Commenting on the story: Call to halt hospital park lands build over ‘flawed’ advice

Glad to see the call to halt hospital parklands build over flawed advice.

“As the review considered, there isn’t enough width between tracks to build sufficient columns to withstand a freight train hitting them. To do that would require realignment of the tracks, lengthy closures of the freight and suburban lines and significant impacts to the Port Road bridge,” Picton said.

Just how fat do these columns need to be? The freight line is a single track, the westerly track of the previous double track used by freight on broad gauge. So, there is space to build up to three-metre-thick columns on the currently unused space previously occupied by the easterly track for the broad gauge freights, – Les Howard

It is curious to read these two comments on the well-advanced and medically supported planning of the new WCH – one from a Liberal Party Member and the other anonymous.

Colin Best’s description of the RAH West option is seriously flawed. He omits a key construction problem with this option. The railway lines are too close together to accommodate the massive columns necessary to support the multi-story hospital. The work required to solve this problem would disrupt the railway system for years and would add up to $1 billion to the cost of the hospital.

The ongoing commentary on the hospital plan and the fate of the Thebarton Barracks is just occupational therapy for those who won’t accept that it is all a done deal which must be implemented as expeditiously as possible. – Warren Jones

Let the Malinauskus Government build the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on the proposed site, let them re-locate the Police barracks and horse stabling in the park lands… and what will be next? Of course, the North Adelaide Swimming Centre… And what after that?

This has the undertones of allowing Putin to “annexe” nearby countries little by little… oh sure, let him, he’ll stop there… but he didn’t, did he? The result? The war in Ukraine.

We must put an end to the usurping of our precious park lands once and for all. Single-handedly this government has done more to take away the lungs of the city – the park lands belonging to the people – than any other government, Liberal or Labor, in the past 20 years. – Aura Valli

One feature of a new, modern WCH is an actual physical connection, conduit or bridge to the RAH for transfer of both patients and clinicians. This allows clinical care interchange between the paediatric and obstetric services and the adult sub-specialties, in turn greatly benefiting patient care. Especially kids with complex conditions transitioning out of paediatric care and also pregnant and birthing women with serious illness. So, I’m less concerned about which footprint it is built on than it achieving the functional clinical service capacity of modern medicine. – David Everett

Commenting on the story: Police told to hand over barracks relocation documents

The concept of relocating the police horses to the park lands is totally unnecessary. The horse stables should be relocated to compliment the existing barracks in the Hills, or preferably get rid of the horses altogether.

There is no need for these animals in the police force and they are wasting money that could be used for extra police resources. Together with the flawed advice on the location of the hospital on this site which should be located over the railway lines.

This is a decision the government will regret. And we will pay for. – Roger Frinsdorf