Firstly, TransAdelaide had indicated that there was a need to improve the disability access at the station and secondly, the proposed widening of Torrens Road could not proceed without a reduction in the length of the platform at that station.

Members represent: the Department of Treasury and Finance, TransAdelaide, Adelaide City Council, and the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT Role and Function The Information Technology Support section’s role is to provide a support/service function relating to all information technology aspects of the Department’s operations including: • ensuring the continued availability of suitable hardware and software, through a designated maintenance, upgrade or replacement program; • ensuring adequate hardware, software and networking facilities are available to meet the anticipated user and processing demands; • evaluating new and upgraded software products and audit applications; • providing and supporting the communications, networking and internet requirements of the Department and individual staff; • ensuring the continuity, integrity and security of the Department’s facilities, infrastructure, network and data; • providing ad hoc support, assistance or advice on a day-to-day basis, to all staff to maximize operational efficiency including: – on demand assistance with hardware or software

In the pages that follow are listed highlights of a year of achievement which it has been my pleasure to share with the management and employees of the department.

The age of this equipment means that it is unreliable as well obsolete as it is no longer fully supported by equipment suppliers for the provision of replacement units or spare parts.

The 60 kilogram rail is designed as a replacement for the 53 kilogram rail and allows, certainly, a much higher standard. 58 MS THOMPSON: So who uses that?

Our current building assets, excluding St Martins, have a replacement cost of $60.9 million and we have $18.1 million of identified building upgrades required over the next 10 years.

We have brought together what was TransAdelaide and what was the public transport division of the department into a single integrated group.

We have brought together what was TransAdelaide and what was the public transport division of the department into a single integrated group.

To demonstrate the potential effect of WPI Assessments we attach as Appendix B pages 545 to page 547 of the AMA Guidelines to Permanent Impairment 5th Edition.