Warning to NSW-State government re-Richmond airport

[Pastafarian]

IMO the best idea is to either upgrade Canberra, or build one at Goulburn and complete a high speed rail link between there and Sydney

We already have an express train, and plenty of shuttles.... but I agree, we need to expand on this to keep up with our increasing infrastructure due to a sprawling greater Western Sydney.

When it's clear, a few bike lanes just weren't enough.

Not an express train you half wit. I'm talking a TGV or Shinkansen style 300 km/h high speed link.

[mellie]

OMG... you mean European style flyways?

Dream on, if you knew how faulty our roads were, you would squirm at the prospect, why do you think our speed limits are what they are in Australia?

Because we are a pack of hopeless drivers?

Our roads are shit.... cheap, abundant, and not built for high speeds ie 300km.

Do you have any idea how much it would cost to convert our highways to European style flyways?


My dad would love you for it though... he's planning on buying the new sports pack Audi...whats the point, when like I said to him, he'll never get a taste of what 3rd gear feels like.

[mellie]

Ps... our rails fucked too.

So forget TGV's.

[Pastafarian]

Ps... our rails fucked too.

So forget TGV's.

Yes because TGVs can't go on our rail lines, so we'd have to build a new one.


Here's a novel idea mellie....do some research and learn some facts.

[mellie]

ha ha ha we are flat out making up a surplus, this and funding natural disasters, heres a novel idea for our leftard pipe-dreamers...money doesn't grow on trees.

Before we even start thinking about souped up flyways and TGV rail, we need to repair the potholes flipping our cars on our existing snail-ways first.

Why do you thuuunk most of us out here drive 4X4's?

Because we like to tower over everyone in pocket rockets?

Have you been out to Sydney's west lately?



The pot-holes are so bad, we wait until it rains so we can bath our kids in them.

[skippy]

I don't know why they don't just make Bankstown airport the second airport and be done with it.
They don't need to fly jumbos in there anyway, they can just use it for the regional flights.

[mellie]

I don't know why they don't just make Bankstown airport the second airport and be done with it.
They don't need to fly jumbos in there anyway, they can just use it for the regional flights.

Is there enough room in Bankstown?

I thought it was too built up?

*shrugs*

If not, then perhaps thats a better idea than trying to dodge a mountain and land a boeing 747 on a slippery-dip here in Richmond.

[mellie]

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This is the company my friend worked for, (engineer).

At the time my friend worked there, (about a year ago) this is the only company in Australia, (they take their equipment global) with specialist equipment to build and identify flaws in the European roads you mention, (13-bar lasers) , deep penetrating sonar devices,and digital cameras to detect faults, (as they drive along) along with seismograph machines whereby they drop a 3 ton weight on a road then set out their sensors to pick up vibrations in the ground, to tell them how stable the ground is and compared to other nations roads, according to these guys, our roads are medieval.... I kid you not.

We are a long way from flyways and the European Jetson carriage ways you mention my friend... for years, and years, we have spent money plugging up our holes with tar...(we don't even use this technology on our roads...lol) ... not actually fixing them, our roads are unfit to do high speeds on, even some of our nations best roads.

The biggest problem is we leave repairs too long, once water gets under the road, it causes voids, pot-holes, and the road starts breaking up, even after the repairs have been carried out.

Swift maintenance , the way they do things on the Auto-barn in Europe with road-maintenance teams constantly searching for cracks who are there on the scene after car accidents to fix the road whilst the vehicles being loaded onto the back of a truck is the only way....but we are fucking hopeless, .....don't have two cents to rub together.

Now might be a good time to ask Kristina KnHardly about that $4.5 Bil black hole.

Pasta, it's not as simple as building a nice new road... it's costs big $$$$$$.

Why do you think my friend is over in Saudi Arabia killing prince's (inside joke) at present....

Because his expertise aren't required, or even desired here in Australia.

[skippy]

I don't know why they don't just make Bankstown airport the second airport and be done with it.
They don't need to fly jumbos in there anyway, they can just use it for the regional flights.

Is there enough room in Bankstown?

I thought it was too built up?

*shrugs*

If not, then perhaps thats a better idea than trying to dodge a mountain and land a boeing 747 on a slippery-dip here in Richmond.

Bankstown has the same problem as Richmond, all the people that have moved there since the airport was built are now bitching about it, they should shut the fuck up and piss off if they don't like it. The airport has been in Bankstown since before ww2.
I have a bit of inside knowledge on Bankstown, my wife's step father works in the aviation industry and Bankstown could easily be used as a regional airport. I've landed there myself, I was supposed to go to Sydney for xmas one year and missed my flight, so my wife's step father got one of his mates to fly up to Byron-Ballina airport to pick us up and fly us to Sydney. Much better than going through the shit fight that is Sydney airport.
They could start running small regional planes in there today if they got the go ahead.

[mellie]

You don't need to convince me Skippy, I think anywhere but here is a more viable option...


Your having experience with planes , you would be aware of the issues with Richmond....take off and land, yes?

I agree with you re- Bankstown, it was always an airport, but how about Camden Skippy, is this a viable option?

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