new Perth Stadium Transport Project Definition Plan December 2012 Artist’s impression: pedestrian bridge location 0ii transport solution for the new Perth Stadium transport solution for the new Perth Stadium Artist’s impression: new Perth Stadium Station 03 contents key features 2 Appendix 1 19 Dedicated train services 2 Transport facilities to be funded Complementary bus services 3 by the Government Pedestrian connection to CBD 3 Appendix 2 19 Enhancing existing infrastructure 3 Indicative cashflow evolution of the transport solution 4 executive summary 6 Project Definition Outcomes 7 Infrastructure 15 Importance of rigour 16 Cost Estimates 16 Project Management 17 Staging 17 Cashflow 17 01 key features Passengers first. Holistic transport approach. Multiple transport options. The new Perth Stadium By applying the ‘tentacles of movement’ presents an opportunity for philosophy, spectators will be dispersed, rather than surging together in one the Public Transport Authority direction, ensuring fast and safe transfers (PTA) to concurrently develop and reducing the impacts on nearby the transport solution within residential and environmental areas. a new precinct at Burswood, Key features of the responsive and rather than retrofit it into a robust transport solution, to be delivered constrained space. for the start of the 2018 AFL season, include: Adopting the new Perth Stadium’s ‘fan first’ philosophy, the Transport Dedicated train services PDP reflects passenger needs and Six-platform Stadium Station for demands to create a ‘passenger first’ convenient loading and rapid transfers transport solution. to destinations. This will be achieved through Nearby stowage for up to 117 railcars a $298 million (July 2011 prices) to keep a continuous flow of trains integrated train, bus and pedestrian following events. approach to provide spectators with multiple options. It will promote a cultural Additional stowage between shift from reliance on cars, to move up Great Eastern Highway and Victoria to 50,000 people, or 83 per cent of a Park Station for 24 railcars. capacity crowd, within an hour of an Operating plan and associated event finishing. systems to maximise train movements from the stadium to Perth. 02 Upgraded East Perth Station within Enhancing existing a comfortable walking distance to infrastructure the Stadium. Extension of an additional lane Enhancements to network systems to Victoria Park Drive road bridge and infrastructure in and around over the expanded rail infrastructure. Perth Station. Improvement of Great Eastern Complementary bus services Highway and Victoria Park Drive intersection to accommodate Dedicated new Perth Stadium bus increased bus and vehicle movement. facility able to load up to 20 buses at any given time to service suburban Coach, taxi and ACROD drop-off areas without rail services. facility near the new Perth Stadium. CBD bus shuttle from Nelson Avenue in East Perth, enabling spectators to Without public transport, moving access more than 40,000 inner city 50,000 people by cars would need: car bays. 20,000 cars; and Pedestrian connection to CBD 50 hectares of ground A new Swan River pedestrian bridge level parking, costing between the Peninsula and East Perth $140 million; or will take pressure off Windan Bridge 12.5 hectares for and divert pedestrians away a multi-storey car from East Perth’s high-density park, costing up to residential area. $700 million. It will improve connections between the two areas and attract locals and visitors to the precinct outside of event days. 03 The new Perth Stadium | Master Plan evolution of the transport solution In August 2012, Cabinet endorsed the new Perth Stadium Project Definition Plan. It included a framework to guide the new Perth Stadium’s development within a Sports Precinct, supported by an integrated public transport system. The identified transport strategy included The changes proposed include: major transport infrastructure, such as: replacing the pedestrian bridge new Perth Stadium Station to replace over Victoria Park Drive with the existing Belmont Park Station. an underpass, which achieves a safe separation of pedestrians pedestrian bridge across the Swan River. and vehicles; bus hub facility south of the new realigning the Peninsula Bus Station Perth Stadium, known as the Peninsula to a location further from the river Bus Station. foreshore and orientated on a north- pedestrian bridge across Victoria Park west south-east axis. This minimises Drive for access between the new the potential impact on the Swan River Perth Stadium and southern entry and facilitates improved access onto of the new Perth Stadium Station. Victoria Park Drive; and extending Victoria Park Drive road redesigning a section of the bridge across