Adelaide: Backwards & Boring.

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Adelaide's O'Bahn Bus Track

I actually like the idea of the O'Bahn. It combines the speed of a dedicated bus only track and the flexibility to actually leave that track and perform like a normal bus.

You only really hear about it when someone tries to drive on it or is killed by it (suicide).

Vehicle entered the busway at the Modbury interchange

Vehicle entered the busway at the Modbury interchange

A crash on the O-Bahn track near Tea Tree Plaza in March this year.

Police at the scene of the fatality on the O-Bahn this morning. Picture: Tait Schmaal

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-07/airbags-inflate-as-car-crashes-on-obahn-track/4870262?&section=news

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/photos/two-young-women-taken-to-hospital-after-four-wheel-drive-flips-on-obahn-at-modbury/story-fnii5yv6-1226692620203

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/pedestrian-killed-in-crash-on-obahn/story-fnii5yv4-1226659094037#mm-breached

Friday, 9 August 2013

400 kilometer police pursuit through Adelaide

When I was a kid seeing high speed pursuits around Adelaide really excited me.

I once saw a crazed looking bogan in an old Ford XF Falcon station wagon fly through a large roundabout in the wrong direction completely freaking out the cops and other road users. The cops were so freaked out that they stopped and patiently waited for their turn at going through the roundabout letting the guy get really far away in heavy traffic.

Carjackings and pursuit offences have their court sequel

Carjackings and pursuit offences have their court sequel

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-07/driver-from-400km-high-speed-chase-seeks-mercy/4871504?&section=news

Adelaide's famous dead gum tree

If there is anything that has ruined this city more than heritage listings it would have to be left field Green party types. I don't know if the developers meant for this tree to die or if they did actually want it as a set piece, either way I wouldn't be surprised.

What I do know is that the developers found themselves being forced to consider the welfare of a tree by the local council and retarded locals.

Don't get me wrong though I do feel something for the tree. Maybe they could have built an enclosure around the tree and to the ceiling so it could still get its daily dose of unfiltered UV rays.

The tree soon after the redeveloped mall's opening in 2011.

The tree soon after the redeveloped mall's opening in 2011.

Burnside Village Shopping Centre. The Burnside Tree.

The Burnside Village tree on July 31, 2013.

Going.... going. A worker makes a start on the removal of the dead Burnside tree.

The Burnside Village gum tree has been cut down to a stump.

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/burnside-village8217s-dead-gum-tree-to-be-chopped-down-and-turned-into-furniture-or-a-sculpture/story-fnii5yv4-1226690031525#mm-breached

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-02/burnside-shopping-centre-gum-tree-dead-and-will-be-removed/4860802?&section=news

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/18302316/burnside-village-tree-to-cop-the-chop/

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/is-anyone-really-surprised-the-burnside-village-tree-died/story-fnii5yv4-1226691594351#mm-breached

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/infamous-burnside-tree-now-just-a-sad-and-sorry-stump/story-fnii5yv4-1226690862805

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/burnside-village-tree-advertised-as-firewood-in-gumtree-online-classified-ad/story-fnii5yv4-1226688627340

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Adelaide's selfish peak hour drivers

I forgot about the arrogant Adelaidean drivers during peak hour in my rant about the road ragers the other day.These guys wont smash your face in but they will test your patience.

Cars queuing across Franklin St heading west at Victoria Square.

Cars queuing across Franklin St heading west at Victoria Square.

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/raa-tells-adelaide-motorists-not-to-queue-across-intersections/story-fnii5yv4-1226689238983#mm-breached

Bizarre arson attack in Adelaide

This is one of the weirdest events that I have heard about to have occurred in Adelaide.

Two men allegedly robbed a convenience store and then tied the shop assistant to a chair and set fire to the store whilst he was still in it.

WTF!

Adelaide: Athens of the south or Beirut of the south?

Police said two men in balaclavas tied up an attendant and set a store alight in Adelaide.

Police said two men in balaclavas tied up an attendant and set a store alight in Adelaide.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-01/glenelg-worker-tied-to-chair-and-shop-set-alight/4857548

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/south-australia/convenience-store-employee-says-he-was-tied-to-chair-and-shop-torched-during-robbery-at-jetty-rd-glenelg/story-fnii5yv4-1226689245922#mm-breached

Ram raiding in Adelaide

A few years ago the Aboriginal "Gang of 49" were regularly in the news for their ram raiding efforts around Adelaide.

Since then this is probably the first I have heard of this type of break and enter.

This particular ram raid took place at a Semaphore butchers and their target was a Guide Dogs SA donation dog which I imagine must have been chock full of change to become the interest of ram raiders or they just wanted a big plastic Labrador for decoration.

Either way this is a deadset lowlife act.