Welcome!
This is the first blog from Greater Adelaide Transit, or GAT for short. This is a site to discuss all things transit, also known as public transport, in and around the Greater Adelaide region of South Australia.
The Greater Adelaide Region as pictured below, is a geography that was outlined in The 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (2017) and includes the Adelaide metropolitan area, the inner, middle and outer metropolitan areas and the wider greater region. It encompasses north to the Barossa Valley, south to Victor Harbor and east to Murray Bridge. This is the growth area of South Australia and is why this site will focus on this geographic region.
Why a blog?
This blog serves as a central platform for transport enthusiasts and professionals alike, to engage in healthy and friendly discussion, and as an opportunity to critique my blog posts. This will help me to tweak my future posts and work closely with the transport community.
What to expect
Blog topics will include the history, current operations and future of public transport throughout the Greater Adelaide Region and across different modes of transport, such as bus, train and tram. Topics will also discuss business operations including contractors, ticketing, maps and styling and a wide array of other areas that help to run public transportation. There will also be posts highlighting growth areas within the region and provide opportunity to discuss whether good planning principles have been applied in the context of transit. Finally, news topics will be shared to provide opportunity for discussion.
What’s next?
Keep an eye out for upcoming posts by subscribing to the mailing list on this website or following the social media pages. What GAT topic would you like to discuss? Visit the topic ideas page where you can submit topic ideas, they might just be the subject of the next post!
Thank you so much for reading my introductory post, please feel free to comment on this post with any ideas of what you have for future posts. It can be anything from an idea on how to introduce a new railway line from the City to the Barossa, or some timetable tweaks to improve efficiency. Whatever it may be, comment below.
I look forward to you reading my next post!
References
Image 1
Plan SA 2017, Figure 1.10 the indicative geography used in the targets, Plan SA, Government of South Australia, 2017, viewed 26 April 2022, <https://livingadelaide.sa.gov.au/the_plan>.
Image 2
Cogh, M, n.d., 'Sunny Adelaide train', Wordpress Openverse, CC BY-SA 2.0, viewed 26 April 2022, <https://wordpress.org/openverse/image/2d0df428-7304-4736-87f0-02e97638c7c8>.
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