2012/13 BUDGET ESTIMATES HEARING PUBLIC TRANSPORT AUTHORITY 3.7.12
The table below shows a list of stations which have secure bike shelters including the number of registered users for each shelter and the waiting list for each station as at 15 June 2012:
| Shelter | Capacity | Registered Bike Users | Waiting List |
| JOONDALUP LINE | 204 | 813 | 197 |
| Glendalough | 18 | 96 | 23 |
| Stirling | 18 | 96 | 45 |
| Warwick | 34 | 96 | 51 |
| Greenwood — west | 24 | 96 | 52 |
| Greenwood – east | 18 | 96 | 2 |
| Whitfords | 18 | 96 | 0 |
| Edgewater | 38 | 96 | 20 |
| Currambine | 18 | 96 | 4 |
| Clarkson | 18 | 45 | 0 |
| MANDURAH LINE | 316 | 1228 | 246 |
| Canning Bridge | 12 | 96 | 58 |
| Bull Creek — west | 26 | 96 | 17 |
| Bull Creek — east | 40 | 96 | 21 |
| Murdoch — west | 16 | 96 | 41 |
| Murdoch — east | 16 | 96 | 20 |
| Cockburn Central — west | 20 | 96 | 34 |
| Cockburn Central — east | 18 | 96 | 46 |
| Kwinana | 26 | 76 | 1 |
| Wellard | 16 | 33 | 0 |
| Rockingham — north | 18 | 96 | 0 |
| Rockingham — south | 42 | 96 | 0 |
| Warnbro | 32 | 96 | 8 |
| Mandurah — north | 16 | 91 | 0 |
| Mandurah — south | 18 | 68 | 0 |
| FREMANTLE LINE | 108 | 331 | 14 |
| Shenton Park | 18 | 37 | 0 |
| Claremont | 18 | 96 | 14 |
| Swanbourne | 18 | 15 | 0 |
| Cottesloe | 18 | 34 | 0 |
| Victoria St | 18 | 65 | 0 |
| North Fremantle | 18 | 84 | 0 |
| Note: Fremantle station has a secure storage facility which holds in excess of 200 bicycles (as noted in Question 4) however this facility is currently not controlled through the Public Transport Authority’s online registration system and is therefore not included in this answer. | |||
| ARMADALE LINE | 154 | 513 | 15 |
| Oats St | 18 | 96 | 4 |
| Cannington | 46 | 96 | 4 |
| Thornlie | 20 | 96 | 3 |
| Maddington | 18 | 57 | 0 |
| Gosnells | 18 | 46 | 4 |
| Kelmscott | 18 | 61 | 0 |
| Armadale | 16 | 61 | 0 |
| MIDLAND LINE | 90 | 348 | 2 |
| Maylands | 18 | 96 | 0 |
| Bayswater | 18 | 56 | 0 |
| Bassendean | 18 | 66 | 0 |
| Guildford | 18 | 34 | 0 |
| Midland | 18 | 96 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 872 | 3,233 | 474 |
The waiting list is currently an artificial constraint due to some software and hardware issues that prevents more than 100 registrations per site. A solution to this is being progressed as quickly as possible. The Public Transport Authority is not aware of any instance where a bicycle parking shelter has been full and a person unable to park a bicycle.
So for the Joondalup line, total of 204 bays, with 804 individuals registered for these 204 bays (ie you can only use it 1 in 4 days). In addition, there is an additional 197 people waiting to get on this queue, so if they did, this makes it in 1 in 5 days. They can’t be serious, as most people form habits (and this is a good habit), get to the train station the same way. Compare this to the 1,000′s extra bays installed on the same line, and one shakes one’s head again.
To add more fuel to the fire, Warwick has 96 registered users. As far as I’m aware, you need to be a registered user to get into the cage (ie swipe your smart rider to get in). Why can’t the police find the registered user who entered the cage to steal this bike (http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Station-bike-theft-anger/7628335/) at Warwick. Maybe one of the questions asked should have been, ‘How secure are these secure cages, and how many bikes have been stolen?’.
The last line is then an insult:
The Public Transport Authority is not aware of any instance where a bicycle parking shelter has been full and a person unable to park a bicycle.
Recently I had to leave my bike at Glendalough due to several punctures, and was peak hour and couldn’t take the bike on the train. I couldn’t get into the cage, as I’m not a registered user of this station (or any other). There were about 10 bikes in the cage. The bike racks outside the cage were full (around 8 bikes) and I was forced to park my bike against the rails at the front of the station (along with around 10 other bikes). So my estimates were around 28 bikes parked at the station, of which 10 would have been ‘incorrectly’ parked including mine. I only have an image of where I parked my bike as I was concerned that someone would damage it, wish I had got images of the cage and the racks.
I don’t generally park my bike at the station, but there are a lot of people who do. For example, I’ve attached an image taken in Oct-2010, around 11:00am showing the (then only) bike cage at Greenwood. It is packed and I recall there being other bikes parked outside it (and no I’m not out every day taking these images, this was a once-in-a-life event I was at this station at this time during the work day). This is almost two years ago and I appreciate that an additional cage has been build but….
I would question the figures ,,, since 22 of the 42 have 96 registered users. These figures seem to be question
I have attempted to registered for Mandurah and not recieved a confirming email yet. That was a few weeks ago ,,,,,
If you go to the bottom of the table you see that software restrictions !!!! limit the number of people that can register. I have not heard this excuse since the 70′s, when we designed complete admin systems on computers with 32K memory and 10mb of disk storage, and had to re-use variables etc.
CycleSnail, I must agree with your comment of the software retrictions. I think that excuse comes from the era when computers were programmed by cassette tape. The storage issues come for the era were you had an ‘A’ drive for the program and a ‘B’ drive to record the data.
I registered for Mandurah and it was going to send me a confirming email. That was atleast three weeks ago and I have not yet recieved the confirming email.
I’ve seen the cage at Canning Bridge full to the brim on a number of occasions.. I have emailed PTA about this too. So they are aware of it.
Hasn’t been used much lately though, since that major faliure a few months ago that left everyone stranded for over an hour waiting for it to be manually opened.