SA The Adelaide Thread

[PoppedCorn]

Dude, you're complaining about not being allowed to have a blowoff value on your skyline

Really
A skyline?

Please
Obviously you drive a Camry 4 cylinder then yeah??

Think I'll ignore the idiot

 

[Smoooothy]

saw some video on the torrens to torrens construction work on south road last night. that's coming along nicely

 

[MarcusP2]

It's right next to my house, they've been really good in terms of letting us know what's happening and sticking to the scheduled work dates.

 

[Power Raid]

saw some video on the torrens to torrens construction work on south road last night. that's coming along nicely

it is great the work is finally being done.

but I do wonder though why it takes years to build something that only takes months in places like singapore.

 

[Smoooothy]

it is great the work is finally being done.

but I do wonder though why it takes years to build something that only takes months in places like singapore.

cheap labour rates over there?

 

[Papa G]

No CFMEU?

 

[MarcusP2]

it is great the work is finally being done.

but I do wonder though why it takes years to build something that only takes months in places like singapore.

Do you have an example of this? Once the actual digging gets started it won't take long, all this work has been relocating services and installing bridges.

 

[Power Raid]

cheap labour rates over there?

No CFMEU?

no idea why it can be done so easily but given construction is mechanised it's probably not wages or number of people.

no doubt cfmeu would slow things down but I sense there is more to it.

anyone work on road projects here in Oz and overseas for comparison?

 

[MarcusP2]

no idea why it can be done so easily but given construction is mechanised it's probably not wages or number of people.

no doubt cfmeu would slow things down but I sense there is more to it.

anyone work on road projects here in Oz and overseas for comparison?

Do you have an actual example of a comparable project in Singapore only taking months? Their Sentosa tunnel link has taken 6 years to build (a lot of that is the construction corridor, but that only delayed it by a year).

 

[Power Raid]

Do you have an example of this? Once the actual digging gets started it won't take long, all this work has been relocating services and installing bridges.

I can think of a few places "like" this but as you highlight each project has its own challenges.

Italy has been trying to build a new underground train line since I was at school (80s) and its still not finished. China does this all the time and I'd guess 3 months and its done.

Singapore is probably the best comparison as they do fly over bridges and work within an established town which can't afford down time.

 

[Gough]

Do you have an actual example of a comparable project in Singapore only taking months? Their Sentosa tunnel link has taken 6 years to build (a lot of that is the construction corridor, but that only delayed it by a year).

You're talking to a dude who has suggested South Australia be shut down, and turned into a national park. I'd leave it if I were you.

 

[Power Raid]

Do you have an actual example of a comparable project in Singapore only taking months? Their Sentosa tunnel link has taken 6 years to build (a lot of that is the construction corridor, but that only delayed it by a year).

I don't know the details of the Sentosa tunnel but the northern part of Singapore is reclaimed land and other roadworks in that area required a 10 year wait for the ground to settle.

 

[Smoooothy]

here in melb, they've just started working on the Melbourne metro train tunnel. expected to take 4 or 5 years to complete.

2 and a bit years doesn't seem too bad considering the nature of the request

 

[Flash of power]

The Feathers Hotel.

Has it just had a massive makeover? Any good now?

 

[Power Raid]

You're talking to a dude who has suggested South Australia be shut down, and turned into a national park. I'd leave it if I were you.

at some stage you will have to get over your daddy issues.

 

[MarcusP2]

Perhaps they take this long to avoid tram bridges twisting off their foundations and threatening to destroy a road.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-...-delays-after-overpass-damage-spotted/8190314

 

[brucetiki]

Perhaps they take this long to avoid tram bridges twisting off their foundations and threatening to destroy a road.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-...-delays-after-overpass-damage-spotted/8190314

South Rd bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down.
South Rd bridge is falling down, my fair lady!

 

[Boxhead_31]

Big slabs of the bridge have shifted.
How the heck can a construction firm stuff up this much?

 

[MarcusP2]

Big slabs of the bridge have shifted.
How the heck can a construction firm stuff up this much?

One beam has slid off its pad bearings. Probably constructed to spec and some undesigned-for event has caused the slip...seismic? Resonance? Wind gusts? Be interested to see the outcome of any investigation (if it becomes public).

 

[Power Raid]

South Rd bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down.
South Rd bridge is falling down, my fair lady!

wow

the person responsible for bridges isn't going home at 5pm today!

perhaps half the city isn't either

 

[Boxhead_31]

One beam has slid off its pad bearings. Probably constructed to spec and some undesigned-for event has caused the slip...seismic? Resonance? Wind gusts? Be interested to see the outcome of any investigation (if it becomes public).

Area around there does have a lot of reactive clay soil, but surely they would have taken this into account when building

 

[palmomagpie]

One massive difference I found between living in Adelaide and Melbourne is forming new friendship groups.

In Melbourne and i guess to a lesser degree now in Townville, I found it much easier to be included in new friendship groups. Whereas in Adelaide (Metro area) people are far more clingy to their current friendship groups are are less likely to include someone new. Its harder to break into a brew friendship group in Adelaide compared to the eastern states.

I feel tht might have something to do with the lesser population Adelaide has but I'm not sure.

I know the feeling mate. I moved here 2 years ago, was 20 at the time. I don't think it's the size of the place, as I'm from Darwin, the place where you can just walk into a local pub and everyone becomes your mate. I lived in Norwood here, and frequented the pubs there originally, but people my age didn't really want to know me because i didn't go to any of the schools around there. Few of my mates who have moved here have had the same problem. The only real new friendship groups you can ever seem to get into is with workmates, you can't just join a random bunch of people at the pub and become friends

 

[MarcusP2]

The school thing is stereotypically Adelaide.

 

[Flash of power]

The school thing is stereotypically Adelaide.

The "Old School Tie" thing is alive and well, my daughter got a very good job at at top tier law firm, 80% based on the "college" she went to. Good for her i guess as those years of school fees paid off.

 

[NSWCROW]

#prayforadelaide