Build second airport in Hunter: Iemma
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ules, I think you need to read the requirements for horizontal splay allowances. Factor in road/rail access, taxiways, holding bays, parking space, fuel supply and storage in what is essentially part of the bay, other ground facitilities, nav facilities, expected noise footprints and the big one...NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and whether the runway is long enough to be useful for a fully loaded A380 or 747 plus the changes to the flight paths with another E/W parallel runway and I expect your proposal is going nowhere.
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There is only one sensible location for the Next Sydney Airport.
Richmond.
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How deep was the water at Kansai? How deep was the water at Hong Kong? How deep is the water a couple of miles off Sydney? Why not fill in Sydney Harbour, move the coathanger to Parramatta and have an east west runway?
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Matt,
Where would you expand Richmond? It's pretty hemmed in - Richmond town to the west, Windsor to the east (at least under the flight path)... and the road and rail would both need to be improved.
Unless it's just an 'overflow' or LCC facility (as Avalon is for Melbourne).
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For a start, Kansai and Chep Lap Kok are both in reasonably sheltered, relatively shallow waters, not open sea.
Where would you expand Richmond? It's pretty hemmed in - Richmond town to the west, Windsor to the east (at least under the flight path)... and the road and rail would both need to be improved.
Unless it's just an 'overflow' or LCC facility (as Avalon is for Melbourne).
121.5,
For a start, Kansai and Chep Lap Kok are both in reasonably sheltered, relatively shallow waters, not open sea.
Where would you expand Richmond? It's pretty hemmed in - Richmond town to the west, Windsor to the east (at least under the flight path)... and the road and rail would both need to be improved.
Unless it's just an 'overflow' or LCC facility (as Avalon is for Melbourne).
Unless it's just an 'overflow' or LCC facility (as Avalon is for Melbourne).
It could handle freight, but the recent investment in ysbk by freight companies makes this unlikely. It is to far out of Sydney (1.5 Hours by train) to make it a reasonable prospect for regionals.
Richmond may be an option for small numbers of low cost carrier services, just like avalon. Passengers will pay less for a service that doesn't quite get them to Sydney. It doesn't really have any chance of becoming Sydneys next AP.
I don't understand why Nowra is so under utilised by Defence, surely some units can be moved there from willytown. It has every thing they need and they would still be on the eastern seaboard.
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I guess we will just have to wait and see what Macquarie have in plan for Sydney's next airport. Not really sure if the decision has anything to do with Immea government. Surely the next sensible stage would be to reduce the curfew at the existing Sydney airport.
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yeah but there is no way that Albanese will extend the curfew. The only reason we ahve a debate on a second sydney airport is because Albanese is from a seat next to sydney airport and one of his campiagn promises was to make sure the curfew in Sydney was not extended.
Suggestions to extend curfews and have overflows at other airports like richmond are only postponing the inevitable need for a second airport. Any current Government that implements policies to expand the capacity of sydney in this way is thinking short sighted. But then again which politicians ever think long term?
Suggestions to extend curfews and have overflows at other airports like richmond are only postponing the inevitable need for a second airport. Any current Government that implements policies to expand the capacity of sydney in this way is thinking short sighted. But then again which politicians ever think long term?
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Richmond has plenty of room for a long N-S runway through the 10 threshold aligned probably 16 or 17. Of course there would have to be property acquisition and road/rail adjustments, but nothing significant (such as SYD 25 RESA at the Cooks River). The railway would also need efficiency improvements but this would be a massive political bonus. The advantage of Richmond over Badgerys is the "we can use it now" factor; it doesn't need the long runway until pressure mounts to move internationals or long leg domestics.
Williamtown is not and never will be part of Sydney's air passenger catchment. It will develop of its own course and can complement Sydney basin facilities.
Williamtown is not and never will be part of Sydney's air passenger catchment. It will develop of its own course and can complement Sydney basin facilities.
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I don't understand why Nowra is so under utilised by Defence, surely some units can be moved there from willytown. It has every thing they need and they would still be on the eastern seaboard.
The temple and major housing project in the undershoot of one of the runways may pose a significant problem for jet operations. Deconflicting parachutes from tens of thousands of rotary movements will pose enough of a challenge in the short term.
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I don't understand why Nowra is so under utilised by Defence, surely some units can be moved there from willytown
Navy got rid of their jets a long time ago and Defence moved the parachute school here, which conflicts nicely with the helicopters, so can you all please go back to your Newcastle/Willy/Ric/Badgery's Ck idea and forget about us, we don't exist (unless your Navy).
I vote for Kooragang Int Airport.
