Ahhh, the parallel runway… we’ve all seen the drawings… heard how great it will be…
Everyone wants it, no one wants to pay for it, and rest assured the rent-seekers on various sides are busy!
This is Australia though, and it matters who you are mates with, and ultimately it is us the public that will pay for it, and the profits will float magically off into the ether.
The thing that impresses me most about the airport train line in Perth is that it is infrastructure that will be ‘grown into’. In terms of patronage , surrounding development, and future extensions. We’re pretty much always playing catch up with when infrastructure is built in this country, but this seems to be an example of getting ahead of the curve. It happens so rarely.