The Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study, or "MATS Plan" as it became known, was a comprehensive transport plan released in 1968 examining the then-current and future needs of transport for the city of Adelaide.
It recommended the construction of 98 kilometres of freeways, 34 kilometres of expressway, the widening of 386 kilometres of existing arterial roads, as well as new arterial roads, a new bridge over the Port River, 20 rail grade separations and heavy rail improvements including a subway under King William Street.
The estimated cost of land acquisition and construction was $436.5 million dollars in 1968, which equates to approximately $4,580 million in 2010 with inflation. Ultimately none of the plan's recommendations were brought to fruition in their original form, due to political and public opposition, in contrast to the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan.
In the time since the MATS plan was abandoned as a single transport package, analogous elements of the plan have been built or considered due to increasing transport pressures within greater Adelaide.
Read more about Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study: The Need For A Plan, Public Transport Changes, Reaction and Opposition, Result of MATS, Post-abandonment Assessment, Gallery
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