The new Coalition Government in NSW has announced a new Integrated transport authority to coordinate the state’s transport services.
The announcement, made by Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian and Roads and Ports Minister Duncan Gay, said the new authority will handle policy issues currently developed by the RTA, Rail Corp and Sydney Buses. One of the new divisions of the authority will be focused on freight and regional development.
“Instead of operating in silos, the RTA will now be at the core of an integrated system that will ensure planning for the state’s future roads and transport systems will be in a strategic and holistic way,” said Minister Gay in the announcement. “For the first time there will be a minister with the role of co-ordinating freight from farm to port and from ship to shop.”
