July 30, 2025 • 13 mins
Turn Left on Red - Improving Adelaide's Traffic Flow
What if you could turn left at a red light in Adelaide? Host Max Burford shares his "pie in the sky" idea to help improve traffic flow in the city by allowing left turns on red lights, similar to what they do in parts of the US and Canada. He argues it would save drivers time and make intersections more efficient. Max and co-host discuss the pros, cons and feasibility of implementing this idea in Adelaide. They also ask listeners to call in with their own ideas for improving the city.
2:21 - Max explains his idea for allowing left turns on red lights in Adelaide to help improve traffic flow. He gives an example of a specific intersection where he thinks it would be useful.
5:12 - Co-host asks how drivers know they can turn left on red. Max says some intersections have signs allowing it already.
7:23 - Max argues allowing left on red would save time for drivers by not having to sit at lights when no oncoming traffic is there.
8:34 - Co-host agrees it's a good idea. They ask listeners to call in with their own ideas for improving Adelaide.
9:47 - Max says he has a whole list of things he'd like to change in Adelaide for the better.
10:23 - Listeners can call in their ideas. Winners get tickets to a local event.
What's your idea for improving Adelaide? Call 13 10 23 and share your thoughts. Help make Adelaide an even better place to live.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here, more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We ask a deeply personal question to each other every day,
and today it is your turn to answer the question.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm probably due.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
My question to you, Max Burford is what would you
change about Adelaide if you could?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh, this is good. This is a different style of
questions to what we usually have, a bit more opinion based. Okay,
I love Adelaide. I've grown up in Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've lived here my entire life, and I will probably
live here my entire life.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So I'm well placed to answer this.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I've got one. Let's do traffic. I mean, I'm on
the road. I'm on the road here. One thing I
would like to change about Adelaide is I would like
drivers to be able to turn left.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
At every red light. Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So this is a thing that they do over in
the States and in Canada. And I know this because
I once hired a car over there and I went
there was on the other side of the road. I
pulled up at a traffic light like a four way
intersection to turn right, and I had a red light
and I was sitting there and the person behind me
was just on the horn ten hurry up.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hurry up, and I was like, mate, the light is red.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And I later found out you can turn right at
these intersections when no one is coming the other way.
So you just have to use I don't know, your
eyes to determine if it's safe or not. And it's Adelaide, right,
we do have peak hour traffic for about twenty years
at either end.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Of the day.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Saves so much time.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But aside from that, if you pull up at a
traffic light and we have I think nineteen of these
at the moment, but it should be all of them.
If you pull up at a traffic light and you're
turning left, all you have to worry about is one
that there are no pedestrians in front of you, and
two that there are no cars coming from the right,
And a lot of the time in Adelaide there are
no cars coming from the right.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You say that there's nineteen, how do they let you know?
Is there a sign?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There's a sign on a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The one that I come across a lot because I'm
an injured boy and I go to sports med all
the time in Stepney.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
There's one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you're coming out of like the Harrow Road to
Saint Peter's Road, and you pull up to that TA
intersection and you've got the little BP on your left,
you can turn left on a red light there as
long as no one is coming up Paynham Road from
the right from the city.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes, a lot of them, they've got little signs there.
But the whole point of this is and why I
think it is such a good idea. I'm so impatient
on the road. If I pull up there and I
can't turn left, I have to sit there and watch
often no one coming, and then not only have I
wasted my time, then just to set me through there
might not be anyone behind me. We have to have
(02:59):
a whole light cycle to stop the main road, so
all the traffic has to stop just so I can
turn left.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Haha, Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like that, That's what I would like to take to
the government. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Can we put this out to our beautiful listeners?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Sure, I want to know what you would change about Adelaide,
because I've got a whole list of things that I'd
love to change.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Please for the better more than merrier. Yeah, I think
we could because we love Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yea. I will ambassador Adelaide to the day I die.
But I always would like us to be better.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Same and we're friends with Mali and we can make
things happen because we're passionate. Okay, thirteen one O two three.
