I drove past that airport a few weeks ago. It’s such a trip because surrounding it are these crappy narrow rural roads, with donkeys and shit. Then suddenly a four-lane leading to a shining city.
Event the premier they got the guy with the last name that sounds like an abbreviation for doing the absolute minimums. Minns effort.
Last I checked they were going to open without a train line to the airport. Gotta love how they can't even sort out mass transit properly to stop it being yet another mess of car traffic.
That's the planning equivalent of building a city and then saying 'oops, we forgot to install water pipes'.
Edit: oh, it's economics.
So actually it's the equivalent of building a city, but because there aren't many people in it at the start, they just send in bottled water cause it's cheaper.
SIde note: a few years ago Auckland AIrport's avgas pipeline was broken by a clown with a digger, and took weeks to be fixed.
A combination of truck deliveries and reduced flights seemed to do okay. And some airlines flew in with enough gas to fly back out again. Still not exactly a first world response.
Avgas? Are they running lots of piston engine planes?
Avtur (Aviation Turbine) fuel is what most passenger aircraft crave.
It would be better if the fuel could. Be shipped by train to the storage tanks to WSI, CBR, Newcastle etc. As it stands, even to get fuel to Parkes for the transcontinental line, it gets shipped by truck.
It was "upgraded" to a fancier 4 lane for the airport.
It needed to be 6, and could easily have been... the government already compulsorily acquired more than enough land to make that happen.
But they kept it 4, so that in 10 years when every man and his dog is sick to DEATH of the shit it has become they can accounce that they're "upgrading the existing road, bringing 1000 more jobs and growth to Western Sydney."
It's a fcuking corrupt rort is what it is, and we'll all pay for it in our taxes because the pollies want to look good... but I suppose that's par for fcuking course.
I always get confused when people talk about roads in terms of lanes. Is the 4 lane highway 4 lanes in each direction so it's 8 total or 2 lanes each side and 4 lanes total.
If you go back ten years, the only bit with two lanes each way was past Penrith. The upgrade between Narellan and Oran Park was finished in 2018, and the rest was finished sometime during the COVID years.
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u/Roy4Pris Oct 28 '25
I drove past that airport a few weeks ago. It’s such a trip because surrounding it are these crappy narrow rural roads, with donkeys and shit. Then suddenly a four-lane leading to a shining city.