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Roads and Maritime Services Presentation to Local Government NSW Annual Conference

October 2014

About Roads and Maritime Services

• Deliver customer-focused services and infrastructure to the value of $5.5 billion.

• Around 6 million registered vehicles.

• 18,000 kilometres of state roads.

Minister for Transport Minister for Roads and Freight

Transport for NSW

Roads and Maritime Services

Maintain Manage Journeys

Build

Cross functional

engagement

About Roads and Maritime

Enabling Functions

Enabling safe and efficient journeys across NSW

Planning and Policy

Delivery

- Planning & Programs - Policy & Regulation

- Build - Manage journeys - Maintain

RMS public sector priorities: NSW 2021

Strategic influences RMS will contribute to and deliver against a range of key strategic influences

driving NSW State Government objectives, such as:

NSW 2021 RMS has clear accountabilities contributing to the following NSW State Plan goals:

Goal 7 - Reduce travel times Goal 8 - Grow patronage on public

transport by making it a more attractive choice

Goal 10 - Improve road safety Goal 19 - Invest in critical infrastructure

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Considerations: Strategic influences

• Draw on the NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan and Regional Transport Plans to develop our overarching strategy.

• Congestion is a major issue in NSW. Direct and indirect cost in terms of time, money and impact on the economy.

• About 75 per cent of interstate freight movements in Australia access NSW Roads. • The cost of congestion to the NSW economy is estimated to be $5.1 billion each year – or nearly

$1100 for every person in Sydney. • By 2020, it is expected to rise to $8.8 billion as NSW’s population grows and as travel increases. • Part of Roads and Maritime’s role is supporting infrastructure for future needs.

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New Project Delivery Model

WestConnex Delivery Authority

Roads and Maritime Reforms

Road Maintenance Contestability in Sydney

National Regulators

Service NSW

Transport for NSW

Long Term Transport Master Plan

NSW Government

Shared Services Reform

Public Service Contracts

Transport sector and industry are experiencing major reform

Reform objectives include: • Establish an environment where change is a part

of working and thinking across Roads and Maritime • Refocus around the customer journey • Create a high performing organisation so we are

ready to address the challenges we face.

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Journey Optimisation

As a customer focused service delivery agency Roads and Maritime is committed to keeping the customer at the centre of everything we do.

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Investing in infrastructure

In June the NSW State Budget committed more than $5.5 billion to support road and maritime infrastructure and services.

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Major Infrastructure Projects: Pacific Highway

Photo: Ballina Bypass

· 60 per cent or 397 kilometres of the 657 kilometre upgrade is

completed.

· Building work under way on remaining 64 kilometres of the

remaining highway.

· Preparing for work on a further 57 kilometres.

· Focus is on remaining 155 kilometres from Woolgoolga to Ballina.

Major infrastructure projects: Princes Highway

Princes Highway at Gerringong

• $185 million allocated in 2014/15 budget to continue upgrading the Princes Highway on the South Coast to a four lane, divided road.

• Includes the $80 million

Foxground and Berry bypass.

• Maintenance funding of

$52 million

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Major Projects: Bridges for the Bush

Bridges for the Bush is a $280 million program to remove a number of significant freight pinch points on the state road network. It involves replacing or upgrading bridges in the next five years at 17 key locations in regional NSW.

WestConnex

NorthConnex

Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan

Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan Local Roads Package

ü Projects to enhance the capability of the road network and improve local transport connections.

ü Available to Liverpool, Camden, Wollondilly, Campbelltown, Fairfield and Blacktown LGAs.

ü Projects between $5 million and $10 million.

ü Prioritised based on improving access to Badgerys Creek and Western Sydney Employment area, improving travel times and safety benefits.

ü Project planning and early work on successful projects from round one expected to start before the end of the year.

ü Australian Government will call for applications for round two funding mid 2015. Round three in 2020.

Working with councils

• $4 billion of this year’s $5.5 billion budget will be spent in regional NSW

• $268 million allocation for local government initiatives in 2014/15.

Fixing Country Roads

By 2031, the freight task in NSW will nearly double to 794 million tonnes.

Our challenge is to ensure the network keeps pace with growth.

