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I wonder if this is also an RIP on extending the O-bahn concept http://www.railpage.org.au/tram/obahn.html
whereby the bus is guided by rails. Perhaps that approach needs too much land. Perth's hydrogen fuel cell buses have gone I believe, having spent $50 per kilometre to run. Let's hope the sodium battery doesn't get ruptured in a prang.
In some ways Adelaide is the Las Vegas of the Southern Hemisphere, living on borrowed time. They need stuff to work soon.
Aren't Perth's buses (at least the inner city ones) gas powered ? That was the direction they had headed last time I looked.
Driving back up the coast (to Perth) today, I see that Alannah MacTiernan's Mandurah train line has opened at last...
Adelaide will build a nuclear plant if worst comes to worst for them - but hopefully they realise they have as much renewable energy that they could ever want within the state already...
Not only has Perth dropped the buses but also Beijing, Hamburg and Amsterdam
http://www.pta.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewarticle.asp?NID=2408
Also there are problems with Zebra batteries I hear. It always seems to come back to the stalwarts of coal, nukes and conservation with coal winning so far.