Ms. Mettam asks about passenger boarding estimates, population figures, and development assumptions related to the Yanchep Rail Extension. The Minister provides specific boarding estimates for the first year and refers to a public document for future projections, lists catchment suburbs, and confirms incremental development is factored into modelling.

AnsweredQoN 5409Legislative Assembly
Asked
27 August 2019
Portfolio
Transport

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I refer to the Yanchep
Rail Extension, and I ask: (a) What are the estimated daily passenger boardings at each station on the Yanchep Rail Extension in the first financial year of operation; (b) What are the estimated daily passenger boardings at each station on the Yanchep Rail Extension in 2031; (c) What is the estimated population of the catchment area for the Yanchep Rail Extension in the first financial year of operation; (d) What is the estimated population of the catchment area for the Yanchep Rail Extension in 2031; (e) What suburbs are included in the catchment area for the Yanchep Rail Extension; and (f) Does the modelling for the Yanchep Rail Extension rail assume full development of the catchment area suburbs listed in (e)?

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Answered
16 October 2019
Responded by
Minister for Transport
Response time
13 days
(a) Alkimos – 1,590; Eglinton – 1,645; Yanchep – 2,030
(b)-(d) Refer to publicly available summary PDP.
(e) Suburbs include: Yanchep; Eglinton; Alkimos/Butler; Two Rocks
(f) The modelling accounts for forecast annual incremental development and growth over the assessment period within the catchment area

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