Thank you for your video! It helped me just now.

The South Eastern Freeway in South Australia needs to be extended to bypass Adelaide liking the M1 to the Princes Highway on the other side of Adelaide

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I have screenshots of your KZbin channel problems. I can give you now if you want?

Do you like my design ?) yeah I designed it when at UniSA.

The Sydney underground at 13:20 is Bradfield’s 1920s plan. It was only partially realised, and subsequent expansions are entirely different from parts not realised.

On Kangaroo Island many koalas were killed when men cut down the trees they were living in. They were slaughtered. Please help save the koalas.

Our food comes from SA i can tell by Use By Dates bread tags SF BB 12 OCT or ADC Best Before 17 APR 19

The crossing looks like it has a roundabout but it doesn't its just a 4 exit set of traffic lights with a level crossing

Saturday 9th Jan 2016

What did they do with crossings after 😢

This is unaffordable nonsense. Who would pay for this "pipe dream"? Getting freight trains out of suburbia is the ONLY answer.

Hi Neil - Glad to see you out there again working with your recordings on your bus channel network. I have also started up a KZbin channel on my self it is called : Bill's channel - sta Currently I have 3 videos uploaded so far on my channel. In the near future I will also be covering some of my car journeys alongside bus journeys in between as well. Will also be covering my camping trips included. Will also be covering some/Omsi Bus Simulator included in the near future as well. Regards from William. Mount Gambier, South Australia.

What's the story with funding?

You’re looking at moving populations much larger than our own - and your speed limit data is not particularly accurate. All we really need is the metro line converted to standard gauge and connected to the ARTC network. The Belair/Melbourne line has limited freight traffic through the day and thus could facilitate the operation of passenger trains around freight trains. We don’t need high speed, we just need reliable.

0:30 With the obligatory 'modern art sculpture'... 🤣 Looks like this drains into Dry Creek (and thus into the wetlands at Mawson Lakes). The drain crossing under Port Wakefield Road at Globe Derby is part of my earliest memories. Thank you for producing these, Neil.

Are you nuts? We don't have the population to do all those tunnels and elevated roads. Unless you are going to put in Billions of $. You want to do stuff like this, get a new revenue streem first without digging into the taxpayers $. And if you really think about it, there is several ways!

This is arguably the most pressing project for PT investment given ARS is already nearing capacity at peak. It’s really the critical enabler for future extensions and increased frequencies.

Nice to meet you today Neil! Great videos!

It was very beautiful.. Nice to meet you and thank you so much.

The Hon Tom Koutsantonis MP Government of South Australia Minister for infrastructure and Transport Minister for Energy and Mining Mr Neil Hamilton Dear Mr Hamilton Thank you for your emails dated 9 August and 14 September 2023, to the Premier, the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, and myself about the route Jl J7 and J8 bus services to the Adelaide Airport. As the matter you have raised falls within my portfolio responsibilities as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the Premier has asked that I respond on his behalf. I appreciate the time you have taken to provide feedback on timetables and I acknowledge that there may not always be inconvenient scheduling between buses and aircraft arriving or departing. Notwithstanding, asked the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (the Department) for advice. The Department acknowledges the benefits some passengers would receive by introducing additional operating hours on these bus services, however, this would require additional resourcing or the reallocation of funding from other bus routes across the network. This cannot be justified at this time due to the low patronage demand experienced on these services I am advised that given the variable times that planes arrive and depart from the airport, it is difficult to provide a bespoke service to all potential travellers. As you are aware, there are also J1 and J2 bus services, which also provide services to the Adelaide Airport stop for South Australians travelling from the northern and north-eastern suburbs. As you can appreciate, the service planning process involves designing a bus network which benefits the maximum amount of people with resources allocated where they are most needed. Thank you once again for your interest in public transport services. Yours sincerely Signed 22 / September /2023

The Hon Tom Koutsantonis MP Government of South Australia Minister for infrastructure and Transport Minister for Energy and Mining Mr Neil Hamilton Dear Mr Hamilton Thank you for your emails dated 9 August and 14 September 2023, to the Premier, the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, and myself about the route Jl J7 and J8 bus services to the Adelaide Airport. As the matter you have raised falls within my portfolio responsibilities as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the Premier has asked that I respond on his behalf. I appreciate the time you have taken to provide feedback on timetables and I acknowledge that there may not always be inconvenient scheduling between buses and aircraft arriving or departing. Notwithstanding, asked the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (the Department) for advice. The Department acknowledges the benefits some passengers would receive by introducing additional operating hours on these bus services, however, this would require additional resourcing or the reallocation of funding from other bus routes across the network. This cannot be justified at this time due to the low patronage demand experienced on these services I am advised that given the variable times that planes arrive and depart from the airport, it is difficult to provide a bespoke service to all potential travellers. As you are aware, there are also J1 and J2 bus services, which also provide services to the Adelaide Airport stop for South Australians travelling from the northern and north-eastern suburbs. As you can appreciate, the service planning process involves designing a bus network which benefits the maximum amount of people with resources allocated where they are most needed. Thank you once again for your interest in public transport services. Yours sincerely Signed 22 / September /2023

