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29: 343:, Climate Emergency Response Fund, and Let's Get Wellington Moving projects, which had been cancelled by the National-led coalition government. In early May 2024, NZTA also announced it would cut another 12 roles from its Customer and Services and Digital teams to meet the Government's 7.5% cost cutting target. 313:
In mid-December 2023, Transport Minister Brown ordered the NZTA to halt halt funding and work on various local council projects to promote cycling, walking and public transportation. Notable projects affected by the Government's transportation policy change included the
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In early November 2023, Waka Kotahi suspended its NZ$ 305 million Transport Choices Programme where local councils would receive funding to encourage walking, cycling and public transportation. Waka Kotahi suspended this programme amidst coalition talks to form the
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details for any road-registered vehicle within New Zealand, including cars, motorbikes, trailers, trucks and earthmoving or agricultural machinery. Any member of the public can query NZTA's database by making a request using the
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In January 2019, three members of the board of directors resigned, about six weeks after the resignation of chief executive Fergus Gammie. They were Adrienne Young-Cooper, Chris Ellis and
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Our name is the NZ Transport Agency. Please don't spell out New Zealand or give 'the' a capital 'T'. Waka Kotahi is the Māori name NZTA is our abbreviated name.
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to design two new vehicle-spotting technologies at a cost of NZ$ 130 million only to abandon the project after the technologies were found not to work.
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tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, including the responsibility for driver and vehicle licensing, and administering the
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On 16 May 2024, NZTA confirmed that it would slash over 120 jobs as part of government cutbacks. 109 of the affected roles came from the former
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said the agency had been "going through a massive change process", with its compliance work in the issuing of vehicle
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commenced his second term as chairman of NZTA; Roche had previously been the inaugural chairman from 2008.
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Kane Patena was appointed the first Director of Land Transport for Waka Kotahi from 1 April 2021.
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fall under the authority of NZTA and are prescribed in the Traffic Control Devices (TCD) Manual.
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means 'one vessel' and is intended to convey the concept of "travelling together as one".
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On 26 April 2019, chairman Michael Stiassny announced his resignation. On 11 June 2019,
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was appointed a member and chairperson of the NZTA board for a three-year term.
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name "Waka Kotahi." The logo was also changed to reflect this change of order.
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In August 2019, Waka Kotahi changed the order of its name to emphasize its
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ordered that the agency was to give primacy to its English name.
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Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission
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Land Transport New Zealand
Transit New Zealand
New Zealand Government
Wellington
Simeon Brown
Simon Bridges
www.nzta.govt.nz
Crown entity
New Zealand state highway network
Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008
Transit New Zealand
Land Transport New Zealand
National Party
Labour Party
National Party-led government
2008 New Zealand general election
Fran Wilde
Phil Twyford
Warrant of Fitnesses
Chorus
WorkSafe New Zealand
Brian Roche
Māori language
National-led coalition government
2023 New Zealand general election
New Zealand Minister of Transport
Simeon Brown
Let's Get Wellington Moving
Simon Bridges

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