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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 layout and design of Perth was influenced by the urban planning principles of the time, the colonial experience in Australia and elsewhere, and the practicalities of administrating land grants. Historian Geoffrey Bolton identifies the New Town, Edinburgh as the model for the Perth layout. [11]
The first railway in Perth was the Eastern Railway from Fremantle to Guildford via Perth, which opened on 1 March 1881. Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was formed in 1890 as the operator of railways in Perth and Western Australia. The South Western Railway opened on 2 May 1893. On 28 September 1899, the first trams in Perth begin ...
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.
The remaining stations between Perth and Joondalup opened on 21 March 1993, [10] and an extension to Currambine station opened on 8 August 1993. [11] Subiaco station was rebuilt in the late 1990s, opening on 9 December 1998 [12] as Perth's first underground station. [13] [14] A number of new stations opened in the 2000s under the New MetroRail ...
The 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region, Perth and Fremantle (also known as the Stephenson, or Stephenson-Hepburn Report) was prepared for the Government of Western Australia by Gordon Stephenson and Alistair Hepburn. [1] The plan was the first regional plan for Perth, and provided the basis for land use zoning under the Metropolitan Region ...
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]
48 months, 48 minutes: Building the Perth to Mandurah Railway. Rawlhouse Publishing. ISBN 0-9587406-8-2. "South West Metropolitan Railway Master Plan". New MetroRail. March 1999. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. "Perth Urban Rail Development Project – Supplementary Master Plan" (PDF). New MetroRail. August 2002. ISBN 0-7307-2426-3.