PTA / Transperth Service Changes 2026

[Mr OC Benz]

Happy New Year!

[Traklink]

Just a quick one while we wait for the full set of Term 1 changes: a Fremantle Free Transit Zone will be introduced along South Terrace all the way to Douro Road from the start of February.

Unlike on buses in the Perth CBD, it will still be a requirement to tag on and off with a SmartRider or other contactless device.

[Merc1107]

Fail to see why this doesn't encompass all of Fremantle given the Freo Traffic Bridge closure is being touted as a sort of doomsday.

No doubt this is related to quelling some lingering angst in the community about the loss of the Freo CAT rather than actually trying to attract patronage on the rail line during the bridge closure.

[Traklink]

Term 1: more services in Fremantle (as expected) and a couple of inner Armadale Line routes, but fewer services in the middle-to-outer northern suburbs. Also, route 467 will be altered to better serve the growing area of Sinagra.

It'll be interesting to see if any of the Fremantle services will stick around after the bridge reopens.

Fremantle Line Timetable Changes
Sun 01 Feb

From Sunday 1 February, the Fremantle Line will operate with four additional weekday services to improve congestion during the Fremantle Traffic Bridge Closure.

The additional services will depart:

Fremantle to Perth:

• 7.38am
• 8.02am

Perth to Fremantle:

• 4.51pm
• 5.15pm.

These services will extend to or from High Wycombe on the Airport Line.

February 1 Bus Service Changes
Sun 01 Feb

From Sunday 1 February, the following bus routes will undergo service changes.

Routes 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 51, 72, 100, 101, 102, 107, 111, 148, 158, 160, 176, 177, 219, 220, 224, 225, 229, 271, 280, 282, 283, 290, 362, 390, 391, 448, 449, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 470, 471, 473, 474, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 491, 492, 494, 495, 496, 498, 500, 502, 910, 915, 925, 995, 998, and 999.

Passengers are advised that the Fremantle Traffic Bridge will be closed as of Sunday 1 February. Click here for more information.

Route 28
Will undergo weekday time changes.

Routes 30, 31, 32, 33, 35 and 37
Will undergo time changes.

Route 34
Will undergo time changes
The school day trip departing Curtin University Bus Station at 3.07pm to Perth Busport will now depart at 3.13pm
Will now depart from Stand 12 at Cannington Station.

Route 36
Will undergo time changes
Will now depart from Stand 11 at Cannington Station.

Route 38
Will undergo time changes
Will now operate every 30 minutes during the day on Sundays.

Route 51
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with later evening services on weekends
Will now depart from Stand 11 at Cannington Station.

Route 72
Will now depart from Stand 6 at Cannington Station.

Route 100
Will undergo time changes due to ongoing roadworks on Hayman Rd.

Route 101
Will undergo time changes due to ongoing roadworks on Hayman Rd
An additional school days trip will depart from Stand 3 at Como Secondary College at 3.25pm, replacing School Special 784.

Routes 102, 148 and 176
Will undergo time changes.

Route 107
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with additional weekday trips departing Claremont Station at 6.40am and 7.54am to Fremantle Station
Will operate with an additional trip departing Fremantle Station at 3.03pm to Claremont Station
Will no longer continue as Route 995 at Claremont Station
Will no longer service:

• Stop 10280 (Queen Victoria St after Fremantle Traffic Bridge)
• Stop 10281 (Queen Victoria St before James St)
• Stop 10427 (Adelaide St after Parry St)
• Stop 11143 (Queen Victoria St after Swan St)
• Stop 11146 (Queen Victoria St after Tydeman Rd)
• Stop 11147 (Queen Victoria St after James St).

New Stop 29647 (Stirling Hwy after Harvest Rd) may provide alternative options for passengers in North Fremantle.

Route 111
Will undergo time changes
Will now operate every 8 minutes from Perth between 4.00pm and 5.30pm
Last service will now depart from WACA at 6.12pm and from Elizabeth Quay Bus Station at 6.26pm.

