Your views: on deteriorating roads and more
Today, readers comment on dangerous country highways, rockets, a city car race and Playford comparisons.
Commenting on the story: Safety concerns after grain industry reveals its 10 worst roads in state
What an absolute disgrace that over many years successive governments have closed down South Australia’s entire rail network with the exception of the main interstate and suburban Adelaide lines.
Had the rail network been maintained, grain and other commodities could have been efficiently and safely transported by train, lessening the burden on rural roads, unable to cope with heavy grain traffic.The safety aspect of numerous large grain trucks on rural roads and clogging up main streets of country towns must also be realised.
The fact that even recently constructed highway infrastructure has been damaged by heavy grain trucks and is now closed off to traffic, speaks for itself. Most of the 10 worst roads featured in the article are parallel to closed railway lines.
The Eyre Peninsula rail network must be upgraded and returned to service the grain industry as an urgent priority, and other closed rail lines serving grain growing areas should be progressively restored and returned to service taking the pressure off the rural highway and road network. – John Zwar
Wow, those road must be horrendous when the destroyed Port Victoria Road on Yorke Peninsula doesn’t rate a mention.
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The patches made a few months ago are already death traps, with the road desperately requiring a complete resurface and widening to cope with the frequent traffic from the nearby minesite and the regular use by vehicles towing boats through Maitland to the Port Victoria boat ramp. – Robert Naudi
Commenting on the story: No liftoff for another SA rocket launch
How on earth are we able to sit by and allow testing of rockets in an already declared conservation zone in order to see if they prove worthy of being made permanent – in a conservation zone.
There are so many reasons for this to be disallowed (testing or permanent) and it sad to see that the hard work of a small local conservation activist group goes largely unheard. If it was a rocket launch pad in the middle of the Adelaide parklands it would be a different matter. All hell would break loose. Is it because Whalers Way is a small local secret tucked away on the distant West Coast? – Tricia Walton
Commenting on the story: Nothing supercheap about revived Adelaide 500
Bizarre isn’t it. All this money spent on and push for renewables, being green … then $35 million is spent on a car race? Wonder what the carbon footprint was for that weekend. – Matt Brennan
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Mullighanomics 101: Spend $35 million of taxpayers’ money, real money, on reviving the Adelaide 500 car race in return for an “economic benefit” of over $40 million – imaginary money. What is the actual economic benefit and for whom? – Philip Groves
Commenting on the opinion piece: Premier, you’re no Tom Playford – at least not yet
I don’t buy it. Maybe after a couple of decades in the big chair.
Rather, the early signs seem to suggest that the Malinauskas government is following the Daniel Andrews template. Spend big, borrow big, and leave it to future generations to pay it all back.
In fairness, politically, it seems to have worked in Victoria. The questions is, can South Australia afford it? – Stephen Trenowden
While our new premier is obviously an activist, I’m deeply disappointed by his lack of courageous leadership over the ongoing Covid outbreak. As a state, we should be in a much better position than we are with Covid numbers, and our hospitals should be under much less pressure.
Unfortunately, the Premier and the health minister have adopted a populist “head in the sand” approach to the arrival of this wave of Covid, and have done little to actively prepare the population with regulated preventative measures.
They have put too much faith in modelling, and have sold out the most vulnerable in our community, who most needed their leaders to lead at this critical time. Many have already paid with their lives, and our medical staff will once again be stressed and overstretched over the holiday season. – Geoff Colton
These submarines. We have four now, we’re getting a dozen and the difference between them is called the “capability gap”. But what is it that they can do now and won’t be able to do while we wait? How do they actually contribute to the safety and future of our country? – Peter Whitehouse
Entertaining but cynical as ever, Matthew! – Jonathan Hartstone
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