❓ Mr. McGrath asks if the Coode Street jetty ferry service will be reviewed if demand improves. Ms. MacTiernan is willing to explore weekend service in the short term and suggests long-term viability depends on developments around the Esplanade station.
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I ask a supplementary question. Given what the minister has just said - which I appreciate - will the decision with regard to the Coode Street jetty ferry service be reviewed if the demand for the service improves due to population growth and the service being better advertised? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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In the short-term I am willing to explore the opportunity of providing the service on weekends. In the long-term, over the next four years we want to develop, as the member knows, as part of the value-adding to the rail project, a four-hectare area on the western foreshore next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. That will create a lot more activity in that part of town around the new Esplanade station. Once that is in place, there may be sufficient vigour and strength in the two-way passenger flow to make a ferry service worthwhile. We need to continue to look at the way in which the city is developing and changing and make sure that when those developments are delivered we keep all the options open.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: In the short-term I am willing to explore the opportunity of providing the service on weekends. In the long-term, over the next four years we want to develop, as the member knows, as part of the value-adding to the rail project, a four-hectare area on the western foreshore next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. That will create a lot more activity in that part of town around the new Esplanade station. Once that is in place, there may be sufficient vigour and strength in the two-way passenger flow to make a ferry service worthwhile. We need to continue to look at the way in which the city is developing and changing and make sure that when those developments are delivered we keep all the options open.
In the short-term I am willing to explore the opportunity of providing the service on weekends. In the long-term, over the next four years we want to develop, as the member knows, as part of the value-adding to the rail project, a four-hectare area on the western foreshore next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. That will create a lot more activity in that part of town around the new Esplanade station. Once that is in place, there may be sufficient vigour and strength in the two-way passenger flow to make a ferry service worthwhile. We need to continue to look at the way in which the city is developing and changing and make sure that when those developments are delivered we keep all the options open.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: In the short-term I am willing to explore the opportunity of providing the service on weekends. In the long-term, over the next four years we want to develop, as the member knows, as part of the value-adding to the rail project, a four-hectare area on the western foreshore next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. That will create a lot more activity in that part of town around the new Esplanade station. Once that is in place, there may be sufficient vigour and strength in the two-way passenger flow to make a ferry service worthwhile. We need to continue to look at the way in which the city is developing and changing and make sure that when those developments are delivered we keep all the options open.
In the short-term I am willing to explore the opportunity of providing the service on weekends. In the long-term, over the next four years we want to develop, as the member knows, as part of the value-adding to the rail project, a four-hectare area on the western foreshore next to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. That will create a lot more activity in that part of town around the new Esplanade station. Once that is in place, there may be sufficient vigour and strength in the two-way passenger flow to make a ferry service worthwhile. We need to continue to look at the way in which the city is developing and changing and make sure that when those developments are delivered we keep all the options open.
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