If you've got something you would love to change about Adelaide,
all right, we're in the wall the truth. Max is asked.
What would you change about Adelaide?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Max said, the one thing I would love to change
about Adelaide because it can always get better.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This beautiful city of ours. I would like you to
be able to turn left at every single red light. Yeap.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
All you have to do is make sure there's no
pedestrians coming. You make sure there's no cars coming. It
means that we don't have to wait at that light
as the driver, and it means you don't have to
stop the other traffic on.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Save so much time, so one car through. Can I
put forward my plan to make Adelaide better? I would
ban teenagers from riding down James Road in Blair. I
would ban that because that it is a death wish.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Are they the ones that are coming back from the
mountain park up, they fly down.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They don't care about any traffic. They are putting their
lives at risk and putting people driving up their lives
at risks.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
We're really able to crash because of one the other day. Yeah,
there's no bike plan.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I am so passionate about that road. No, but they're idiots,
they're teenagers. They just don't They don't see tomorrow, and
they could die so easily.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There's a change, So any one and two three? What
would you change about Adelaide? Sam and Celig's beach is
called in Sammy? You want to change something about opening hours?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yes? I do, so love the show, longtime listeners.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I would love to be able to get a meal
after eight.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, I'm a real cree and we shut too early.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So restaurants, cafes, everything, it's just such a small window.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I know, and I think we're doing so much better.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But guys, we can do even more food after I'm
sure we'll get more people out there.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I reckon hospitality would thrive. The It's it's really hard
at the moment, so many restaurants are closing. But if
we were open later and we could build up that community,
everyone going out and having big nights, Like.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, that'd be brilliant.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I reckon.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They're worried the first people to do it. They're like,
we don't want to be the only ones, want to
staff for too long. But if everyone dives in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
At once, everyone the buzz happening.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Sammy, We're adding that to the list. Love it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Rose in Farridin Park, Rosie, what's your idea?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
We need better travel?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, our airport everywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We've got to go to Sydney. I am mailbur We
just went to air We had Sydney.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I do get that though, and we are getting better.
Go Director Bali Director Fiji direct to San Francisco as
of December, but we can get better.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Theresa in Campbelltown, what's one thing you'd improve about adelaide?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'd love to see the intersections in the city that
enable all the pedestrians to cross at once.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh yeah, like a Times Square you're crossing in Tokyo.
We have a couple of these, do we not in
run them all?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I lived in Auckland and all the all the intersections
in the city were all pedestrians cross at once.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know what? Theresa you know why, that's an even
better idea because if you are turning like left at
those for example, when the light goes green, you have
to wait so long for all of the traffic to
go and only like one or two people can get through.
So that makes it even better because all the pedestrians
are gone.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You have to cross two roads, you can just go diagonal.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So true, Terresa. The theme of what everyone's saying is
the traffic and getting around Adelaide needs to change a
bit to be better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There's a lot of traffic, a lot of travel. Rose
is still there. Rose, is your phone line a little
bit better for us? Can you give us your idea again?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Everywhere we go.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
We went to Airsrop, we had to day via Sydney.
We just went to Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We had to go via Sydney.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Come on, get with it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
More direct. I like this. So we've got coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Obviously, United Airlines are going to be flying direct from
Adelaide to sand France, so that opens up a few things.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But the more the merrier.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I agree with that, and it encourages more overseas
travel as well. People see the world love it. Rosie thanks,
Thank you, Rose. So what are we gonna do with me?
We're gonna call Mali.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, we're going to add this to our list. We're
going to get to get it all going. And please
I'd like to hear more thirty one O two three.
They don't all have to be traffic things. They don't
have to be travel.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Thinks can be anything.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
What do you want to change about Adelaide? How are
we going to improve this great city? And we will
take it to the man Malie.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A vineyard zip line in McLaren Valle.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We might not take that one to Malie.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What would you change about Adelaide? That was Max's question
in the Wall of Treets today.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I am changing a rule where you can turn left
at every single red light you are at. It means
that you don't have to wait for the light to
turn green, and you're the only car going through, and
you hold up all the traffic on the main road.