Route 158
Will undergo time changes
Will now operate every 15 minutes to Elizabeth Quay Bus Station during the morning peak period
Will operate with additional trips to Fremantle Station on weekday mornings.

Route 160
Will undergo weekday morning and afternoon time changes
Will operate with additional trips in the morning and afternoon peak periods.

Route 177
Will now depart from Stand 7 at Cannington Station.

Route 219
The trip departing Armadale Station at 8.27am will now depart at 8.42am.

Route 220
The weekday trip departing Armadale Station at 8.27am will now depart at 8.30am and will now deviate via Armadale Health Service.

Routes 224 and 225
Trips to East Cannington will now depart from Stand 10 at Cannington Station.

Route 229
Trips to Maddington will now depart from Stand 9 at Cannington Station.

Route 271
The school day trip departing High Wycombe Station at 2.45pm travelling via Darling Range Sports College to Forrestfield will now depart at 2.50pm.

Route 280
Trips to High Wycombe will now depart from Stand 9 at Cannington Station.

Route 282 and 283
Will undergo time changes.

Route 290
The trip departing Midland Station at 3.31pm to Redcliffe Station will now depart at 3.43pm.

Route 362
The school day trip departing John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School at 3.45pm to Ballajura Station will now depart at 3.40pm.

Route 390
Will undergo time changes
Some weekday trips will be withdrawn due to low patronage
Will now operate every 30 minutes during the day and on Friday and Saturday evenings.

Route 391
Will undergo time changes
Some weekday trips will be withdrawn due to low patronage
Will now operate every 30 minutes during the day.

Routes 448, 460, 461, 462, 468, 470, 474, 485, 494, 495, 496, 498
Will undergo time changes.

Route 449
The school day trip departing John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School at 3.43pm to Warwick Station will now depart at 3.38pm.

Routes 463, 464, 466, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 486, 487, 488, 491
Will undergo time changes
Some weekday trips will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 465
Will undergo time changes
Some weekday trips will be withdrawn due to low patronage
The last service on Saturdays will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 467
Will undergo time changes
Will undergo a route change and no longer service:

• 26119 (Carosa Rd after Yanez La)
• 26120 (Carosa Rd after Elton Wy)
• 26121 (Carosa Rd after Taplow Pde)
• 26123 (Carosa Rd before Siena Lk)
• 12304 (Wanneroo Rd after Pinjar Rd)
• 12305 (Wanneroo Rd before Illyarrie Ri)
• 12405 (Wanneroo Rd before Neville Dr)
• 12406 (Wanneroo Rd after Neville Dr).

Will now service:

• 29755 (Mondrian App after Fomiatti St)
• 29756 (Mondrian App after Korovin Dr)
• 29771 (Hollosy Wy after Pinjar Rd)
• 29772 (Hollosy Wy after Fomiatti St)
• 29757 (San Teodoro Av after Rometta Wy)
• 29758 (San Teodoro Av after Saponara Dr)
• 29765 (San Teodoro Av before Saponara Dr)
• 29766 (San Teodoro Av after Speranza Pky)
• 29759 (Vincent Rd after San Teodoro Av)
• 29760 (Geranium Dr after Becona St)
• 29761 (Illyarrie Ri after Plumeria Ri)
• 29762 (Illyarrie Ri after Catspaw St)
• 29763 (Geranium Dr after Pandorea Pde)
• 29764 (Geranium Dr before Vincent Rd)
• 29767 (Illyarrie Ri after Teatree Tce)
• 29768 (Illyarrie Ri after Acacia Wy)
• 29769 (Illyarrie Ri after Fringelily Wy)
• 29770 (Illyarrie Ri after Gumnut Vw).

Route 471
Will undergo time changes
The school day trip departing Burns Beach at 7.52am will be withdrawn.

