Passengers will pay about $5 to travel between Perth Airport and the CBD when the Forrestfield Airport rail line opens after the State Government pledged to subsidise fares.
The Public Transport Authority confirmed yesterday it would not impose a surcharge on airport line fares when it opens in late 2020.
The decision means passengers will pay only a standard, two-zone fare to travel between Perth and the Airport Central station that will open at the same time as the line.
As of July 1, this will amount to $4.80, or 70¢ for students, although with inflation it is likely to rise slightly by 2020.
PTA spokesman David Hynes said it was common for other cities with airport rail lines to impose extra charges but he declared Perth would not.
“There are no plans to put in place an airport train station surcharge like many other cities around the world, so fares to the airport will be on a distance basis as per the normal Transperth zonal system,” he said.
But the move will add to the Government’s recurrent spending budget, which Treasurer Ben Wyatt revealed last week will blow out by $40 million a year thanks to the cost of running the airport rail line.
By keeping fares at the standard price, taxpayers will wear about 70 per cent of the cost of trips between the city and airport.
According to the PTA, the $1.86 billion Forrestfield Airport line is expected to carry an average 20,000 trips a day once it is fully running “by 2021”.
It said most of these trips would involve people getting on or off the train at either Redcliffe or Forrestfield stations, with 6100 trips a day forecast to be generated by airport passengers at first.
The number of trips to or from the airport is predicted to almost double by 2031 to 11,000 a day, while overall traffic on the line is forecast to grow to 29,000 daily trips.
첫댓글 by 2020 lol
역시 퍼스. 요금이 ....굿 !
퍼스에도 지하철이 생기네요 ㅎㅎ 공항픽업시대도 끝나 가나봅니다.
공항에 아웃렛 생기고, 코스트코도 생기면 쇼핑하러 가는 날도 오겠네요. 좋은 정보 감사. 자주 올려 주세요.
오호 좋은 소식이네요!
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공항인근의 개발에 퍼스정부가 노력을 많이 하네요. 좋은 정보 감사합니다.
빨리좀 샘겼으면
철도??
왜 때문에 20년도.. 완전 나중에 혜택받겠네요ㅠ
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좋은 정보 감자합니당
좋은 정보 감사합니다
좋은 정보 감사합니당
이제 2년밖에 안남았네요 감사합니다
기대되요 ㅎㅎ
정보 감사합니다!
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감사합니다.
감사해요
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얘기는 계속 들었는데 20년에 개통이었네요ㅎㅎ 정보 감사합니다!
와~희소식이네요. 감사합니다.
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