Adelaide Plains Equine Clinic

Adelaide Plains Equine Clinic (APEC) was established by Dr. Elizabeth Woolsey Herbert in 1997.

After having established a mobile practice in 1993, APEC moved to the present location where we are able to hospitalize horses as well as see outpatients.

APEC specializes in horses only, including donkeys and mules.

We provide farm calls to the greater Gawler area and many suburbs north of Adelaide.

We are a general equine practice and can take care of most of your equine veterinary needs. We also have a retail store and are happy to investigate products and advise our clients in equine health maintenance at your request. Dr. Alison Cuddy recently joined the practice and she brings a new dimension to the expertise and range of services we offer.

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4058 Two Wells Road
Gawler, South Australia 5118
Phone / Fax: 08 8523 4777

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South Australia's expressway that isn't
FARRIN FOSTER
14 Nov, 2009

The Northern Expressway isn’t living up to Government promises, say locals.

The state’s largest infrastructure project is designed to create “a high-speed freight corridor” between the Gawler bypass and Port Wakefield Road. According to government the project will direct heavy trucks away from existing roads, which will then be used for suburban and regional traffic.

But locals say the Northern Expressway is making life harder.

Two Wells resident Elizabeth Herbert: the Northern Expressway is "ridiculously mismanaged". Photo: Kate Elmes

Elizabeth Herbert owns an equine clinic along Two Wells Rd and says there are long-term problems now that local roads have changed as part of the expressway development.

“Every single one of these overpasses has roundabouts on the end and it really slows you down. To tackle them you have to go 40km/h on roads where you used to go at 80km/h,” she said.

Liberal candidate for Light Cosie Costa said market gardeners were also worried about how the expressway affected their businesses.

“In some locations it has split their property in half which makes it really difficult for them to operate. They’re going to have to go out on roads and all the way round to get onto the other side of their farms,” he said.

Ms Herbert worries about construction problems. She says sections of the project have been started, delayed and re-started and detours are unnecessarily long and often unsealed.

“I have to factor in an extra 30 minutes of travel. Clients call me all the time saying they’re completely lost on the detours. It’s the most ridiculously mismanaged project,” she said.

Businesses and local concerns echo similar worries surrounding the redevelopment of the South Rd-Anzac Highway intersection and, more recently, over the South Rd superway.

Greens MLC Mark Parnell said the State Government has a history of poor planning which doesn’t consider all aspects of a project.

“We need a transport plan. They reckon they’ve got an infrastructure plan but it’s just a piecemeal collection of projects,” he said.

Opposition transport spokesperson David Ridgway said the South Road superway plan proved the Government had no longterm plan.

“Addressing this small section of road in isolation to the whole transport corridor problem will create even further bottlenecks for both freight and commuter traffic,” he said.

The Department for Transport did not respond before deadline.