On 21/02/2017 3:43 PM, Tony Gallowayarg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Thanks Mal - I was aware the tram line is on the western side of the freeway, across from the airport boundary, but didn’t know where the shops were.

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> Airport privatisation - another ringing success for the carpetbagger agenda, vindicated yet again by this.

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There is an 8 storey hotel currently under construction on the western bounday - roughly the same disance off the flight path as the shopping centre on the southern boundary.
http://www.ef.com.au/media-centre/news/essendon-fields-unveils-new-60-million-hotel-and-events-centre-creating-400-local-jobs or
https://tinyurl.com/z3hnfoj

However, there's also a private hospital to be built on that western boundary - so that might help with emergency care (as long as it's not hit!)

http://tdu.to/2025_AirporWest_15May2004.jpg

Mal Rowe - who remembers when normal height tramway overhead was considered too risky near the aerodrome.