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Many major roads in Perth [4] and in rural Western Australia [5] are not assigned a route number. Not many routes have been added in the Perth and Peel regions since the 1990s with the exceptions including the Graham Farmer Freeway in 2000 and Mandjoogoordap Drive in 2010. A subsequent review of the system was undertaken in 2024 which resulted ...
The Perth Central Area Transit (Perth CAT) system, or simply CAT, consists of five bus routes in the centre of Perth and three bus routes in Joondalup. [1] CAT services formerly operated in Fremantle , and similar services exist in Rockingham (the City Centre Transit System) and Midland (the Midland Gate Shuttle).
The city skyline features several prominent skyscrapers overlooking Perth Water, the wide but shallow section of the Swan River between Perth, South Perth, the Causeway, and the Narrows Bridge. Central Park Tower is the tallest building in Perth, and the ninth tallest building in Australia, [ 12 ] whilst 108 St Georges Terrace has an unusual ...
Typical Perth bus routes operate every 10–20 minutes in peak times, and every 30–60 minutes off peak on weekdays. Services generally finish before midnight, though many routes finish earlier, between 6:00 pm and 11:00 pm. Weekend services are approximately half weekday levels.
Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Perth was named after the city of Perth in Scotland. [6]
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation. It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in the north to Singleton in the south, and inland to The Lakes in the east, [ 1 ] but its extent can be ...
The Perth and Peel@3.5 million report, released in July 2016, said that the Yanchep extension would be built by the time Perth's population reaches 2.7 million. [ 203 ] [ 204 ] Meanwhile, the Yanchep extension was committed to by the Labor Party ahead of the 2013 state election as part of its Metronet project.
Narrows Bridge. The Narrows Bridge is a freeway and railway crossing of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia.. Made up of two road bridges and a railway bridge constructed at a part of the river known as the Narrows, located between Mill Point and Point Lewis, it connects the Mitchell and Kwinana freeways, linking the city's northern and southern suburbs.