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Sounds very similar to Dulles in Washington DC. We eventually ran a rail line to it, and it eventually wasn’t the middle of nowhere any more.

Hopefully the rail link takes less than 60 years in your case =)

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Dulles is very much still in the middle of nowhere for me. It takes an hour to go from Capitol Hill to Dulles on the Silver Line, usually longer or about the same time than driving in rush hour. It is 11 minutes to DCA on the Yellow Line. What has made Dulles not the middle of nowhere is the growth in the Northwest VA suburbs, Reston, Ashburn, all those server farms and defense contractors shifting the center of gravity in the DC region.

Similar to our Airport in Calgary, AB. They built a tunnel under a new runway as part of their expansion, including specific right-of-way for rail extension from the downtown, and still there's nothing connecting it. Meanwhile they're going to drive a train right through the downtown core, connecting a light industrial area to the south with a ritzy residential area to the north, rather than the relatively easy and inexpensive line extension to the airport. I think a requirement of being a world-class city is you can take direct mass transit from the airport to the downtown core, but not here.

Sydney Metro is being expanded out to it; construction's already underway, and is targeted at opening at the same time as the airport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sydney_Airport_line

Yeah, but it doesn’t link up with the M1 line so there’s no interchange. Also the rolling stock isn’t compatible as it uses a different power system to the other lines, and the trains are a slightly different size making them incompatible with the M1/2 lines

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