Originally Posted by
43Inches
One proposal for a relocation of Jandakot was exactly that, the sale of the original site covering the cost of the new airport and relocation. That was ended as the businesses did not want to be significantly further away from Perth, especially the aeromedical services, as well as the new site having significant opposition to a new/busy airport at that location.
Exactly. As is common all over the world, ground transport is the biggest problem with airport location near our largest cities. The only solution is (like they with Tullamarine and Brisbane Airports) to plan and build the freeways direct to site first - but that simply isn't going to happen for any smaller regional airport these days because there isn't the pax/freight numbers to warrant it. NIMBY. So they might as well stay right where they are until commercial development entirely over-runs them.
The truth is, just as they do for most infrastructure projects, successive governments have let our major cities outgrow the need for their airports. For WSI to succeed, it really should have been built last century when there was nothing but cows and perhaps a few sheep around to wonder what the fuss was all about.