Road user groups welcome ambitious $36 billion public transport plan They agreed a plan was overdue and, while it was welcomed, lobby groups were left with questions surrounding the finer details - such as individual project time frames and funding - of the 30-year plan. RAA general manager of public affairs Penny Gale criticised the State Government for previously releasing planning details on a "piecemeal approach." "The report is long overdue but at first glance, it is comprehensive, it's across the state and has big-picture funding numbers ($36 billion) ," Ms Gale said. But meeting stakeholder interests will be as great a challenge as funding. Ms Gale said she would be very keen to see how the government would manage to run trams down some major roads. "Putting light rail along Unley Rd will be quite a challenge and we need to know how that will work because Unley Rd is not a wide road," she said. The SA Freight Council questioned whether enough funding was available for all the proposed projects. "All governments are strapped for cash and the State Government would probably have to match the Federal Government on a 50-50 funding basis, and the ability of the State Government to do that is debatable," the council's chief executive officer Neil Murphy said. Although the State Government has ruled out the use of toll roads to fund transport infrastructure, Mr Murphy said this and other types of funding, including the use of infrastructure bonds, should be considered to meet any cash shortfall. "The government will continue to be pushed for cash so it's a debate we should have," he said. The rollout of new tram services received a big tick from People for Public Transport SA secretary Margaret Dingle. However she said they were concerned over whether"Our concern (with the overall plan) is if public transport would "get the funding it deserves." "They are good on services with heavy patronage because they carry more passengers and because cars must give way to them they are more likely to run on time," she said. Bicycle SA said it was "encouraging" to finally have an overall transport a plan to work from. "But we would like to see greater clarity about developing and funding education and encouragement programs," Bicycle SA chief executive Christian Haag said.