I can't see a government spending billions more on a metro or a freeway upfront for what will be a small operation to start with, can you?
If you dont make provisions up front, it rarely happens later (MEL hasnt managed it yet and they actually have decent passenger loads) . WSI is is flood zone, less suitable for tunnelling so you need to acquire above ground land for the connections to run through.
The longer they leave it the more expensive it is for taxpayers. They already paid way too much for unused land for WSI.
The train line to SYD and a direct freeway connection to the CBD only occurred when the Olympics occurred, decades after SYD was operational!!
But there were other stations within a couple of a couple of km with less than 10 min bus connection before the airport stations opened; plus express cheap busses from the CBD. All the busses running in Western *cough* Sydney are privatised.
Moral: There are plans for the metro to reach there - this will happen, in time, just like the overall metro had happened and just as access to Kingsford Smith evolved as it grew.
No there are pipe dreams and zero plans for a
direct connection, its all a patch work of multi connection multi mode as explained numerous times and conveniently ignored by you. There is nothing convenient about 90mins of disjointed travel.
If you honestly think lifting of Sydney curfew and putting another runway in Botany Bay are 'valid options', let me introduce you to the environmental movement, and something like 30 inner city Federal+State election campaigns.
Green have less sway here and as someone who would be under the flight path I have zero concerns whatsoever; and know many like minded people.
They had zero trouble selling all those hundreds of new units a few blocks from SYDd over the past decade.
Find a party campaigning for 'more noise, pollution and traffic for inner Sydney' and how do you think they'll go? Honestly?
Except you cant barely hear the modern planes these days, there is far far more noise from the road and much more if you back onto a heavy rail line.
Noting however that numpties near WSI are already campaigning for a curfew there. Funny how the planes dont make noise in Western Sydney only near SYD?
Seriously? This is my estimation of flight paths/noise corridors. What's yours? How d'you reckon that would have gone down? No industrial area or Botany Bay to mitigate the nuisance.
Ignorance on your part, Olympic Park was prior to the Olympics a major industrial area hence all the unsafe heavy metals in the soil and why Bicentennial Park smells so bad. And you can fly along the river. But the noise would be no worse than from SYD now, a non event.
But again I will ask why does aircraft noise magically not occur in Western Sydney? I tell you why because as the 2021 census told us only 168 people lived in Badgery's Creek. If it wasnt the middle of nowhere the population would be much larger.
BTW, your 'everyone under the flight paths knew they were there' thing goes out the window.
No it stands, SYD hasnt moved in over 100 years.
* Western Sydney is not 'the middle of no-where'. One day, take a drive west of the A3 - you'll find a whole new world out there!!
Ive been to boundaries of actual Western Sydney - Paramatta & Blacktown to the West, Dural to North West and Liverpool to the South West many many times. I've even had the misfortune to live in South West Sydney for 2 decades so I have far greater experience than you Im sure.
But WSI is far West of Western Sydney, it is in the middle of no where. It is not a built up area, there is no business district, no quality schools, not proper PT and 168 residents!
* Not everyone who uses Kingsford Smith wants to travel to the city. In fact I'd say a minority, overall.
Most people Flying into Sydney are in fact visiting Sydney or returning to their homes in the Sydney burbs, not west of the western Sydney burbs. The population within 30kms of Martin Place is greater than the population west of that boundary.
Again, expand your horizons out of your neighbourhood and you'll discover the millions and millions of souls who happily reside beyond 10km of the Pacific coast. From Kingsford Smith, they go west, south and north over the bridge. You'll be amazed!
I am positive I've visited and lived in far more places in NSW than you have. Noting that if one were to travel even 22kms from my home youd still be in Sydney proper; but WSI is well over double that away.
* Its named 'Western Sydney International' That may give you a hint of the area its mainly concerned with, and where the initial PT and roadways service.
Except its actually a long way west of Western Sydney.
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