Route 473
Will undergo time changes
The last service on Saturdays will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 492
Will undergo time changes
Some weekday and Saturday trips will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 500
Will undergo time changes to weekday peak period trips.

Route 502
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with increased frequency:

• Every 15 minutes from Bull Creek Station between 3.00pm and 4.00pm
• Every 15 minutes from Fremantle Station between 2.00pm and 3.00pm.

Route 910
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with increased frequency in morning and afternoon peak periods
Will now operate with earlier trips to Perth and Fremantle.

Route 915
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with additional trips to Fremantle Station on school day mornings
Will now operate every 10 minutes from Fremantle Station between 2.30pm and 3.00pm.

Route 925
Will undergo time changes.

Route 995
Will no longer continue as Route 107 at Claremont Station.

Route 998 and 999
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with additional trips between Fremantle and Murdoch, including Route 999 trips departing Fremantle Station at 4.38am and 5.08am
Passengers may need to transfer buses if travelling via Galleria Bus Station
Route 998 will no longer service:

• Stop 11143 (Queen Victoria St after Swan St)
• Stop 11144 (Queen Victoria St after Harvest Rd)

New Stop 29648 (Stirling Hwy after Tydeman Rd) may provide alternative options for passengers.

Route 999 will no longer service:

• Stop 11145 (Queen Victoria St after Harvest Rd)
• Stop 11146 (Queen Victoria St after Tydeman Rd)
• Stop 10280 (Queen Victoria St after Fremantle Traffic Bridge)
• Stop 10281 (Queen Victoria St before James St)
• Stop 11147 (Queen Victoria St after James St)
• Stop 10427 (Adelaide St after Parry St).

New Stop 29647 (Stirling Hwy after Harvest Rd) may provide alternative options for passengers.

[Merc1107]

I expect the 502, 910 and 915 changes will stick; the 915 and 502 have had constant tweaks over the last ten years to accommodate the phenomenonal amount of students travelling to CBC, John Curtin and Melville SHS, as well as students travelling to Bull Creek for an onward connection.

The 2-4pm period on the 502 had been "busy" for many years pre-pandemic without any upgrades (or better use of the plethora of articulated buses Palmyra has, for that matter). Sounds like the change finally addresses this, but as always, one always hopes there is some degree of pressure put on the contractors to utilise their higher-capacity vehicles more effectively!

[Enviro 500]

So I guess this means no more 107/995 interlining or crossovers.

[Merc1107]

It probably doesn't stop it altogether (although they could ring fence the 107 if really desperate) but will stop the formalised one-seat journey... Perhaps with the traffic impacts a bus completing a 107 will have a larger buffer between trips, so instead of continuing almost immediately on a 995, it effectively waits until the one after?

Officially, a formal bus to bus connection is 2mins, so if a bus waits 10mins before continuing on a 995, it's not really appropriate to advertise it as a continuing service. As it's been some time since the 995's introduction, there'd now be data on passengers utilising the through-service. Were it really popular, I'd wager this change mightn't have happened - but that's only my speculation.

[Off The Rails]

There's been some additional changes not noted in the quoted section by Traklink, to come in on the 1st of February.

February 1 Bus Service Changes

Route 534
Will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 560
Trips to Warnbro Station on weekday afternoons:
Will undergo time changes
Will operate with reduced frequency every 40 minutes between 3.00pm and 6.00pm.

Cheers!

[Merc1107]

Surprised the 534 lasted 9 years, to be honest. Not sure what the basis for its creation was, although it often found itself on the receiving end of artics, much like the old 522 - neither of which ever came even remotely close to needing them!

[busdriver12]

Surprised the 534 lasted 9 years, to be honest. Not sure what the basis for its creation was, although it often found itself on the receiving end of artics, much like the old 522 - neither of which ever came even remotely close to needing them!

That would be because the artic bus was required somewhere else in that drivers shift. Fairly common practice.

[Traklink]

Updated timetables are now available for all bus routes to Midland, effective 22 February to coincide with the new station opening.

