RTA gets the axe!!! Good or Bad??

[marksesh]

The NSW government will abolish a number of transport agencies, including the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).
Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian on Friday made the announcement, which also affects the Transport Construction Authority and Country Rail Infrastructure Authority.
In their place will be a new authority to be called Transport for NSW, which will cover all modes of travel, including roads.
"This is the biggest structural change to NSW transport in 16 years," Ms Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
Ms Berejiklian, who made the announcement with Roads Minister Duncan Gay, said NSW Maritime will also be absorbed into the new body.
Transport for NSW will be responsible for the co-ordinated delivery of transport services across all modes of travel, with a focus on the customer, Ms Berejiklian said.
"This is about making life easier for the customer," she said.
The merging of agencies into one will see 350 positions go, amounting to about 100 job losses, she said.
"Most of them were duplicating work," she said.
Legislation authorising the new agency will be introduced at the next session of parliament, but Ms Berejiklian said the government still had planning to do.
"We will start the master planning process as soon as we can," she said.
"We don't envisage it will happen by the end of the year."
Mr Gay also noted that the RTA and Maritime Australia would be merged into a single body, under the command of Transport for NSW.
He said the integration of the two agencies was a step toward having a one stop shop for government services.
"This is a major day. It is fulfilling a promise made by Labor in 1995," Mr Gay said.
"Weeks ago I indicated that the RTA would not be the same after this process.
"The RTA as we know it will no longer exist."
The new transport body will oversee customer experience, planning and programs, transport services, projects, freight and regional development and policy and regulation.
There will be six deputy director general positions within the agency, which have yet to be filled.

[robracer]

We will still get poor customer service regardless
I hope the ddg positions are held by people with some semblance of intelligence

[marksesh]

We will still get poor customer service regardless
I hope the ddg positions are held by people with some semblance of intelligence

Nice thought but unfortunatley still going to be run by polliticians

[rooster]

If it smells like crap and looks like crap its still crap

[chimp]

before you start I know i'm from Vic but I am commenting on government bodies per se, the NSW government's basis of theory is excellent however once putting into practice the culmination of a multitude of government entities attempting to co-exist as one division will be a disaster.
Forget the cost although being huge, it is all the red tape that each department creates which is particular to that singular department,they will attempt to blend into a cohesive fully functional streamlined one stop shop for government services.
NSW welcome to a world of pain, the government bodies as they are struggle to keep up with the public demand on them now....how the hell are they going to cope once this little brain snap is implemented with a sizable chunk of their workforce gone.
pardon the pun but " good luck with ya projects"

[h.b.bear]

As a RTA officer or prick as many would call them, one day while doing a roadside inspection of my truck was telling me how the goverment was running the RTA like a business,so it just goes to show they have gone broke and know regrouping to give it another go under a different title and as Chimp says its going to be a big pain

[smithy5]

I'm not too concerned about the shop front staff, they are pretty good out here and most stuff can be done online nowadays.... However the Coppers and the RTA better get together, so there is only one fine and one suspension, for one offence... those Farkn RTA asswipes are a law unto themselves Farkn double dipping bastards as far as the road rule inforcement goes

[h.b.bear]

I'm not too concerned about the shop front staff, they are pretty good out here and most stuff can be done online nowadays.... However the Coppers and the RTA better get together, so there is only one fine and one suspension, for one offence... those Farkn RTA asswipes are a law unto themselves Farkn double dipping bastards as far as the road rule inforcement goes

Hit the nail right on the head there Smithy5,over a life time those bastards have cost me a fortune with their stupid rules,

$85.00 for spelling mistake in logbook
$120.00 for driving 15min over my time as i had it written in logbook
$800.00 for being a ton over on steer axle
and the list goes on

[smithy5]

I'm not too concerned about the shop front staff, they are pretty good out here and most stuff can be done online nowadays.... However the Coppers and the RTA better get together, so there is only one fine and one suspension, for one offence... those Farkn RTA asswipes are a law unto themselves Farkn double dipping bastards as far as the road rule inforcement goes

Hit the nail right on the head there Smithy5,over a life time those bastards have cost me a fortune with their stupid rules,

$85.00 for spelling mistake in logbook
$120.00 for driving 15min over my time as i had it written in logbook
$800.00 for being a ton over on steer axle
and the list goes on

Not to mention that your lines aren't straight in your log book
Yeah that spelling mistake rule is just wrong FFS if we could spell would we be driving trucks

[Six Addict]

I'm not too concerned about the shop front staff, they are pretty good out here and most stuff can be done online nowadays.... However the Coppers and the RTA better get together, so there is only one fine and one suspension, for one offence... those Farkn RTA asswipes are a law unto themselves Farkn double dipping bastards as far as the road rule inforcement goes

Hit the nail right on the head there Smithy5,over a life time those bastards have cost me a fortune with their stupid rules,

$85.00 for spelling mistake in logbook
$120.00 for driving 15min over my time as i had it written in logbook
$800.00 for being a ton over on steer axle
and the list goes on

Not to mention that your lines aren't straight in your log book
Yeah that spelling mistake rule is just wrong FFS if we could spell would we be driving trucks

obviously forgotten how to punctuate...

sorry i couldnt help but notice you didnt end a question with a "?"

[Wattie]

Lets not get into discussing people who buy their jobs either eh?

[smithy5]

obviously forgotten how to punctuate...

sorry i couldnt help but notice you didnt end a question with a "?"

Looks who is talking............. You should have a comma after sorry

Lets not get into discussing people who buy their jobs either eh?

This is the last time I'm buying a truck, although I said that after the CUB Beer Truck and the Float, so i'll never learn

[Disco]

if we could spell would we be driving trucks

I thought you worked for NASA

[Blurr]

As a RTA officer or prick as many would call them, one day while doing a roadside inspection of my truck was telling me how the goverment was running the RTA like a business,so it just goes to show they have gone broke and know regrouping to give it another go under a different title and as Chimp says its going to be a big pain

The RTA is FAR from broke.

They are that loaded it is not funny. Infact they are still making money from the transport monitoring system they implemented for the olympics then onsold to other nations.

One of the few government agencies that is raking it in. And not surprisingly.

[seiko1]

Just another "New World Order" reshuffle, I spent 20 mins on hold to Centrelink (New System), that was after wrestling with the verbal
response software that had me running in circles, only to be shunted to another operator (another ten mins) so that he could book me a phone interview that would be in a weeks time