SUTHERLAND Shire Council will ask the state government to provide a direct bus link from the shire to Sydney Airport’s domestic and international terminals.
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Councillor Kevin Schreiber made the call, which was supported by fellow councillors at a December council meeting.
Cr Schreiber said the government should consider the shire-airport bus link as a high priority so Sutherland Shire travellers and residents who work at the airport have better access.
Fairfax Media reported in November that young workers at Sydney Airport were cutting across dangerous roads to walk to the next suburb to avoid paying the high cost of an airport train ticket home.
The report said the fee levied by the private rail operator inflates a ticket to Central Station from $3.60 to $15.90 and is costing airport staff an extra $1000 a year to commute to work, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
The rail operator, Airport Link, claims air travellers are wealthy and ''not price sensitive''. But 28,000 airport workers, who mostly live in the local area, cannot afford what is often a 400 per cent mark-up on train travel, Sydney Airport Corporation says.
Do you think there should be a direct bus link from the shire to Sydney Airport or do you travel to work there?
