Re: Badgerys creek rumblings.

["Alan Luchetti" <luchettii@hotmail.com>]

Maurie Daly <mauried@commslab.gov.au> wrote in message
mauried.396.37B89D4E@commslab.gov.au">news:mauried.396.37B89D4E@commslab.gov.au...

> Heard on the ABC news this morning that Vic politicians are starting to
> agitate about the cost of Badgerys Creek Airport,(now up to $7 B) and are
> arguing that a VFT from Sydney to Melb would releive the load from Sydney
> Airport sufficiently to not require the 2nd airport to be built.
> Whilst none of this is new , its amazing that the pollies are just
starting to
> realise it.
> $7B would come fairly close to being enuf to build a single line VFT from
> Sydney to Melb via Canberra & Albury - Wodonga,but of course as its a rail
> project it has to be built and financed by the private sector .
> Nothing wrong at all in blowing $7B of taxpayers money on another airport.

ALso, the NSW government reckons Badgerys will need $4b of
new infrastructure, not $1b as the EIS assumed.  A rail link
to the East Hills/Airport line via Liverpool y-link would
cost all of $1b without even thinking of more northerly
transit connections to Cabramatta and Blacktown and new
roads.