Metronet

Don Briggs will present what was planned, proposed, laid out, and how eventually the Metronet project commenced. When Labor came into power, the Roe Highway road link work to a tunnel into the Fremantle Port was halted, and new planned structures were put into place.

Metronet was first proposed as a set of rail infrastructure projects in December 2012 by the Opposition Labor Party as an election commitment for the forthcoming 2013 State election.

In August 2015, the Labor Party proposed a modified, staged version of Metronet as an election commitment for the 2017 election. The plan prioritised completion of the Airport line, the Joondalup line extension to Yanchep, the Armadale line extension to Byford, and the Thornlie line extension. That was expanded to reincorporate a rail line to Ellenbrook and Karnup station by December 2016. After the election of the McGowan Government, the Metronet multi-agency team was formed in 2017 to deliver the commitments.