considerable increase in cost. • David Tonkins Liberal Party won in a landslide at the 1979 election against the Des Corcoran Labor government. • Test drilling commenced for the tunnel, but the entire light rail project was halted in 1980 after Premier David Tonkin appointed Michael Wilson, an opponent of the plan, as Transport Minister. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_... • Minister Patrick Conlon, the then Minister of Transport in 2012 • • Underground rail vision for Adelaide
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