Recommendations - City of West Torrens - SA.Gov.au

Being located in close proximity
to the City of Adelaide, there are
many convenient public transport
routes between the City of West
Torrens and the City of Adelaide and
the beachside suburbs.
In Adelaide, public transport carries
an estimated 10% of passenger travel
during peak hours and only 5% of
all weekday travel (peak and offpeak).
South Australia’s Strategic Plan
identifies a target to double the use of
public transport to 10% of weekday
travel by 2018*.
* Source of information: Adelaide Urban
Corridors Strategy 2006 DTRS and DTEI.
The ABS Census 2001 data shows that
in the City of West Torrens, 8.1% use
public transport.
Figure 8 shows the public transport
routes located within the City.
On the main east-west routes, there
are Go Zones for peak hour travel
along Henley Beach Road, Sir Donald
Bradman Drive and Anzac Highway.
The Adelaide-Glenelg tram also
provides a convenient public transport
service between the City of Adelaide
and the beachside suburb of Glenelg.
In recent years, the public transport
routes have extended into the
Adelaide Airport.
Public Transport Routes
The above map shows that the City of
West Torrens is well served by public
transport.
Travel Demand Management measures
to encourage more public transport
usage includes transit lanes, real
time bus information, Go Zones and
improvements to intersection operations.
The role of the City includes providing
supporting infrastructure to assist in
increasing usage of public transport,
for example, by providing a good
network of footpaths (compliant with
DDA requirements), a convenient
network of bus stops and bus shelters.
Increasing the public transport usage is
consistent with the Infrastructure Plan
for South Australia and the need to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
reducing car usage.
Where public transport routes utilise
local streets, a number of issues have
arisen in recent years, in particular the
need to design traffic control devices
to accommodate the infrequent
articulated bus and the increasing
use of 14.4m long controlled access
rigid buses.
The design of traffic control devices
on local streets which form part of
a regular bus route need to have
regard to the type of buses that would
traverse the device. The frequent
constrained width of local intersections
means that articulated buses are often
not possible to be accommodated. If
mounting of the central island were
possible, the design of a roundabout
would be much easier. However,
DTEI has, in the past, not accepted
such an approach.
Figure 8
Public transport routes: source DTEI
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The increasing use of the 14.4m
long controlled access bus means
that it would become even more
difficult to accommodate such a bus
in the design of roundabouts, given
the longer wheel base and turning
space requirements. For existing
roundabouts, it would be likely that