AN underground train station at Bayswater should be the WA government’s transport priority in the northern suburbs says Bayswater mayor Barry McKenna.
Like most Western Australians, Cr McKenna was gob-smacked to learn that WA transport minister Dean Nalder has been secretly working on plans to dig heavy-rail tunnels between Perth and Morley (as an alternative to the election promise of a MAX light rail route).
Cr McKenna says the government has its priorities wrong: he’s not opposed in principle to the Perth-Morley tunnel but says the council has been working on the assumption of a light rail system with bus connections.
He’s concerned that talk of the Perth-Morley route will divert attention from what he considers is a more pressing matter. “In my point of view, the focus should be on Bayswater because it needs to be done in the short term,” he says.
by EMMIE DOWLING
Perth Voice Interactive 
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