Decentralisation, satellite towns, tall blocks and higher densities had little chance of acceptance. Tea Tree Gully and Noarlunga developed later with their own major centres. The opportunity to establish a satellite town came in the early seventies; a site was obtained at Monarto and a development corporation established. Forecasts of reducing population growth caused its demise, giving additional impetus to Adelaide’s future northerly and southerly expansion.
New routes would be required to the north, northeast and south enabling unrestricted movement of people and goods; a system of freeways, major roads and rail extensions were proposed. These proposals needed more detailed investigation, as major land acquisition would be involved. American consultants were engaged and the resulting Metropolitan Adelaide Transportation Study (MATS) took place in the 1960s. Its recommendations included additional freeway routes and a rail subway under King William Street. The study caused widespread concern as individual properties on all the new routes could be identified. Some routes were dropped but others were retained.
The O’Bahn now operates on the original route proposed to Tea Tree Gully. To the north new routes have been established with links to Port Adelaide; to the south the Expressway extends to the Onkaparinga and the railway has been extended to the Noarlunga Centre. Land was being purchased for the important but controversial north-south connecting route through the western suburbs, but the proposal was finally abandoned in the 1980s. This has meant a continuing increase in traffic on the inadequate South Road.
New parks and recreation areas were necessary near where people were to live and secured long before the need arose. The plan recommended a means of financing their purchase. Subsequently the amount of land for open space was increased when land was divided into allotments and money from small divisions and strata titles paid into a special fund. An unexpected source of federal funds enabled almost all the land proposed as open space to be obtained by 1977.
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