They’re moving public service jobs to western and south west Sydney.
Health funding is increasingly being transferred there as well.
So are the resources of law and order and other services.
International flights will one day be landing and taking off from Badgerys Creek.
This is all so logical, even though it’s taken too many bitter fights over many years to achieve.
As the great beast that is the Sydney metropolitan area continues to expand west and south west so must the services and infrastructure.
But it seems not everyone got the memo.
Certainly nobody inside the state government’s sports ministry or the NRL.
It beggars belief that on the major stadiums issue they are pushing against this tide of taking services and infrastructure where the population is growing.
A lot of it has got to do with self interest and ego tripping, but out this way we don’t really care about their motivation.
What we care about is outcomes.
As taxpayers we seriously object to plans that call for a brand new Roosters home ground at a cost of $600 million.
That’s right, $600 bloody million of our hard earned money.
Well, no, you dummies.
For a fraction of that we could end up with four or five boutique stadiums seating around 25,000 from Brookvale to Kogarah and from Campbelltown to Penrith.
All close to where the people who use this stadium live.
Yes, within walking distance.
Instead they want to spend money they haven’t got on the Sydney football stadium in Moore Park and the Olympic stadium in Homebush.
I think it’s silly that the Parramatta Eels and the Western Sydney don’t play their home games at Homebush, which could save a few more hundred million being spent to upgrade Parramatta Stadium.
What a farce the whole thing is and sadly it all seems so silly it’s bound to get the green light.
