After sitting in traffic on Hahndorf’s main street for at least thirty seconds on a Sunday afternoon, Adelaide Hills Transport, Infrastructure and Apple Cider Adviser Len Swood was struck by what he considers to be the most innovative solution to public transport in decades.
‘I was sitting there in traffic with my stein of Carlton Draught and pretzel and chicken schnitzel and a packet of those weird little white German gingerbread thingies,’ Swood told Adelaide Mail.
To be honest, we did get a little sidetracked by the image of Swood balancing all of these German food items while driving and wasted a good half an hour of our allotted interview time.
‘No, the schnitzel was on my lap and I had the beer on the dashboard. It was next to the currywurst,’ Swood explained. ‘Anyway, it doesn’t matter. The point was that I had this idea to run a bus…get this…on tracks! Right down the centre of Main Street. A bus on tracks! Can you imagine?’
We didn’t have the heart to tell him that not only could we imagine what he was talking about, but we have spent the last five years imagining every possible visually funny half-pun with this bus on tracks.
‘So I start sketching out my plans for the track, you know in between taking bites of my schnitzel because it’s going cold,’ we were still baffled by mechanics of all of this.
‘Here, look. It’ll runs express right down the length of the Hahndorf Main street from that one decent German pub to the German pub that used to be good but is now kinda shit, you know? I reckon it should save commuters a couple of seconds on a Sunday if they don’t miss their bus. Which they will because we’ll let Adelaide Metro do the timetables which will provide for a service every six hours or so.’
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