the new Perth Swan River pedestrian bridge Stadium Station. on the new Perth Stadium side, as the initial concept is no longer In developing the Transport PDP, the PTA required to separate pedestrians refined the transport requirements, which from the bus hub, due to the has seen some initial transport concepts Peninsula Bus Station relocation. modified. The proposed modifications do not result in any significant impact on the overall transport strategy, nor the final cost. 04 The new Perth Stadium | Master Plan evolution of the transport solution The New Perth Stadium – Master Plan aerial 05 executive summary The new Perth Stadium (Stadium) Project Definition Plan (PDP), that was endorsed by Cabinet in August 2012, highlighted that the transport requirements would be addressed in a separate Transport PDP to be submitted to Cabinet before the end of 2012. The new Perth Stadium PDP included a The most complex issues in preparation Master Plan which provided a framework of this PDP were those associated with to guide the development of the Stadium the passenger railway. Provision of within a sports precinct, supported by an good, safe and reliable railway services integrated transport system. depends on integrating a number of electrical, electronic, structural and civil This PDP therefore covers the rail, bus, engineering disciplines into an effective road and pedestrian investments that and reliable system. will be constructed to ensure the new Perth Stadium operates as a world class Preparation of this PDP adopted the venue, with commensurate facilities for following sequence used in preparing access and egress from events. Master Plans that preceded the successful delivery of recent, major rail projects A fundamental objective in preparing in Perth: the PDP was to deliver a set of operating plans and infrastructure requirements, Quantification and clarification of and their cost, which provide a high patronage demand and its drivers. degree of certainty to achieve required Preparation of operating plans objectives, and conversely, the risk to handle the demand. of non-performance would be as low as reasonably possible. A high Definition of infrastructure and degree of project definition in the final rollingstock requirements to satisfy planning phases is critical to successful the operating plan. implementation. A highly defined scope Preparation and testing of concept of works not only greatly reduces future designs for the infrastructure required. uncertainty, but it also provides the soundest basis for the preparation of Consultation with stakeholders to credible estimates. ensure functionality and adequacy of infrastructure. Cost estimates, which are based on a highly defined scope of works, provide Risk analysis. the best insurance against future cost Finally, and only after all of the above, “blow-outs”, as cost blow-outs are most estimate the cost of the operating likely to be caused by changes in scope. and infrastructure plans that have been produced. 06 Special attention was paid to define the The scale of the connection between requirements to meet passenger demand the Stadium and the pedestrian bridge and ensure the infrastructure, particularly over the River has been reduced. for rail, would be driven by, and be responsive to a robust operational plan. Project Definition Outcomes An innovative operating plan has been Demand produced, which was led by overseas Great emphasis was placed on defining experts, who specialise in the movement the nature and magnitude of the travel by rail of large crowds attending major demand the Stadium will create. sporting events in the UK. With respect to the railway, this was an The final infrastructure outcomes of the iterative process between the traffic task, Transport PDP are entirely consistent the operating plan to satisfy that task, the with the transport requirements limited capacity of existing infrastructure, articulated in the Stadium Master Plan and the additional supporting endorsed by Cabinet in August 2012. infrastructure to make it all work. There are some minor differences in The result was ultimately, an operating detail and these are: plan and associated infrastructure with The pedestrian bridge across Victoria the ability to move a crowd of 35,500 by Park Drive has been replaced with an rail, and 14,300 by bus within one hour underpass. following an event. This is about 83% of the total attendance of 60,000 people. The bus hub has been realigned and reconfigured. The pedestrian linkages shown in Figure 1, resulting from extensive The bus hub is more compact and modelling, were valuable in defining the minimises impact on the River and transport problem caused by the limited Stadium facilities. car accessibility to the Peninsula,