The Joondalup Yellow CAT (First 2024 Service) - Transperth Oddities

The Joondalup Yellow CAT is one of the oddest routes on the Transperth network, with the most specific operating times of all routes, being:
Weekdays Monday to Thursday only
6-9PM only
ECU Term dates only
Extra services operating only on WA Day and Labour Day public holidays.
On top of this it is also the shortest Transperth CAT route, with only six stops looping around the Joondalup ECU campus in the evening to pick up any remaining students after the larger Blue and Red CAT loops stop operations at 6PM. I have taken this service a few times over the years, but I never actually filmed it, so today on my birthday I went to catch and record in full the whole loop on the first service of the year at 6:08PM from Joondalup along with ‪@Pigeon_journey‬ (which you may hear some of our conversation in the background).
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction / Joondalup Bus Spotting
03:30 - Full Journey Real-time
13:41 - Conclusion
Filmed on: 12/02/2024.

[@Trainaddiction512]

I hope you had a great belated birthday!

[@JulianTransporter91]

Happy Birthday Mark! Great route the yellow CAT would be good to have it run on weekends

[@TransportofPerth]

Why would the ECU need to be serviced then?

[@KaynesPerthTransport]

Happy birthday! And by the way, i saw one of the new smartrider processors yesterday. I think theyre pretty cool, but the beep is annoying😂

[@oliverlovesmusic1]

Happy Birthday Mark! Hope you had a good one

[@karlgalway7605]

Happy birthday Mark! 🎉🙏

[@swanman1984.]

Happy Birthday 🎂

[@armadalegarbo]

Happy birthday!

[@Levistransperthadventure]

Happy birthday

[@redblanket17709]

Happy Birthday!

[@diamondshark1965]

HAPPY BDAYYYY😂

[@randomthingsrule1]

Happy birthday Mark

[@justinmaster86]

Good driver there nice

[@TransportofPerth]

Yes so it was fine taking the whole loop.

[@Trainaddiction512]

I have no idea why this is an oddity? It's literally just the first of the year...

[@TransportofPerth]

The whole service is weird with its very specific operating hours.

[@MightyBeans-p1p]

Belated Happy Birthday. You share the birthday with someone I'm very close to, so a great day to have a birthday. Have an exciting year ahead of new transport firsts for Perth and lots of fun to...🎉🍹🎉🚅🚍

[@7figuretraveller]

I guess we know what you did on your birthday! Ha ha

[@TransportofPerth]

Well this was like 20 minutes but it was a school day anyway I did more things on the Sunday as I went out for both breakfast and dinner in Mandurah and Kalamunda.

[@RXTransit]

Happy Birthday 🎈