All you do is just watch out, make sure there's
no one coming because you got eyes submitted.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm banning all the teenagers from riding down James rowden Blair.
It's so dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We are hearing from you, Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What would you like to change about this beautiful city
of our thirty one h two three Michelle in Edwardstown
has called in Michelle, you got one about restaurants? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Absolutely? Why is it that Melbourne do you everything so
much better than us? So why I can go into
Melbourne in the middle of winter, I can sit outside
and it's like freezing cold, but I am toasty warmed
because they have all the cafe blind They have these
fantastic heaters that go across the ceiling that radiate beautiful
warmth at warms, you know, not those stupid bar heaters
(09:04):
at some of these places just chuck up on the
wall and the heater and you have those striupid round
heaters that you know, you have to literally be sitting your.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Butt on to get bottle and they run out every
twenty seconds, and you have to go and you.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Also have to go and find some stuff and say
can you turn these frigging things gone?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Please?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And can I please have some you know, jump like,
have you got some blankets or something? Because this is freezing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I make the change, make the change, but I do
I will argue against that and say that Adelaide is
better than Melbourne, much better, better, than Melbourne.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah, we are the eight pm just like what the
other callers said, eight pm. I can't get a meal
if you're going to be if you're going to be,
if you're going to serve people and want to serve
dinner and you can't stay out past eight pm because
you need to go to bed, that is not the
business you should be in.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Michelle, you are very passion.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You can come to the court with us. It seems fair, Michelle.
It's on the list. It's on the list. I like it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey, I'm always wanting to be warmer in winter when
I eat and food.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That's fine. And also Michelle, Michelle, I love you. I
like the passion. But it's too many to get pitched for.
We got so many other people here on the line.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, Cherie Golden Grove, what are you pitching? What
would you change at Adelaide?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, I guess it's back in a bit onto. What
Michelle was saying is that I would also like to
see the end of Rundles Street where they close it
off during the fringe and bring out all the tables
out for the outdoor dining, to have that a bit
more often, not just during the fringe. But over the
summer or even over the winter, if we can get
some of those heaters and you know, having those little
street performers and little stools set up as well, bring
(10:40):
people into the city and have a real party atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I wonder if that could be something like an every
weekend thing. Imagine Rundle Street Friday, every Saturday.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Don't night closed off?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Sound great? Reason this doesn't happen because people don't support it,
and then restaurants go out of business like they already are.
It's easy for us to say, I suppose there'd be
hospitality people out there right now saying we try mate,
but do.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They have they tried? Maybe they should try it one
more time.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We're going to leave this in the hands of Malle.
We're just giving him problems that he can solve.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We're trying to help hospitality.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
George and Carolta Parks called in George, what change would
you make about Adelaide guys, Yeah, look, I think we
need a theme park.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
All right. A love the part you're trying to turn
us into Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Something Yeah, something like Saint Kildare in Melbourne or Gold
Coast or like.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
We used to have a Magic Mountain or something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Because yeah, okay, well we had Dazzle Land.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, you know, I mean I think I think, you know,
it's just like a sick slide or something.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know, Somemer's coming up. We look looking into something
like that, you know, don't you reckon?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I don't mind it, George. It would be maybe good
for some tourism. We get some families traveling to Adelaide,
although Gold Coast is warmer all year round than us.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is why they have them.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, I just don't trust the rides. You don't have
to go anywhere I go as.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Long as people are coming to town.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We like it the way I take it, George, I'm
taking it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We take it to Amy and Mawson Lakes.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Have you got to change one thing you like to
change about Adelaide?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yes, I love that. Rundle Street gets blocked off for
the Fringe festival, and it's been pumping for Illuminate as well.