The most notable changes are:

• Route 307 will be altered to serve new a housing development along Broadmeadows Dr
• Certain trips on route 321 will be converted to route 322 with a deviation to Mayhew Rd. Only two trips from Midland to Mundaring (and no trips at all in the inbound direction) remain
• Route 322 will now run a consistent hourly frequency on Saturday afternoons

[Merc1107]

Surprised the 534 lasted 9 years, to be honest. Not sure what the basis for its creation was, although it often found itself on the receiving end of artics, much like the old 522 - neither of which ever came even remotely close to needing them!

That would be because the artic bus was required somewhere else in that drivers shift. Fairly common practice.

And an incredibly wasteful one at that. Artics running round Aubin Grove and surrounds empty, while other buses from the same depot would run empty all the way to Perth and leave full. Worse still, school trips would end up on nightshifts, resulting in artics out all night carrying fresh air while burning more diesel, tyres and other consumables than a rigid would for the same outcome.

I realise there's a cost in returning a bus to depot, restricting certain bus types to certain routes (which may also run up against software limitations), or even niche cases like these leading to a lower operating cost overall, but in the case of buses only being useful once or twice a day during school terms, with the buses' capacity otherwise being squandered, it's perfectly valid to question if the higher capacity couldn't be put to better use elsewhere on the network. This is especially important when there's been reluctance to procure articulated buses, not to mention make use of them where there's a demonstrated need beyond school trips (950, Perth Stadium, the 990).

[shinjiman]

There's additional bus changes in addition from the post above.

Term 1: more services in Fremantle (as expected) and a couple of inner Armadale Line routes, but fewer services in the middle-to-outer northern suburbs. Also, route 467 will be altered to better serve the growing area of Sinagra.

It'll be interesting to see if any of the Fremantle services will stick around after the bridge reopens.

February 1 Bus Service Changes

Sun 01 Feb

From Sunday 1 February, the following bus routes will undergo service changes.

Routes 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 51, 72, 100, 101, 102, 107, 111, 148, 158, 160, 176, 177, 219, 220, 224, 225, 229, 271, 280, 282, 283, 290, 362, 390, 391, 448, 449, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 470, 471, 473, 474, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 491, 492, 494, 495, 496, 498, 500, 502, 534, 910, 915, 925, 995, 998, and 999.

Route 534

• Will be withdrawn due to low patronage.

Route 560

• Trips to Warnbro Station on weekday afternoons:
  • Will undergo time changes
  • Will operate with reduced frequency every 40 minutes between 3.00pm and 6.00pm.

Route 998 and 999

Click here for an updated Route 998 and 999 map.
Click here for an updated Route 998 and 999 stop list.

Stand List for Cannington Station:

• [29526] Stand 1: 208, 907F
  [29527] Stand 2: 207, 908F
  [29528] Stand 3: 925
  [29529] Stand 4: 202, 203
  [29530] Stand 5: 200
  [29531] Stand 6: 72
  [29532] Stand 7: 177
  [29533] Stand 8: 222
  [29534] Stand 9: 229F, 280T
  [29535] Stand 10: 224F(1), 225F(1)
  [29536] Stand 11: 36, 51
  [29537] Stand 12: 34
  [29538] Stand 13: 100
  [29539] Stand 14: 224F(2), 225F(2), 229T, 280F
  [29540] Stand 15:
  [29541] Stand 16:

(1) Bus route went through the Station for the first time, for this case are referring to East Cannington services
(2) Bus route went through the Station for the Second time, for this case are referring to Westfield Carousel services

Timetables updated (1/2/2026):

• Train Timetable Fremantle Line
• Bus Timetable 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16, 17, 22
• Bus Timetable 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39
• Bus Timetable 55, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 75, 77, 78, 80, 83, 85
• Bus Timetable 88, 94, 108
• Bus Timetable 123, 138
• CircleRoute Timetable 200
• Bus Timetable 202, 207, 212, 213, 217