METRONET

METRONET is the official YouTube channel for the Western Australian government agency of the same name. It regularly uploads content concerning updates about construction and upgrade projects around the TransPerth rail network managed by Metronet.
== Background ==
Metronet was formed under the first McGowan ministry following their election win in 2017, which had Metronet as part of their campaign. Metronet was created to manage and promote the new contruction and extension of existing infrastructure of the TransPerth rail network.
So far the joint agency has overseen the construction of the new Airport link line from Bayswater to High Wycombe (8.5 km), and is currently building the Morley to Ellenbrook line (21 km), with plans to extend this new line further to Bennett Springs. In addition to these new lines, the Armadale line is being extended to Byford, and the Joondalup line to Yanchep, with a link also being created between the Thornlie and Mandurah lineshttps://www.metronet.wa.gov.au/projectshttps://www.railway-technology.com/projects/metronet-new-midland-station-perth-western-australia/?cf-view.
Several stations are also being built on existing lines or being relocated, level crossings at various stations are being removed which has led to the closure of Welshpool station, and high capacity signaling is being introduced under automatic train control (ATC)https://www.metronet.wa.gov.au/projects. In terms of rolling stock, Metronet announced the new C-series suburban trains in 2019, with a new factory constructed in Bellevue to manufacture 41 six-car sets (246 units) under a contract with Alstomhttps://infrastructurepipeline.org/project/metronet, the C-series shall enter service in early April of 2024.
Metronet can be viewed as a successor to New MetroRail which was another Western Australian government suburban infrastructure scheme created in the mid-1990s and finished in 2007, having practically doubled the TransPerth network, it is the largest public transport scheme initiated by the WA state governmenthttps://www.pta.wa.gov.au/portals/0/annualreports/2008/new-metrorail.htmlhttps://www.keller.com.au/projects/perth-new-metro-rail.
== Content ==
The first video on the channel, uploaded on 3 July 2018, Thornlie-Cockburn Link Flythrough, is a 2-minute video with over 70,000 views giving an overview of the planned link between the Thornlie and Mandurah lines by building stations at Nicholson Road and Ranford Roadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIdksjI_MIE.
The most popular video uploaded by METRONET as of 29 March 2024 is Welcome to Perth's METRONET Airport Line, uploaded on 2 September 2022, with over 84,900 views, 821 likes, and 178 comments. The 3-minute video features an animation of the new designs of stations along the planned Airport link line from Bayswaterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZRVC81qJo.
== See also ==
* Western Australia
** Public Transport Authority WA
** TransPerth Online
** Western Australian Museum
* Australia
** Infra, Transport, Regional, Comms & Arts (federal department)
== References ==
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