Future
Port Adelaide is an area undergoing significant redevelopment, both for new housing and to capitalize on the historic wharf precinct to attract tourism. Port Adelaide station is an uninviting environment for commuters, tourists and visitors to nearby museums, and the station and viaduct closed for four months for upgrade works in November 2009.
The future of the section of route over the viaduct is uncertain for two reasons:-
- All freight traffic previously travelling via Glanville to the Lefevre Peninsula industrial line has been diverted via a new rail bridge. This bridge was completed in August 2008, and crosses the Port River downsteam of the Port Adelaide harbour.
- There are intermittent proposals to upgrade the route from Adelaide to Port Adelaide and convert it to light rail. Nothing has been announced yet regarding the viaduct, but one might reasonably expect any light rail project to include street running through the heritage areas of central Port Adelaide.
Both of these initiatives would render the Commercial Road viaduct and Port Adelaide station redundant.
Read more about this topic: Port Adelaide Railway Station
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