A WA parliamentary question seeks information on Transperth bus service subsidies and potential service cuts. The answer reveals the average subsidy cost, confirms some services exceed a $20 subsidy, and denies planned service cuts, highlighting increased service kilometres since 2008.

AnsweredQoN 400Legislative Council
Asked
29 October 2013
Portfolio
Transport

QuestionView source ↗

(1) What was the net average subsidy cost per passenger for bus services provided by Transperth? (2) Do any individual bus services provided by Transperth have a net average subsidy cost of greater than $20 per passenger? (3) Does Transperth intend to cut or reduce any bus services? (4) If yes to (3), which routes or individual bus services will be cut or reduced?

AnswerView source ↗

Answered
4 December 2013
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Transport
Response time
36 days
(1) $3.47.
(2) Yes
(3) - (4) Transperth has no plans to cut or reduce bus service kilometres across the metropolitan network. The Liberal-National State Government has actually increased Transperth's annualised bus service kilometres by over 12 million since 2008. This is in contrast to Labor's poor record of only 3.9m kilometres over 2 terms.

Explore WA Government Data

Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.

Explore more