Why Sydney Airport Transfers Break Down at the Last Mile
Sydney Airport runs well. That is genuinely worth saying because most major international airports carry a permanent undertone of controlled chaos- delayed boards, overcrowded terminals, baggage systems that treat every piece of luggage as a problem to be solved rather than a possession to be returned. Sydney does not have that feeling. The terminals are organised. The signage is logical. The arrivals process for international passengers moves with a reliability that regular travellers through the facility come to take for granted. The problem starts at the kerbside. That stretch between the terminal exit and wherever a passenger actually needs to be - a CBD hotel, a North Sydney office tower, a Darling Harbour conference venue, a private residence in Mosman is where the experience fractures. Not because Sydney's roads are worse than any other major city's. Because the ground transport options at that exit point were built for volume, and volume has nothing to do with the kind ...