But all of the restaurants are open, and then none
of the little boutiques. Rundell Mall's completely shut. I think
they need to extended shopping hours during the Mad March
and illuminate and get all of those people in through
(12:30):
the other little boutiques and other things, not just the
food areas.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Amy, Can I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Ask a dumb question here as someone who agrees and
wants to go to all the restaurants. Have you ever
finished dinner at nine o'clock and thought, I'm desperate to
go and buy a dress.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I did last year for my fortieth The night before
I was walking down Rundle Mall and it was on
one of those days that one of those little pop
up shops was actually open, and I found the perfect
dress the night before my birthday party at like nine
point thirty or something at night.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I will say that, And it was the thing about
because you can do that, you can go to Zara
at midnight.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It is so cool. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, change all right, we're trying to make a change.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
On the list. All right. We've got like eight or
nine things there.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That we pick our our top five and then we
go on pitch to Mallie, let's go to the store today.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah,
I heard podcasts here, more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We ask a deeply personal question to each other every day,
and today it is your turn to answer the question.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm probably due.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
My question to you, Max Burford is what would you
change about Adelaide if you could?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh, this is good. This is a different style of
questions to what we usually have, a bit more opinion based. Okay,
I love Adelaide. I've grown up in Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've lived here my entire life, and I will probably
live here my entire life.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So I'm well placed to answer this.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I've got one. Let's do traffic. I mean, I'm on
the road. I'm on the road here. One thing I
would like to change about Adelaide is I would like
drivers to be able to turn left.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
At every red light. Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So this is a thing that they do over in
the States and in Canada. And I know this because
I once hired a car over there and I went
there was on the other side of the road. I
pulled up at a traffic light like a four way
intersection to turn right, and I had a red light
and I was sitting there and the person behind me
was just on the horn ten hurry up.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hurry up, and I was like, mate, the light is red.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And I later found out you can turn right at
these intersections when no one is coming the other way.
So you just have to use I don't know, your
eyes to determine if it's safe or not. And it's Adelaide, right,
we do have peak hour traffic for about twenty years
at either end.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Of the day.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Saves so much time.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But aside from that, if you pull up at a
traffic light and we have I think nineteen of these
at the moment, but it should be all of them.
If you pull up at a traffic light and you're
turning left, all you have to worry about is one
that there are no pedestrians in front of you, and
two that there are no cars coming from the right,
And a lot of the time in Adelaide there are
no cars coming from the right.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You say that there's nineteen, how do they let you know?
Is there a sign?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There's a sign on a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The one that I come across a lot because I'm
an injured boy and I go to sports med all
the time in Stepney.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
There's one.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you're coming out of like the Harrow Road to
Saint Peter's Road, and you pull up to that TA
intersection and you've got the little BP on your left,
you can turn left on a red light there as
long as no one is coming up Paynham Road from
the right from the city.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes, a lot of them, they've got little signs there.
But the whole point of this is and why I
think it is such a good idea. I'm so impatient
on the road. If I pull up there and I
can't turn left, I have to sit there and watch
often no one coming, and then not only have I
wasted my time, then just to set me through there
might not be anyone behind me. We have to have
(02:59):
a whole light cycle to stop the main road, so
all the traffic has to stop just so I can
turn left.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Haha, Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like that, That's what I would like to take to
the government. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Can we put this out to our beautiful listeners?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Sure, I want to know what you would change about Adelaide,
because I've got a whole list of things that I'd
love to change.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Please for the better more than merrier. Yeah, I think
we could because we love Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yea. I will ambassador Adelaide to the day I die.
But I always would like us to be better.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Same and we're friends with Mali and we can make
things happen because we're passionate. Okay, thirteen one O two three.
If you've got something you would love to change about Adelaide,
all right, we're in the wall the truth. Max is asked.
