The Rockingham Light Rail is a proposed

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system within the

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. The proposal aims to link Rockingham station with the Rockingham Beach foreshore via the shopping centre and central business district.City Centre Transport strategy
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History

Under the original 1999 Southern Suburbs Railway plan, Rockingham station would have been located within the Rockingham central business district in close proximity to major shopping and civic areas. This plan proposed the line to access Rockingham CBD by tunnel. However, in 2002, the

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was altered to operate via a more direct route from

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via the median strip of the

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rather than via the Armadale and Kwinana lines as originally planned. The planned central Rockingham station was abandoned at this time, in order to offset the extra cost of the Perth leg. The new location avoided the cost of tunneling under Rockingham, but was now located on the edge of the city rather than in the centre of it two kilometres east of Rockingham Shopping Centre. To make up for the lost heavy rail link, the

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announced plans to construct a light rail link to the Rockingham CBD instead. This did not transpire, although provision was made in the station design and layout for it. Evidence of the abandoned light rail is seen in the busway approach to the station, where concrete tracks can be seen. The cost of the proposed light rail system was estimated at $107 million in 2012. As of 2017, the

and surrounding councils remain supportive of building the transport link.Light rail on track for Perth’s south with route from Murdoch to Fremantle mooted
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References

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