'Super-agency' to have a go at sorting out NSW transport
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has announced what he claims to be the most significant shake-up of the delivery of transport services in NSW history.
Mr Rees said a new super-agency, NSW Transport and Infrastructure, would take control of all transport and roads coordination, policy and planning functions.
“We need major change in the delivery of transport services in NSW and this new structure is the answer,” Mr Rees said. “This is about getting a single direction for transport services and developing a single transport blueprint for NSW.
“It will deliver better coordination of road and public transport services for the community ensuring that infrastructure is built where the greatest need exists.
“Transport is one of the government’s highest priorities with more than 10% of the State’s budget invested in roads and public transport,” Mr Rees said.
“We are investing more than $3.5 billion in transport infrastructure this year alone and this new structure will ensure that taxpayers get the best value for money.
“These changes will provide better services to the people of NSW.”
Mr Rees said that the agency will be the single contact point for Government when it comes to transport and roads in NSW.
“The days of Government agencies operating as silos are over.”
NSW Transport and Infrastructure will take the lead on all policy and planning functions of the Ministry of Transport, RailCorp, Roads and Traffic Authority, State Transit Authority, Sydney Ferries, the Public Transport Ticketing Corporation and Waterways.
Mr Rees said the agency would be responsible for the following functions
Transport coordination;
Transport services;
Transport infrastructure and asset management; and
Transport policy and planning.
The government has appointed Les Wielinga as the acting Director General of NSW Transport and Infrastructure.
There will be three immediate priorities:
Implementing in a professional manner these reforms;
Developing a Transport Blueprint that integrates urban growth and transport delivery; and
Establishing a transport coordination group within the transport management centre to manage each peak as a ‘major event’.
“The new arrangements will provide administrative efficiencies allowing a greater focus on frontline services.
“The creation of NSW Transport and Infrastructure builds on the government’s earlier announcement that RailCorp and Sydney Ferries would no longer be corporations.”
Work on the legislative changes required to facilitate this new transport governance model has begun.
Premier Rees said he wanted the change to happen as soon as possible, so an implementation team would be put in place by the Minister for Transport in the coming days. He did not say whether the new agency will start with a clean slate or will have to pick up and be saddled with previous piecemeal stop-start projects.
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