Today, readers comment on the Transport Department preferring to demolish a heritage-listed gatehouse, pre-flight testing for repatriated Australians, and the Adelaide-Melbourne train service.
The Transport Department has defended plans to demolish the state heritage-listed Urrbrae gatehouse to widen an intersection, saying that relocating the 130-year-old landmark would cost taxpayers at least $3m – despite a specialist firm quoting the job at around $900,000 – and that doing so would remove or diminish its cultural heritage value.
If the Marshall Government follows through on its decision to bulldoze the historic Urrbrae gatehouse, it will be a scar inflicted on Adelaide by the state’s refusal to properly fund public transport.
Today, readers comment on the need to destroy a heritage-listed building to widen a road, public health powers, country industry, CBD attractions and surviving on welfare payments.