One of the purported reasons (apart from the big donation to the liberal party from the local Mercedes-Benz distributor) that o-bahn was built instead of light rail to Tea Tree Plaza was that LR would “require” a tunnel in the city while o-bahn wouldn’t.
So now we have tram track being built on the surface towards where it would have connected with LR to the northeast, and the fume emitting o-bahn diesel buses are going into a tunnel.

Irony or stupidity ?

Tony G

> On 10 Dec 2017, at 7:13 am,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> I note that, as part of the upcoming changes to bus services, some are being rerouted from next week to account for the tramway extension:

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> https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/Announcements/News/Network-changes-from-Sunday-17-December%20 https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/Announcements/News/Network-changes-from-Sunday-17-December%20

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> The O Bahn tunnel is open for walk-throughs today apparently. Opening of the tram extension must be getting close.

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> Tony P

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