Liverpool ready as action begins at Western Sydney Airport
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24 September 2018
Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller has welcomed the turning of the first sod at Badgerys Creek by Prime Minister Scott Morrison as the day the talking stopped and the action started for Western Sydney Airport – and Liverpool, its Gateway City.
“This is the day things get real for Western Sydney Airport,” Mayor Waller said. “The Prime Minister has moved the first bit of dirt today. Local people will now be putting their own sweat into this 1700-hectare site over coming years to make Sydney’s newest international airport a reality.
“The biggest infrastructure project happening in Australia at the moment is going to mean jobs – 11,000 in construction and 28,000 when the Airport and its Aerotropolis are built – and South West Sydney residents are at the front of the queue for those jobs.
“The airport will be built by 2026 and we as the Airport City will be growing with it. By then our population will have grown from 214,000 to 275,000.”
Mayor Waller welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to the project, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison described as “the future of Sydney”.
“This is the biggest game-changer I think for the city of Sydney since we built the Harbour Bridge. That’s how big a deal this is,” Mr Morrison said.
In further good news for Liverpool, the Prime Minister also promised further announcements on the transport links needed for the airport to flourish.
“We’re totally committed to the success of this airport and to what is required to make it a success,” Mr Morrison said.
“Western Sydney University has actually built a vertical campus in Liverpool because of this. The reason they decided to invest in Liverpool was because of this. That’s what I mean by game-changing, city-changing infrastructure investments – it is leading investment right across Western Sydney.”
Mayor Waller said Liverpool would continue to develop and prosper with the airport it hosts.
“A major international airport needs a big city as its partner and we will be growing up with the airport providing all the types of workers it needs to make it a success from labourers to sales and retail staff, office managers, technicians and tradies all the way to the aeronautical engineers and science-based professionals who will work in the Aerotropolis.”