NSW gets dedicated freight focus, scraps RTA

The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) name will soon be no more as the NSW Government announced a structural reshape of the state’s transport bureaucracy that includes a dedicated freight division.

The RTA name will be superseded by the Roads and Maritime Services.

The NSW Government has also announced NSW Maritime, the Transport Construction Authority and the Country Rail Infrastructure Authority will all be abolished and their roles funnelled into a super bureaucracy known as Transport for NSW.

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