What would you change about Adelaide?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Max said, the one thing I would love to change
about Adelaide because it can always get better.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This beautiful city of ours. I would like you to
be able to turn left at every single red light. Yeap.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
All you have to do is make sure there's no
pedestrians coming. You make sure there's no cars coming. It
means that we don't have to wait at that light
as the driver, and it means you don't have to
stop the other traffic on.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Save so much time, so one car through. Can I
put forward my plan to make Adelaide better? I would
ban teenagers from riding down James Road in Blair. I
would ban that because that it is a death wish.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Are they the ones that are coming back from the
mountain park up, they fly down.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They don't care about any traffic. They are putting their
lives at risk and putting people driving up their lives
at risks.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
We're really able to crash because of one the other day. Yeah,
there's no bike plan.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I am so passionate about that road. No, but they're idiots,
they're teenagers. They just don't They don't see tomorrow, and
they could die so easily.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
There's a change, So any one and two three? What
would you change about Adelaide? Sam and Celig's beach is
called in Sammy? You want to change something about opening hours?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yes? I do, so love the show, longtime listeners.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I would love to be able to get a meal
after eight.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, I'm a real cree and we shut too early.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So restaurants, cafes, everything, it's just such a small window.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I know, and I think we're doing so much better.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But guys, we can do even more food after I'm
sure we'll get more people out there.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I reckon hospitality would thrive. The It's it's really hard
at the moment, so many restaurants are closing. But if
we were open later and we could build up that community,
everyone going out and having big nights, Like.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, that'd be brilliant.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I reckon.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They're worried the first people to do it. They're like,
we don't want to be the only ones, want to
staff for too long. But if everyone dives in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
At once, everyone the buzz happening.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Sammy, We're adding that to the list. Love it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Rose in Farridin Park, Rosie, what's your idea?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
We need better travel?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, our airport everywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
We've got to go to Sydney. I am mailbur We
just went to air We had Sydney.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I do get that though, and we are getting better.
Go Director Bali Director Fiji direct to San Francisco as
of December, but we can get better.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Theresa in Campbelltown, what's one thing you'd improve about adelaide?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'd love to see the intersections in the city that
enable all the pedestrians to cross at once.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh yeah, like a Times Square you're crossing in Tokyo.
We have a couple of these, do we not in
run them all?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I lived in Auckland and all the all the intersections
in the city were all pedestrians cross at once.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know what? Theresa you know why, that's an even
better idea because if you are turning like left at
those for example, when the light goes green, you have
to wait so long for all of the traffic to
go and only like one or two people can get through.
So that makes it even better because all the pedestrians
are gone.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You have to cross two roads, you can just go diagonal.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So true, Terresa. The theme of what everyone's saying is
the traffic and getting around Adelaide needs to change a
bit to be better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There's a lot of traffic, a lot of travel. Rose
is still there. Rose, is your phone line a little
bit better for us? Can you give us your idea again?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Everywhere we go.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
We went to Airsrop, we had to day via Sydney.
We just went to Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We had to go via Sydney.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Come on, get with it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
More direct. I like this. So we've got coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Obviously, United Airlines are going to be flying direct from
Adelaide to sand France, so that opens up a few things.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But the more the merrier.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, I agree with that, and it encourages more overseas
travel as well. People see the world love it. Rosie thanks,
Thank you, Rose. So what are we gonna do with me?
We're gonna call Mali.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, we're going to add this to our list. We're
going to get to get it all going. And please
I'd like to hear more thirty one O two three.
They don't all have to be traffic things. They don't
have to be travel.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Thinks can be anything.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
What do you want to change about Adelaide? How are
we going to improve this great city? And we will
take it to the man Malie.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A vineyard zip line in McLaren Valle.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We might not take that one to Malie.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What would you change about Adelaide? That was Max's question
in the Wall of Treets today.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I am changing a rule where you can turn left
at every single red light you are at. It means
that you don't have to wait for the light to
turn green, and you're the only car going through, and
you hold up all the traffic on the main road.
All you do is just watch out, make sure there's
no one coming because you got eyes submitted.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm banning all the teenagers from riding down James rowden Blair.
