VicRoads
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VicRoads |
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| State level | country |
| position | Victoria Transportation Authority |
| Supervisory authority | Department of Transport |
| founding | 1989 |
| Headquarters |
Kew , Victoria , Australia
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| Authority management | Gary Liddle ( CEO ) |
| Servants | 3000 |
| Budget volume | A $ 1.709 billion |
| Web presence | www.vicroads.vic.gov.au |
VicRoads or Roads Corporation of Victoria is the road and traffic authority of the Australian state of Victoria . It is a corporation under public law and is responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the nationwide road network, as well as for issuing driving licenses and vehicle registration. VicRoads is also responsible for road safety and the regulation of towing companies in Victoria.
VicRoads manages a total of 22,000 km of roads, 3,300 bridges, as well as 3.7 million driver's licenses and 4.9 million vehicles.
The main administrative building is in Kew , a suburb of Melbourne , with additional offices in Burwood , Sunshine and Camberwell . Regional offices include in Geelong , Traralgon , Benalla , Bendigo and Ballarat .
history
The first "road" in Victoria was built two hundred years ago in 1801 by European settlers on Phillip Island . Until 1851, when Victoria became independent, New South Wales was administered . The gold rush and the associated violent increase in traffic led to the first law in 1853, the aim of which was to improve and expand the roads. From 1857 to 1913 responsibility for road traffic was with the Board of Land and Works , although its priority was to develop the rail network. Due to the lack of a central coordination point, a patchwork of various road systems was created, most of which were built and maintained by local authorities. With the motorization of vehicles and the resulting increase in traffic, an independent authority, the Country Roads Board ( CRB ), was brought into being again in 1913 . It carried out a classification of the roads and then initiated and financed roads for supraregional connections, the so-called State Highways in 1924. In 1974, the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works , Melbourne's road building authority, was affiliated to the CRB in 1974 .
With the renaming of the CRB in 1983 to Road Traffic Authority ( RCA ) and the merger with the Road Traffic Authority ( RTA ), responsible for the regulation of traffic and the issuing of driving licenses, in 1989 and the resulting Roads Corporation , the authority was created better known today under the name VicRoads.
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ VicRoads Annual Report 2010-2011 (PDF; 2.7 MB) Department of Transport . 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ↑ Overview of VicRoads ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.vicroads.gov.au. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ↑ a b History of VicRoads ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.vicroads.gov.au. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
