Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
Greenies have caused their their share of issues around the place but I can’t see their hand in the current YMML mess.
Current issues are the collateral damage being alluded to.
The hurdles created by lobbyists to prevent infrastructure upgrades are a large part of mess we are living. The bureaucracy is created by people. ATC are like Flight Crew, and are the meat in what is an absolute excrement sandwich of epic proportion. The solution to this is unpalatable to so many “vested” interests that want both am airport to escape via AND no noise pollution, carbon pollution, fauna and flora pollution etc etc...... and also be politically attractive to the most influential voting demographic.
To be clear, it is not just airports. Look around you every day. Roads, rail, base load power. We are living in an ecosystem that restricts productivity, efficiency and stymies economic growth.
Thanks to the swinging votie in this country and the greens achieving a following based on poor assumption of policy, we find ourselves where we are today. In economic and infrastructure limbo.
”votie” was a typographical error that actually works in this context. So I’ll leave it.