Your views: on regional rail and more
Today, readers comment on calls to reinstate axed passenger train services to country SA, mental health and heritage.
Commenting on the story: Off the rails: ‘Dying’ SA town appeals for train return
Totally agree the business case would benefit from the tourism growth as well as residential and freight.
I am not sure why the trains were stopped but the economy across the mid-north would be enhanced significantly with a train linking Clare, Burra and Jamestown. – Paul Victory
How wonderful we’d find it to have train services in the SA regions. We are city people who don’t drive and we love sitting on trains.
We’d be happy to visit regional centres as tourists but as it is we go nowhere outside the city (I’m defining Handorf as city because it has a usable bus route). It’s easier for us to get to Melbourne than Burra.
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Even Victor, which is still a tourist destination, is in the too hard basket for us. Such a shame. – Cathy Chua
Commenting on the opinion piece: A system in crisis won’t fix a crisis
Totally agree with this article. While we need investment in staff and infrastructure in the acute settings, community led early intervention and prevention must become the discussion on all our lips.
We simply will not have the staffing numbers nor the budget to provide expensive hospital short or medium term stay care. The local grassroots support programs can go a long way to playing a part in reducing demand and more importantly, providing early support in a friendly setting.
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These services will still need a pathway for higher end care, but so much can be done early. – Joe Hooper, chief executive, Rural & Remote Mental Health
Commenting on Your views: on a hospital over heritage
We now have two academics and the Commissioner of SAPOL advocating the destruction of both the park lands and the heritage precinct of the Police Barracks. Perhaps the destruction of the Adelaide Gaol could be included?
Whilst acknowledging the need of a medical facility it shouldn’t be done to the destruction of another facility. With cooperation why, with creative thinking, architecture and acceptance that we need both to have a healthy and rich societ,y should we not aim to achieve this non-binary outcome? – Barry Wilson
I have visited the site in question once to see the horses, with children in tow, years ago. In my life as a parent I have visited the children’s hospital five times, and I can say a good children’s hospital is five times more important to me as an Adelaide citizen.
At last we have agreement from the consultants and staff who will be managing the new hospital, and a government who is willing to invest in it. It’s a huge complicated undertaking the planning, documentation and construction of a new hospital. The infrastructure, the interconnection of road systems, the ability of the amenity expand and adapt to the changing nature of medicine and deal with possible future pandemics are just a few of the issues to be dealt with.
The existing children’s hospital amenity will remain where it is in the meantime, and I hope the significant old Memorial Hospital is retained. I believe the benefits of the new hospital proposed on the site far outweigh the value of the old police barracks.
I have seen so much of Adelaide’s heritage, fabulous irreplaceable buildings razed for no public gain. This barracks site is of very modest architectural merit. As it stands it’s hard to access, and hardly a popular place to visit. I’m not denying it’s a part of the states early colonial development, and legislated protection is a reflection of a civilised society. It has some interest, but, sometimes in decision analysis options are weighted differently between groups.
A centrally located children’s hospital here will benefit the children and their parents for many more decades than the barracks sitting there will. I support the proposal, and if necessary, to appease the heritage proponents, suggest the old barracks be rebuilt in another location. – Susan Scrymgour
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