Is the Setup still there

A roundabout with traffic lights

There was a plan to go around the Adelaide Hills but this plan was scrapped

Hon Peter Malinauskas MP Dear Premier Thank you recent for the letter of the 22nd instant from your Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Hon Tom Koutsantonis MP, regarding my earlier KZbin video regarding giving Airport-workers J1 access in the early morning. Please see below a link to a KZbin video released earlier today. Lyell McEwin Health Precinct evening travel using Cross City J1 Bus Metropolitan Adelaide Sept 2023 Video * The J1 Bus is not just a bus to the Airport. As a Cross City Bus it serves a diversity of communities in its journey. * J1 Bus is the bus link between Lyell McEwin Health Precinct in Elizabeth Vale and the 103,000 people living in the City of Tea Tree Gully and beyond. * The J1 bus is the only one-seat trip between the CBD and Lyell McEwin Health Precinct that is consistently available. Other bus routes only operate briefly during rush periods. * Lyell McEwin Hospital is a training hospital for Doctors, Nurses and related Professionals who benefit by using a rapid, one seat and Cross City trip. * Calvary Health Hub Stage 2 - Medical & Specialist Centre is nearing completion. The modern and multi-use 3 level medical office building will be suitable for specialist and associated health services such as pharmacies, radiation oncology, pathology, occupational health services and specialist consulting. * Calvary Health Hub Stage 3 - Private Hospital With its proximity to Lyell McEwin Public Hospital, the private hospital will complete the precinct and deliver services to an ever growing population. The new co-located private hospital will be operated by Calvary Health Care, with provision for eight operating theatres and up to 120 day and overnight beds. * Week-nights , there are no J1 buses from Lyell McEwin Health Precinct to take people back to Golden Grove , Modbury and beyond. * J1 takes 22 minutes between Lyell McEwin Health Precinct and Golden Grove, 30 minutes to Modbury, The alternative bus trip in the evenings involves travelling on 3 bus routes * A 9:00 pm departure involves waiting until the 9:13 pm (correction) for the 400 Bus on John Rive Ave. Change at Salisbury IC to the 502 bus to Paradise.IC Change at Paradise IC to the J2 Bus for a 10:13 pm arrival at Modbury ICC or a 10.21 pm arrival at Golden Grove IC. * The Torrens Valley International Residence situated in the grounds of Modbury Hospital, Smart Road, Modbury, has 284 single rooms and offers clean, secure, accommodation at affordable rates. The accommodation is available to patient’s families, SA Health staff and international and local students. These people would find it difficult in the evenings to return here from Elizabeth Vale. * Visiting hours at LMH probably finish around 9:00pm. Nursing and Ancillary Staff would be leaving some time after 9:00 pm. Those living in the North East and Eastern Suburbs would find difficulties return home in the evenings. If we look at the DOWN and UP time-tables we see DOWN timetable runs past LMH until 10.02 pm week nights. Sadly the UP timetable has 6:31 pm being the lost bus that passing LMH. It is suggested the 4 of the DOWN buses to Elizabeth IC match with UP buses already scheduled to run from Golden Grove IC or Teat Tree Plaza IC. This would give an hourly service past the LMH unit 10:37 pm. (Image of UP and DOWN J1 Bus evening timetables inserted at this point) Sadly we do not have TAP OFF implemented in Adelaide Public Transport so we cannot implement Fare Zones. Cross City Bus Routes should be priced at a higher amount to Local Bus Routes. It is suggested that our current Fare Box Recovery at 20% is hardly sustainable. Regards Neil Hamilton {Contact details provided) 26 Sept 2023

Awesome take! More definitely has got to be done to prevent the queuing of vehicles on the tracks.

no need for the tunnel to climb up to Mt Barker and decend east from their 1% is still very steep for freight trains. straight consistent climb from portal to portal with deeper stations would be better.

