The Purple CAT negates the need for a 26, as does the more frequent rail link into the general area accessible from Shenton ParkEnviro 500 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:26 pm 26 getting cut is a surprise. It had potential to be integrated with 270. Also, 23 could have been removed altogether with selected deviations on 995 replacing it similar to arrangements on 68 and 531. 995 itself can be integrated with 970 easily.
Will there be interlining between 940/290/291 like 930/210/211/212 in Thornlie? Would Bayswater be getting 353 in exchange for Midvale getting 277/278?
280 is a blessing for Queens Park and Wattle Grove. Hope this one, along with 507 can get the 915 treatment in the long run.
With the 940, I wouldn't expect it to be organised to formally connect with any feeders except in exceptional circumstances from trips oriented towards schoolkids. There's also the issue of these potentially being two separate operators (the others you mentioned fall into a similar area of wait and see). It will probably look more like the arrangement with the "peaky" feeders you see elsewhere in Perth, a bus runs a peak direction trip, 000 back, does another, 000 back, round trip, and so on.
Given the 280 will more or less run every 30mins all day, except on weekends, it's hard to see that becoming high frequency. I'm not sure what 294s look like through there presently for comparison (I know weekends/night service is practically non-existent), but am guessing the relatively even frequency all day means the service is expected to be moderately popular all day.
Finally, I'm not sure on the fascination with through-routing. It's worked well for some routes, like the 950, for a variety of reasons. For the more suburban corridors it seems a bit pointless; bearing in mind Perth once had a lot of through-services and they were slowly picked apart after privatisation. Maybe not all needed to be, but there was obviously a fairly good reason to do so (perhaps someone a bit more knowledgeable might like to chime in) versus keeping them.