It's so dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
We are hearing from you, Adelaide.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What would you like to change about this beautiful city
of our thirty one h two three Michelle in Edwardstown
has called in Michelle, you got one about restaurants? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Absolutely? Why is it that Melbourne do you everything so
much better than us? So why I can go into
Melbourne in the middle of winter, I can sit outside
and it's like freezing cold, but I am toasty warmed
because they have all the cafe blind They have these
fantastic heaters that go across the ceiling that radiate beautiful
warmth at warms, you know, not those stupid bar heaters
(09:04):
at some of these places just chuck up on the
wall and the heater and you have those striupid round
heaters that you know, you have to literally be sitting your.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Butt on to get bottle and they run out every
twenty seconds, and you have to go and you.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Also have to go and find some stuff and say
can you turn these frigging things gone?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Please?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And can I please have some you know, jump like,
have you got some blankets or something? Because this is freezing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I make the change, make the change, but I do
I will argue against that and say that Adelaide is
better than Melbourne, much better, better, than Melbourne.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Yeah, we are the eight pm just like what the
other callers said, eight pm. I can't get a meal
if you're going to be if you're going to be,
if you're going to serve people and want to serve
dinner and you can't stay out past eight pm because
you need to go to bed, that is not the
business you should be in.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Michelle, you are very passion.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You can come to the court with us. It seems fair, Michelle.
It's on the list. It's on the list. I like it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey, I'm always wanting to be warmer in winter when
I eat and food.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That's fine. And also Michelle, Michelle, I love you. I
like the passion. But it's too many to get pitched for.
We got so many other people here on the line.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
All right, Cherie Golden Grove, what are you pitching? What
would you change at Adelaide?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Yeah, I guess it's back in a bit onto. What
Michelle was saying is that I would also like to
see the end of Rundles Street where they close it
off during the fringe and bring out all the tables
out for the outdoor dining, to have that a bit
more often, not just during the fringe. But over the
summer or even over the winter, if we can get
some of those heaters and you know, having those little
street performers and little stools set up as well, bring
(10:40):
people into the city and have a real party atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I wonder if that could be something like an every
weekend thing. Imagine Rundle Street Friday, every Saturday.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Don't night closed off?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Sound great? Reason this doesn't happen because people don't support it,
and then restaurants go out of business like they already are.
It's easy for us to say, I suppose there'd be
hospitality people out there right now saying we try mate,
but do.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They have they tried? Maybe they should try it one
more time.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We're going to leave this in the hands of Malle.
We're just giving him problems that he can solve.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We're trying to help hospitality.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
George and Carolta Parks called in George, what change would
you make about Adelaide guys, Yeah, look, I think we
need a theme park.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
All right. A love the part you're trying to turn
us into Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Something Yeah, something like Saint Kildare in Melbourne or Gold
Coast or like.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
We used to have a Magic Mountain or something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Because yeah, okay, well we had Dazzle Land.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, you know, I mean I think I think, you know,
it's just like a sick slide or something.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You know, Somemer's coming up. We look looking into something
like that, you know, don't you reckon?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I don't mind it, George. It would be maybe good
for some tourism. We get some families traveling to Adelaide,
although Gold Coast is warmer all year round than us.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is why they have them.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, I just don't trust the rides. You don't have
to go anywhere I go as.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Long as people are coming to town.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We like it the way I take it, George, I'm
taking it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We take it to Amy and Mawson Lakes.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Have you got to change one thing you like to
change about Adelaide?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yes, I love that. Rundle Street gets blocked off for
the Fringe festival, and it's been pumping for Illuminate as well.
But all of the restaurants are open, and then none
of the little boutiques. Rundell Mall's completely shut. I think
they need to extended shopping hours during the Mad March
and illuminate and get all of those people in through
(12:30):
the other little boutiques and other things, not just the
food areas.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Amy, Can I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Ask a dumb question here as someone who agrees and
wants to go to all the restaurants. Have you ever
finished dinner at nine o'clock and thought, I'm desperate to
go and buy a dress.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I did last year for my fortieth The night before
I was walking down Rundle Mall and it was on
one of those days that one of those little pop
up shops was actually open, and I found the perfect
dress the night before my birthday party at like nine
point thirty or something at night.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I will say that, And it was the thing about
because you can do that, you can go to Zara
at midnight.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
It is so cool. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, change all right, we're trying to make a change.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
On the list. All right. We've got like eight or
nine things there.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That we pick our our top five and then we
go on pitch to Mallie, let's go to the store today.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah,
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