Mid-Tier Transport for the Perth Metropolitan Area

With the population expected to increase to 3.5 million by 2050, and with parking at train stations an ongoing issue and catching a bus on time not always possible, what if Perth’s public transport network was linked with more than just a choice of bus or train?

[Adrenaline_chaser]

START BUILDING THEM TRAMWAYS!! It's from the year 2011 that this drama is going on. After years of expensive studies Politicians just scrapped the light rail project altogether, that's unacceptable! Give us these essential public transportation links already!

[andrewsitu]

I think 100/115 can merge. Canning Bridge to Lisbeth Quay has 114 and 160 as well as Mandurah Line.

Alternatively 115 can extend to Curtin Central while 100 can be truncated to Curtin University.

[BDub]

A big consideration is the trees and the space to widen the road, in particular at traffic lights for expressways. Canning Hwy has a large number of fully sized trees and we don't want them removed. This was also going to be a big problem through Subiaco for other plans.. Have people considered servicing Optus Stadium and Great Eastern Hwy to Redcliffe station? Via Curtin or Vic Park? Any thought of trackless trams into Kings Park to really encourage tourists up there and then continue the route to hospital and uwa? misses out the office workers in West Perth but I think getting the tourists to Kings Park is important.

[basketcase]

If this is suggesting light rail, is this actually a viable option? Sydney’s light rail is literally slower than the buses it replaced. They claim this is because it needs much more time to decelerate at intersections than a bus (due to being larger, heavier, etc.). The only solutions seem to be everything being completely grade-separated (which creates normal “heavy rail”), intersections being significantly reduced in number, and intersections operating more like level crossings where light rail always has priority (possibly causing traffic jams), which all seem like non-viable solutions.

If you mean BRT, what’s the difference between the current high frequency 900 routes and BRT? More dedicated bus lanes, possibly. SmartRider gates at bigger “stations” would require a non-interchangeable set of new buses.

If you mean so-called “trackless trams”, they’re just expensive, fancy articulated buses.

[jethrotaylor]

Bus rapid transit is the obvious choice, cheaper and more flexible.