> make it very inconvenient for passengers and staff to approach the airport by other means
Absolutely not! High-speed train have many advantages, but serving stations with large, long-term parking lots is not one of them.
After all, you don't need to disincentivize the approach: you just need to make it clear that the airport is there to stay, and maybe to grow three-fold, and that noise complaints will never be receivable.
> Complainers will vote, will take control of local government
And you won't care, because you have surrendered the zone surrounding the airport to a national authority, whose mandate is clearly linked to the mobility and who is not to report to local council.
'"Complaints aren't receivable" policies never last.'
Oh depends, you can always build some gulags and get rid of those annoying elections. It's crazy how quick you are into dictatorship realm, with some harmles sounding ideas taken one step further.
Absolutely not! High-speed train have many advantages, but serving stations with large, long-term parking lots is not one of them.
After all, you don't need to disincentivize the approach: you just need to make it clear that the airport is there to stay, and maybe to grow three-fold, and that noise complaints will never be receivable.