Transit New Zealand [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Transport Agency (NZTA) on 1 August 2008. Transit's website was still active up to 9 December 2009, when the new NZTA website was launched with streamlined information from the Transit website.
Structure.
Transit had an annual operating budget of over NZ$1 billion and about 450 staff, with much of its actual planning and design work contracted out to construction companies and consultancies. Almost all of its funding was approved by the government's land transport funding agency Land Transport New Zealand through the National Land Transport Programme.
was considering abolishing Transit Officers and transferring their responsibilities to the NSW Police Force.
In September 2011 the NSW State Government announced that the Transit Officer function might be dissolved or moved to the NSW Police Force. Under the State Governments plan the 600 current transit officers would be abolished by the end of 2012. Officers would be offered three options, redundancy, new positions as revenue protection officers or placement at the NSW Police Force College to train to be police officers if they meet the requirements.
In February 2012 the State