Western Sydney Airport (WSI) Discussion

[AuSammy]

Sydney proper



Maybe WSI is in the wrong side of the railway track

 

[Aeryn]

Doubt anyone on Northern Beaches will be using WSI, if they complain about distance to SYD cant imagine would want to go even further with less PT to WSI.

From northern beaches there are regular busses to city from where you can get train direct to SYD. And an uber or taxi to SYD from Northern beaches also much cheaper than to WSI.

Transferring from D to I at SYD is easy, use the airside bus, or the landside bus or the train or an uber/taxi. Funny how the SYD haters complain constantly and dont even live in Sydney, yet never mention BNE or PER which is same set up but lacking an airside transfer.

Not sure why check in would be any easier at WSI than any other aussie airport, its all online and automated bag drop pretty much everywhere now. No waiting at SYD ime. SYD also already has the new xray machines where you dont have to take anything out of your bags at security, so no different to WSI.

 

[PineappleSkip]

Just looking at the promised bus journey times, and the stated times from WSI aren’t promising. 60 minutes to Mt Druitt station, 55-67 minutes to Liverpool.

Looking at the local connectivity times suggests that Leppington Station looks like the sweet spot for Revesby, my usual destination in SW Sydney, with about 30 minutes by bus to Leppington and similar by train to Revesby. I’ll give it a burl, but it will be a once off for the novelty value. Revesby is 15 minutes by train from SYD.

If you’re heading to the City it’s 50 minutes by train from Mt Druitt, or an hour and a quarter from Leppington, so either way about 2 hours point to point.

 

[LionKing]

Just looking at the promised bus journey times, and the stated times from WSI aren’t promising. 60 minutes to Mt Druitt station, 55-67 minutes to Liverpool.

Looking at the local connectivity times suggests that Leppington Station looks like the sweet spot for Revesby, my usual destination in SW Sydney, with about 30 minutes by bus to Leppington and similar by train to Revesby. I’ll give it a burl, but it will be a once off for the novelty value. Revesby is 15 minutes by train from SYD.

If you’re heading to the City it’s 50 minutes by train from Mt Druitt, or an hour and a quarter from Leppington, so either way about 2 hours point to point.

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So by SQ201 arrived WSI, all busses would have gone.

Therefore millions of Singaporeans, Malaysians and Indonesians who just arrived in Australia to study, dig gold, work hard and earn money and make real contribution to our society must first suffer from sleeping in the airport overnight or pay $150 for Uber to their hotel or Airbnb.

How fair are we to treat our neighbours like that.

WSI will not only serve Western Sydneysiders. They will serve mainly those who are studying, working (digging gold) and touring Australia, and most of those activities are in Eastern Sydney, that's just a fact.

There's no tourist destination in Western Sydney, and I presume at least half of passengers on SIN-WSI are on 482, 485, 500 and 600 visas.

 

[AuSammy]

So by SQ201 arrived WSI, all busses would have gone.

Therefore millions of Singaporeans, Malaysians and Indonesians who just arrived in Australia to study, dig gold, work hard and earn money and make real contribution to our society must first suffer from sleeping in the airport overnight or pay $150 for Uber to their hotel or Airbnb.

How fair are we to treat our neighbours like that.

WSI will not only serve Western Sydneysiders. They will serve mainly those who are studying, working (digging gold) and touring Australia, and most of those activities are in Eastern Sydney, that's just a fact.

There's no tourist destination in Western Sydney, and I presume at least half of passengers on SIN-WSI are on 482, 485, 500 and 600 visas.

Come on be real.

Firstly there are anywhere near to being millions

Secondly if there is a choice anyone with a scrap of intelligence would pick the best destination airport to suit their requirements and not go out of their way to be stranded.

 

[stu961]

Doubt anyone on Northern Beaches will be using WSI, if they complain about distance to SYD cant imagine would want to go even further with less PT to WSI.

From northern beaches there are regular busses to city from where you can get train direct to SYD. And an uber or taxi to SYD from Northern beaches also much cheaper than to WSI.

Transferring from D to I at SYD is easy, use the airside bus, or the landside bus or the train or an uber/taxi. Funny how the SYD haters complain constantly and dont even live in Sydney, yet never mention BNE or PER which is same set up but lacking an airside transfer.

Not sure why check in would be any easier at WSI than any other aussie airport, its all online and automated bag drop pretty much everywhere now. No waiting at SYD ime. SYD also already has the new xray machines where you dont have to take anything out of your bags at security, so no different to WSI.

Doubt anyone on Northern Beaches will be using WSI, if they complain about distance to SYD cant imagine would want to go even further with less PT to WSI.

From northern beaches there are regular busses to city from where you can get train direct to SYD. And an uber or taxi to SYD from Northern beaches also much cheaper than to WSI.

Transferring from D to I at SYD is easy, use the airside bus, or the landside bus or the train or an uber/taxi. Funny how the SYD haters complain constantly and dont even live in Sydney, yet never mention BNE or PER which is same set up but lacking an airside transfer.

Not sure why check in would be any easier at WSI than any other aussie airport, its all online and automated bag drop pretty much everywhere now. No waiting at SYD ime. SYD also already has the new xray machines where you dont have to take anything out of your bags at security, so no different to WSI.

It's not complaining about the distance to SYD, it's the "Very easy to get to with choice of fast Uber, Train or Bus"... SYD is great for a lot of people but not for everyone, having a choice is better than no choice.

 

[elanshin]

SYD was still the first airport in Australia to get a rail link on a line that connects into others. So yes it may have taken the Olympics to get it opened, but its not a side connection to one not very popular station aka St Mary's that WSI will eventually have.

Its already signalled that the extension of the leppington line will likely happen. In the Sydney transport master plans, the extension of the western metro goes through WSI (thats the city - Parramatta line being built now). The high speed rail project has WSI as a terminus at 2042 (still to be approved). I'd say that there's going yo be solid support going forward.

Again i would stop trying to judge and justify WSI in day one. If in 5-10 years its run down and no one using it then sure it failed. But trying to shoot it down before it even opened makes little sense.

 

[LionKing]

Doubt anyone on Northern Beaches will be using WSI, if they complain about distance to SYD cant imagine would want to go even further with less PT to WSI.

From northern beaches there are regular busses to city from where you can get train direct to SYD. And an uber or taxi to SYD from Northern beaches also much cheaper than to WSI.

Driving to WSI will become much faster from Northern Beaches from 2027.

Once Western Harbour Tunnel is completed and operational, you can travel all the way Motorway from North Sydney, Chatswood, Mosman, Manly rect to WSI via M8, M4, M7, M12 on Uber.

Moreover, with the new SQ201/202, I can forsee many students will be bringing luggages and Uber drivers will have a big windfall with many international students hailing Uber to go to WSI from USyd, UNSW, Macquarie, UTS etc. to WSI because it will connect with China and India services very well than SYD, which may require an even more expensive overnight stay in Changi or Katong.