Re: Adelaide Update.
  prescottt

One of the main questions will surely be whether the existing North Terrace line out to Entertainment Centre will have the peak capacity to handle not only the existing Glenelg line trams, but additional services from the east end of North Terrace too. This is not just a question of headways and the capacity of the terminus, but traffic light cycles too.

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <rubberman92@...> wrote :

The King William St extension is a little odd, so conjecture about how it might be used is probably not useful in terms of normal transport options.

Its oddity is that originally, it was to be little more than a stub coming far enough from the North Terrace and King William Street intersection that when eventually the line was extended to Prospect, no further disruption would occur to that intersection. Thus, a couple of hundred metres and a nominal "stop" at the Festival Centre was all that was involved.

As it turned out, a bit more money was available, so the track was extended a little bit further. The extension along King William St to the end point was therefore governed by longer term considerations of not disrupting the intersection, and going as far as they could in the direction of future extensions, rather than immediate operational need.

So, it is quite conceivable that it won't see any service, or possibly a limited service on days when there are functions at the Festival Centre, the Riverbank or the Adelaide Oval. However, it could also operate from Glenelg, or a South Terrace shuttle too.

Mark Skinner