Fixing Country Roads

• $37.5 million program aims to

eliminate connectivity constraints on council-owned and managed roads.

• Competitive bid process - More than 90 regional councils submitted expressions of interest.

• Must demonstrate how a road project will benefit productivity and economic growth.

Heavy vehicle compliance

Up to 400,000 heavy vehicles travel on the NSW road network each day.

Compliance and enforcement program includes: • 285 heavy vehicle regulation

inspectors.

• Eight heavy vehicle checking stations.

• 27 Safe-T-Cam cameras.

• 24 point-to-point camera sites.

• Around 200 fixed roadside inspection sites.

• Joint taskforces.

Trends in Heavy Truck Crashes

Regional Road Block Grant and REPAIR Program

REGIONAL ROAD BLOCK GRANT REPAIR PROGRAM

ü Provides funds to local government for the management and maintenance of regional roads.

ü Provides funds to help councils carry out larger development or improvement work on regional roads.

ü Regional Road Block Grant allocations to councils are $144.7 million this financial year.

ü $29.5 million which can be spent on minor improvements annually.

ü Block grant funds are allocated according to the road or bridge length and traffic use on designated regional roads in a council area.

ü Funding provided on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Work must contribute to economic development, integrity of communities, road network efficiency, road safety or regional tourism.

Country Bridge Solutions

Local councils face the growing challenge, as road authorities, of maintaining and eventually replacing aging bridges on their Regional and Local Roads.

Country Bridge Solutions is a program developed

to deliver a standard bridge design, making it easier

and cheaper for NSW councils to replace old and

worn structures.

About Country Bridge Solutions

• Simple and easy to build.

• Use existing council resources.

• Provide manuals to assist with design, development and construction.

• Collaborative approach - The involvement of councils is critical to the solution.

Register your interest by emailing CountryBridgeSolutions@rms.nsw.gov.au or call (02) 6640 1300

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PAST NOW

Maintenance and improvement works in the Sydney metropolitan area is delivered in three zones (Sydney North, Sydney South and Sydney West).

Downer EDI works has an existing contract in the Sydney North Zone for some maintenance activities.

DownerMouchel awarded the contract for the Sydney West Zone, and Leighton Boral Amey the Sydney South Zone.

Road Maintenance Contestability Geographical Context

Road Maintenance Council Contracts (RMCC)

• Working with councils to explore opportunities

for efficiency savings in the delivery of road maintenance.

• Both parties commit to shared values and trust to deliver a serviceable and sustainable state road network.

• Includes incident response work and ordered work.

• 78 councils contracted

• Annual spend of about $200 million.

• Continuous improvement is central to the

RMCC.

Work Health and Safety

Maritime

• Roads and Maritime provided $5 million in

grants annually through the Better Boating Program to co-fund boat ramps, jetties and floating pontoons, vessel sewage pump-out facilities, dinghy and kayak storage solutions, and car and trailer parking facilities.

• NSW Boating Now announced in August 2014 will provide $70 million for the next five years for better boating facilities.

• The program will help deliver on priority boating infrastructure improvements identified in Regional Boating Plans.

NSW Regional Boating Plan

Study area

Conclusion

• A strong and effective local government sector is central to our ability to deliver safe and efficient journeys across NSW

• Roads and Maritime is dedicated to engaging, consulting and working in partnership with all of our stakeholders.

• Well positioned to continue building relationships with councils and further

develop opportunities to achieve a mutual vision of a better performing road network.

• We encourage councils and communities to continue to talk with us.

Contact

RMS Region Regional Manager

Email Phone

Northern NSW John Alexander John.ALEXANDER@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 6640 1336

Hunter Region and Central Coast

Anna Zycki Anna.ZYCKI@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 4924 0221

South West NSW Lindsay Tanner Lindsay.TANNER@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 6938 1101

Southern NSW Renae Elrington

Renae.ELRINGTON@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 4221 2401

Western NSW Phil Standen Phil.B.STANDEN@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 6861 1470

Sydney Colin Langford Colin.LANGFORD@rms.nsw.gov.au (02) 8849 2120

Roads and Maritime regional managers

Thank you