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Business groups have called for cheaper road solutions to ensure the new airport has ground connectivity when it opens in 2026, while also expressing worries on the progress of the Bradfield “aerotropolis” that will provide homes and businesses near WSI.
Neil Scales, director-general of the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads from 2012 to 2023, will mediate the ongoing stoush between Melbourne Airport and the Victorian state government over the rail link, which was last year delayed past its planned 2029 opening date.
Stage 4 of the Gold Coast light rail, a 13-kilometre stretch linking Burleigh Heads to Coolangatta via the airport, was previously estimated at $2.7 billion, but now is expected to cost up to $7.6 billion, with Gold Coast City Council expecting to foot 11 per cent of the final bill.
Two years on from the reopening of borders, 350,387 international passengers travelled through Perth Airport in February 2024. This was an increase of 12 per cent on February of 2020, a month before COVID travel restrictions took effect, and up eight per cent on February 2019.
Meteorologists said the wild weather was caused by a low-pressure system over south-eastern Australia, which occurred at the same time as a moisture-rich coastal trough formed off the coast of NSW and South-East Queensland.
Rex’s decision to pull out Whyalla following a row over costs appears to have contributed to the entire council being declared “unsustainable” by the state’s economic regulator.
