04 March 2013
Badgerys Creek is clearly the best place for a Western Sydney airport and it would dramatically boost local jobs, says the Urban Taskforce.
The current political focus on Western Sydney needs to lead to a major catalyst project that could create up to 100,000 jobs in the area, says Urban Taskforce CEO, Chris Johnson. Around the world airports are being seen as major job generators. A new word has been invented to symbolise this. AEROTROPOLIS has its own web site and a number of books championing the drawing power of a new airport for vast numbers of jobs.
The NSW government has allocated much of the area around Badgerys Creek for employment land but there are very large infrastructure expenditures required to make these jobs become real. A new airport will bring with it the large investment required for the infrastructure of roads, rail and freight movement.
Now is the time to get bipartisan support for a Western Sydney airport so that the drain of jobs from Western Sydney can be reversed and so that significant infrastructure can help the new jobs occur. Without the pulling power of a very large project like a new airport, Western Sydney will be struggling to get new jobs because of the infrastructure costs required.
The Urban Taskforce has members who are keen to develop projects that will provide many jobs in the west but are awaiting the new roads and bridges that are essential to make these projects happen.
