Sydney's second airport still an endangered species as taskforce reviews options and costs

In Sep-2010, Australia’s Department of Infrastructure and Transport released a tender to finance firms to provide modelling on five different scenarios for a second Sydney airport: how they would be paid for and how well they would cater for transport needs in 10, 25 and 50 years. But a second Sydney Airport still looks as far away as ever. [2441 words]

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This report contains the following subheadings:

• Joint taskforce established mid-2010 to review options
• Airlines prefer to stay put but practical capacity about to be reached
• Canberra looks at high-speed rail link to justify LCC growth
• 'Less than three hours from Sydney!'
• High-speed rail links have mixed success
• Five options presented by the taskforce
• Current owners' first option on second airport

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• Canberra Airport’s new terminal