25 November 2012

Name Canberra Airport?

25 November 2012 | andym

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Seems like a good idea.

Better then Snowtown or some lame pollie.

Change.org have a petition.

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Mr Evil12:38 pm 27 Nov 12

bundah said :

I wonder how many more office buildings Snow wants to construct in and around the airport? Surely enough already!

I’m sure there’s still room for a casino, fairground and the 40 000 seat convention centre.

Anyway, he’ll probably keep building until there’s a fatal air accident involving a light aircraft and building-induced windshear!

dtc11:46 am 27 Nov 12

Masquara said :

One of the reasons to dislike the Canberra Airport’s Snow family is that their infamous and high-handed plan for the centre of Canberra involved turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road, and trashing the Hellenic Memorial. Needless to say, they had gone to a UK company that didn’t even bother to visit Canberra and find out what was important to keep. So Canberra Airport is on the nose by dint of simply belonging to the Snowtowners.

I’m pretty sure even the Snows couldnt turn ANZAC parade into a commuter road, given that it goes from nowhere useful to nowhere useful (talking just of commuter use here). I think you will find it was Constitution Avenue, which at the time was being discussed quite widely as a road that should be upgraded and changed, with lots more retail and residential (which I gather is the original Griffin plan).

However, the development of Civic west has probably put paid to the need to upgrade Consitution Ave at the moment. Nonetheless, Consitution Avenue is currently a bit of a nothing road that needs a bit of thought. I dont know about the Hellenic Memorial, but memorials can be moved without detracting from the value of the memorial.

astrojax11:42 am 27 Nov 12

bundah said :

I wonder how many more office buildings Snow wants to construct in and around the airport? Surely enough already!

well, ‘enough’ given the current access to them etc – but improved access, transport and such, and amenity would make this spot a good location for business and i see no reason why growth should stop. build, and they will come. if the airport wants to become a hub, it will need accommodation and service for this, and businesses geared to travel. be a nice spot for a high-speed rail station, too…

EvanJames11:11 am 27 Nov 12

bundah said :

I wonder how many more office buildings Snow wants to construct in and around the airport? Surely enough already!

He’d keep building on every patch of ground given his druthers. However, he still has two big empty new buildings at Majura Park that are sitting empty… he has to pay people to spray the dust and spiders off them periodically, but there they sit, like the Marie Celeste.

I think some of the new ones near the end of the southern end of the runway are still mostly empty too. I imagine he’s thinking now about maybe accommodation… he has an airport hotel on the immediate plans, but perhaps a small suburb will go up next. There’s all that space around Fairbairn…

bundah9:25 am 27 Nov 12

I wonder how many more office buildings Snow wants to construct in and around the airport? Surely enough already!

Mark of Sydney9:19 am 27 Nov 12

johnboy said :

Mark of Sydney said :

Have noticed that the Snows don’t seem to be popular with Riotactors (though why their sort of get up and go, free enterprise spirit would be unpopular with a Liberal Party supporter is a mystery), but I’m curious: when did they propose a plan for the centre of Canberra?

And turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road? Well isn’t it? What else is a six lane road for?

By the way, I have no involvement or contact with, or interest in the Snows or the airport — except that as an occasional air traveller I like what they’re doing with it.

Well there’s a whole swag of incorrect generalisations.

Not sure what the ‘swag’ of incorrect generalisations covers, but if you’re including the Liberal Party reference it was to ‘a [singular] Liberal Party’ supporter not to Riotactors generally.

EvanJames9:17 am 27 Nov 12

The airport is constantly coming up with all kinds of plans for many bits of Canberra, which they helpfully have professionally drafted up before putting them to the government. They don’t let petty considerations like memorials, public amenity or peoples’ homes bother them, after all, this is PROGRESS.

The latest that I’m aware-of is their blocking the erection of quite a good bit of public art (which has already been purchased and is probably sitting in a shed somewhere) on one of the roads near the airport, as they’d just put up a similar bit of art and didn’t like the competition, although their justification was that they “had plans” for that bit of road. It’s not their bit of road, yet they “have plans” for it.

johnboy9:01 am 27 Nov 12

Mark of Sydney said :

Have noticed that the Snows don’t seem to be popular with Riotactors (though why their sort of get up and go, free enterprise spirit would be unpopular with a Liberal Party supporter is a mystery), but I’m curious: when did they propose a plan for the centre of Canberra?

And turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road? Well isn’t it? What else is a six lane road for?

By the way, I have no involvement or contact with, or interest in the Snows or the airport — except that as an occasional air traveller I like what they’re doing with it.

Well there’s a whole swag of incorrect generalisations.

Mark of Sydney8:58 am 27 Nov 12

Masquara said :

One of the reasons to dislike the Canberra Airport’s Snow family is that their infamous and high-handed plan for the centre of Canberra involved turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road, and trashing the Hellenic Memorial. Needless to say, they had gone to a UK company that didn’t even bother to visit Canberra and find out what was important to keep. So Canberra Airport is on the nose by dint of simply belonging to the Snowtowners.

Have noticed that the Snows don’t seem to be popular with Riotactors (though why their sort of get up and go, free enterprise spirit would be unpopular with a Liberal Party supporter is a mystery), but I’m curious: when did they propose a plan for the centre of Canberra?

And turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road? Well isn’t it? What else is a six lane road for?

By the way, I have no involvement or contact with, or interest in the Snows or the airport — except that as an occasional air traveller I like what they’re doing with it.

Masquara6:45 am 27 Nov 12

One of the reasons to dislike the Canberra Airport’s Snow family is that their infamous and high-handed plan for the centre of Canberra involved turning Anzac Parade into a commuter road, and trashing the Hellenic Memorial. Needless to say, they had gone to a UK company that didn’t even bother to visit Canberra and find out what was important to keep. So Canberra Airport is on the nose by dint of simply belonging to the Snowtowners.