The State Government still does not know if it will be able to host Friday night football at the new Burswood stadium due to public transport constraints.

A parliamentary Estimates Committee hearing was told the Public Transport Authority is yet to confirm that it will be able to deliver enough services to the stadium in the evening peak period.

With the stadium’s operating plan assuming that 50,000 people, or 83 per cent of a capacity crowd, will arrive by public transport, capacity constraints on the network in peak times loom as a major obstacle to weeknight events.

Under questioning by shadow transport minister Ken Travers about whether the Public Transport Authority had guaranteed that it had enough trains available for stadium crowds during peak hour, New Perth Stadium project director Ronnie Hurst said: “The PTA are already on the public record saying that is going to pose challenges”.

Department of Sport and Recreation director general Ron Alexander, who is joint chair of the stadium project’s steering committee, said: “We haven’t had a yes or no (from the PTA).

“We’ve had an ‘It’s tough’. We haven’t been told they can’t.”

It was revealed that the Brookfield-led WESTADIUM consortium has access to 500sqm of commercial space within the stadium as part of its 25-year design, build, finance and maintain contract, which was signed with the Government in August.

Details of the contract are yet to be revealed, including how much taxpayers will pay the consortium in capital and maintenance payments over the life of the contract.

A version of the contract redacted of information the Government claims is commercially sensitive will soon be released but Mr Alexander said its was up to the Minister to decide how much detail would be released.

A critical expressions of interest tender for the stadium operation contract is set to be advertised tomorrow.

Commercial negotiations around an access regime with a joint football working group, which includes the WAFC, AFL and WA’s two AFL clubs, and cricket, comprising the WA Cricket Association and Cricket Australia, are on-going.

Mr Hurst said the outcome of those negotiations would then be enshrined in a operator agreement.

The WAFC, which currently controls Patersons Stadium, has already indicated it wants to bid for the Burswood stadium management rights in a consortium including Ticketmaster and catering company Delaware North.