Dear Premier Below is a a link to a recently released video Cross City J1 Bus Greater Adelaide in early morning September 2023 video Passengers departing from Adelaide International Airport are required to arrive at the Terminal at 03:30 am for their 06:00 departures. Currently the first J1, Cross-City, bus arrives at 04:56. This is far too late to be of any use to those passengers. Many airport workers would benefit with a 03:00 am arrival for the J1 Bus. It is suggested buses should be scheduled in the early morning, 7 days a week. The J1 Bus also currently visits the Health Precinct around the Lyell McEwen Hospita (LMH) & interfaces with the Gawler Line at Elizabeth Interchange. It is suggested the route for the J1 within the City Square Mile should divert at Pultney Street to run along North Terrace. This would all all train passengers to use a bus stop at Adelaide Railway Station. The J1 could then continue along North Terrace to the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). This would help patients, visitors and staff who go and depart from the RAH at all hours of the day and night. A small diversion of the J! route at Modbury would allow similar benefits for the patients, visitors and staff at Modbury Hospital (MH). Regards Neil Hamilton Address supplied

Awesome video, thank you! The amount of Jumbo sets back then that cross there was striking to me, truly did not expect to see that many Jumbos.

The 2007 Mitcham Council Rail Freight Task Force study is still the best option. A freight bypass from Murray Bridge via Callington and Sedan to Mallala with a major highway running along side for road transport and those travelers who want to avoid Adelaide metropolitan area. Much of the route is already government owned being old SAR lines and on flat country. This would be far cheaper than the ridiculous cost of a tunnel that still directs freight ultimately through Adelaide. 80% of freight just travels through Adelaide to and fro from Perth. Small freight trains can carry the 20% destined for Adelaide from Mallala. There have always been vested interests stopping this project by plucking stupid inflated cost estimates "out of the air". The Alice to Darwin line cost about $1M a kilometer. So an 80km bypass would be affordable and quick to build. Options such as new bus routes are a 1950s solution and ignore the fact that road traffic and rail freight is only going to increase in the future. The potential for derailing of freight trains is ongoing and would block major railway crossing access for emergency vehicles through Belair and Blackwood on a catostrophic risk fire day.

Like all our lines, the station spacing is far too close. Adelaide has more stations per km than any other city in Australia. Many stations which are located close by should be “merged” into a single station with better integration of bus services to feed the rail network rather than compete.

I think combined Road & Rail tunnels are the best solution. Those who need to Drive can use it and those who rely on Public Transport can also use it. In addition, it would free up congestion from roads above, allowing more space for Bus lanes and Bike lanes allowing for improved active transport.

Well explained, Neil. And yep. Public transport isn't an option for the old red eye flights. All the best.

Torrens Transit isn't a good bus operating company at all. Regards Bill.

You look like a lecturer/teacher..

Water in the reservoirs can be used to generate small amounts of electricity..

I reckon a TRAM - TRAIN. (A Tram that can also run on Train lines) would work because then it could convert the existing Rail lines out to Grange & Outer Harbour as well as the O-bahn via an inner city Tunnel & then it could also extend by running along existing Streets between Tea Tree Plaza & Golden Grove. It would be a high capacity version of the Light Rail system with longer Tram Rolling stock. I call it the Adelaide MTS (Mass Transit System)

Design it with light rail provisions for future demand or later conversion. Thats one mistake Brisbane made, was a lack of provisions and now they are having to rebuild the busway with a rubber tyred tram just to remove an infamous conga line of buses.

I think if you were to build it, it should be a combined Light Rail/Busway. One mistake that Brisbane made was that they didn't design the busway with enough future provision and now they have to fix it to reduce a conga line of buses.

Agreed about running busways 7 days a week. Busways, O-Bahn, light rail, metro etc each require massive injections of capital funds which then in most cases then preclude other forms of transport when one is adopted and therefore have to continue in service longer after they can no longer meet demand, or they stop rezoning to higher densities. We need more flexibility to allow upgrades with heavier loads from Busways to heavy rail. Infrastructure built for such as Auckland's Northern Busway was excellent for the time but with increasing population north of Auckland, it needs to be turned into a light rail corridor and ultimately heavy rail. Was the infrastructure built for these transitions? Certainly not for heavy rail but maybe light rail? Was the Adelaide O-Bahn (Northern Busway) built to transition to light rail? Were the pile foundations built for heavy rail? Governments take the absolute cheapest option on Infrastructure. There is no thought for the next generation or the one after that..... We only have politicians, not statesmen & stateswomen.

a big chunk of road users and cargo could be moved threw a better hills train system

Improvement as long as it cost nothing thats Metro Adelaides moto!

