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Cruise wrote:wow, being green sure is expensive.

adelaideguy88 wrote:

Cruise wrote:wow, being green sure is expensive.

Didn't you know, it's not easy being green

Shuz wrote:As good as it sounds economically, it just wouldn't work. Our airport has got to be the most built-up of all the Australian airports is it not? (e.g. constrained by residential, industrial developments surrounding) which will impact on a substantial number of people.

Call to cut Adelaides Airport's flight curfew to enhance trade

NICK HENDERSON and AAP
March 26, 2008 03:00pm
ADELAIDE Airport must review its "restrictive and antiquated" curfew to enhance business opportunities, the SA Freight Council says.

Council chairman Vincent Tremaine today released a report highlighting key concerns facing the freight industry, including the airport's 11pm to 6am curfew.

"While we recognise that the airport's metropolitan location requires measures to protect surrounding residents from unreasonable levels of noise, the state's economic prospects are being slowly eroded by this outdated regime," he said.

Mr Tremaine said planes with low noise levels should be allowed to land at the airport at any time.

The report also highlighted transport or logistics skills shortages as a major issue requiring Federal Government intervention.

Noise for residents living near the airport has been an issue for many years.

While maintaining the current flight restrictions, the previous federal government helped to sound-proof 650 homes at a cost of about $50 million.

Steve Georganas, the federal member for Hindmarsh, which includes the airport, said he did not believe the Rudd Labor Government would change the current regulations.

They include bans on domestic passenger flights during the curfew hours and a limit on the number of freight and low-noise aircraft during the curfew period.

But the freight council report said the regulations should be modified to allow passenger and freight aircraft to all operate under the same rules.

The report also called for uniform national road, rail and port regulations and the introduction of a 20- to 30-year transport plan for South Australia.

It further proposed the introduction of 24-hour clearways on major freight routes to reduce the disruption caused by parked cars and a full assessment of the impact any climate change measures would have on the freight industry.

ozisnowman wrote:Does anyone have access to the article in the Saturday Advertiser talking about the $400-$1billion
future expansion plans for the Adelaide Airport which talks about a hotel, multistorey carpark,
conference centre etc.

$1bn COST 20-year expansion outline Bold vision for future of airport
LAUREN NOVAK, TRANSPORT WRITER
The Advertiser, 29 March 2008

A WIDE-ranging vision for the future of Adelaide Airport - incuding a $20 million hotel, multistorey car park and more space for aircraft - has been outlined by its operator.

Speaking at a transport infrastructure summit in the city yesterday, Adelaide Airport managing director Phil Baker revealed plans to improve the airport over the next 20 years at a cost of anywhere between $400 million and $1 billion.

The $260 million airport terminal development opened in October, 2005, after nearly two years of construction.

Although he stressed the plans outlined yesterday were only an indication of where the airport was heading, Mr Baker was able to present concept drawings of extra aircraft bays and a plaza linking the airport terminal to a hotel and multistorey car park.

There were ``four or five major players'' interested in operating the hotel, and the car park was ``a given'', he said.

A new control tower would also be built in the next two years and, as announced in July last year, the old international terminal would shortly be demolished, he said.

It was also revealed Adelaide Airport was one of up to nine sites vying to become the state's Customs headquarters.

Other options Mr Baker raised included:

A CYCLING path around the perimeter of the airport.

A CONFERENCE centre.

A STAFF childcare centre and health centre.

MORE baggage facilities.

A KENNEL and cattery.

UNDERGROUND water-storage basins on airport land for part-use by the airport.

Mr Baker also said he wanted traffic flows improved on Sir Donald Bradman Drive. ``We have a real problem from the airport into the city.''