Rail to Bunbury will receive a $32 million funding injection as part of the State Budget, fulfilling an important Government election promise to the South-West. The funding is the first stage of the State Government's Rail Future Fund to revamp the Perth-Australind train service. The ageing Australind train will be replaced with
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The WA Government will spend $7.4 million over the next two years on planning for a new signalling system for Perth's urban rail network. The new automatic train control system will revolutionise the way the Transperth rail network operates, gradually replacing the ageing signalling network with a high-tech automatic digital version. The
Read MoreThe WA Government is getting straight to work and building METRONET. As part of the 2017-18 State Budget, $1.34 billion has been allocated over the next four years to start work on stage one METRONET priority projects. The long-term plan will connect suburbs with world-class public transport and deliver well planned liveable
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The State Government is committed to improving cycling infrastructure across Perth - providing the most significant investment in the State's history. An investment of $129 million over the next four years will go towards a chain of new projects across the State's cycling network. The $129 million will allow at least 95
Read MoreA new bike boulevard in Bayswater has created safer and more efficient cycle links to local schools, train stations and businesses. The first stage of Western Australia's second bike boulevard is now complete, covering about 2.4 kilometres from the Swan River foreshore to just north-west of the Midland railway line in
Read MoreThe Mitchell Freeway extension through Perth’s fast growing outer northern suburbs is now complete and will open to traffic on Friday morning. The $236 million project is 80% funded by the Turnbull Government and 20% funded by the WA Government and extends the Freeway from Burns Beach Road to Hester Avenue. This
Read MoreA workforce of 231 people, previously employed for the cancelled Roe 8 project, will be reassigned to work on three alternative road upgrades. Funding for the projects is the result of a new Commonwealth-State $2.3 billion agreement that includes the full relocation of funding from the cancelled Perth Freight Link project. The
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