Following on from initial advertising of the 960 High Frequency service via Transperth's Facebook and Instagram page, there is now a dedicated page on the Transperth website for high frequency buses, including (finally!) the criteria used to define them.
From now on, I'd probably say this is the go to thread for discussion related to current and known planned high frequency services (fantasy ideas should be posted in this section), with the exception of the two most talked about routes, 950 and 960 which have their own exclusive threads.
A few of my thoughts on the page. It's a good start, however there's a few things that I think could be improved on:Transperth website wrote:What Makes it a High Frequency Bus Service?
Our high frequency buses are fully accessible services that run at a higher frequency compared to our regular services.
Not just any bus can be part of our high frequency fleet. Every route that meets the criteria will be renumbered to a 900 series bus and as a minimum, will run at least:
All of our high frequency services also have a special blue timetable which you can pick up from any of our InfoCentres or next time you catch one of these buses.
- Every 15 minutes between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday
- Every 15 minutes between 8am and 7pm on Saturdays
- Every 15 minutes between 9am and 7pm on Sundays.
- There's no map to indicate where these services actually go. The closest is probably the Transperth Zone Map which shows the train lines and highlights the high frequency routes, but it's a pretty poor attempt at it. The map at the bare minimum should include - high frequency bus routes, train lines and key transfer points to other local bus services.
- I don't think referring to the online timetables is adequate enough. Perhaps a frequency summary table (especially for the periods outside of the high frequency criteria) to indicate what service levels are like after-hours as well as first and last bus times would be beneficial given the high frequency criteria only applies for the daytime.
- The CircleRoute is omitted, but should probably be included on the basis it was renumbered into the 900-series range and that on the same basis as the 935, parts of the route meet the criteria for each day type.