Your views: on Adelaide’s traffic grind and more
Today, readers comment on slower driving times on our increasingly clogged roads, CBD development height rules, a basic income for artists and smuggling SA wildlife.
Commenting on the story: Slowdown: Adelaide’s traffic grind revealed in new official data
Your data on travel times and congestion showed that the best way to improve travel times in Adelaide is to reduce the amount of traffic.
This needs DIT to change their focus from car movements to people movements. Active transport should be the primary mode for trips of less than 5kms. A focus on 75 per cent of students walking or cycling to school would reduce congestion during the morning and afternoon peaks substantially. This would need reduced speed limits on local streets, better crossings at arterial roads, and no standing zones around schools.
Better connected cycling routes for those people who want to ride to work will also reduce commuter congestion. We have some great cycle paths in Adelaide. But they usually come to a halt at a wall of cars and no way to safely cross. Time for a change. – Jon Holbrook
We seem to have ended up with a State Government that loves motorsport but doesn’t seem to have any interest in the impending climate catastrophe we are facing.
Other than a possible future white elephant hydrogen plant, it is unclear what their plan is for reducing South Australia’s carbon footprint. The previous Labor Government, under Jay Wetherill, left us with an enviable source of renewable energy. But we need to start looking seriously at some of South Australia’s major sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
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High on the list are the emissions from transport – but where is the policy to tackle this? Building more and bigger (extremely expensive) roads is not a solution. In fact, it makes the problem worse. We also get more congestion, more pollution, lower productivity and a less liveable city.
It is poor policy and the government has evidently not learned from research or the experience of other cities that have bitten the bullet and have massively boosted investment in public transport and cycling infrastructure.
I am not even sure what the Transport Minister Tom Koutsantonis view would be on improving public and active transport as he appears to be largely silent on this. – Ben Smith
Commenting on the story: High-rise towers, hotel and 600 apartments planned for CBD site
Please, just comply with the height limits, it’s not complicated. As well as exceeding the height, tower 3 has a wide ‘big shoulders’ profile in contrast to say a slim tower profile. “On balance…” it’s simply inappropriate. – Paul Mutton
Commenting on the opinion piece: Could Australia try a basic income for artists?
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This is about as bad as ideas come. The establishment of government arts funding during the Whitlam years whilst enabling the “sector” to grow exponentially created a permanently mendicant class of artists who are forever reliant on the public purse.
At the same time, they, together with the plethora of organisations that act as the conduit between artists and the public, are able to make ever increasing volumes of work without regard for whether the marketplace either needs or wants the end product. – Damon Moon
What next? Basic income for home gardeners, surfers, tuck shop volunteers… ? – Michael Adams
Commenting on the story: SA lizards, wildlife targeted by traffickers
I quote from the Warning to Tourists introduction to the book Living Alongside the Animals – Anangu Way by Eileen Wani Wingfield Kokatha and Emily Munyungka Austin Antikirinya (IAD Press 2007). I worked on this book with these senior Kungka Tjuta – Aboriginal women.
“Never take lizards or anything overseas. We have the Inma [Traditional Dreaming song, story and dance] to the land for any lizard, snakes or any birds or other animals. We’ve heard some tourists are taking animals. Wrapping them up and hiding them in cases and taking them back to their own country.
“Don’t take any animals from the desert! They belong here. When they go back that way overseas they don’t know where they are. They fret for their country. They die.
“We’re treasuring these animals. We’re thinking many overseas people have been taking our animals because a lot of them are missing. Don’t kill ‘em for nothing. We only kill for food, not for nothing. Don’t mess around with them. We’re talking about our Dreaming. Like the elephant, they never forget. The perentie or malu[kangaroo], emu or snake will come back at you.
“Respect the animals and birds of the desert.” – Michele Madigan
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