Transport Canberra & City Services

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Transport Canberra & City Services
Directorate overview
Formed1 July 2016 (2016-07-01)
Preceding agencies
Jurisdiction Australian Capital Territory
Headquarters496 Northbourne Avenue, Dickson
Employees2,055 (2019) [1]
Minister responsible
  • Chris Steel MLA, Minister for City Services, Minister for Roads, Minister for Transport
Directorate executive
  • Alison Playford [2] , Director-General
Child agencies
  • Transport Canberra
  • City Services
Key document
  • Administrative Arrangements 2019 (No 3) NI2019-674
Website https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/

Transport Canberra & City Services (TCCS) is a directorate of the Government of the Australian Capital Territory of the Australian Capital Territory, responsible for managing roads, footpaths and cycle paths and managing public transport in Canberra including ACTION buses and the Canberra Light Rail through its Transport Canberra division.

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Besides roads and transport, TCCS also delivers services such as recycling and collecting waste, public libraries and ensuring municipal infrastructure such as streetlights and public barbecues are in good working order. It also oversees the management of a number of the ACT Government's commercial operations, including ACT NOWaste, Capital Linen Service, ACT Public Cemeteries Authority (which includes Woden, Gungahlin and Hall cemeteries), and Yarralumla Nursery. [3] [1]

History

The predecessor of the TCCS was the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS), previously the Department of Territory and Municipal Services (also TAMS). TAMS was formed on 1 July 2006 from the merger of the Department of Urban Services, Environment ACT, Australian Capital Tourism, Sport and Recreation ACT, ACTION, Canberra Stadiums and parts of the Office of Sustainability into a single department. [4] [5]

In October 2015, the ACT government announced that they were planning to form a form a standalone public transport directorate known as Transport Canberra, merged from ACTION buses and Capital Metro Agency (CMA), the agency in charge of planning the Canberra light rail project. [6] [7] The plan was modified and announced in April 2016 and the new changes took effect on 1 July 2016: [8]

The administrative changes brought together the CMA, ACTION buses and the existing municipal services functions of TAMS into one directorate. [9] Transport Canberra was still created to manage public transport in Canberra, but as a division under the new TCCS directorate.

In December 2016, TCCS was given the responsibility of waste policy, transferred from the EPSDD. [8]

Structure

As of September 2019, TCCS operated under four areas of responsibilities, which are: [1]

The directorate is responsible to Chris Steel, Minister for City Services, Recycling and Waste Reduction, Roads and Active Travel, and Transport. [1]

As of 5 June 2019, the Director-General of TCCS is Alison Playford, who has held this position since May 2019. [2] Emma Thomas was the inaugural and previous director-general until her retirement from the ACT public service in April 2019. [10] [11]

Transport Canberra

Transport Canberra
Transport Canberra logo.png
Agency overview
Formed1 July 2016 (2016-07-01)
Preceding agencies
  • Transport for Canberra
  • Capital Metro Agency (CMA)
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Duncan Edghill, Deputy Director-General of TCCS
Parent DirectorateTransport Canberra and City Services (TCCS)
Child agency
Website https://www.transport.act.gov.au

Transport Canberra (TC) is the transport agency equivalent in the ACT, in charge of managing Canberra's public transport network, including ACTION buses and Canberra Light Rail, as well as active travel. It was formed from combining the public transport division of the TAMS with Capital Metro Agency, the agency in charge of the light rail project. It also replaced the previous roads and public transport agency, Transport for Canberra. Originally planned to be a standalone government directorate, it was later changed to be a division of the newly created TCCS.

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  2. 1 2 "Organisation Chart" (PDF). Transport Canberra and City Services. 5 June 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "ACT Government Directorates". ACT Government. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "About our Department". Department of Territory and Municipal Services. Archived from the original on 15 December 2006. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
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  10. ↑ "Statement: Departure of TCCS Director-General". Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate. 28 March 2019. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
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