New trams

GOVERNMENT 'RUSHED' INTO BUYING NEW TRAMS

There was quite a discussion today about the look of Adelaide and how the new trams were going to fit in. It started because a number of people have recently been to Melbourne and it clearly had the wow factor and a lot of things which just made you sit up and take notice. We all agreed the shopping was great, the changes to Melbourne were well worth it and they took more risks with getting their art work out there into the public arena. But I started talking about the new look of Adelaide. It really is a lot cleaner and more impressive. It's not all glitz and glam nor is it all bling and wow, but it really has become a nice looking city. Now the trees are growing on North Terrace we decided we could see all the buildings along there better without the ld trees but we needed the green of the new trees to set the buildings off. It was more like a boulevarde and we liked it. We liked the new fountain outside the State Library and we like the look north and south along King William Street. It really is clean and clear and the buildings are not too tall so you get plenty of light and air. We then started on how the trams may or may not mess it up. In the end we decided not. We thought the trams air conditioning will be fixed to cope with Adelaide,they have a nice clean line about them and it'll be great to hop on a tram and get a cruisy ride around our city. We were laughing at the hiccoughs with it all, but that's Adelaide. We do and then think and then adjust and make the right changes once we've lived with it. We thought it might block the traffic up a bit going along King William Street but then we thought you might get a great view. We'll have to see. In the end we thought even though Adelaide wasn't a big, glamorous city it was a great city to find what you needed and that all our amenities were good. It was nice not having to wait , queue or have big traffic jams. So, in the end, we became pretty positive about the trams. The airport is another story. We cannot believe this is happening and it isn't the government who put the mess in the fuel tanks.We're just looking forward to being able to leave Adelaide and fly somewhere else directly. We need that and it's something we now want.