Re: WA fast rail and Perth airport relocation

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> Tezza (tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au) wrote:
>
> > "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> > kVeZ5.21$Qu5.800@news0.optus.net.au">news:kVeZ5.21$Qu5.800@news0.optus.net.au...
> > > There was a short item on ABC Newsradio this morning about a suggestion
to
> > > relocate Perth airport out of the suburbs. A new airport would be built
> > > south of Perth, possibly near Dandalup, and would be linked to Fremantle
> > > and Perth by a fast electric train "like the one to London's Heathrow
> > > airport". The cost of the new airport and rail link would be more than
> > > offset by the sale of the existing airport land.
> > >
> > > The item was thin on detail and there's nothing on the ABC web site.
Have
> > > any sand gropers heard anything about this? Dandalup is less than an
hour
> > > from Perth on the existing Australind, so a 160km/h express could more
or
> > > less halve this.
>
> > As opposed to 10 to 15 minutes from the current one. They've really gotta
stop
> > idiots from building houses near airports.
>
> It's not without logical precedent. Lisbon is relocating its airport about
> 50km outside the city.


Watch the morons build houses near it, just as they've been getting closer and
closer to Badgerys Creek since it was first proposed.