G'day Neil. I imagine it would be way too hard for most to get to the 24-hour transport spines, when all of the local feeder services have shut down for the night. It would be way more than a one-hour walk to/from the Salisbury interchange for me without the local bus service. My pet hate was when the Rann government took away the last couple of services of my local bus (which ran through Mike's own electorate). I used to go to my local watering hole Friday night for a few pints and catch the last couple of sets of the band, and back on the 12:30am home. After the 'Rann Axe' the last bus was going past at 10:30pm and I had to be out at the bus stop before the band even really got going. Either that or a 40+ minute walk home (a cab was at least a 2-hour wait). :( Thanks for your video content, I might not always agree with you 100% but your arguments are cogent and thought out, unlike many pundits. Regards, David.

Hello Neil 👋 I'm glad to find your KZbin channel, I hope you are doing well, sending you greetings from Saudi Arabia

The ol - Southwark Breweries Licenced, Squatters Arms Hotel in the background... When Pubs were definitely Pubs.

Get a life will you? This is like watching paint dry.

Dear Premier Video: Improving passenger experience on Gawler Line in Metropolitan Adelaide May 2023 The video above suggests the passenger experience on the Gawler Line would be improved if trains stopped at every station. The travel time would be increased slightly. The 3 car electric trains have greatly increased the capacity on the Gawler Line and there is no advantage in skipping stations. * What should be a 15 minute frequency service becomes a 30 minutes service * What should a simple decision of catching the next train becomes a "night-mare" of catching the wrong train and going straight past the intended destination station. 3 car Electric Trains are to become the standard. You can move the whole length of the train. The previously used Diesel Electric had dangerous connectors between cars and passengers where only allowed to move between cars when the train was at a station. Police Officers were often in the cars to enforce the rule. At that time Adleaide Metro was able to run 1 and 2 car trains in the off-peak periods to avoid the cost of monitoring cross-overs between carriages. In the video the train running around 14:00 on a week day was about 1/3rd capacity. It seems rather strange to have partly occupied trains passing stations with waiting "customers" and condemming them to a 30 minute wait between trains. The other issue is getting between stations is difficult with the current "partial express" system during the week days.. The stopping pattern means students living near Womma or Broadmeadosw who goes to school near Ovingham needs to catch 2 separate trains. The students at an Ovingham School show up in one of my earlier videos.. (I try to avoid videoing students) Ovingham is also the station to get to the Regional Aquatic Centre at the top of Torrens Rd. (Walk or catch the bus) UP Trains from Womma NEVER Stop at Ovingham Week-days after 6:57 or before 18:47 If you catch the 7:38 UP from Womma you need to change trains at Elzabeth IC because that train does NOT stop at Ovingham. Do not catch the 7:49 UP from Elisabeth IC because it does NOT stop at Ovingham. Wait 14 minutes and catch the 7:54 Up at Elizabeth to arrive at Ovingham at 8:22 Similarly passengers need to use 2 trains when returning from Ovingham to Wooma during the day. Residents of Taylor electorate experience at Station Nurlutta, Station Elizabeth South, Station Womma, Station Broadmeadows, Schubert electorate experience this at Station Kulda, Station Tamblin. Station Evanston Ramsay electorate experience this at Station Nurlutta, Station Chidda Port Adelaide electorate experience this at Station Dry Creek Playford electorate experience this at Station Greenfields, Station Parafield Gardens, Station Parafield, Station Chidda Light electorate experience this at Station Kulda, Station Tamblin. Station Evanston King electorate experience this at Station Nurlutta, Station Chidda Florey electorate experience this at Station Greenfields, Station Parafield Gardens, Station Parafield Elizabeth electorate experience this at Station Elizabeth South, Station Womma, Station Broadmeadows, Croydon electorate experience this at Station Ovingham, Station Dudley Park, Station Islington, Station Kilburn Adelaide electorate experience this at Station North Adelaide, Station Ovingham, Station Dudley Park "In-fill" along the length of the Gawler Rail Line has brought a large number of people would would benefit from a 15 minute train service Regards Neil Hamilton 22-May-2023

Nice video

From what Ive been told the Gawler Line timetable is being overhauled once the full set of electric trains that were ordered enter passenger service then you can probably expect to see a majority of the services become all stoppers in the new timetable as electric trains have a higher top speed and can accelerate faster. The stopping pattern in the current timetable favours diesel trains which is why they havent touched it yet but once the Gawler line is running all electric trains they can implement a timetable thats more designed for electric trains.