❓ Mr Masters asked about Transperth passenger numbers for 1999-2000. Mr Cowan provided detailed figures, highlighting increases in boardings and journeys, and attributing the growth to improved bus routes and new initiatives.
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In reference to the Transperth 2000 annual report, could the Deputy Premier please advise the number of passenger boardings for the 1999-2000 year for the Transperth system, both in absolute terms and on a per capita basis? Mr COWAN
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I thank the member for some notice of the question as it has permitted the Minister for Transport to provide a somewhat lengthy response. Public transport patronage increased in the 1999-2000 financial year. There were 77.483 million boardings on the Transperth bus, train and ferry systems in the recently completed financial year. This was an even better result than that of which the minister was previously advised by the Department of Transport, as one batch of patronage figures had not been included in earlier calculations. The Department of Transport has confirmed its patronage figures for input into the 2000 annual report. The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
Mr COWAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of the question as it has permitted the Minister for Transport to provide a somewhat lengthy response. Public transport patronage increased in the 1999-2000 financial year. There were 77.483 million boardings on the Transperth bus, train and ferry systems in the recently completed financial year. This was an even better result than that of which the minister was previously advised by the Department of Transport, as one batch of patronage figures had not been included in earlier calculations. The Department of Transport has confirmed its patronage figures for input into the 2000 annual report. The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
I thank the member for some notice of the question as it has permitted the Minister for Transport to provide a somewhat lengthy response. Public transport patronage increased in the 1999-2000 financial year. There were 77.483 million boardings on the Transperth bus, train and ferry systems in the recently completed financial year. This was an even better result than that of which the minister was previously advised by the Department of Transport, as one batch of patronage figures had not been included in earlier calculations. The Department of Transport has confirmed its patronage figures for input into the 2000 annual report. The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
Mr COWAN replied: I thank the member for some notice of the question as it has permitted the Minister for Transport to provide a somewhat lengthy response. Public transport patronage increased in the 1999-2000 financial year. There were 77.483 million boardings on the Transperth bus, train and ferry systems in the recently completed financial year. This was an even better result than that of which the minister was previously advised by the Department of Transport, as one batch of patronage figures had not been included in earlier calculations. The Department of Transport has confirmed its patronage figures for input into the 2000 annual report. The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
I thank the member for some notice of the question as it has permitted the Minister for Transport to provide a somewhat lengthy response. Public transport patronage increased in the 1999-2000 financial year. There were 77.483 million boardings on the Transperth bus, train and ferry systems in the recently completed financial year. This was an even better result than that of which the minister was previously advised by the Department of Transport, as one batch of patronage figures had not been included in earlier calculations. The Department of Transport has confirmed its patronage figures for input into the 2000 annual report. The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
The figure of 77.483 million boardings represents a 2.3 per cent increase over the figure for the previous year. As some journeys take more than one boarding - for example, when a passenger uses a train and a bus - the 77.483 million boardings translates to 55.46 million journeys in the year on the Transperth system. Interestingly, although the number of boardings has increased, it has not grown at the same rate as that for total journeys. People are finding it increasingly easy to complete their journeys on the Transperth system, largely as a result of the more complete and comprehensive bus routes offered in the Transperth system. For example, a passenger can travel on the circle route, and in one trip complete a journey that previously may have required a number of transfers between various bus services or bus and train services. It may be of interest to the House to discover that the new bus circle route service, which was progressively introduced over 1998-99, is now typically experiencing 64 000 passenger boardings a week. This is an outstanding figure for a service that has been operating for only a little over two years. New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
New initiatives, such as the high frequency series 900 bus service from Rockingham to Fremantle, are also proving to be successful. The public has also warmly received the new bus fleet. More than 161 of these low-floor, wheelchair-accessible, environmentally friendly, airconditioned buses are now on the road and providing a far greater degree of accessibility for members of the community. One of the pleasing results to emerge from the recently compiled 1999-2000 figures is that public transport journeys have increased to 40.3 journeys per capita, from 39.7 in 1998-99. This is the first improvement in journeys per capita since 1994-95 and represents a positive step towards increasing the public transport share of all personal trips in the metropolitan area, which is a key objective of the metropolitan transport strategy.
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